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That not what I said. The Slummit has three sports that need are required for eligibility of the AQ bid: MBB, m soccer, and baseball. It could mandate all three, and force the Dakota out of an FCOA situation. Ndsu would probably have to add three sports, with two being women. Omaha, ORU, WIU, IUPUI, and IPFW would lose nothing. USD would be badly hurting, as they have neither baseball or men'soccer and would have to meet Title Ix. The Big Sky, MAC, Sun Belt and other conferences mandate sports. Buffalo had to start baseball when they joined. UND had to offer men's tennis and SUU had to start VB.

Kramer knows Idaho State has no money for anything. Wealthy boosters in SE Idaho would give to BYU, BYU-Idaho to restart athletics, or Boise St. Idaho St has no traction except in the immediate Pocatello area. Idaho Falls, which is only 60 mile N has much more wealth and is growing fast, isnt interested in ISU except to fill nursing and teacher roles. Pocatello would never approve a city funded Alerus or FargoDome, as SE Idaho is the most conservative part of Idaho and people there look on their 10% tithe (have to pay 10% or they lose your Temple privileges) as the "state" tax. Weber St will offer MBb and presumably WBb FCOA, or its fans in Ogden will revolt.

It about forcing sports on schools that dont have them. Conference can do that, and bleed the FCOA money with additional sports. Denver got forced out of the Sun Belt for not having enough mandated sports, so they were effectively forced to the WAC because they didn't want to start baseball and softball and track. Bizons are sure slow on the uptake.

Maybe the better question is: will the Slummit put the screws to its Dakota schools by mandating men's soccer, which is needed by the Slummit for its AQ? With men's soccer, that would force NDSU to add a Womens sport or two, leaving no money for FCOA. The Summit won't like if NDSU gives all their women and men FCOA, and that conference legislation would stop it. Conferences can mandate other sports, which negates FCOA advantages. But it assumes that NDSU has paid for their Fdome football offices and the $4 mill shortfall on the BSA? UND should just give their 27 spots in wbb and volleyball 67% of the FCOA. That would equal the men's hockey 18 full FCOA. Give the MBB 100% of FCOA and Womens hockey 67% as funds allow, as both would be around 12 or 13? Football getting FCOA amounts to adding 10 schollies, with no one getting more than an 80% scholarship with FCOA making it up to 100%. That what Liberty will effectively do, getting more players a full ride by including FCOA.

The story about the firing of NDUS's Kirsten Franzen is breaking. www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/north-dakota/3724493-former-ndus-official-claims-she-was-fired-saying-bresciani-deleted-emails Supposedly she says the Bresciani's emails were intentionally deleted, and she was fired for saying that. Bresciani's emails would have caused a firestorm in the state, so NDUS officials decided to fire Franzen first to save their own hides. In 2012, I submitted a FOIA request to NDSU for any email from an NDSU president to The Summit leagues Douple about the Fighting Sioux nickname. NDSU claimed that Chapman's and the now Bemidji St Presidents emails had been deleted. They also claimed that Bresciani had no emails to Douple on any subject, which was a lie, as he received others that I got ahold of from other Slummit schools. The theory is that Kelley worked with the NDSU Presidents to concoct a scheme where Douple would say the Summit League was against the Fighting Sioux nickname. That can only be a Presidential decision against a school, not Douple's. Douple himself admitted to Jeff Kolpack that UND has wanted him to come out against the name. The theory is that the SBoHE was in part behind this, as well as Kelley and Chapman, when the decree by Douple first came out. None of the other Summit League Presidents outside of the Dakotas ever had any mention of the Sioux nickname issue in their emails, but numerous other discussions were prevalent. Remember that Bresciani was livid at Douple because Douple gave that interview with Kolpack where Douple said UND wanted him to be against the nickname. Bresciani and probably the SBoHE wanted Douple fired because of that interview, but the other Slummit Presidents gave him a raise instead. There's dirty business among the SBoHE, Kelley, and Bresciani about the nickname. An innocent person has been fired and her reputation tarnished because of these people. May justice reign and the liars exposed and may the SBoHE be an honorable organization again.

URI has an on campus rinks, needs to play football in the low scholarship NEC instead of the CAA, where URI isn't competitive, and to top it off, schools such as Providence, Yale, and Union have just won championships in hockey. It would improve revenues for URI, if they didn't spend so much on football, where they have no chance. A feasibility study is not requested unless URI knows the answers it wants. Kind of like UAB's President directing Carr Associates to write a report on why they should drop football. Every DI study ever done was requested by a President that already knew the answer, but had to get PR ammunition. A split of the AHA seems inevitable now, with Liberty, URI, maybe Post, and maybe Navy joining the eastern teams, which want lower scholarships. A new autobid conference may come out of this for women too.

Where's the Forums classless editorializing about high football ticket prices? When the last UND-Bizon game had tickets for $27.50, the Forum was outraged and called UND to lower the cost. They also managed to insult the Alerus Center for not having a totally brick exterior. But now, when NDSU has more than doubled the price, the Forum is totally content. Self-serving douches.

The land that businesses and townhouses that sit on the Bronson property sit are on a 99 year leases, so resale values are not affected for generations. The REA was negotiated separately and is 30 years.

Blais' teams lost many first round NCAA games, but when they made the Frozen Four they won. Hak's teams normally win the regionals, but can't get over the hump in the FF. Hak has a higher NCAA win % than Blais, but people here are calling for his head. He should just plan on losing more first round games to save the team for next year, like Blais seemed to do.

Maybe he didn't like the four year commitment and didn't realize there were other aerospace options where he could play hoops.

Those you who want to dump Hak would be horrible gamblers or risk takers. Making 8 F4s is quite an accomplishment for Hak and the program. Once you get to the F4, is basically luck getting a championship. When we got to seven Natty's, we had beaten the odds. Now, we're about average beating the odds. BC hadn't won for fifty years, but look what the last decade has done for them. The odds even out over the decades, if you have a good program. As a fan, appreciate this team now. Don't berate them.

The author argues that oil prices would be at $200 a barrel right now with the tensions in the Middle East if America, NY excepted, hadn't gone the tracking route. www.wsj.com/articles/holman-jenkins-a-world-remade-by-fracking-1427842374

Post, a DII for-profit 7000 student school in Waterbury, Ct, is adding M/W hockey. The women's team is automatically eligible for the DI tournament, depending on their schedule. The men's team will be in the NE10 DII league, but AHA and DI membership wouldn't seem out of the question down the road.

Its the Langdon Area Cardinals. Several other small schools in Cavalier County have consolidated before.

NHL and NFL teams only locate in major regional media centers. NYC and LA and maybe Chicago would be international media centers. When Fargo gets enough daily flight to handle a Frozen Four influx, and deluxe hotel rooms that aren't Motel 6 and Super 8 quality to meet a Frozen Four qualifications, call me.

With our football and basketball ... Get real. Take your smack to Bville, where there's fans already saying that.

The NCAa wants Frozen Fours in media centers, not in some podunk towns like Fargo and GF. GF once hosted a Frozen Four, but those days are long gone. Lake Placid used to be a staple: no more.

You will now. Kolpack is already shouting from the rooftops. A Big 12 full invite is imminent, according to Bville.

Retractable windows on the north and south sides to get a breeze and save on HVAC.

If I had a billion $s, here's the stadium I would propose gifting to UND, trimmed in brick: Http://www.forsythbarrstadium.co.nz/the-stadium/ Build on the grounds of Memorial, the roof could be graphene (stronger and lighter than glass) and it would have an portable rink for bigger crowds like a gophers hockey series. Probable cost: $150 mil.

NHL teams want their AHL affiliates near them, so there a short hop of a plane ride for call ups and its better for developing fan support of players. A bunch of teams are moving out to the West Coast to be near the Calif, BC, and Alberta teams. Winnipeg supposedly wants its AHL team in Thunder Bay. Haven't followed it, but the ICeCaps are moving to Winnipeg and will be renamed the Manitoba Moose, where they will play at least one year. Montreal is moving its AHL team from Hamilton to St Johns. The Jets have an 8000 seat waiting list for season tickets, so if those people buy Moose season tickets, they might move up on the list. Thunder Bay doesn't have financing for an arena yet, so the Moose might stay in Winnipeg if they draw well. Would think Fargo would be well ahead of GF for an AHL team, even with Scheels being 5000 seats. Rapd City or Sioux Falls could host an AHL team too.

NDSU wrassling will go big time with the B12. The Fargodome will sell out with triple headers: men's wrasslin, women's mud wrassling, followed by motocross and Big Wheels through the mud. Big new attraction that will put other college sports to shame. Of course, Big 12 banners will be strung everywhere. Bville is already counting on that.

I never said he was quality, but he was good enough for the SEC. How is Jones going to replace him? That was the big question.

Johnson City is part of the TriCities, with Bristol and Kingsport. There are a lot of nearby smaller 10-20k smaller towns like Jonesboro, Church Hill, Elizabethton, Greenville, Abingdon, Rogersville, Morristown etc and suburban areas that are not incorporated. The area makes up the 1st Congressional District of Tn, so the NE part of TN has almost 600k. Most of the Appalachian Rookie baseball circuit is within a 30 mile radius (Elizbethton Twins are the Twins rookie franchise). UT and Va Tech are more popular with the T-shirt and Walmart crowd, but if a business displays Go Vols in their window, it would piss off the Hokie fans. SW Va has no business center, so the TriCities is where many SW Virginians migrate to or at least shop. A lot of Hokies around here. Showing support for ETSU doesnt threaten either of those two fan bases. Many of the more educated young people wear ETSU garb. ETSU moved basketball off campus to Johnson City's Freedom Hall, a city arena. ETSU has built new baseball, softball, and soccer stadiums, and the student apartments built near campus are also impressive. Their dome on campus is used as a practice center and for Womens basketball. A Convocation Center is next after the football stadium is built, as a dome just doesn't fly with their fans. Tenn has free JC and vocational school for HS seniors with decent grades, so ETSU has to work to get students now. Athletics is part of its Presidents push.

Jones will have immense difficulty replacing Shay with a quality assistant. The writing is on the wall.