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As if pro stadiums don’t have concerts or other events. But each pro game has 80,000 spectators. Kroenke is building $5 billion stadium at Holllywood Park with entirely private financing. It will be used year round for events as well as Chargers and Rams games. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/the-rams-5-billion-stadium-is-bigger-than-disneyland-it-might-be-perfect-for-la/2019/01/26/7c393898-20c3-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?utm_term=.e494ea15a8af

UND baseball in the summer months outside would work, but the NCAA doesn’t want to move the season. The Pro draft is in early June and most players get positions in summer leagues. DII or NAIA would work.

There are plenty of Asian chemical companies that want a piece of the American shale scene. But they just want the plant part, not the distribution or delivery part. The Hess related NG plants could provide sufficient ethane right now, but inventory would be needed for various downtimes Bakken Midsteam could well build some infrastructure to store ethane in caverns and deliver it to the plant or later build ethane pipelines from NG plants that don't have ethane condenser yet. Alberta contains more than 40 multinational petrochemical firms.

This would have been done, simply cutting back the program, if new teams weren't expected for football.

The NCAA doesn't allow affiliate memberships for meeting the minimum number of football teams. The MVC doesn't have the minimum number either, so baseball and men's soccer are critical to them too as a necessary qualification sport for the dance. The second non major team sport can have one affiliate meeting the rules, hence EIU men's soccer qualifes.

Chaves elevated Jim Hayford from a DIII school. Hayford had over an .800 winning percentage at that DIII. Chaves can recognize good coaches whatever the level.

DeSean Elkins has entered the transfer portal as stated on Twitter.

Lacrosse can’t get Denver to join, as they would leave the Summit first as they value the Big East affiliate membership so much. All the Dakotas, Omaha and one other team would have to start men’s lax. NDSU and SDSU baseball would get affiliate offers from the Horizon or maybe even the MVC because there is such a shortage. The MVC had three teams in the baseball regionals and they all made the regional finals. Denver would get an offer for men’s soccer from the WCC or MWC or maybe higher because there are a national power. Omaha would get an offer from the WAC, MVC, or Horizon.

Here’s an article from Sather’s hometown of Princeton. Since Sather switched from hockey to basketball full time in HS, he will probably relate to the fans here better. https://www.hometownsource.com/union_times/free/phs-alum-gets-division-i-head-coaching-job-at-north/article_2ace9cd4-83db-11e9-93ec-d74e1d75b564.html Really like how his recruits seem to fit better as a team throughout his previous stints. He fits well even though the job description didn’t describe him as he had no relationship with UND or the Red River Valley.

It’s pretty simple as far as the sports alignment. Either the Summit sponsors mbb and two other men’s teams sports, which right now are men’s soccer and baseball, or sponsors football and mbb like the Big Sky. Sports like tennis, golf, track, x-country are not considered team sports but individual sports. Baseball simply would have to poach limited MVC or Horizon teams as would men’s soccer. Getting a DII school to move up would take five years, simply too much time, as the Summit is already at the bare minimum for those two sports. Mens volleyball already has one school, but it’s PUFW, and their expected to be the first to leave. The Minnesota High School association just missed approving men’s volleyball as a sport, but its expected to be approved later as there is support among Twin Cities schools. Mens ice hockey would need three more teams, like the MSU group going DI or getting Arizona St to join with two other DI’s. SDSU and NDSU will insist upon baseball, even if they have to join the WAC or MVC as associate members. Don’t see anyway the Dakotas start men’s soccer, as it would interfere with football and cause Title IX issues. Getting six FCS schools or eight FBS is the only reasonable way for the Summit to survive according to the NCAA conference requirements for an autobid. When ORU left for two years, ORU coming back was the only reason the conference survived as it contributed to both key sports and brought them back to the minimum. They probably bribed ORU as the Summit didn’t have to release that info.

Here’s a report from Bismarck State on a new plastics plant near Tioga. Bismarck would train many of the operators, so that would be important to them. https://bismarckstate.edu/academics/energy/news/Plasticsplantcouldbring200jobstoTioga/ It says 100 - 200 jobs, but the impact of the region would be at least an order of magnitude larger.

Noticed that pro softball is going gangbusters, as new teams are going for more than NHL expansion ones. Before the college World Series is a starvation time for ESPN so they are forced to fill it with something.

Ideally, men’s volleyball is much cheaper because it only needs to sponsor a few scholarships max. There are men’s team sports like that, but NDSU and SDSU would probably not want those forced down their throats. Tennis, with all the international scholarships and essentially no revenue, is an easy cut, but the Summit needs to reapprize it’s sports first.

Losing PFW, WIU, ORU or Denver would sink the Summit if they don’t get more fb teams. The Summit would not have anywhere the teams it’s needs to maintain autobids in men’s soccer and baseball. Those two sports are by far the most important for the Summit’s continual big dance berth and UND doesn’t have either. Augie or other DII’s wouldn’t help for at least five years. Getting a couple more eligible FCS schools and sponsoring it would immediately save the Summit and the baseball and men’s soccer requirement go away. Baseball and men’s soccer just don’t have teams in the Midwest that sponsor those sports as the MVC or Horizon would then be endangered. Would have to take an MVC or Horizon school, and that would be highly unusual.

Pryor must have known he was leaving well before Tiffin was hired. Tiffin was Pryor's heir apparent that could take the winters.

Tiffin should have Manitoba covered, as vb recruits from there can be quite strong, whereas bb recruits generally don't get competition there. One of the reasons that A&M came for a UND tourney was a tall Manitoba gal. That was the closest she ever got at playing near her Manitoba home.

A Boschee HC position would probably greatly enlarge the fan base in Kansas. The UND mbb and this site suddenly explode in hits. The Fargo media wouldn’t know what to do.

The college hockey scene in Arizona keeps growing. This piece predicts that Arizona State will be a perennial hockey power in the near future when it gets its own arena. https://azbigmedia.com/led-by-asu-collegiate-hockey-flexes-its-muscle-in-arizona/ But even the ACHA DI keeps growing, by 20% next year. GCU moved up and a new league centered on Illinois, with N Illinois and Illinois St, is starting. The NCHC needs to add Ariz St and perhaps St Thomas to get back in the cities in a couple years.

Killdeer is trying to finalize a land deal as a new school needs to be much larger based on projections. https://www.dunncountyextra.com/land-search-stalls-killdeer-hopes-for-new-campus/

McKenzie County now produces more oil than any other county in the USA. The Permian Basin produces much more oil than the Bakken, but those counties tend to be much smaller. https://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexico/report-2-new-mexico-counties-among-top-oil-producers-in-us/1079453769

Is Pepsi Rink expandable? Minot St, Mary, and Crookston would be better of as NAIA or DIII teams if it wasn’t for the fact that a DII can offer DI hockey. Their losing in all other sports could be overcome by a DI hockey program. But all three would probably need WIH too.

Because sports reporters don’t do fact checking anywhere with Presidents and there has been no deep state source within the MIAC that is talking. Comey and others leaked a bunch of lies and those newspapers took his word for it like it was the Gospel. Newspapers have rules against using rumors or truths that are generated by street people except for deep state lies.

I don’t doubt that St Thomas will go DI, but they just need to abide by the NCAA rules first. They might get into the Summit, but they would be soon headed for the MVC as soon as their transition is over. The MVC is too prideful to ever take a DII school. The MVC will eventually divide between football and private schools. St Thomas would almost be the wealthiest school there. The MVC wants in for the MSP market and UST will deliver that. A second DI school in MSP would be worth a fortune. Surprising that UST didn’t jump before when they wouldn’t have had a long DII transition and stay but could have preceded right to a DI transition.

Lamppa should know Iowa, Nebraska and Minnie well and those are important areas for UND. Tiffin seems to have gotten good recruits from Illinois, but that is semi-questionable. North Dakota is not producing Dooley’s on a yearly basis. More like once in a generation and that type talent would often be nabbed by Creighton or P5’s.

Crookston would probably have the most financial hurdles of the above, but Crookston does have a state built arena now, but they should add women’s lax rather than WIH. Mary and Minot St are inevitable. UST would probably be snatched by the NCHC if they get off to a good start. Augie could be a formidable hockey school if they really wanted it.