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28 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
- declining research funding
- declining research status
- declining enrollment, and
- faculty questioning decision making
Well, other than that and the inability to get along with the board members and the other college presidents, he was doing just fine.
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3 hours ago, siouxkid12 said:I am not saying Berry should get fired. I think he and his staff are doing an okay job but the honeymoon phase is over for him and lets look at what he's done since he won his natty.
1. 2016/2017 - lost in the 1st round of the national tournament in Fargo2. 2017/2018 - Failed to make the NCAA Tournament
3. 2018/2019 - Failed to make the NCAA Tournament
4 - 2019/2020 - Covid
5. 2020/2021 - Lost in the Regional Final.
I am sick of hearing that excuse that UMD got the bye and that is why they won. That is not the reason they lost, UND had every opportunity to win but didn't score for close to a 100 minutes of hockey, that does not cut it when it comes time to the tournament. No one gave Hak a pass and Berry is not going to get one either.
Ahh, someone trying to compete with gf hockey for dumbest post of the year.
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Is this game on-line?
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1 hour ago, MissSioux85 said:
I actually stopped visiting Sioux Sports regularly a few years ago as it has turned into a cesspool of divisive non-sports related rhetoric. And the amount of racism/bigotry and misogyny is astounding. I know several others who also rarely visit the board for the same reason. It's a shame what's it's turned into.
Hillary, the good news is you haven't been missed!!
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4 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
And this is where I'm going to miss SiouxVolley.
Me too. He made this topic (and several others) worth reading.
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6 hours ago, darell1976 said:
Would it? I put Jones in the same boat as Mussman.
And you would be wrong again.
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2 hours ago, stoneySIOUX said:
By what definition are you saying superior? Lizotte has a 46 career points and he's done, Benson 56 and he's done (Had 7 as a senior).
Please don't bring facts and statistics into the conversation. We all know that scsu coaches developed these players into elite scoring machines and Berry missed the boat by not recruiting them.
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16 hours ago, Siouxperman8 said:
The other $2 million will come out of The Ralph’s longterm repair and replacement reserve fund.
I believe this is money that would have been turned over to the athletic department for their budget except that REA chooses to keep it for a reserve fund. One could argue that it is coming from the athletic department's budget as REA returned less money to the athletic department to pay for this.
I suppose One could make that argument but One would be wrong.
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18 hours ago, John W. said:
Yep ...74... And proud to be a Viet Nam era vet....hopefully you can feel good about yourself some day....
There's a difference between being a Vietnam era vet and being a Vietnam vet. Vietnam era vet just means you were in the service during that time period.
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1 hour ago, siouxfan512 said:
Up by a goal after one, can we extend Berry’s contract before the second period starts? Jk
Great win and great coaching job by Berry.
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1 hour ago, SIOUXELEVENS said:
Lack of discipline , poor power play what next. Berry has zero control , looks like the head coach in the water boy,hide on the bench it might get better. This game ends up 6-2 UMD.
Another great comment and prediction.
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1 hour ago, AJS said:
Prediction: UND will not be leading or tied going into the third.
Any other predictions?
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17 hours ago, jk said:
There's always a reason to complain about recruiting. Missing the local guys, too many local guys, too many Minnesotans, not enough from MN, not going for the top national guys, getting burned by going for the top guys and having them skip up to major juniors.
Maybe recruiting has changed because that's where they think the right guys are. UND killed it with Shattuck, and then stopped. After UND's run of NHLers and a Hobey, did a bunch of Shattuck players shine elsewhere? I think the school had its run and UND was there at the right time. Looking at the committed recruits, I mainly see an overweight position in the GF and Fargo area. But that might just make sense, as some of those committed players are very good prospects, and the program has had some great players from that pipeline in the last five years. Of course Penticton has provided a lot, but they are a factory for all of Division 1 and UND's Penticton players have generally been good.
The coaches have also branched out to national recruits, some very highly regarded, from outside the footprint. It doesn't really scream lazy to me.
This is exactly right. It's comical reading some of these posts. Even though we have more of the local kids in the pipeline right now, if Bubs had missed signing just one of them there would have been an uproar here.
Great post, jk.
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1 minute ago, The Sicatoka said:
Allow me to take your statement and restate what you said:
It could happen if someone showed up with a boatload of cash and a long-term endowment.
Apparently, there's a zero percent chance of that happening Wilbur.
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1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:
For the folks that get their knickers all in a twist over this thread, here's the title (key word emphasized):
UND and the Big Sky could go FBS
That's a good point. When something new is posted on this thread I open it up to read ideas/thoughts on why/how UND and the Big Sky could go FBS. I really have no interest, or time, to read all the back and forth bickering.
Will it ever happen? I have no idea. Is it being thought about and has it been discussed by the Big Sky presidents & the commissioner? I would hope so, otherwise they're not doing their jobs.
I'm sure a lot of people pointed fingers, laughed at and thought Wilbur and Orville were a little loony when they told people they were going to build a flying machine powered with a rubber band. Others laughed at Henry when he was trying to replace the horse and buggy with a motor driven buggy. It's a good thing there are some that dare to go out on the ledge and try something because there are a lot more that would rather sit in a safe chair and laugh at these crazy-*** ideas.
Maybe someone should start a thread titled UND and the Big Sky can't go FBS.
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5 hours ago, dakotadan said:
I'm sure glad we left the Big Sky for this hot mess.
After we get Augie locked down I've heard from a very reliable source that the Summit will put a full court press on Morningside College. This will be so much better than playing Montana, Montana State. Idaho, UC Davis, Cal Poly, Eastern Washington.
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23 hours ago, petey23 said:Ideally they would renegotiate the terms of the deal and have the REA management group continue to operate the building. Not that I don't trust a government entity to manage and operate a building efficiently and make sure the building is kept up to date and doesn't become run down but I don't trust a government entity to manage and operate a building efficiently and make sure the building is kept up to date and doesn't become run down.
Yes, hopefully the REA management will continue to operate the building past 2030. It's amazing to me that each year you go and attend your first hockey game it's like the arena is still new. If Ralph would have turned the arena over to the university after the building was completed I'm not very confident that it would look like it does. I doubt there would be any funds put away to keep it fresh and new. With a government entity handling the proceeds over the last 17 years that pool of money would have suffered that same fate as the Social Security Trust Fund. They'd most likely would have used all the funds to pay the salaries of professors who want the arena tore down.
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32 minutes ago, UNDMOORHEAD said:
I might be wrong, but I thought we were very close to the goofs for average age, at least last year. I think Mich was one of the youngest in the country.
Yes, that's right. Even back in the 90's, when their fans would use the excuse about older players, it was very close. Some years we'd be older by just a little and other years they'd be older by just a little.
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2 hours ago, scpa0305 said:
Schools like the gophs and Michigan can afford to miss more often than us as they have hockey hotbeds in their backyards.
They can??? What have they done over the last 5 - 10 years with their hockey hotbed recruits?
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4 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:
Brad DeFauw, Peter Armbrust, Bryan Lundbohm and Zach Parise (who I believe committed in 2001) come to mind. The Gophers did not have a good record against us during that time period either. They took quite a few butt-kickings from us in that "rusting hulk" of an arena from 1996-2001.
Parise committed on opening night of The Ralph. While DeFauw & Armbrust were good players for the Sioux, it's quite a stretch to say we won a recruiting battle to get them. Bryan Lundbolm's dad played for the Sioux and the Gophers would have really liked to get him but there was no question of where he was going. If you want to count "almost wins", we almost won a recruiting battle for Keith Ballard. He even told Blaiser he was coming to UND and then at the last minute went with the Gophers.
Yes, they took quite a few butt-kickings from us in the old Ralph but I can't think of one recruiting battle that we won until Ralph gave UND the new arena. About the only one I can think of is Karl Goehring. But it was the Wooger who pretty much handed Karl to us with the way he recruited him.
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1 hour ago, fightingsioux4life said:
We won 5 NCAA titles in that "rusting hulk", the last one in 2000. Heck, we won two in the "The Barn" (a WPA project from the 1930's). We have won exactly ONE in the new REA. I remember in the years before the new REA, Gopher fans yammering on and on about how great Mariucci Arena was and how it was better than a bunch of NHL arenas and what a dump we were playing in. Yet, we won most of the recruiting battles against them from 1996 to 2001.
You make way too many assumptions, Mr. SiouxVolley.
What recruiting battles "wins" are you talking about? I'm having a hard time coming up with any.
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Kennedy better know what's going to happen. Otherwise, leaving a great conference like the Big Sky with like-minded schools Montana, Montana State, Idaho, EWU, NAU, Cal Poly & UC-Davis makes no sense.
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It's a good thing we didn't become the University of North Dakota Fighting Millionaires. Apparently Millionaire is now a divisive word.
"But a new generation of students say it’s time for a new nickname – because they feel the word “millionaire” has become offensive and divisive."
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/06/students-say-millionaire-mascot-is-divisive.html
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40 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
I wonder if UND has words in its agreement to join the Summit about "changes in membership" between the signing of the agreements and the actual joining.
I really hope they do. I want to stay in the Big Sky with Montana, Montana State, Idaho, EWU, NAU & NCU. The Summit has no appeal. I still think more alumni see UND play in Colorado, Montana and Arizona than in all the Summit locations.
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It’s not really a surprise. Jay Hardwick played for the Bulldogs and I’m sure Shaugabay talked to his coach more than once about UMD.