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On 10/7/2018 at 7:41 AM, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said:
Now that's some serious SU troll bait.
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On 10/5/2018 at 2:05 PM, darell1976 said:True, but I hate when people call the FCS title a JV title. That’s pure ignorance.
While I cheer for football to win that title as well, in the grand scheme of things, it is the JV title of college football. No FCS champion is going to be knocking on the door to face the FBS champion, and no fan in their right mind would say that it would be a competitive game. Therefore, FCS=JV College Football.
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25 minutes ago, SJHovey said:
So, an update on my auction purhase I referenced in a post a few days ago.
I stopped by the Bradley Center yesterday to collect my "Auction Lot," which included the UND jersey.
With respect to the jersey, it is one definitely signed by the 1996-97 team. Aaron Schweitzer, Dane Litke and Mark Pivetz all signed, and that was the only year they played together at UND. I did not see any coaches signatures. All of the signatures are on the front of the jersey, which will make it nice for framing. There are 22 player signatures, so I assume it was just signed by the players who were listed as eligible to play in that Frozen Four, although that's just a guess on my part. It's a size 52 Gemini home jersey. It has the number 9 on it, but no name. It was also packaged with a souvenir program and souvenir puck from that Frozen Four, which further supports my assumption about the jersey. I was hoping someone there could shed some light on the background of the jersey, but no.
After I took a look at the jersey, puck and program, I started digging through the large boxes of stuff that I bought without having any idea what was in there. As my wife and I started pulling things out of the boxes, we couldn't stop from laughing at the crazy assortment. A brief list of the items I received for my $180 (other than the hockey jersey and Frozen Four stuff) includes:
An authentic Bucks basketball jersey with Taylor Swift's name on the back and autographed by her on the front.
An authentic Bucks basketball jersey with Bon Jovi on the back. I've yet to find any autograph.
Five Milwaukee Wave soccer jerseys, one signed by what appears to be the entire team. I'll confess that before yesterday I literally had no idea who the Milwaukee Wave were.
One pair of Nike soccer goalkeeper gloves.
Two brand new canvas Milwaukee Buck carry bags (which came in handy for hauling all my stuff to the car).
Two autographed "Raw is War" t-shirts from the August 16, 1999, Monday Night Raw event. Each t-shirt probably has twenty autographs on it. Not a huge wrestling fan, so I'm going to have to do some digging to figure out who signed those shirts. I can only assume most of those people are dead, being wrestlers.
A crapload of signed glossy pictures, and one signed t-shirt from a bunch of professional figure skaters.
A handful of brand new NCAA basketball t-shirts and sweatshirts (tags all still attached) from the 1999 March Madness first round games played there. I'll actually be wearing those shirts.
A heavy duty rubber Gene Simmons KISS mask, that candidly, is spectacular.
Honestly, it was hilarious pulling that stuff out of the boxes.
You might actually be able to pay for your purchase with the wrestling shirts depending on what signatures are on there. It could possibly have some big names that have since moved on or retired and to have them all on one shirt would be pretty impressive.
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I can assure you, it is 100% Senden.
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8 minutes ago, siouxforce19 said:
He’s not coming and is 21, so he can no longer postpone.
doesn't that just mean he loses a year of eligibility? So if he came next year he could still only play 3.
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13 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:
Lol someone got a scoop
May, or may not have an inside source.
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On 5/31/2018 at 1:06 PM, AJS said:
I would be shocked if Senden ever ends up on campus.
I'm willing to bet he shows up sooner than later.
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57 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:
It’s not an opinion if it literally follows the phenotype for a Hawk while the one you mentioned does not.
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4 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:
A bird skull with green feet and pigeon like markings? That looks less like a hawk than our current logo.
Well, to be fair, it's looks just as much like a hawk as the current abomination, but you can disagree. It's your opinion.
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On 5/24/2018 at 8:48 PM, darell1976 said:
I could have got behind the logo on the left. The Burlington/Post Office logo doesn't do anything for me.
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5 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:
Not so sure about that. It would be close I would guess. My point is, hockey was not self sufficient to get to where there are and football in particular would be way better off if they got to keep their other half mill a year to work with.
Well, there's a clear answer here then. Shutter the hockey program. It's obvious that only if the rest of the sports could use that budget, and we cut ties with the palace on the prairie, the other programs will start winning natties.
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4 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
Although this post makes perfect sense, it is missing the overall issue of equality and mutual benefit within the entire athletic department, particularly for the sports that most other universities emphasize.
My previous post again applies.
Do you think NDSU treats the football team equally as the tennis team? The sports that most other universities emphasize aren't the ones driving the revenue bus at UND.
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2 minutes ago, homer said:
Not many. Sound in the Alerus isn’t great. Grand Forks is in a great spot to have two facilities that they do. I just don’t buy the Ralph being the sole reason you would come back to Grand Forks and spend $10,000.
I come for the hockey games. I spend money on hotels, dining, and entertainment. Would the hockey program still be great without the Ralph, maybe, maybe not. There's a lot to factor in that may not have been without the building. Is it the sole reason guys come to Grand Forks to play, no, but it sure doesn't hurt. Maybe a couple recruits don't by in without a pro arena in a college program. Maybe without those recruits the program isn't as good. Maybe the program doesn't maintain the level of excellence we've come to expect, and it's not the national titan it is. You can't tell me that during the 90s the future didn't look bleak. Granted we got 2 championships at the end which boosted appeal, but l firmly believe we don't win some of the "blue chippa" recruiting battles with a mediocre arena.
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1 minute ago, homer said:
You don’t know that? It would not have been the Ralph but no one knows what would have happened and anything is speculation. I always lose count of how many NHL players UND has along with potential donors like Sanford chopping to get into UND. There is other money that could have been put together for something but again, I am only speculating.
Mother programs have won plenty of games over the last 15 years without an arena like the Ralph.
While you're right, the program would have done well still, you're still not acknowledging the impact that is the attraction of the Ralph. I've talked to people that are from New York that have been at a game just because of the reputation of the arena. As good as the program is, those people aren't coming because they like North Dakota in the winter, and they aren't spending dollars in Grand Forks without the building.
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Just now, homer said:
Not arguing the point as the Ralph is an incredible gift but you wouldn’t have come to a hockey game if it was not in that building?
A 3,000 seat barn with little heat and crappy seats, no, probably not. What would the university have built? They'd never have spent anywhere near that kind of money, and I see many of you make fun of other teams rinks all season long, that would be us.
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3 minutes ago, gfhockey said:
Lol $10k? I’ve spent that in a weekend
Good for you.
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Some of you amaze me. The impact on the community alone because of this one time donation can't be measured. I can say, as someone that doesn't live in Grand Forks, I've spent North of $10,000 since 2010 in Grand Forks that wouldn't have been spent without that building, and that's without attending a game the last two years (damn kids). How many more people are there like me? It's not strictly you blue bloods filling that building and the hotels each weekend. Without that hockey program, what does Grand Forks offer to outsiders that couldn't be found in any other mid size city in the Midwest? The only thing that's unique and an attraction is a hockey program that offers a better atmosphere than any pro game I've ever been to, and it's quite likely based solely on that building.
As far as other donors, I don't see anyone else ponying up over $100 million for anything, and even if they did, why would they want to? While Kennedy might be in the right, and at the end of the day a logo on the floor shouldn't matter, but you can't tell me that someone that spends that kind of money isn't going to want some kind of say no matter who they are, and the condescending response by Kennedy in the emails is going to give them pause, because if he's going to talk like that to someone that's spent that kind of money, he'll do it to anyone.
Finally, yes, North Dakota is in a budget crunch, that should have been foreseen, and it's not ridiculous to request a revisit to the revenue sharing agreement, but at the same time, the university has made some extremely questionable decisions in money allocation over the past several years when this budget shortfall could have been predicted. While this will blow up in Engelstad Foundations face, the university is going to have collateral damage from other donors because of Kennedy's arrogance. Seriously, he implied that he would sue a donor, you don't think that's not going to give other donors pause?
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11 minutes ago, jdub27 said:
UND owns the land. And the whole thing was set up to operate in the best interest of UND and it's athletics program. That's literally their mission statement. Calling the REA a private enterprise is also misleading as it is set up as a non-profit (enjoying significant tax breaks) with UND as it's sole financial beneficiary. And UND doesn't just "use" the facilities, they pay 52% of all ticket revenue to the REA as "rent" and also pay the REA for some other services.
As for what is given back to UND, they only gets whatever is determined to be "leftover" at the end of the year from all sources of cash flow and that number is a very highly subjective number, which I'm assuming is decided by the REA Arena BoD.
The ability for the REA to book more of these outside events due to increased arena availability is part of the reason UND has asked for a change in the UND ticket revenue split, they are using the arena less and the REA should in turn have to lean less on UND's ticket revenue to operate as they can bring in more outside revenue. That seems pretty logical.
Would that new ticket revenue from other events not find it's way back to UND in the end? I was under the understanding that someone else owned the land and it is nothing more than a hundred year lease for $1, and UND paid that lease.
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So the outside of athletics entertainment that comes to the Ralph, UND still gets a portion of, correct? If so, UND needs to check itself. The buildings themselves didn't come out of UND's budget, the land didn't come out of UND's budget. While their is an agreement in place for the university to take over eventually, they have not yet. While Kris never should have gone to the media, and likely should have worked with UND a little more in the floor design, we're still essentially talking about a privately built building and enterprise that is allowing the university to use the facilities, and then donates the money made back to the university. I guess I'm saying there is a lot of pig headedness to go around for all parties, and they are both pretty guilty of having a male member measuring contest.
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4 hours ago, tnt said:
Are they looking at bringing in a new recruit for this upcoming season?
That I wasn't told. Kind of gets you excited for who it might be though, eh?
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This penalty kill is amazing. I'm absolutely blown away by it.