NoiseInsideMyHead

Always a sucker for Meatballs. "Each camper will stalk and kill his own bear."

Yeah, but how many ex-UND wrestlers would you want to see naked in ESPN's Body Issue?

Instead of lining the pockets of a greedy scalper--err, season ticket holder, why not just take the old lady out to a nice dinner, watch the game on TV, and donate half the difference to charity? You'd still be ahead.

I think what OP meant was that Midco didn't produce the games. They were still on the Fighting Sioux Sports Network (FSSN).

I can't possibly understand the ins and outs of the broadcast business, but in this day and age of digital on-demand everything, I have a hard time believing that more events can't be simulcast by agreement. Give the local producer a few bucks and boom - the switch is flipped. Back in the days of big-ass satellite dishes in the back yard, you could pull in almost anything. (For free, if you had the, ahem, right descrambler.)

South Columbia (40th-47th) re-opened over the weekend. Just a shade under 5 months. For seven blocks. With the road completely closed.

Hasn't stopped most of the NFL.

TV schedule is out. http://www.undsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&ATCLID=211670237 Isn't the Bemidji game usually on Lakes Public TV or something like that?

One more word: math tutor.

Kennedy. Tell yourself, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy. Not Kelley. Kennedy.

Let's try this a different way. (I warned you it was counterintuitive.) The original poster commented about the lack of retro Sioux jerseys in the Dacotah Legacy Collection. UND is building the FH brand. Therefore, an arena full of FH jerseys is good, and an arena full of Sioux jerseys is bad. (Precisely to siouxkid12's point.) It stands to reason that, regardless of demand, UND will not release retro Sioux jerseys until it can be relatively certain that FH jerseys will begin to rival or even outnumber Sioux jerseys at the arena. The only way for that to even remotely happen is to sell a sufficient number of FH jerseys while delaying and ultimately limiting availability of retro Sioux jerseys. If too many people speak with their wallets and 'boycott' FH jerseys waiting for retro Sioux, I suspect we'll be waiting a long time. Hence, my belief that the best way to speed up the arrival of retro Sioux jerseys is to buy the heck out of FH jerseys.

As counterintuitive as it may seem, the only way to speed up the release of retro jerseys might be to run out and buy current jerseys. A LOT of them. Poor sales of current jerseys might be perceived as slow acceptance, which will make UND even more reluctant to roll out retros for fear of cannibalizing their own market. If the new stuff flies off the shelves, however, and gets seen at games in big numbers, that may ease fears about what will almost certainly be a controversial release of Sioux merch.

Doug is awesome. He came through ND on a cross-country drive last year, and had a meet-up at the Fargodome where people gave him stuff. That shirt pops up in videos every now and again, and almost always elicits a reaction or two in the comments.

A sprint and a spit, if somebody did that on center ice or the marble floors at REA there'd be blows exchanged.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/you-only-get-to-do-this-if-you-win-1818692141 Open desecration of NA logo on FSU football field by winning visitor. I predict some sensitivity training for the whole team.

Alerus PA playing "Who Can It Be Now?" once all the subs are in the game. Not sure if funny or sad.

Assurance is a funny thing. It's really all about faith in humanity. In ND, you're fairly safe. Since most sellers are also fans, chances are good you can meet up at the event, and I've never felt uneasy around Sioux fans. If a poster has a high post count, he/she is probably legit and a straight shooter. Relying on one's reputation on an anonymous message board seems silly, but there are more than a few members on here who I'd trust without question based on their presence alone. Chances are a transaction that goes south will be reported on here, and the bad guy will be outed and blackballed for life. TM allows for direct sales, and I believe that REA facilitates a will-call service for season ticket holders. Meeting up with cash is always going to be risky, so you have to use some common sense. Contact information can tell you a lot about the person; cell phone numbers or inherently more trackable than e-mail addresses; some sellers will even use their personal or (better) work e-mails. Some will (perhaps inadvertently) even give you unnecessary personal information, which can make you feel even better. Otherwise, the usual rules apply - pick a public place, let someone know where you are going and why, etc. PayPal makes for an awesome way to send money, too. If the seller is cool with it, you can pre-arrange an eBay buy-it-now auction, which will enable you to use PayPal's buyer protection if something goes wrong. If by mail, and time permits, consider sending part of the money, receiving part of the ticket package as kind of a good-faith gesture. Use mail/tracking services. At the end of the day, caveat emptor, but I will personally say that I have had several successful transactions here. Happy shopping!

One giveaway here is that "NORTH DAKOTA" is written diagonally down the interlocking ND on each shoulder. During the Sioux years, IIRC, it should have read "SIOUX". "NORTH DAKOTA" came after.

Instincts, price, condition, color, stitching, attention to detail, source. Personally, I think it's easy because the fake crap just plain looks bad at first glance. NHL crests are a dead giveaway, as are mis-located conference patches. Use your Spidey sense. If it seems too good to be true, that's a huge red flag.

Kelley inherited EERC leadership, as well as the nickname. By the time he was finished, both issues had been addressed. Kelley also oversaw the D1 transition, the birth of UAS, and a construction boom punctuated by a new med school, and endured a shaky period of 'leadership' from the Chancellor/SBoHE. Can't say whether he delegated effectively, but that is perhaps a question of style. Like head coaches, presidents get too much credit and too much blame. Maybe Kelley was not legendary, but terrible? Critique is fair, but slanting the facts is not. Can anyone honestly say that UND was, on balance, worse off when he left than when he arrived?

How about this...either give specifics about why you think Kelley was "terrible," or take the high road and say that he was an honorable man whose tenure was marked by several years of unimaginable prosperity and largesse in the state followed by an abrupt--if entirely foreseeable--economic reversal, and that we all must concede there is no blueprint for success under those circumstances. If you're going to measure his legacy by finances alone (which seems unfortunate), I hope you'd be prepared to discuss specific expenditures and missed savings opportunities and their direct, causative effect on UND's current situation.

I usually make hamburgers the other way--because, you know, gravity--but nice illustration nonetheless.

Midco with graphics issues? No time or scoreboard.