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The middle child syndrome. There really are not enough big little/small big schools to have a third class is there? As for Trinity what is their point? Really how fun can it be to win a rigged game? One thing that might make a difference is to not allow athletes to get any financial assistance. That should go for all private schools. If you can't pay the tuition on your own you can't play. It would be interesting to compare how private schools that give financial aid do in sports to private schools that don 't?

More like Cross, Whitefish, Gull, or any other Brainerd area lake on the weekends.

How in the holy heck can all of you guys keep all of this straight? I was trying to follow along and I thought I was reading ancient Greek. LOL

In complete agreement with you. Those small towns come in great numbers. Spend money on hotels, restaurants, etc.. I have always thought the best state tourny to have for an economic impact was the B. Those small towns bring more fans than Minot, Dickinson, or Williston. Not only do the kids and parents come but everyone else in the area. It has more meaning to them. The Big 6 (GFK, FAR, MOT, ISN, BIS, DIK) residents on a whole could care less about how their high schools do in sports. Whereas the small towns it means the world to them, including the 85 year old lady in the nursing home. There is just something really special about this tourny. You don't need to know a thing about the towns or the schools to enjoy the feeling you get from watching it. It is so storybook.

Doesn't Wazayta have a higher per capita income than Orono?

Not just Country Club. Look at the neighborhood around Interlachen.

I would say the store owners in Bismarck would say different. Isn't that how people usually respond when they lose what they really want?

Good point on playing in the best arena. I agree that the B should stay out west. I don't think though that the east doesn't give it the respect it deserves. It seems more like the east does not have the right facility to hold it in. People in the east have always loved the B. The atmosphere of because of the size of the Bismarck Civic is what made it so good. From an economic stand point I understand why the east would want the tourny. It has to be a bigger impact than the hockey tourny does.

I was thinking earlier than that. But from your link that must be it. I was thinking of Eaglestaff. Do you know if Fort Yates played any other years?

You forgot to mention United Health being sued by their stockholders over the Dr. Bill McGuire backdating stock option scam. Where all these shares hit the market devaluing the holdings of the stockholders.

Though the people who pay little to no income tax pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than you do. That is why the argument always stops at income taxes and not total taxes as a percentage of income. Because when that occurs the argument of who does not pay income taxes as talking point lose the argument.

Reagan and Bush I both used government spending to get the country out of recessions.

Was that some time in the late 60's? I remember being little and watching Fort Yates. They had the one kid who was great.

Sad as it is maybe having the tourny next year at the Scheels will create some of the old atmosphere. The REA is just to darn big. Reminds me of the Minnesota girls tourny being played at the X instead of Ridder where it belongs.

Neither should be there. You look at the public schools and those kids pretty much grew up playing together. The private school kids only started playing together when they got to high school.

Do you know where Orono is? No looking on a map first.

That is not answering but avoiding. Why are these breaks you are getting not a subsidy?

Why?

Nice to see them beating down the cake eaters.

I google earthed it, new verbs, and on the river side there is a big parking lot. Or the left side of the picture.

When did the state B tourney start playing in GF? From watching fb games online the Alerus is too big for those games. Could say the same thing about the REA for hockey also. I remember growing up watching the B tourny with Jim Adelson announcing from Bismarck. The atmosphere seemed great then. That atmosphere would be lost in the Alerus. Keep the dang thing in Bismarck or Minot, if there are any hotel rooms to be had in Minot like tradition calls for.