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Through these Doors, the final episode, #8 is now available.

Gino still helping deliver Natties to UND.

Thanks, I was just looking for that and couldn't find it.

Probably didn't respond because he knew it would be on the upcoming chopping block...and saying thanks but no thanks would have raised a lot of eye brows that spreads quick in today's social media environment....I'm sure would have responded had baseball been saved.

Brad on twitter claimed the championship insert into the Herald won't be til May 1. That's a long time to wait.

Big news coming out of NDSU, the AD declared they won't be cutting any sports because they are already at the minimum for both men and women.

We did run the atm out of money Saturday at Fergs.

There's a video I saw on twitter of a UNDs fans pregame tab at Fergs...about two feet long.

Times sure are different than when UND last won a National Championship. New hockey arena, High Definition Televisions, Youtube, SiouxSports.com, Smartphones, Tablets. Self Driving Cars. It's been a long time coming.

If UND could drop off non revenue sports they would. If the could drop most women's sports at UND they would. It's not like they drew golf and baseball out of a hat.

Now that UND won #8, people claim the "hockey gods" will make us go into a "UMD type" slump now. Its only one or the other.

as part of adding Lacrosse.

If UND had a "Redhawks" style stadium on campus, preferably nicer weather in the spring, the university promoted it and more people went, UND was winning a bunch of games, ....UND wouldnt' be in this situation. People in GF barely know UND has a baseball team. Nobody goes, nobody talks about it.

Wasn't comparing Baseball vs Hockey nationally. I was comparing UND baseball vs UND womens hockey. Big Difference. UND women playing for a national championship on CBS will get the UND name out there than those who are die hard sports fans who watch ESPN constantly (and are bombarded with every athletic teams name constantly). "More positives" are much more than people watching on TV. It's also about giving the students at UND what they want ("promotions" aside), students want to watch womens hockey more than UND baseball. More people seemed at UND to care about having those three players than anything baseball related and that's what matters most. UND womens hockey has much more upside than UND baseball in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Womens National Hockey Championship was on CBS (the uno). Taped of course, but no one knew that. Still cool to see. I believe Easter Sunday morning so they got pretty dang good ratings IIRC. It's hard to deny there is a lot more positives for womens hockey than baseball at UND.

Baseball coach at UND:

His base is $280,000. Grows to $406,000 if all incentives are met. I'm sure he got close to it. Probably only missed the Frozen Faceoff wins incentives, which would be minor compared to the National Championship.

Bad timing (and misfortunes) of it all....overspending. Then budget cuts. And need to find money for the new "Full cost of Attendance." Here's a recent picture taken inside the capital in Bismarck: :

Idk, I was just helping prove your point. Not only at the time did they increase the womens scholarships (hockey) but decreased mens (cut wrestling). As UNDBIZ pointed out, the lady on facebook proudly claims they were going to sue the school. Need to try that prong thingy NDSU uses.

And have more scholarships with mens wrestling.

....was there any possible way to avoid it or "lessen the blow"?

Yes, I also wouldn't have a problem with cutting womens hockey (and whatever mens sports) yet still be in compliance with the conferences and Title IX by spending the least amount of money so they can increase the budgets and strengthen the "core sports" on campus that most people care about M/W Basketball, Mens Hockey, Football, Volleyball....big drop off after that tier at UND. I'm sure Brian Faison knows more about the situation than I (we) do. I like the guy. He gets a lot of grief from this site (who at UND doesn't), but now he can add 2016 Mens Ice Hockey National Champs to his hat (resume).

Few years ago I thought the gates were always open and people could walk in (and some brought beer).

Crazy... I guess they are already full invested in Womens Hockey. There seemed to be a lot of people before today on this site who were A OKAY with getting rid of baseball at UND. And if I guess more people would have rather cut baseball than womens hockey. (I don't care about either but I can see the ceiling definitely being higher for womens hockey....the twins brought quite a bit of excitement to the program and students can walk right over to watch a game). Not only is it the budget cuts but it's about making the other sports stronger having to offer FCOA to keep up with the (Brian) Joneses.