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Post by dave on May 21, 2018 11:29:20 GMT -6
NDSU is still the #1 program in the Summit. 1 NCAA win 3 top 20 win's none of y'all match that we will take Sam. have a great week! Give me a break that Oklahoma team was full of run and gun freshman, that has to be one of the weakest five seeds ever, landing them was a gift handed to the Bisons. Question: Why was Saul Phillips dancing on the side of the court like a fool after that victory? Answer: He knew he had just punched his ticket out of Fargo.
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Post by dave on Apr 10, 2018 12:44:16 GMT -6
When you consider the amount of time, money, and energy that goes into recruiting and developing a student athlete there has to be a certain level of punishment to deter the SA from transferring at will, otherwise the mid majors and FCS schools will become nothing more than a farm system for the big boys. Even the professional leagues have restrictions on free agency the early part of an athletes career. Also, if you allow a SA to transfer at will I think you could expect to see super stars joining up to form super teams, similar to what you see in the NBA. It would be pretty tough for the smaller schools to build and sustain a successful program with constant roster turnover.
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Post by dave on Apr 3, 2018 21:56:05 GMT -6
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Post by dave on Apr 3, 2018 21:52:13 GMT -6
I wasn't trying to be belligerent, just short I guess. I don't think you can compare Augie and Northern to USD and SDSU because it is becoming an apples to oranges comparison. Cost of the games and the day they are scheduled are huge factors. If the Summit went back to Fri/Sat doubleheaders you would see a tremendous rise in attendance. I don't understand why we don't go to Friday/Saturday games or at least Thursday/Saturday games. They don't have to be straight doubleheaders, maybe keep the men's & women's game separate and do day/night doubleheaders so the arena can be readied for the night game. Just make it so the men and women are playing on the same day in the same town. IIRC back in the day the Summit had some double headers if not all games and what I heard was that some of the people associated with WBB didn't like double headers as it made the women's game seem like an opening act or a lessor event. Also with nearly all MBB games being televised to some extent it made double headers more difficult as the men's game needed a hard start time and if the women's game went to overtime it screwed everything up.
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Post by dave on Apr 2, 2018 11:50:24 GMT -6
The rumor I heard this weekend was that Sanford offered up a cool $100+ million endowment to go D1 without football. I have little doubt that they would look to essentially buy a school's sports teams (fits their ego profile anyway) but the number seems overkill. But it wouldn't surprise me if those conversations are taking place to figure out specifics. If true probably explains why their AD resigned so abruptly last winter.
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Post by dave on Mar 23, 2018 8:31:52 GMT -6
Just say NO to Augustana. The University of South Dakota moving to D1 is an entirely different thing. SDSU, USD, UND, NDSU, we're all state institutions with strong enrollments. Augustana is a small, liberal arts college. It fits the profile of a D3 or NAIA school more than a D2 school, much less a D1 school. If I am the Dakota schools there is no way I extend Augie an invite. Don't even need to worry about political backlash there as it's a private school. This x a 1000 Your athletic department is the front porch of your university, it's the first thing you probably think of when you hear a schools name. You make the move to DI to raise the exposure of your university, to take your school from state and local exposure to a national level. The four state schools have a defined statewide mission, we are the state's law, medicine, ag, engineering, business, and pharmacy schools. You move to DI to be on the same level as the peer institutions as our neighboring states, Augie just doesn't belong in this group. The Summit League is an entry level conference and yes we have some schools with little or no local, student or alumni support, and yes Augie is better than those schools in those areas, but bringing Augie in does nothing to expose your school to a broader area, it makes the conference even more Sioux Falls-centric. The Sioux Falls media was against the XDSUs moving to DI, and they were dead wrong. They are lobbying hard for Augie to the Summit and are dead wrong on this issue. The Sioux Falls media needs to learn that there is a great big world outside the I 29-229-90 corridor.
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Post by dave on Mar 22, 2018 20:50:33 GMT -6
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Post by dave on Mar 13, 2018 13:51:56 GMT -6
You guys had a respectable OOC schedule, was there room for improvement, sure there always is. What really kills RPI is the conference schedule. We really need the perennial cellar dwellers in the Summit, (cough ndsu cough) to get their crap together and field a half way respectable team. It would really help if they could raise thier rpi to at least the middle of the pack of the NCAA.
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Post by dave on Mar 1, 2018 12:55:48 GMT -6
Maybe he was watching a replay of the JMU game, that would be enough to drive anyone to drinking. About all I can say is if you're going to talk the talk you better walk the walk, coach has a lot of work ahead of him to repair the damage. I'm disappointed in the way SDSU has been releasing the information, these things happen, we're all human, just release the information, tell the story of what happened and move on.
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Post by dave on Feb 27, 2018 16:26:09 GMT -6
IMHO Frost is in desperate need of a remodel, every time they have tried to improve seating the past few years they have made the site lines a little worse,concession and restroom lines are plenty long also. I have chosen to stay home and watch the webcast, keep in mind it is nearly a three hour drive to Brookings for me, if I was within an hour I would buy season tickets. Ticket prices are a concern, doesn't affect me I'll pay what they are asking, other people I know complain a little, it is a pretty big expense for young people with families. I have been watching SDSU athletics since the mid 80's, and attending the State U games in Vermillion since about 1990 it seams like there are less people attending sporting events in general, what's the cause IDK, too many other entertainment options, is it easier to stay home and watch the webcast?
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Post by dave on Jan 22, 2018 19:06:09 GMT -6
unfortunately this game is taking less and less importance because what you do in Sioux Falls is all that really matters anymore and that is too bad. of the three games between the two clubs if three are played this one is the only one where the yotes will have better than a 40% chance to win. The earth is safely back on its axis again after the vikings self destructed vs the eagles. i will take the Yotes in this one but the jacks won't lose their next game til the NCAA tourney. To the pit of misery -- -- dilly dilly
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Post by dave on Jan 21, 2018 11:20:37 GMT -6
Frost cant hold 8500. I googled it and capacity is 6500 damn it i quoted wrong person again. Need to quit doing it in my phone I looked again. Google is weird and has 8500 on their info sidebar, but it is 6500 everywhere else. The original Frost Arena held 8500, since then it has been remodeled and bleachers have been replaced with permanent seats and capacity has been reduced.
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Post by dave on Jan 9, 2018 8:10:22 GMT -6
Everyone knew there would be empty seats in the Brookings stadium. They built it with an eye toward the future, optimistic that the fanbase will grow over time and eventually utilize the space. It seems unlikely that they have as many fans as they can ever hope for right now. This x 1000. If you are going to use percentage of seats sold as the measure of program health than SDSU, prior to DJD stadium being built, was selling between 11000 and 12000 seats in the old Coughlin Alumni Stadium which only had 10000 seats.So back in the CAS era we were selling 110-120% of our stadium capacity, now in the DJD era we are only selling 67%, so did our football program go from being one of the best in the nation to an under performing program with the addition of a new stadium? I think we are the same program we've always been. Also I would take the FCS/FBS argument from UND fans with a grain of salt, they want to go FBS to stick it to the Bison, they are letting their hatred of all things Bison cloud their judgement.
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Post by dave on Jan 7, 2018 10:03:38 GMT -6
FWIW years back longtime bball official Collin Capitan did a Q&A on KWSN about what officials are looking for in a game, it was very informative I wish everybody could have listened to him, including last nights announcers. In Daum's situation the official will allow the person driving with the ball to use his shoulder to create space, it's when the driver extends his arm to push off that's when it is called a foul. Another example is a guard driving with the ball with his arm extended, the official is watching the angle of the elbow, at a 90 degree angle no foul extend the arm he is now pushing off. It was a very informative interview, I think Cappy could have talked for hours, also was great for fans to listen to. BTW thanks for watching last nights game in Omaha, your support is appreciated, j/k j/k.
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Post by dave on Jan 5, 2018 18:27:38 GMT -6
Thanks for your financial support of the athletic department you seen to hold to an unattainable standard... In all honesty, if you cannot afford it, I get it. It can be a stretch. Just keep the sniping at the parties that fund the program's existence to yourself. Cousin Eddie why don't you come out of your RV every now and then during basketball season. It seems like you like to be plenty critical of my comments but where is your participation in the basketball threads and game threads. Why don't you respond to some of my comments in the Western Illinois basketball thread. I would like to see you just once reply to some of my positive comments which seems to be quite often when football season is over. You go ahead and focus on what you don't like in my comments and I will continue to enjoy both of our basketball teams. I suggest you try that sometime. Anyone that is an alum of the University has given plenty of money to the school and the athletic department in general so I don't want to hear about anyone that attended school being frugal or somehow not supportive. With the students the college does not exist. Just look at the basketball arena. In what other arena do you ever see such a huge club level right at court level that is reserved for only the chosen ones to be a part of. That alone shows where the priorities of the athletic program are at. It's not about expanding the fan base, it's about taking care of the select few. Tell me that isn't the truth. If someone wanted to make a contribution to the athletic department by buying season tickets then need to pay an extra howling pack fee just to get into seats that sit empty 80% of the time anyway. If you are the AD or president which fan do you want. A fan that contributes 300 dollars (through HP donation or season tickets that sit empty most of the time) to the program but attends maybe 5 total games or less a year. Some none at all. Or would you want a fan that comes to maybe 10-20 games a year and contributed 200 dollars per year but nothing to the Howling Pack. I can tell you which person the athletes would prefer. If you convert fan interest into dollars I would be one of the highest donors of them all. For a successful overall program you need both. You need money donors and you need active fan interest. Many are able to do one but not the other. USD's biggest problem is pure numbers in fan interest. I'd imagine they prefer the donor because without the donor there would be no athletic scholarship and they would have to pay their own way.
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