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For Idaho, it's the opposite: the Big Sky would allow them to keep FBS football outside the conference (if they can get an independent schedule) and move the rest of the sports into the Big Sky. Twelve for basketball is a very good number. For football, the Big Sky already has 13, and maybe 14 if Idaho comes back to FCS. Football could also be then split into divisions. No other football schools are needed. The Summit League will just have to be content with Division II moveups. Mary is getting a lot of donations from the oil boom, and owns a lot of land with oil on it. Wouldn't it be hilarious if the Summit was forced to add Mary as NDSU's travel partner. So few of the other DII schools can afford anything right now.

Isn't Idaho coming to the Big Sky? No way the Big Sky goes to 15 teams. The other Dakota schools are SOL if they want in the Big Sky. If Oakland leaves, the Summit can invite Augustana, Mary, or St Cloud and rename themselves the North Central Conference.

You and watchmaker49 really need to get together more often - perfect match. Just don't drink and drive, unless it is off a cliff. So you didn't get a DUI driving home from Bonzer's after the Aztec game? Or do you drive anyway?

No wonder you are so miserable and underacheiving, as you are about the most ungracious jackass around. Not thankful for anything. The man has said he will give away half his fortune, and you bitch and moan. Seriously, can anyone stand to be around you?

Yeah, unlike jackass bison fans on this board.

Didn't NDSU start petroleum engineering as a major in 1980's, and then stop the program in the late 1990's? They really missed the boat on that one. They could have been making a play for these gifts. Now they'll probably want to duplicate programs again.

But you are so quick to say so much that is untrue.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/09/24/harold-hamm-makes-big-gift-to-university-of-north-dakota/

Now we know why the name, "School of Engineering and Mines", was changed to "College of Engineering and Mines", and why its "Department of Geology and Geological Engineering" was changed to "School of Geology and Geological Engineering". It will now be Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering. The leaves open the possibility of other departments in the Engineering College, to become "Schools", with the proper donations.

A Geophysicist degree program is one UND needs to establish next. Not many schools have that program and there is a huge demand worldwide.

A high school drop out, the youngest of umpteen kids, whose parents didn't have a pot to piss in (literally) gets a school named after him. Would you rather he gave the gift to Oklahoma State, NDSU, Central Oklahoma, Montana State, SD School of Mines, or U of Mary? His company also gets more access to talent that they will need in North Dakota.

UNC has a history of not winning anywhere since moving up. If we can't win in Greeley, we don't deserve to be in the playoffs.

Bisonville seems remarkably quiet about UND football. Normally they yap non-stop about the team that plays in the Alerus Center.

Looking like three of the four weakest teams UND doesn't get to play: Idaho St, Weber St, and UCDavis. Only play N Colorado, and that's because we are permanent partners. Substitue ISU for EWU and UCDavis for Cal Poly and I really like the odds of UND coming out on top. But then again, a Big Sky championship can be earned the hard way with that schedule. Because Cal Poly has such a weak schedule the rest of the way, it is absolutely mandatory that a loss be pinned on them now.

Can you say anything more about this? Heard there is a UND alum that has accumulated 300,000 acres of mineral rights starting 50 years ago in the Bakken, which is probably worth $3 or 4 billion now. Harold Hamm has made trips to UND and has been very supportive of developing a petroleum engineering school, and he has a net worth something like $10 billion. Even a 1% donation from either, both of whom are elderly and philanthropic, would be very large.

Maybe there was more to the Texas Tech / Jaron Nash transfer story. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/billy-gillispie-resigns-texas-tech-likely-ending-head-234421321--ncaab.html http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8321914/mutiny-texas-tech-coach-billy-gillispie-draws-complaints

Bowling Green isn't that far from Urbana, Ohio, which is Schuler's home town. Great that they can schedule a game in Bowling Green for Schuler's senior year. Need a game near Buffalo too for Jamal Webb: maybe Niagara, Canisius, or Buffalo. Most of the rest of the scholarship players have had or will have local games.

UND is mentioned in almost all Bisonville threads derisively. Rarely does a UND fan show up all riled up and get defensive about the school But here, one joking reference to NDSU athletics or the school, and all hell breaks out from NDSU supporters. The NDSU message board bullies just can't take a joke! Insecurity and bullying go together as personality traits. Everybody knows the iPhone story can't be about NDSU football players, because they don't have the IQ to use one.

Couldn't they have found a NHL or AHL ref that wants to retire from the ice for a teaching/ desk job?

At NDSU, boys stay boys until they become good ole' boys. At UND, boys become men, otherwise they don't stay. Bison fans have always had more than their share of loud mouths and bullies. That fan base is like the FCS version of jihadists: come anywhere close to insulting their prophets (Bohl, Taylor, and Chapman), or their God, bizon football, and you face the wrath of their violence on message boards.

Some really interesting comments on aztecmesa: How Hendrickson and Hardin as well as Jackson may be the finest QB and receiver tandem SDSU will see all season, how all three have pro potential, how Mussman is an up and coming coach that out-coached SDSU. They wouldn't be surprised to seem him get an FBS job. Honestly, how did Hendrickson get moved to WR three years ago? Consider what Hendrickson could have done with more years of reps.

A lot of FBS schools want squeaky clean backgrounds for their coaches: see Arkansas. NDSU had no problem hiring Bohl even with his past, whereas many lower FBS schools would look elsewhere.

UND fans on this message board have been fabricating this scandal, with the help of the AG and Secretary of State, to take down bizon football. The Minot Daily News, the Grand Forks Herald, the Bismarck Tribune, and the Fargo Forum have all given in to Siouxsports.com fan opinion, and remarkably made it their own editorial opinions at least twice. Taylor and Bresciani may be the most stone deaf leaders around, largely because they have a fan base that kisses their a**es every step they take. The bizon fan base made this scandal 100 times worse.

Molden: you must be that loser music teacher from Mayville in California who posts all kinds of absurd crap on Bisonville. You come here lecturing about 8 bison players being charged, when there are actually 10! What a loser lecturer who doesn't even know the basic facts!! No wonder California education is in the crapper. Maybe you could apply to be Bresciani' right hand man. Wiping his a** would be a worthy job for you, as you have plenty experience on these boards.

No. Winnipeg citizens universally recognize UND (in part because so many of their leading citizens and sports figures went there), but don't realize there is an NDSU, NDSCS, or Mayville St. If there's news about a ND University, they assume its UND.