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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.

women's regional rankings North Central DII record region record 1 North Dakota 18-1 9-1 2 Augustana (South Dakota) 15-2 13-0 3 Nebraska-Kearney 11-4 11-3 4 South Dakota 11-3 10-3 5 Minnesota State Moorhead 12-4 9-3 6 Northern State 11-4 11-3 7 Metropolitan State 14-3 9-3 8 Regis (Colorado) 10-4 9-2 9 Minnesota Duluth 11-6 10-4 10 St. Cloud State 8-7 6-7 St Cloud being included really says something about the state of the NSIC.

He would've competed for the spot- no guarantees. It's really a curious thing as to why UNO even signed Bennett. He is a banger who plays on a team that runs him out of the high post. They don't utilize him on the block at all, and he was recruited by UND because he was a back-to-the-basket player. He isn't utiized at all in their system.

Thought this was interesting and it got me thinking. refs screwed up It got me thinking about the worst call in sport's history when Josh Mueller's shot was called good by the refs in Vermillion in 03. I don't recall there ever being an admission of wrong doing in that case like this. Have to disagree with a ruling like this though. If such a ruling is made, I feel the outcome should be reversed in cases where there is referee error on a shot at the buzzer, or if there is mismanagement by the clock operator on such a shot. What good does an admission of wrong doing do if the outcome isn't reversed? Something I found interesting, anyway.

USD webcast's their games on their website, and there is no fee for them at last check.

Whatever is the case, we have seen this coming for a few years IMO. Every indication was that the Dahlen's wanted to come to UND, but then didn't get an offer and ended up an NDSU. When the Bison signed the girls from Sacred Heart and Fischer, and there was really no interest in them from the UND side, a person couldn't help but wonder. The recent reliance on transfers may work on the men's side, but not many DI women's programs go that route and have measurable success. Whatever the reason, hopefully it gets rectified. Those games between the programs in the past we enjoyable.

This makes me want to throw up SDSU has a problem with the nickname, but not their AD who beats his wife "Others on campus were impressed with the stance Miller took on the controversy about the University of North Dakota's team nickname, the Fighting Sioux. Miller wrote a letter to the UND president and asked that its athletes not wear the team logo when competing against South Dakota State. She also asked that they be referred to only by their school name and not their nickname when they went up against SDSU athletic teams. She did so, Miller says, because Native American students at SDSU found the nickname offensive." Good to see this spinless hypocrite takes a stand against something, because she sure didn't care when her AD beat his wife and claimed to have alcohol problems, and then was convicted of such in court. I'd venture to guess that some women on her campus find spousal abuse offensive, but she managed to turn a blind eye to that.

Gutter and Koenig cannot be on the floor together other then for brief moments. They are very similar, physical players. Whoever guards the opposing 4 man is going to be in big trouble in that situation. That lineup lacks a real outside shooting presence other then Youmans. Coach Jones is doing a fine job managing the hand dealt to him by constant injuries.

Can't win them all I guess. Lee Pathan commits to Western Michigan “Western Michigan was my first choice,” said Pethan, who is averaging 20 points and 11 rebounds per game on Hilbert's basketball team this season. “I visited Northern Illinois and planned to go to Connecticut and North Dakota. But once Western Michigan made the offer, I didn't want to visit the other two.” If nothing else, it is reassuring that UND is going head-to-head with Division I-A schools and still having a chance.

From the St Cloud Times Times football player of the year Matt Veldman was told this week that the University of Minnesota will not offer him a scholarship. Veldman, a two-way end from Becker, got the news straight from assistant coach Gordy Shaw at his home. "We were kind of shocked," said Gregg Veldman, Matt's dad. Veldman still hasn't made an official recruiting trip, but has North Dakota, North Dakota State, St. John's and St. Cloud State on his list. Matt Veldman visited St. John's, met with John Gagliardi and was impressed.

Although a good plan, it is unlikely he would receive another year from the NCAA with the pending move to Division I. There are very, very, very few cases where an athlete receives a 6th year back from the NCAA in DI. If you'll remember, Taylor Murray was in a similar situation this past year and transferred to UND from SDSU because he had another semester to compete in D2, but not in DI.