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Giving consistent administrative raises despite having vastly underpaid coaches nearly across the board, reactively adding FCOA admittedly without a plan of where the $ will come from, admittedly not reading a professional athlete/alum's email that would've resulted in significant financial gain, botching a budget so bad that the new President publically admonished it, having your financial person taken away from near you as to better oversee funds, not being allowed (or not willing?) the power to make cuts in your own department & having a committee filled with academics doing so instead. That's our Flagship's AD. What are we paying him nearly $200k per year to do? Believe the ball got rolling in Tom Buning's firing/resignation with an anonymous Athletic Dept survey. Can we please get 1 of those circulated immediately!

They aren't selling 1000/gm. They may "average" 1000/gm, but for all gms but 2 the attendance is closer to 800. The 2 Gopher gms inflate the yearly "average attendance" tremendously. Champions Club members get into gms for free. Kids Club members get into gms for free. UND students get into gms for free. Coaches families get into gms for free. Player families & opposition families get tickets for free. Given all of that, REA might actually sell 150-200 tickets per gm. That may be high. Given how many tickets are actually sold, a good question is why are the gms staffed by REA? Staffing gms but only selling 200 tickets most likely means the REA loses $. So why even sell tickets? No tickets = no (or at least far less) staff to pay. REA has a bottom line too. Not ripping, just stating facts. If I had to guess, that's your answer.

1st time in a long time..... Please folks I emplore you....make your voices heard & known. Our "leaders" in the Athletic Dept (I Use that term as loosely as possible!) are more concerned with being champions of Title IX & Compliance then being champions on the athletic court/field. Is that what we moved to DI for? To be the best at Title IX? Because, thats what our athletic dept has become, & it's a total crime & they're getting a free pass. An AD needs to be someone who buys into an athletic dept. Goes to bat for everything & does what's right for the interests of athletics as a whole. Makes himself available to all teams & programs, & asks "what can I do to help make your program better". Is an AD who is now in his 9th yr & still rents an apartment, doesn't attend games & doesn't make himself available to his teams, has he bought in & is he out for the Flagship's best interests? Or is he in retirement mode & more interested in collecting a paycheck? It's time to demand more folks. It's time to demand that our AD has an actual face in the community (just as how he demands our athletic teams have a face in the community), in fundraising, & at all sporting events. This is the Flagship university of our state for God's sake, not a D3/NAIA/JuCo school where an AD can remain fairly anonymous! An institution's football program is what drives the Athletic Dept, & we're lucky enough to have the right man at the helm of our football program. To say that Bubba gets "it" is an understatement. Do we have the right man & regime at the helm of the Athletic Dept? If your answer is 'yes' you're sorely mistaken. & the more I see what President Kennedy says & releases, the more I believe (& hope) he sees these exact deficiencies in Athletic Dept administration. Because it's damned pathetic. Trust me when I say that. End rant.

LOL you're really going to run with that CAS? The Ndsu media guy got info from UND & beat the others to the punch? That's a lot like the "Wyoming is rumored to be heading to the Big XII" defense.

CAS... How did UND "leak" the info about the game? Jamaal Spencer broke the story last night with his tweet at 901pm. Spencer....the ndsu rube who runs the sports dept of the station that carries Ndsu athletics. Use your head.

Leevon Perry. Do a search on nd courts website, it's all public record so no rumors at all here just facts. Conviction 11/25 and it hasn't been brought up once by anyone in Fargo, be it media or the team. Perry's THIRD such offense in addition to his dui and minor, and 2 misdemeanors for driving with a suspended license.

Another one joining Coach Lennon

Eastview Lightning Coach's website Gotta like the company, an FBS team and one of the FCS powers!

Had to chuckle when Buning said that a potential game next year would be played in Fargo because that is what the past schedule of the series dictates, and Taylor replied with something to the effect of "They'll have to come here a couple of times before we go there."

Interesting comparison. Here are my statistics, and I added soccer which star2city didn't have in his numbers. Every sport which publishes attendance was included, except wrestling, which curiously doesn't provide that info. No guarantees of mistake free, but they should be correct. UND Games Total Attend Avg Attend per contest Men's Basketball - 11 23754 2160 Women's Basketball - 13 26501 2039 Football - 6 52,963 8827 Men's Hockey - 17 191594 11270 Women's Hockey - 16 4943 309 Soccer - 10 1790 179 Volleyball - 12 3968 331 Totals - 85 305,513 3594 NDSU Men's basketball - 10 25510 2551 Women's Basketball - 10 14581 1458 Football - 5 81866 16,377 Soccer - 6 1054 176 Volleyball - 6 4412 735 Totals - 37 127,423 3444 EDIT: Sorry about this fine graph work that appears. Between me hitting the "post" icon and it appearing in the thread the actual form goes to Hell. UND's avg per contest is better, and that is without any published wrestling attendance figures, which would also severely hamper NDSU's average. ONe would assume that NDSU's avg/game would rise slightly after the completion of the winter sports considering the Jackrabbit men still have to visit Fargo, and the UND figures should also rise slightly as well with 2 home hockey games left.

Well, he's still thinking........ Becker

Jackson is also a 3 star player, as ranked by rivals.com (listed as Jarvarus Jackson there), and was ranked 87th out of the top 100 JC players in the country until yesterday when rivals.com came out with a new JUCO top 100. Vermillion CC won the National Title, and he was a 1st Team JC All-American.

Mitch Goertz verbal has been confirmed on wisfootball.net, 6-3 225 LB from DC Everest.

So now there were 20-25 thousand NDSU fans at the Metrodome? The total was reported to be around 15,000 in the Forum. It seems that since the game itself, the actual Bison fan attendence has become an urban legend of sorts that gets more exaggerated by the week. The figure you and others are throwing around is a complete misrepresentation of the facts. Don't flatter yourselves.

Matt Simmons, 6-5 315 Olineman from Racine, WI Park HS has committed. He said he Wisconsin wanted him as a walk-on, UNO offered, and he visited SDSU but didn't like it. He blocked for one of the best RB in the country in John Clay. Rated by wisfootball.net as the #3 OL in the state, and #12 overall. Very good get. A little plug here for wissports.net, moreover wisfootball.net. Great stuff available there if you like the recruiting game, and for a very, very reasonable price, like $18 for a year's subscription. For Wisconsin HS recruiting, it blows rivals.com out of the water. I encourage any who follow recruiting to subscribe. You won't be disappointed.