TheBisonator
06-18-2004, 11:21 AM
I was recently looking over construction pics of the Betty Center at UND, which is just about complete. Now even though we're not at rivalry with UND anymore, I still felt I needed to comment on it. I was looking at some pics of the construction, and I can tell you this thing looks a lot better than the BSA. Seriously. It's better lighted, the seats look a lot more comfortable, and they won't be using wooden bleachers in that place.
It's a sad statement of our facilities for basketball and volleyball when Division II UND has a better auxillary arena than our main one. I mean, we're in Division I now. We should have had a better basketball/volleyball arena built a LONG time ago. Even long before we even considered moving up to DI.
Here's an example of how crappy the BSA is: I was watching one of the spring practices at Dacotah Field this year, and I saw Cory Vartanian kick some field goals towards the east goalpost, and on a couple occasions the football boinked off the bottom corrugated-tin facia and hit the plaster soffit below the facia and knocked a good sized chunk of plaster off. (Next time any of you walk right under the BSA between Dacotah and the BSA and look up above, you'll see what I mean.)
I was saying to myself that Cory is literally demolishing the BSA...
And one more thing: The weight facilities at the BSA SUCK. I lifted weights at the BSA one time, and I decided I would do all my lifting at the Wellness Center from then on.
Look, the Wellness Center kicks ass, and will kick more ass when the addition is complete in a couple years. The FFD kicks ass. But the BSA SUCKS and The BBF SUCKS EVEN MORE. We really need a new arena, and we need it BADLY. I don't think we can afford any more discussion on this among the higher-ups. We need to start PLANNING it NOW and start constructing it very soon, because I think it'll eventually affect our home scheduling in DI. There will be some serious concequences for a DI team that has this crappy of an arena.
Are we gonna let a piddly little Division II school to the north go way ahead of us in this regard? I mean, we're North Dakota State University. We need to stay on the cutting edge as far as facilities go.
It's a sad statement of our facilities for basketball and volleyball when Division II UND has a better auxillary arena than our main one. I mean, we're in Division I now. We should have had a better basketball/volleyball arena built a LONG time ago. Even long before we even considered moving up to DI.
Here's an example of how crappy the BSA is: I was watching one of the spring practices at Dacotah Field this year, and I saw Cory Vartanian kick some field goals towards the east goalpost, and on a couple occasions the football boinked off the bottom corrugated-tin facia and hit the plaster soffit below the facia and knocked a good sized chunk of plaster off. (Next time any of you walk right under the BSA between Dacotah and the BSA and look up above, you'll see what I mean.)
I was saying to myself that Cory is literally demolishing the BSA...
And one more thing: The weight facilities at the BSA SUCK. I lifted weights at the BSA one time, and I decided I would do all my lifting at the Wellness Center from then on.
Look, the Wellness Center kicks ass, and will kick more ass when the addition is complete in a couple years. The FFD kicks ass. But the BSA SUCKS and The BBF SUCKS EVEN MORE. We really need a new arena, and we need it BADLY. I don't think we can afford any more discussion on this among the higher-ups. We need to start PLANNING it NOW and start constructing it very soon, because I think it'll eventually affect our home scheduling in DI. There will be some serious concequences for a DI team that has this crappy of an arena.
Are we gonna let a piddly little Division II school to the north go way ahead of us in this regard? I mean, we're North Dakota State University. We need to stay on the cutting edge as far as facilities go.