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The only home playoff game EVER. Would be football. Much rather by fighing sioux than having to host a playoff football game every five years.

HAHA you clearly have a chip on your shoulder. I know it sucks being in the Summit and all, but we both know even Bison fans admit the atmosphere sucks at Summit Tournament, especially without the Bizon there. I will take atmosphere over neutrality any day of the week. Makes excellent TV on ESPN2.

In honor of Matt Fratting I wanna From the GF Herald and Sioux Hockey Blog.

What do you think? What would you do?

MODERATOR EDIT: I SPLIT THESE POSTS OUT OF THE DI RECLASSIFICATION THREAD AS THEY FIT BETTER HERE......... I am very happy we are in the Big Sky vs the Summit. Watching the Mens Big Sky Championship on ESPN2 has crazy atmosophere (UNC vs Montana) cause the top seed hosts. Sioux Falls hosts the Mens Summit tournament. While it has SDSU close by, the atmosphere is no where near as good as on campus sites. And without SDSU or USD even worse atmosophere. Word on the street is this years Summit tournament was pretty vanilla. Kudos to you Big Sky.

LM Wind Power (new name) does seem to be doing well. But they did just lay off 150 workers at the Grand Forks plant. Being the worlds largest maker of wind turbine blades, I would think they will recover. Especially with what seems to be a trend lately to "Go Green" and the countries emphasis on renewable resources (energy). On the other note. USA has a long way to go before we see more wind farms. ND should have 88 wind farms by now.

Yeah sorry. I ain't a blogger, I just post what I remember what I read a while back. It appears it has changed since then. Just noticed Jim gave me props six year ago.

I am not so sure it will be voted on Monday. From the Fargo Forum:

66,000 x 17% = 11,200 The base only lost 3,000 people in ten years. Grand Forks County is still missing 9,000 people it could/should have when compared to other regional cities, especially Bismarck, that for whatever reason. Bismarck was below GF in population not that long ago and now will be double the size of Grand Forks relatively soon.

Sorry to bring up an old thread. Cirrus expands. Lays off bunch of people recently down to 75 workers. Owes the city $850,000 in back rent. Last month Cirrus was sold to a Chinese Company.

Whats up Grand Forks County? Ten years and it gains 200 people! Newspaper article

Game flow and Fan Satisfaction charts look sweet.

Great West Conference attendance (per their website) Utah Valley 2013 North Dakota 1626 South Dakota 1454 Chicago St 1179 Texas PA 672 Houston Baptist 668 NJIT 455

Massey Ratings have the Lady Sioux the seventh best team in the country right now ahead of BC.

That's your argument? This pops into my head from Billy Madison: RPI would indicate they are ranked 213 and 231. Which is better than W Illinois. Which is all UND92,96 was saying.

They try to avoid conference matchups, but it could happen. It would be sweet and easy to beat the gophers again.

I could have told you that. Where can we get sioux jerseys after next year?

You're forgetting there is only something like 34 teams in D1 womens hockey. Based on that its easier for a program to win a national championship than say Men's basketball (and the reason you will never see UND win one). UND should already be one of those programs to win a conference chamionpion, tournament, or NCAA championship. This is the programs 9th years (I believe). It ain't no infant. Here's a crazy stat for you UMD won a NCAA championship in the Second year of its existance! I call that a good coach. UND should have already beaten the Gophers more then zero times before this season. 0-28 is pretty despicable. The mens team started out better against ever team they faced. Very easy to make improvements when the last coach was god awful. The program regressed during her time. Players not only quit on her mentally but physically. The face remains that Idalskis teams has placed lower in the WCHA standings ever year than the preseason polls predicted since becoming the head coach of the Fighting Sioux except this one (which they got 4th instead of the predicted 5th) with last, second, and third to last place ever since he has been here. Everyone knew the twins could basically take over any team and make them an instant winner. You don't think Steve Johnsons fourth year and with the Twins he could have at least finished in 4th out of 8th place? The basic topic of this thread. A hypothetical coach of sioux womens vs the real coach. (again I have nothing for or against Idalski or Johnson).

Exactly. And whos to say they would have never went to Minnesota had Johnson been coach. I didn't care who was really hired back then. Still don't have a dog in the fight. But lomackman seems to hold a grudge/chip on shoulder/ or something. He/she brought the topic up back in October of this year. You would have thought they would have won something. I just like pointing out the fact that they really haven't done anything. Make history yes, but these things should have been done way long time ago. They made history many times this year but still only finished fourth in the league out of eight. In their 9th year of existance? Could you imagine cheering the Mens team if we finished 6th out of twelve? The fact is to the average person looking in Idalski doesn't deserve praise (yet?), yet let along argue what hypothetical coach might have been better.

One season with twins any team could win at doesn't make a coaching career. Who's to say Steve Johnson wouldn't be further along by now and ranked #1 in the country with the twins. If he wins a championship in three years this might not be such a stupid topic.

Has to be a record!

I have wished more than once this website had a live chat box where fellow fans could shoot the s**t in an informal setting. After reading the topic "Meeting People from this forum" on drywalltalk.com (Drywall is my profession.) I read this and wanted to see if there was anyway to get one on SiouxSports. Its been five years, there has to be some you like by now or driven enough.

Sioux vs Beavers: 5-2 5-2 5-2 5-1 (Dell screwed it up)

First time the Sioux make the Final Face Off.

Sioux Win. 3-2 They play Wisconsin at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis.