Doubleheaders would be nice if they can pull them off for NDSU/UND and SDSU/USD, but otherwise they need to move towards mirror scheduling with games on Thursday/Saturday. If it is anything like last year, the current set up is a mess.
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Doubleheaders would be nice if they can pull them off for NDSU/UND and SDSU/USD, but otherwise they need to move towards mirror scheduling with games on Thursday/Saturday. If it is anything like last year, the current set up is a mess.
Instead of Thursday/Saturday go with Friday night/Sunday afternoon mirror scheduling. Don't necessarily have to do doubleheaders, though would be nice when possible, more important to have a consistent weekend schedule. If you knew that every Friday night and Sunday afternoon either the Bison men or Bison women would be playing at home you would have a more consistent and reliable schedule and more people would make a weekend of it and show up.
Being in Vermillion, it is harder to attract weeknight crowds due to the travel situation on often cold and snowy winter nights.
Apparently they also don't want to be associated with games with actual fans watching. It worked great back in the day and the NDSU women's program was likely as big or better of a draw than the men's. There was no "undercard" about it. It was just two games back to back.....and people showed up and cheered.
I think it would be cool if NDSU got a women's basketball program. It was sort of cool 20 years ago when we did. Not sure what it would take to get it started again. Maybe have to hire a coach, get some D1 athletes, buy some women's balls, we already have a sweet new facility. Unless we cannot compete with SDSU and/or USD, then maybe it makes sense to not have it still.
It's kind of funny to see the SD schools complaining about coverage in Sioux Falls when the home station of UND isn't even in Grand Forks. Hopped in the car today over the lunch hour and Bill Chaves was on Jack Michaels show. Why can't their home station be in their shit hole city? I bet that doesn't happen anywhere else in the country with rivals in their rivals city.