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I'd agree that if no one was going to the game that it wouldn't be much of a positive, but I never claimed it would.

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It makes prospective students more inclined to attend and makes donors more inclined to open their pockets.

I'm sure Crookston football didn't add much value to UMC's reputation as a school, it might even have helped create a negative perception. But a decent sports program does make people perceive a school in a better light.

There's also the value to name recognition that sports provide, which can be harder to measure.

Auburn is a good team and we're playing in a New Year's Day bowl. We could win. We could lose. If we lose, it won't be embarrassing.

Or you could close the Saint Paul campus and put all the ag programs in Crookston.

I don't think they ever had football, but the first intercollegiate basketball game was between Minnesota A&M and Hamline. https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2016-02-09/possible-first-intercollegiate-basketball-game-was-played-feb There are other schools that claim to be the...

I remember going to games at Metropolitan Stadium and they had vendors walking the aisles with hot dogs. I think that would reduce the lines at concessions if some common purchases were available in the seats. You get the cotton candy vendors, but you don't often see vendors come by with sodas...

UMC began its existence as the Northwest School of Agriculture. I grew up about half an hour from Crookston, we always thought of UMC as the ag school. Crookston does have the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department, and I don't think that any of the other universities in the state (besides...

Then they'd have to change divisions. The new conference could be D-II, D-III or NAIA.

The Crookston and Saint Paul campuses have the state's ag programs. If Crookston closed, I'm not certain that the Saint Paul campus could take up the slack. Real estate is a lot more expensive in Saint Paul than in Crookston.

Morris is one of the top rated public liberal arts colleges in the country. US News and World Report ranks it #8, and the top three are the Naval Acadamy, West Point and the Air Force Academy. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/top-public

I could see a new conference forming, with some of the bottom dwellers of the NSIC leaving and picking up some others. Minot State joined the conference in 2012, and hasn't won more than 3 games since 2010. Minnesota Morris is kind of an oddball in the UMAC, they might fit in better in a new...

I must go to Outback and order the blooming onion, since it represents our opponent. Time to eat our opponent for lunch.

It's hard to imagine the any team falling that far even with a blowout loss.

What problem? Maybe they'll win, maybe they'll lose. That's why they play the game.

Mine is a Morgan dollar.

And since we haven't played the bowl game yet, regular season is all their is to talk about.

I think it was a mistake to fire Cal Stoll and hire Joe Salem. But that's done.