UND leaving BSC

[Siouxfan]

Yet there was a 3.8 magnitude quake in OK just last Thursday.

What caused it?

How long till the earthquakes start?

That only occurs in Oklahoma. Or so I'm told.

Seems like the poster here are incredibly misinformed.

Fracking did not cause the Oklahoma earthquakes, but deep injecation wells of saline water this is produced from oil wells did. When OK stopped injection wells in certain areas, the earthquakes stopped.

UND is on track to win all four revenue sports in the Big Sky. That hasn't happened before. It does not correlate with oil. We won seven national championships in hockey without the Bakken and only one with it. Some correlation.

The oil price is much to blame for ND budgets shortfalls. Still pump hearty 1 mill barrels a day, but get half the revenue we used to get as the tax is based on price. A smaller part has to do with the number of rigs, as the entire cost of pipe and rig rental is subject to a sales tax. Used to be Williston would generate more sales tax for the state than the Fargo area, which has eight times the population.

People aren't making as much either, so the income taxes are down. We used to be the wealthiest state in the union for a few years.

NDSU was blocking us from the MVFC years ago, and they have been caught and their President has been reprimanded on threat of firing if it didn't change. He led the MVFC to vote us in now, b3cause he wanted to keep his job.

Take your facts and get out of here!

OK only banned injection wells in certain areas. Guess those restriction areas will be expanded. A 3.9 earthquake doesn't have much power anyway.

[91catAlum]

When UND was locked out of the new Big Ten hockey conference, UND'S goal was to get some new FBS teams out west to start it, like Ariz St, Colorado, Utah, UNLV etc. Our then hockey coach, who is now the Flyers coach, stressed how important the west was. With Ariz St having started hockey, that was realized but yet UND recently didn't support them to get into the NCHC because UND knows it will be going Big Ten. We'll totally be Midwest focused for a reason, just like we were totally western for a reason when the Big Ten and Minnesota didn't want us. So now the Big Sky will be expendable even though we should win all four sports there that people watch. UNLV is actively raising money for DI hockey and Colorado and Utah have actively talked about it, so mission was almost accomplished.

While our athletic department wants to win, it's decisions are always based on what is best for hockey, which has much more money involved than the rest of our aports.

Would rather UND stick west, but I can't stop it. The Big Sky needs to stop requiring arcane sports like MW tennis that don't bring in revenue and which its schools will never be a power. We had to start M tennis to meet that requirement. The Big Sky should offer M/W lacrosse instead, as that sport is rapidly growing though out the USA. Set a trend rather than be stuck in the mud.

I'm pretty sure MSU does have men's Lacrosse, they did really well last year I believe. Not sure about women's.

[Siouxfan]

When UND was locked out of the new Big Ten hockey conference, UND'S goal was to get some new FBS teams out west to start it, like Ariz St, Colorado, Utah, UNLV etc. Our then hockey coach, who is now the Flyers coach, stressed how important the west was. With Ariz St having started hockey, that was realized but yet UND recently didn't support them to get into the NCHC because UND knows it will be going Big Ten. We'll totally be Midwest focused for a reason, just like we were totally western for a reason when the Big Ten and Minnesota didn't want us. So now the Big Sky will be expendable even though we should win all four sports there that people watch. UNLV is actively raising money for DI hockey and Colorado and Utah have actively talked about it, so mission was almost accomplished.

While our athletic department wants to win, it's decisions are always based on what is best for hockey, which has much more money involved than the rest of our aports.

Would rather UND stick west, but I can't stop it. The Big Sky needs to stop requiring arcane sports like MW tennis that don't bring in revenue and which its schools will never be a power. We had to start M tennis to meet that requirement. The Big Sky should offer M/W lacrosse instead, as that sport is rapidly growing though out the USA. Set a trend rather than be stuck in the mud.

I'm pretty sure MSU does have men's Lacrosse, they did really well last year I believe. Not sure about women's.

It isn't a varsity sport, but a club sport. Denver and Air Force have the only DI men's lacrosse teams in the west or even west of Notre Dame. Some PAC12 schools sponsor DI women's lax for Title IX purposes. We dropped baseball and need a spring team sport now and we have the indoor facilities to make it work. There aren't many DI schools that sponsor it, and many players that are begging for a college chance to play it.