Dustin

Really the only good thing about CBS was the broadcast itself. First Ben Holden, then Alex Heinert, Starman color, and Shireen rinkside (could take her or leave her) had to be the best broadcast team calling hockey at the college age level. The number of games kept getting fewer and fewer as the seasons rolled on, meaning that either CBS didn't really care about college hockey, or it wasn't a profitable venture, or both. Like I said earlier, would love to see Starman (and Shireen, since I'm assuming it's a package deal) color UND's games all season.

None from Denver? Seems odd. Some of their players are American, right?

I will miss Starman color commentary. Maybe he could do a season-long hockey color gig for Midco? I also miss Jake Brandt color commentary. Jim Scanlan just doesn't do it for me.

Pretty sure his comment was made as sarcasm.

Ok. That's what the closed captioning says, but I know some of the other things the players say (the stuff that's not directly into a mic) the CC has wrong.

I think it's really neat the emphasis Schmidt has put on "701" as a mantra. At the end of this trailer, he does a call-and-response: "7 ? , 0 excuses, 1 goal." Can anyone decipher what they say after the 7?

I thought that away games have been in the Midco contract for a couple of seasons now.

I didn't vote, but it appears my thinking is in line with the majority in that it will be either Jerry or JTJ.

I also need a passport to get into the place I'm going (generally).

I always check Winnipeg for pricing of "major" flights (mostly overseas - Europe, Caribbean/Mexico, Hawaii). Even flew to Australia from Winnipeg for less than $1500.

Somehow I missed the R1 announcement until this thread was revived. Probably too much football and hockey talk going on back in February I agree with whoever said this should have been shouted from the rooftops. It didn't seem like it was.

Cool.

CBS (and Jim Nantz, in particular) is the authority on golf telecasts, but NBC (and its Golf Channel subsidiary) are still good. Glad NBC got the USGA events (including the US Open) back from FOX. They were terrible at golf.

I would be in favor of a full NODAK takeover of everything.

Agreed. Big loss.

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not sure how many of these have been announced before.

North Dakota football adds six transfers for 2025 - University of North Dakota Athletics

Stunted/reduced plant growth and poor drainage / waterlogging.

It would an interesting, yet impossible, case study to see how the 1997 flood vs. no 1997 flood affected the next quarter century+. One thing that's for sure is that GF would have had to deal with numerous more floods (like Fargo has) without a robust flood protection system, which would not have been any fun. Another problem with growing Grand Forks is the land on which to expand. Hard to develop residentially to the north - heavy industry that people don't really want to live by. Hard to develop west - run into alkali. Can't develop east - run into the river. That leaves the only option as south - into primo farmland that fetches a pretty penny.

I wasn't offering a commentary on the mayor, simply that there was a lot of exciting things happening during that timeframe that happened to coincide with him mayor.

Big time disagree. After the flood, Grand Forks got a big boost with lots of things that make it great - Alerus Center, Ralph, flood protection system and its associated parks and greenway. What really hurt was the consolidation of media in eastern North Dakota. Losing WDAZ newscasts, and a scale down of the Herald, made it much harder to Grand Forks to be seen amongst the shadow Fargo had begun casting, especially with Bison-mania.

I don't know for sure, because I don't have data, but I think there are two factors at play here: 1) In the past, Winnipeg traffic/tourism helped drive Grand Forks to have more amenities than normal for a town of its size. The Grand Forks restaurant scene really ballooned during the early oil boom. Oil is (was?) a primary driver of Canada's economy, and for a while, the Canadian dollar was on par with the US dollar. With American investment in oil, however, the strength of Canada's dollar against the US dollar has settled back to where it had been historically (around 0.75) and can't gain ground on the US dollar anymore when oil is high. 2) Even though UND is at record enrollment, many of those students are online and not on campus. When there aren't students on campus, restaurants have harder times filling out staffs. It seem like most places close because of lack of workers, not lack of customers.

The closest thing to a "double header" is Nov. 21-22, with an exhibition hockey game Friday night and football Saturday afternoon. Depending on how far UND goes in the football playoffs, there would be potential for football/hockey double headers in late November and December.

Mostly agree with this order. Depending on how good UMD is, they may creep up to just regular second place, not distant. I would also switch the order of Omaha and St. Cloud. ASU and WMU have the potential to take over spots 3 and 4, IMO, if they keep their programs projecting upwards.