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On a SDSU message board. All right I'll stop now. They do a good job of supporting there football team similar to UND and its hockey.

Wrong again. No surprise though . I think it was to guage the football TV ratings.

I was thinking the same.

Apparently I should add the McFeely blog to my favorite links that discuss UND sports. I had no idea there was so much good talk going on there about UND.

Anytime things like this occur Minnesota Politicians have a fit if they try to move it outside the state of MN.

You are definately right. He is using SIU as a stepping stone. Otherwise he would have stayed at UND as mentioned by his "bleed green" during his press conference. This move will help him NOT lose four years in his career goals.

I know of quite a few actually. Well I know of serveral people that would love to be the Next AD of UND. Dean Blais included. I think the AD job will be a tough one because the former one got fired/quit , coupled with the fact that coaches are getting fired or quitting. Not because of people talking on a message board. If so, God help us. Ah yes the "hide the truth" doctorine. "Jimmy is doing an excellent job. He is a very hard worker." Jane says to the "public." Then Jane tells Jimmy, "You aren't doing such a great job. You need to improve or you are fired." It is not a very good philosophy to live by. If there are problems that are not being addressed what better way to help create change than by UND fans (the people who care the most about the school) talking about it trying to find solutions. We all know certain people in the administration read these forums. And here's a shocker....they get ideas that they like and use them to better the university . I am not blaming anyone for anything. I speak in generals, not about Lennon or Buning or any other adminstratiors at UND, but if there are potential conflict of interests in the adminstration they should be addressed and possibly changed for the future. And as JimDahl pointed out

Those so called "conflict of interest" nobody likes. I knew his point from the beginning.

The reason UND/NDSU/SDSU/USD need to anchor a conference or at least be working to be in the same conference and so they have enough votes to control it.

I believe there are 148 D2 football teams vs 122 FCS teams according to a quick lookup at mratings.com.

Looking at that map I would guess there are fewer FCS teams than Division 2 football teams. Anyone know for sure? If no, no wonder it will become easier to competitive in FCS right away.

I would have went but didn't know it was so soon. Forgot.

It is easy to dream. But making things a reality is much easier. "out of our price range" ?? ?? ha Sorry, I have to laugh....It is one of the funnier things I have heard on this board. UND is the oldest and largest institute in the Dakotas. Has more national coverage than both NDSU and SDSU. Is one of the best colleges in the nation (NDSU is not), has more Division 1 titles than both NDSU, SDSU, and USD combined. Should I go on? Out of UND's price range? I think not.

Tickets to the Frozen Four in Denver: ;)

Did you read what "dlsiouxfan" said? I suspect you are like most americans and did not, because if you did you would read. It was not apologizing for "moving up the food chain."

Helps the fundraising efforts even more.

Seems rationale to me.

We can talk in hypotheticals all day long.

I still didn't see your proposal? All you said was let others take care of it. Heres the problem with that "solution": Those people whos job it is the fix it are a sometimes a part of the problem (Nixon). Or the system is broken or they know there is a problem but don't care and don't want to fix it. Unlike UND92/96 who is simple pointing out things that don't add up with the current administration. All he is doing is talking and pointing out facts. Nothing wrong with asking questions about the competence of certain individuals in the administration. Your comeback attacking him to his normal competent questions/discussion on a message board? He called his bevavior "foolish." Which is actually the exact opposite. That doesn't seem to add much to the conversation: just attacks the person not the topic at hand.

and moreso, it helps distract from the message, because people have been known to attach the person and not the message. The message remains the same.

The man who talks about honesty and integrity has the right to answer why he lacked to tell his players about the decision when other people already knew about it. Why did his own players have to find out about it from others instead of Lennon himself? I'd like to hear Lennons answer.

So instead of criticizing others: what do you propose to do to fix the problem?

I have faith in the UND football program, not one coach.

He's going to regret leaving UND just like Blais.

NDSU fans