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Yeah I was gonna mention this. Not the best scheduling on UND's part with two big away games that fans will plan for ahead of time. I'm headed to the hockey game Friday, which would make a trip up to GF on Saturday difficult. I doubt it affected the selection committee's decision, as it's based on how much teams bid, not attendance. Could have factored in to how much UND wanted to bid though.

This makes sense, but I'd hope that either way he would end up playing in the playoffs, either this year or next. I'd rather have him for one playoff game this year, and use him all next season and in the playoffs next season as well.

Can't complain about our ranking after getting steamrolled by ISU.... again....

kolpack has und at 12 https://www.inforum.com/bison-media-zone/mens-sports/football/4753577-Jeffs-top-25-The-question-of-No.-3#.XcAwfR48KwY.twitter

You think the mvfc is that much better than the big sky? This is literally all he said about UNI "I have seen UNI they have athletes but aren’t any better than teams we have seen this year. " What does that have to do UND's season next year and why are you so easily offended?

Scheduled during our bye week. First game not until October. Not a fan. 09/03 - at Nebraska 09/17 - at Northern Arizona 09/24 - at Southern Illinois 10/01 - Missouri State 10/08 - at Youngstown State 10/15 - Northern Iowa 10/22 - South Dakota State 10/29 - Dixie State 11/05 - at Indiana State 11/12 - South Dakota 11/19 - at North Dakota State

Hopefully we can buy out the return trip Thanks for posting.

As far as workforce goes, a larger, more attractive downtown will also help Grand Forks to retain young professionals.

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This playoff bracket would be a blast if we made a run in the playoffs. http://nobowls.com/

I didn't post a source, so I'll dig around and report some specific examples - maybe I'm wrong. For clarification, I was specifically referencing the lowest face value ticket price for single game tickets.

Well, it IS a message board, so... yeah? FYI, the message board gurus were also on board with firing Muss and Rudy, well before those with any power finally did so. The message board was also ahead on voicing game day concerns, and most of the issues that the game day committee took action on, or tried to implement, were already voiced here, so I'd think someone was reading. I also think it would be better for Chaves to hear some grumbling about this from SOMEWHERE, rather than hear nothing at all, no? Maybe this forum can spur discussion within the AD, because apparently there hasn't been any yet. The fact of the matter is that UND's AD needs money - the students, who don't attend games, limit the potential sale of the most expensive seats in the building (champions club dues). It doesn't take rocket science to figure out what the most beneficial move is for the athletic department. Pricing of single game tickets is a whole other issue. The end sections clearly lack demand, and a move to a dynamic pricing model would clearly be beneficial. I'm fairly certain that AD is hamstrung, if they wanted to implement something like this, due to the contract with the Ralph. Discounted general admission tickets in the end sections that are ALWAYS empty is another no brainer. Tickets for UND football are very expensive, when compared to most programs around the country.

Wyonation Nichols departure thread https://www.wyonation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18742&hilit=president&sid=1fc088eeb43071dd26ad753072e27b9f Isn't there a wyoming guy that posts here sometimes? Bison/Wyoming fan maybe?

I'd take the guy that was pushed out at this institution. My vote so far is the former Wyoming pres. Curious what wyonation has said about her.

If they didn't move the student section over, anyone have an opinion on selling the upper sections of 212, 213, and 214 to the public, and keeping the students in the lower part of each section? The upper area is elevated, so students standing shouldn't be an issue, and the students who do go would be more concentrated at least.

Has Chaves done ANYTHING since he has been AD? Serious question.

@Oxbow6 - you might like this website - the data doesn't include 2018, but you can refine by school and some of the specific expense and revenue accounts for athletic departments, pretty easily and quickly. http://cafidatabase.knightcommission.org/reports/516fab33

Also, SDSU in 2018 was 6,808,090, but that includes 2,622,732 in debt service, probably for the new stadium, so really it's like 4,185,358, if we want to compare apples to apples (as much as it's possible, at least). Each of these AD's has millions in expenses attributed to the AD as a whole, and they all do this a little bit differently so it's hard to say exactly what the real numbers are, but you/most people already know that probably.

Gotcha. Not sure if you recognize my username - I give you crap sometimes, but just wanted to say I really do appreciate this stuff.

fy 2018 NDSU is 5,694,549 from report submitted to ncaa

$4,639,678 in 2018

interesting. love when you post this type of stuff. you subscribed to some type of trade journal for this type of thing or something?

UND really needs to hope for a Weber win vs Sac, since Sac isn't on our schedule. Weber loses, and they will drop to around ten in the polls - would much rather be facing the #3 or #4 team in the country two weeks from now to help with our SOS. Weber loses vs Sac, and a win vs Weber doesn't look much better than the Montana State win imo.

16k is irrelevant when first round games are never sold out anyway. Normally some of the worst attended games of the season for most teams.

Maybe they could compromise and open up the top level of that section. Still don't see why they can't reduce pricing for the end sections and make them general admission.