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That stretch of University does not have that much traffic. Maybe another coffee shop or bagel stand or fast food place. Near the Student Union would have much more traffic, but still would have abysmally low traffic some days. This would be out there, but maybe an sellers student art gallery or clothes boutique, but customers that have money would not be driving by much. At much larger U’s, they often have such stores.

So the single story family housing units along Stanford Road were demolished. If I’m reading the building plans right, new apartments will be built facing University, and parking lots paved beyond them like the Wilkerson Complex. Anyone have pictures of the building style?

Always thought that a major foreign presence was needed for mbb, but it seems the elder fan base is rebelling.

https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/07/23/jim-harbaugh-says-nothing-about-starting-qb-decision-stumps-for-16-team-college-football-playoff/ Harbaugh and others want 16 team playoff. Eight will come first.

Saw this tweet so it was official on July 1st, just like UND and the Summit. https://mobile.twitter.com/HCrossWHockey/status/1014206439542452226 UConn was a women’s member of HE well before the men were. Holy Cross really seems to be stepping up it’s hockey. The men now play a lot in the 15k seat DCU Center. Worchester has almost a million in the area but a strange dearth of spectator sports. That area seems natural for a HE men’s team.

Rather strange that Wichita St is bringing back a marching band of over 100 to parade around a basketball court. https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article215162835.html Still say the the Shockers will restart FBS and play as an affiliate in the WAC. UTRGV hasn’t announced its fb feasibility study results yet. Sam Houston St and Lamar talked FBS years ago and are now silent. Mo St has an FBS stadium now. Cal Poly, UC Davis and Sac St have long had FBS plans.

Krampade will be manufacturing and packaging at the GF industrial park. About 11 new jobs will be created. http://www.grandforksherald.com/business/4475439-krampade-locate-expand-business-operations-grand-forks-industrial-park

Back in May, the Holy Cross women’s team was accepted into Hockey East. https://www.uscho.com/2017/05/02/holy-cross-move-to-womens-hockey-east-a-long-process-starts-speculation/ Supposedly, the men’s team will follow, replacing Notre Dame. Holy Cross plays some men’s games now in the massive 15k DCU Center in Worcester, which also had an minor league team. Seems like that alignment change is inevitable. The AHA would be down to ten teams.

Follow the A’s, and they gotten fat off of the weak Central Division teams and they haven’t played the Twins yet. Just getting several starting pitchers back, their young hitters have been batting the ball out, and their relief pitching with Trivino and Treinen (SDSU grad) may be the best in baseball. The last month they are like 20 games ahead of .500, negating the pitching injuries and below .500 record that happened earlier. Billy Beane’s magic may be back.

That’s what the casinos want. But if a Vegas team ever made the playoffs, the stands would be empty.

A casino owner recently said Vegas would get an NBA team. MLB baseball normally like to fill an empty spot on the US map, but the center has to have enough people and fans to get a substantial fanbase for 81 games. Vegas isn’t big enough yet, an exempt for Reno and maybe Utah, doesn’t have that much of a market. NBA, NHL, and NFL don’t need nearly as many people as the NFL is mostly weeekend games and Raider fans travel.

Would agree that North Carolina would get in as that state has so much population, and SC adds 40%. Nashville has been growing so much though, and a Nashville team has Memphis, outstate TN, northern AL including Birmingham, and most of Kentucky to draw from. Nashville might actually be ahead of those other cities listed. The Braves used to have all of the SE as a fan base because other southeast cities weren’t developed enough. New Orleans used to be touted for a team, but numerous SE cities would be much better now. Sacramento and Orlando are bigger metros than either Charlotte or Nashville, but they are too close to Oakland and Tampa Bay to warrant expansion. San Antonio-Austin is growing very fast and has a huge population, but guess the Rangers and Astros would fiercely object. Indianapolis is another city that doesn’t get much respect from MLB, but the Chicago teams and Cindy would be fiercely against them. New Jersey can support a team too as that would give NYC metro three teams, but again the NYC teams and Phillly would be against. The last time MLB was proposing expansion, a proposed Nashville owner actually presented a stadium plan that resembled a guitar shape. The Nashville Sounds AAA team has a scoreboard that is guitar shaped.

Baseball Commissioner Manfred has stated that expansion to 32 teams is preferred for the future. He listed Charlotte, Nashville, Portland, Las Vegas, Montreal or Mexico City as possible locations. But first, Tampa Bay and Oakland must new stadiums. Eight divisions with four teams each are preferred. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/07/17/mlb-major-league-baseball-nashville-tn-expansion-rob-manfred/793828002/

UND should mandate a domed stadium as a gift to bring back baseball. Ridiculous to have a sport where you have so few home games.

Chaves without question has his hands in hiring assistant coaches. They can bring along recruits.

Chaves seems like he has been working his magic. Maybe it’s Jones himself, but he always seemed to be so Iowa focused. Iowa has been the go to place for players.

The daily newspapers in Mobile, Huntsville, Birmingham, and New Orleans were reduced to publishing three times a week early in this decade. That was a huge blow to readers, especially the elderly. The Herald is now too much of a Washington Post reprint. Financial newspapers have more real pertinent news and comment anyway.

Looks like UMD, Mankato and Clarkson are all in an ASU tournament in Glendale over Christmas break. http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/hockey/4467757-college-mens-hockey-bulldogs-play-desert-hockey-classic-coyotes-gila-river If not for Vegas, UND would likely be in it.

Humboldt St won’t have DII fb schools to play on the west coast when the Big Sky splits into FCS and FBS conferences. CWU’s President has already expressed on Twitter that a DI upgrade is coming in 2020. The Big Sky FCS remainders would also be smart to take Azusa Pacific and Dixie St too. Simon Fraser could move up if the NCAA allows foreign schools in DI. SFU has already almost played 8 years in DII, which is the minimum for DI. That would have leave Humboldt St as the only DII fb school west of the RMAC. They had to drop football or drop to DIII or NAIA.

She was always all about FBS, contrary to the bison trolls and naysayers, as that’s what her new job entails. Guess she didn’t like the thought of living in Sioux Falls.

Humboldt St is dropping football after this year. https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2018/jul/17/hsu-football-program-be-axed-after-2018-season/

The North Star could be seeing more membership problems. https://lacrossetribune.com/sports/local/college/viterbo-athletics-travel-miles-nsaa-issues-are-worsening-problems/article_441c67d4-cde3-5bcb-9711-a5d24c9a39bf.html

Don’t know the details as the 80 year olds explaining this didn’t want to get explicit.

He should have been gone last year. There were rumors of a romantic liaison with a past player that caused a lot of dissension on the team. The head scratcher was why he wasn’t removed last year.

Are Montana Tech and Carroll College in Montana sponsoring NAIA hockey? They had club hockey last year. Hockey isn’t listed on their athletic website like it has been for U of Providence in Great Falls. One website lists those three plus Jamestown as an NAIA hockey division.