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Lakesbison and his crew are so delusional that they think the MWC would invite them. FBS football would have to melt down for that to happen. The same mocking at Bisonville happened when I guaranteed UND would go DI, when I said NDSU wouldn't get in the Big Sky, when I said that N Colorado would, that Chapman would be run out of ND for being corrupt, when I said that UND would be in the Big Sky, and when I said a Big Ten Hockey conference would be formed and UND would start a new hockey league.

ADs from MAC schools move on to larger schools all the time. When Taylor applied to a MAC school, he couldn't get in. This was the one opportunity for him to move on and save face. At Iowa, there was no competition for the job. Bresciani: We really need to move on from the UND scheduling debacle. Taylor: Why? Brisciani: It puts us in bad graces with the Big Sky. Face it, the MAC and MWC aren't going to be offering us ever. The Big Sky has an FBS plan and we need to put ourselves in a position to go there if want FBS. If UND is FBS, but we aren't, we'll be tarred and feathered by teammakers. Taylor: But UND and Montana State are meanies. Bresiciani: I can be a meanie if you don't get UND on the schedule. Fullerton has assured me of a spot if we make peace with UND. {Later} Taylor on phone: Is this Gary Barta? About that job you jokingly offered in the past. Would you be serious?

You turds are ascribing words to me I never said. UND needs to be in a western-looking conference in part because of the Bakken. The whole school can grow and benefit from looking west, instead of looking to Minneapolis for approval like NDSU does. The Bakken isn't going to make UND go FBS, but the money from the region won't hurt. Highly doubt that Harold Hamm or Statoil or Whiting will build a roof over Memorial. But Harold Hamm and Hess have already given to the Geology and Engineering School substantial money and grown their enrollment and importance. Only two companies and probably ten more like it out there wanting to invest money at UND.

Always assumed that you were Gene Taylor's primary buttwiper, but you have confirmed it. If Lynn Dorn is the next AD, do you inherit that job?

This company wants to start stripping off the gases before the oil ships by building facilities at all the railcar loading facilities in ND. The loading companies, the railroads, and probably the oil companies don't want it because of the added cost. The NGLs stripped can be piped to connect with OneOK NLG pipeline that was just built that goes from Watford City to Kansas (and finally Texas after that). Or the NGLs can be processed separately into ethane, propane, and butane and sold directly in ND. http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/19810/

Bowling Green, Miami, Kent St, Ball St, Appy St, Troy, Ga So, Idaho, Washington St, and Utah St are all pretty good examples of small town hosting FBS teams. Some, like Idaho and Washington St, are more remote and difficult to travel to than Grand Forks.

Taylor is universally worshipped around the FM area. He never has to wipe his *ss because there's always teammakers around to kiss it for him. If Taylor would have seen anyway to take NDSU FBS by any other route but the Big Sky, he would have stayed. Taylor has too much hate for UND, Montana St, and the Big Sky to ever want to be a part of it.

The Bakken has everything to do with UND being in the Big Sky. Years ago I said that UND needed to be in a western conference to create Montana rivalries and tap into some of the wealth emerging from the Bakken. NDSU posters mocked and scorned that because they were rejected numerous times and they thought UND needed cheaper travel east but no football league. I've been posting for more than 10 years and have constantly been a direct adversary of Bisonville Conventional Wisdom, which is really unconventional stupidity and groupthink.

I'm just a voice in the wind that is usually right. Ignore at your peril. Bisonville said the latest Bakken was just a phase that wouldn't last. I said the Bakken is a game changer, because its driven by technology this time. Who was right? I bet with my own money and I can prove it. I said the Big Sky was interested in UND years ago. Bisonville poo-pooed it because Chapman couldn't get them in. You laughed and laughed at me, but I had the last laugh. You guys are just full of !@#$. Always have been and always will be. Manure will always spew from Bisonville.

Without shale oil from the Bakken, Eagle Ford, and Permian, we would be at the mercy of Putin and ISIS, we would be paying $6 gasoline, our economy would be worse off than ever, and most of you couldn't read this because wind electricity would be too expensive. http://www.bloomberg...king-saudi.html

The Bisonville brain trust gets into the game late. First, if Cal Poly and UCDavis are getting serious about FBS, they will be the Big Sky when it becomes FBS. There's no incentive to move when they are in the FCS. The Sun Belt has no worries about losing its FBS status. Ga So, Ga St, and App St are all FBS, but not full FBS. The Sun Belt was worried about losing schools to CUSA or MWC, but the FBS playoff payment money maximizes G5 conferences playoff take at about $1 mill per team, but no more than $12 mill per conference. CUSA is SOL because they've gone to 14. The Sun Belt also has UALR to UTArlington as non-football members, so the Sun Belt was under threat to having its conference status revoked as the Summit was. The PAC12 and Big10 don't mind an FBS Big Sky, more FBS teams to schedule which lowers the FBS guarantee. Bisonville talks like the Board of Directors has the interest of the MAC, Sun Belt, MWC, and CUSA at heart. It's actually the opposite. The only way conceiveable that NDSU can go FBS is to join the Big Sky. The Big Sky won't be inviting schools that have grudges against existing schools, so Bresciani told Taylor it would be best for him to go or sign a contract. When NDSU signs a long term agreement with UND for football H/A, it will demonstrate that NDSU is now operating on good faith with UND. NDSU will be accepted shortly thereafter, assuming there isn't too much stink from teammakers. Bresciani wants NDSU in the FBS Sky.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2014/07/03/txndpa-the-u-s-axis-of-energy-independence/

http://www.ogj.com/articles/2014/07/north-dakota-gives-teeth-to-flaring-reduction-plan.html Looks like flaring may be a thing of the past. The CNG can then will used to power rigs or heavy equipment or can be sent to a natural gas treatment plant.

Personally attended the GMAC Bowl, which was Roethlisberger's last game (he came out to the NFL as a Jr). Only better GMAC game was Marshall, then a MAC school, beating E Carolina in 3 or 4 OT after being 35 down. It was a cold game. Those Miami teams of the early 1970's were really special.

Your such an idiot, buttHerd. The very idea that anyone is talking FBS and Big Sky in the same sentence has got you all inflamed. There's a ton of talk about the MWC taking NDSU on Bisonville, but the MWC has no interest in taking lowly NDSU with no media presence whatsoever. The MWC takes UTSA / Rice / North Texas / UTEP before they consider anyone else. NDSU would be about 30th down. The one shot would be if Lakes wins a billion in the lottery and builds a stadium in Dilworth. The ten most valuable BCS teams could not form a new FBS conference per the NCAA, because they don't meet continuity rules. They would get more flexibility to change the rules though, as the NCAA wouldn't want those 10 schools to leave. The 10 schools would just take their football teams out of their leagues, but keep the rest of the sports where they are. But most of those 10 schools are locked into contracts with their conferences until sometime in the next decade. They'd be sued and loose a ridiculous amount, much as Maryland had to pay a huge sum to the ACC (still in litigation, I think) Eight teams from CUSA could form a new FBS conference and leave the other six needing to add two more, if the eight that left met continuity. That's why JMU and Mo St want CUSA: it has the potential to split into two by adding two and has better markets than the MAC and SunBelt. If the NCAA tried to change the rules ex post facto, the schools would win a major suit worth hundreds of millions against the NCAA. If an FCS school wanted to go FBS as an independent, they could sue and would almost certainly win, as the rule is a monopoly restriction of trade. But any FCS school would hesitate to do that because it would financial suicide with the legal bills.

There's entirely different dynamics from Miami going B1G and the Big Sky going FBS. Ohio State would single handedly stop Miami. There's a different route for the Big Sky that you haven't even discussed. Moreover, Fullerton was trying to make the case that all Big Sky schools need to be at the same classification. If Idaho isn't going to FCS, the rest of the Sky needs to upgrade. Fullerton himself has said the Big Sky looks an awful like an FBS conference. Why would he say that if he didn't want it, which he does.

You left out "The Case for FBS at Idaho" by the Statesman. The arguments there apply to the entire Big Sky. http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/06/29/3258683/idahos-case-for-fbs-more-revenue.html

What the article doesn't state is one word was left out: there was a "presumably" before FCS in parenthesis. Idaho isn't making any moves to FCS because of their scheduling multiple FBS teams after 2018. They are contractually bound to be in Big Sky football come 2018. Admittedly, the Big Sky has to work out issues on the funding, facility, TV fronts.

Vandal football has four years of FBS in the SunBelt. After that they will join the Big Sky in football as an FBS team. The Big Sky will begin moving to FBS in two years.

Every county in ND (except Sioux County) supposedly has nat gas that can be drilled commercially if the price gets high enough. Supposedly there is oil, but not too much. Nat gas and NGLs are why they drilled the well. NGLs especially are often several time the value to the nat gas. The problem with Emmons Country is that there is no natural gas plant to clean up the nat gas and separate the higher and more valuable ethane, propane, butane species. Probably 200 wells would need to be drilled before a Midstream company would agree to build one, as its cost around $200 MILL for a commerical gas plant. The company drilling is probably hoping to be bought out by a major, and the major commits to drilling 200 or more wells because of potential. Its still a crapshoot if it happens. Maybe they could put a small electrical generator at each well and burn the gas and sell electricity to utilities, but their are environmental limits that probably couldn't be met. It could be the well is filled even though it has commercial potential.

A big gun in the Poli Sci world is predicting Montana will gain back a seat, with Mo and Mn staying the same. http://www.centerfor...e-of-the-house/

ND pop might hit 850 by 2020. Maybe a million in 2025, but a lot of things can change. If UAVs hit, and Grand Forks is a UAV center, Grand Forks can explode. Just imagine a Polaris / DigiKey like company with 10,000 employees in Grand Forks that are relatively well paid. UAVs are potentially a life altering technology. Imagine a enclosed Polaris that flies (or a Cirrus plane) that is computer controlled like cars that can be controlled by Google. A UAV can have a passenger but still be unmanned control. Grand Forks could be the future home of the Jetsons. All the ingredients are right in the neighborhood. There is increasing talk about the Bakken becoming a petrochemical center, using all the ethane from the Bakken. If projects are announced around Williston, I bet that Williston metro goes from 150,000 in 2025 to a new estimate somewhere around 400,000 instead. Fargo and Bismarck would be left in the dust and Williston would be like Calgary or Edmonton in the 1950s. Williston would be the by far the biggest city between Spokane, Denver, MSP, and Canada. The potential of the Bakken grows daily, with more industries. Midland/Odessa, the Texas oil cities in the Permian, don't have a significant petrochemical industry because all its ethane is piped to Houston. Ethane (and NGLs )is what gave rise to Houston and could really boost Williston further. http://blogs.platts....akken-ethylene/

http://www.dailymail...rrilla-war.html Do you ever read or watch serious news? http://minnesota.cbs...s-somali-youth/ Sharia Law is deeply offensive to any western democracy. Sharia is the problem, but libs pretend its not. And this has nothing to do with the murder in GF.

Bowman ND might double in population because an oil company, Denbury Resources, is attempting CO2 injection to force much of the rest of the oil out of the formation. They are building a pipeline from Wyoming where CO2 is separated from nat gas. http://www.bowmannd....ails.asp?ID=237 This might be a small scale preview of what could happen throughout the Bakken. Only problem is, there isn't enough CO2. A solution could be that the CO2 from the power plants be compressed and piped to the wells and injected. Dakota Gasification at Beulah is already piping their CO2 to Canada for enhanced oil recovery. It actually might be feasible to start other plants if the CO2 is needed badly enough (a paid byproduct). McKenzie, Williams, Dunn, and Mountrail Counties may see much more intense industrialization, not only below ground, but above. UND's and the EERC expertise and training of people will be very big if this comes to pass. Hess's donation to UND of $5 mill in only less than 1% of the billions Hess is sinking into ND with wells and their gas plant expansion. Hess has more engineering needs then other companies because of their gas plant, so Hess has a vested interest in finding North Dakotans willing to locate in Tioga and Minot. Few Texans want to work there.

http://myfox8.com/2014/06/28/two-winston-salem-men-face-charges-in-the-death-of-north-dakota-man/ The men charged with murder were from Winston-Salem in North Carolina.