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The NCAA only caves to P5 schools.

A future WCHA could include UST, Crookston, Minot St, Mary and even Augie. For many of them, hockey would be their top sport for making revenue.

The NSIC would have kick out Crookston or Upper Iowa or Minot St, which they don't wanna do now, to stay even numbered.

The NCAA wouldn't approve a DII bypass just for UST. UST would be eligible for the NSIC just as Augie is leaving. Coincidence not. Concordia-SP would love UST in the same conference even more than Augie welcomed USF. But DII won't be good enough for UST, so there will be jumping to DI in the minimum time. UST is a DIII school as much as Creighton, Marquette and DePaul are DIII's. They waited way too long.

BakkenMidstream.com is the company that wants to build that ethane factory. They have a select group as executives, including a Canadien, who helped build up the Alberta petrochemical industry, and a native of Stanley ND serving for legal and presumably PR advice. That group also includes people that have tapped into investment bankers. The company was just started this year.

USC, UCLA, and Notre Dame are the only FBS teams that have never played an FCS team. USC may just change that, as Cal Poly, UC Davis and Sac St are in state teams. https://reignoftroy.com/2019/05/20/usc-football-heading-towards-scheduling-fcs-schools/ The PAC12 requires nine conference games, USC plays ND each year, and USC plays at least one MWC team. An FCS team would cut costs and still allow 12 games. But that presumes those California FCS teams don’t move in five years.

Tioga is getting excited about a plastics plant: https://www.journaltrib.com/articles/tribune-news/plastics-plant-could-bring-200-jobs/ There are underground caverns between Tioga and Stanley where the ethane can be stored. The construction phase would be massive and would be lead by Bakken Midstream. This link might be more accessible: https://www.journaltrib.com/articles/journal-news/plastics-plant-could-bring-200-jobs-to-tioga/

You have flunked Y-grade NGL science. OneOK’s Y-grade NGL’s from the Bakken don’t have appreciable ethane in them because OneOK doesn’t have cryogenic units in their natural gas plants to get cold enough to remove ethane. Ethane must see below -127 F before it separates out as a liquid.. Hess does have cryogenic units. OneOk nat gas plants in Texas and Oklahoma have those units so it’s a different Y-grade. You are simply not worth the time to talk about it because you simply don’t know enough. But pretend that you’re an expert here. I’m not even in the industry, but have followed OneOK and Hess and Targa for investment reasons.

Someone to claim that OneOK's Nat gas plants in ND separate ethane now is simply uneducated. Simply reading OneOK's quarterlies would educate them.

More details on Bellarmine’s ambitions for DI. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/kentuckiana/2019/05/15/bellarmine-president-susan-donovan-plans-to-raise-university-profile-division-i-push/3571726002/ It would only be the second DI school in the Louisville metro.

NG gas plant operators would get a promotion and raise. This isn't rocket science. Have known tons of operators in the South and most of them could do the job without a college degree as they understand mechanics and fluids. Even operating a drilling rig, one can't be stupid if one values his own life. The engineers are responsible for giving safe ranges to operate in, operating procedures and quality.

You're wrong. OneOK hasn't put in ethane recovery for its own ng plants yet. Their NG plants stick the ethane with the NG goes and calls it a day, but that can't continue forever as the NG will have to high a combustion value for consumers, making all the Nat gas from ND unusable. OneOK has tentative plans for ethane separation, but just needs a local user. Shipping ethane via pipeline to Texas is just too expensive for the price received so its not worth it. Propane and higher C’s are a different story. Try again when you get educated.

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Bill Fitch, Jimmie Rodgers, and Phil Jackson were crazy to be at North Dakota and make NBA coaching records if they knew that they would have to endure arctic winters and low pay. Ridiculous comment. Head Coaches will take a position with the right ingredients and move up from there. We are not getting Izzo or Coach K. Stuck with DII coaches or low DI assistants, and that turned out OK even more recently with McDermott and Jacobson. We need an AD with eyes for spotting talent early like in earlier days. The OVC has sub $200 mbb HC salaries, except Murray St and Belmont. Same with the Big Sky, Big South, America East, NEC, Atlantic Sun, Southland and others. Pay only works if you want an experienced and winning DI HC.

The ethane the Bakken produces/ well is extraordinary. Texas and Pennsylvania/Ohio just have more Wells. And the Bakken produces more NGLs for decades, as oil production per well goes down rapidly. The perfect case for building a cracker, so it wouldn’t soon be worthless.

UND already has the required branches of engineering, as chemical and mechanical would mostly be needed, of a ethane cracker. Those student have gone out of state mostly to get fulfilling jobs.

The costs of pipeline are not cheap and would run into the billions, especially since both ethane and ethylene are so cold as liquids. Solids are so much easier to handle so a conversion to polyethylene to make resins is needed. OneOK is already building a second line for NGLs to Kansas, but that wouldn’t include ethane, as those pipelines would be massively larger, insulated, and the pumps much larger. Earlier, you stated that plastic production is so polluting. That is not true for polyethylene, which pollutes less than nat gas electric generation. Other plastic manufacturing are much more polluting, but those are mainly downstream. The bankruptcy of Badlands NGL is probably a formality because Badlands owns all the rights to Continental Resouces’ ethane. The progress might be closer that even I imagined and there is suddenly a barrage of info from elected officials. A company financing a multi billion facility will not be a mom-pop outfit.

Think D1 and D8 should have merged all along, but it’s getting late for that. Eventually, the Williston City schools will have declining enrollment while D8 could grow for some time. Even the new school locations are close to each other in different districts. Having a merged district would allow school building growth to be smaller, instead of all at once by both districts (which both rejected). Its just like Fargo-West Fargo, where some students could be best located at difference schools than where they are now. Harwood could go to Fargo North, much of Eastern West Fargo to Fargo South, much of Horace to New Fargo HS, and that would leave West Fargo with two HS rather than three. Williston will need two HS anyway even if the Districts merged.

District 8 rejected new taxes to build three new schools. Only 46% voted for it and 60% is needed. Both District #1 and #8 seem to want the state to step in and build the schools out of the trust funds, not them. https://www.willistonherald.com/freeaccess/voters-reject-plan-for-new-schools-in-district/article_12145ff6-76b3-11e9-921f-b3ab3aff8222.html

The results should be in tonight if Williams County District 8 is building new schools, including a HS. Williston City District (District 1) turned down school buildings last month, so space is already at a minimum with Williston City saying there weren’t offfering #8 space in their HS anymore. https://www.kxnet.com/news/minot-news/school-bond-vote-is-tuesday-for-district-8/1999619028

Shank’s coaching ability has been raved about. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is the first step on a long coaching train.

The coaching requirement don’t include a previous stay at UND or the Red River Valley. So the men’s bb and the Vb jobs aren’t written identically, which is refreshing.

You are so clueless purposely, without thought.. Alberta is increasing its nat gas production, which increases its NGLs, which means there isn’t so much demand ethane outsourced from the Bakken. Propane is more limited now, and they have a propane cracker coming on line. https://www.centellect.com/alberta-to-award-4-5-petrochemical-projects-in-coming-weeks/ The one thing that ND has above every other other site is cheap ethane, as it has mostly to be burned like methane.. Texas doesn’t as several plants compete for it and the Ohio Valley soon will. Whether cheap ethane is enough of a driver remains to be seen,

Sharks is the new nickname for LBSU, gaining 53% of votes. http://news.sportslogos.net/2019/05/12/long-beach-state-selects-sharks-as-new-mascot/

The MIAC has shown that they would take in a UM branch like Duluth, because it’s higher academics (PhD’s and programs) than Minn St schools. The small schools in the MIAC are located in the Cities, Moorhead, Winona, or tiny towns within a half hour of the Cities. UM-Morris is rather highly thought of by academic types, but it is small in a tiny town. They probably can’t afford higher athletic spending, so they don’t pursue it. SW Minn St and Winona St, both not having DI hockey, among others would be rejected by the MIAC. Even Minn-Crookston would probably be rejected, as it considered more a farm extension than a campus. Minn-Waseca was previously closed, even though it was much more like Crookston than Morris.