siouxjoy

Where exactly does the article state that he demanded that salary? Maybe your ire should be directed to the Board for wasting mmoney by offering too much to an interim...

It's a good question. I guess I would say that by offering extensions instead of raises, he kept them around. The coaches may not have been recruited by other schools, but if they had a solid job they may have been less likely to be actively looking for work. This is assuming that Faison had the mindset that once the position was opened, the salary would have to be raised to allow for some quality applicants. The coaches were performing just well enough that he didn't HAVE to fire them, but were complacent enough that he could keep them on the staff (and thus the back-burner) by offering extensions.

I have posted this before, but I believe that Faison offered extensions instead of raises to these two coaches to save money because Bunning had run the Athletics Office into the ground. Plus, he had to address many big fires (debt, landing UND in Big Sky, creating NCHC) before tackling the football and basketball coaching situations. Having those two coaches do "just well enough" probably perpetuated the situation, but it also possibly helped stabilize the rest of the athletic department in the process. Now that the other issues have been resolved and the Bubba era has begun, I have faith that the next area of smoke to be addressed is coming from Jones' office. Well, I hope that is where Faison is aiming the extinguisher next, anyway.

Bear down, Bay-bee!

Except your original post states you think UND should have been in. That means you consider them playoff-caliber, and skews your argument that PSU lost to weaker teams. Stick with using UNC as your example.

Huh. And here I always thought those chants were directed to the guys playing hockey for SCSU. I do agree with you, though.

I actually disagree with this. I am most definitely was a supporter of the Sioux name (hence my login name), but by keeping the site Siouxsports.com, you could lose any future fans who are wanting to talk about UND sports but wouldn't think to look for siouxsports.com. Instead, they could be searching for roughriderchat.com or fightinghawktalk.com (or whatever. ) and completely miss out.

Wolanin

THIS. A bajillion times.

I will continue to donate, and I will increase the amount I give to UND when UND increases the amount it gives to me. (For those that didn't catch that: I am a UND employee)

I work at UND and over the past 8 years have NEVER been told I can't wear the Sioux logo.

Just a bit of HIPAA violation if a physician is telling people the condition of his patients. I don't mean to discount your post, but talking about patients is a big no-no! I hope this physician learns to have more discretion in the future...

I caught that, too!

I aaccidentally negative repped this post when I meant to give it a positive one. Sorry about that!

Huh. I wouldn't have interpreted that as pretending--seemed like real hate to me.

I am listening to the game, but have been keeping up with this thread just because of your posts.

THANK YOU!!

Drake

A few years ago there were some Beaver fans in our ssection of the Ralph, and they were loudly cheering " Lets go Beavers " and joking around with us. Then the Sioux scored something like 5 goals. They looked at each other and started a "Let's go Sioux" chant. Hilarious!

Just to clarify: I was being lippy. Have a great night!

Even crazier: Coach Berry himself said that the team was given 3 points for a win and a tie to determine the tournament winner. Bunch of drunks!

Hey, whatever it takes...

Guard-ner. John-son (twice) Will-key

I can confirm that is the original Sack City sign.

Oy vey.