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On 4/8/2017 at 10:52 AM, iramurphy said:
The Oshie kid playing for Warroad the next year was really good. He was a senior. The program said it was TJ. Your comment about setting him back 2-3 yrs is unfounded.
Is taking kids away from the families, friends and communities really what is best for these kids? I have always contended that high school kids should be in high school and playing other sports and being involved in other school activites and not be deprived of all of the opportunities, academically, and socially. For those who aren't ready to go from high school to college, they can go to Juniors after HS. None of these kids should be playing hockey or any other sport exclusively. The medical studies all show the potential harm to these one sport year round athletes with an increase in injuries and peaking at earlier ages. What we are doing to our kids is shameful. When Dave Hakstol was looking at one of our kids a couple of years ago he said " tell the kid to stay out for football". Kids should remain in HS and play soccer or FB or tennis or lacrosse and be in the choir and student council and get caught in the basement by their girlfriends Dad that senior year. Staying loyal to their community, school and teammates who helped develop their game may be important in building leadership and life skills . They can to Juniors the next year. All of those goals and aspirations can wait one year. The best kids will be fine and those that need more time can have an extra year of two. I hope all these kids stay in HS.
We have the same opinion, ira.
Some posters were saying that kids need to leave high school early so they can play against better competition and thus aid in their development. I was sarcastically trying to make the point that TJ Oshie left Warroad after his junior year (which I knew he didn't) and it really aided his development (which it didn't because he didn't leave early). I believe that kids like TJ, Hain, Boeser and many other elite players aren't going to suffer at all in their development if they stay in high school. I also believe that others who aren't as gifted as TJ could just as well stay in high school and then play juniors. They might as well play one or two years of junior hockey after they've finished their high school years rather than leave early and play two or three years in the USHL.
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7 hours ago, scpa0305 said:
I honestly didn't see much difference between Hain and middlestadt...and hains a year younger. You're right the competition between MN HS and the ushl (or a u18) schedule is night and day. I would assume he would take his talents to a tougher league. Him and McLaughlin playing high school hockey next year wouldn't even be fair.
Yup, when TJ Oshie left high school hockey after his junior year is when he really developed. It was even more critical for him to take his talents to a higher league because he was only in Class A. It might have set him back 2 or 3 years if he had returned to Warroad for his senior year.
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2 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
The other aspect of the B1G is their Big Ten Academic Alliance (formerly the CIC).
That group, as a group, lobbies Congress for research dollars and collaborates on research. I suspect a former MN Congressman (The Honorable Mark R. Kennedy) has probably been lobbied by them at some point in his career. And knowing how Congressmen work, he probably still has all, ALL, the names and phone numbers, including presidents.
I'm not saying UND would be any part of that; however, it's always good to know people who know people.
OK, I know you. What is that going to get me?
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Yup, I remember the days well when UND fans filled up the stands in Vermillion and Brookings.
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This is like trading in your Cadillac Escalade for a Ford Bronco. Sad day for UND athletics. :-(
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4 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
Let's see ... the 2016-2017 UND in the NHL "shinny team" (must have appeared in 1 NHL game this season):
Toews Oshie Stafford
Parise Zajac Nelson
VandeVelde Grimaldi Schmaltz
CaggiulaGreene Forbort
Simpson Chorney
StetcherDell
McIntyreFeel free to update as needed.
If these are your lines, I think I'd move Caggiula and Stetcher up. I believe Caggiula is skating on the top line with Connor McDavid now.
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14 hours ago, bincitysioux said:
I just don't agree with the notion that joining SumValley would lead to droves of UND fans attending more road games. I've been to several NCC venues prior to and during the transition, and have been to several Big Sky venues since joining that conference. It has been my experience that roughly the same number of fans turn out regardless of the location, except for at NDSU of course.
We can't even get our students to travel 6 blocks for football games, so I have a hard time believing ND fans are going to take over the Dakotadome in Vermillion....
This is exactly right. Any UND Alumni within 200 miles of Greeley, Portland, etc, will drive to see UND play football. And, they'll drive a lot farther to see UND play at Bozeman or Missoula.
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2 hours ago, UNDColorado said:
There was a nice contingent of UND fans at the game in Greeley. Many live in Colorado but some of the people tailgating with us took the round trip flight direct from Devils Lake to Denver for $265 round trip. That price only goes up during holidays so it really is easy and affordable to get to Colorado. Utah is a different story of course.
Exactly, there'll be more UND alumni at games in Greeley, Flagstaff, Bozeman, Missoula, etc, than there will be at Brookings, Vermillion, Cedar Falls or any of the other MVFC schools. I wonder how many UND alumni would be able to attend a game in the FargoDome? Probably not many more than there were at the Northern Colorado game.
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18 minutes ago, iramurphy said:
I didn't say NH or WI should have gotten in ahead of us. I said we weren't good enough to whine when we didn't get it. Those schools shouldn't have whined had we been selected either. We were a bubble team.
NDSU has nothing to do with my opinion. I don't have an inherent hate of them. I just don't believe we need to do whatever they do. I prefer the Big Sky and I believe we have the resources to maintain our membership. I'm as likely to attend games in Arizona, Montana, Colorado and California as I am to go to Illinios, Ohio, Indiana etc. I also prefer one conference rather than two.
I agree ira, I also like the Big Sky and the schools in it. I'm more likely to go to games at Big Sky locations than I am to go to places like Brookings, Vermillion or Fargo. And, there is a zero % chance that I'll ever go to a game at any of the other MVFC or Summit schools. As far as I'm concerned, picking the MVFC/Summit over the Big Sky is like picking a Chevy Impala over a Bentley Bentayga.
I don't know why Kennedy or Faison would even consider dealing with two different conferences for these sports when they're already in a great conference. Just like UND is the power school in the NCHC, UND is quickly becoming a power school in the Big Sky. To me, Montana, Montana State, Idaho, Idaho State, UC Davis, Cal Poly are way more exciting than South Dakota, South Dakota State, North Dakota State, IUPUI and Fort Wayne.
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2 hours ago, SiouxFan100 said:
Any concerns about the uncertainty of conference affiliation with our recruiting?
I can't imagine it would affect recruiting. I'm sure if you tell any recruit that if he comes to the University of North Dakota he'll be able to play against schools like Southern Illinois, Illinois State, Missouri State, Youngstown State, Western Illinois, USD, SDSU, Northern Iowa, NDSU and that he'll be able to travel to some of the most scenic cities in the upper Midwest like Macomb, Brookings, Carbondale, Cedar Falls, Springfield, Vermillion, Normal, Youngstown & Fargo.....He'll say "wow, where do I sign up."
This, as opposed to, having to try and sell a recruit on playing against schools like the University of Montana, Montana State, Eastern Washington University, Sacramento State, Idaho State, Portland State, University of California-Davis, Cal Poly University, Southern Utah, Weber State, Northern Colorado, Northern Arizona, and soon the University of Idaho and he'll have to fly to destinations like Portland, OR; Missoula, Cheney, WA; Davis, CA; Pocatello, Bozeman, Flagstaff, AZ; Greeley, CO; Sacramento and San Luis Obispo, CA. There's no question that Youngstown, Brookings, Vermillion, Normal and Fargo are going to win out every time.
And then, if you're the University of North Dakota president, why would you ever want to be associated with other institutions that have top medical, engineering and law schools when you can hook up with schools that offer some of the top "junior college" type academic programs in the country?
I suspect that the recruits rated as the #2 class in the Big Sky signed up with Bubba because they knew these amazing changes were on the horizon and they are all pumped that they don't have to board a plane to warm weather locations in Arizona and California like San Luis Obispo or look at that big "M" on the mountains overlooking the 25,000 fans in the seats of Washington-Grizzly stadium.
This would be like University of Minnesota football leaving the Big 10 so they can take bus trips to play the MNSCU schools.
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5 hours ago, iluvdebbies said:
No doubt....almost as much as you like to bring up the Bison.
Yup, Darell's legs turn to jello and he wets his pants every time he's able to talk about the Bison.
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1 hour ago, dmksioux said:Need to cross off UC Davis and Cal Poly as they are football only. Gothmog was referring to Summit Schools (non-football). So add Weber St. To the list.
Many of those that want us in the Summit also want us in the MVFC. Is there a Flagship university in the Summit? How many Summit schools have a Medical and a Law School? UND should stay in the Big Sky with more like-minded schools.
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20 minutes ago, Gothmog said:
Oh, c'mon. Don't you think that games against USD, SDSU, NDSU, Denver, and perhaps UNO would be more interesting to the average UND fan than any of the Big Sky schools?
No, I'll take Cal Poly, Montana, Montana State, UC Davis, Idaho, Eastern Washington anytime over that group.
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34 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Oh, and this makes me sad in a way. The first eagle of my golfing life was on #7 at Ray.
This must have been when #7 was a par 10. :-)
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24 minutes ago, Big Green said:
Best way to get Fan's used to the logo is to force them to look at it for 2-1/2 hours twice a week a couple times a month.
Oh yah, that's a great idea.
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UND was the only program he was looking at and there actually was a way he was coming here.
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4 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
When I need music therapy I put on either Chicago's greatest hits, something from Eagles, EWF, or the Doobie Brothers and grab a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Oh, wait, would I be considered "self-medicating"? Oxbox, is that a problem?
When I need music therapy I just go to the Richfield or Eden Prairie Menards stores. They typically have someone playing a Baby Grand at the top of the escalator and I don't even have to pay an office visit to sit and listen.
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1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:
Just trying to get a read on who this new commissioner is. I guess my only concern is she graduated in 1997. That sounds a touch young to be commissioner of a DI conference.
You're comparing her to when you graduated so anyone who graduated in the last half of the 20th Century seems young to you.
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10 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
Rick, buddy, we've talked about this: You may have a face for radio, but you have a voice for print.
You must have me confused with someone else. I often get asked for autographs because people think I'm Josh Duhamel. Then, as soon as I say I'm not Duhamel, they tell me my voice is exactly like Tom Barnard's. :-)
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8 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:
You? I pick my own color guy for my play-by-play.
Neither one of you will be considered. As of today, I'm an unrestricted free agent and, due to budget cuts, I will be handling both the Play-by-Play and Color Guy duties. Well, I guess I should clarify.....I'll be doing PxP and Morgan Mundane will handle Color but there'll be no charge for Morgan. We'll also have Ma Linger and Backlash Larue as guests between periods. :-)
Google Steve Cannon at WCCO to understand the above post.
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55 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:
Senden with Wayzta's first goal as they lead Burnsville 3-1 after two.
Sioux type goal... carried the puck through the zone, beating a d-man around the edge to the paint, runs over the goalie and scores.
I'm very much enjoying the fact that Pat O'Leary's best player is going to North Dakota. I hope that pisses him off
Pat O'Leary thinks the world of Mark and is very happy that he's going to UND so hopefully that doesn't disappoint you too much.
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Future Sioux Mark Senden helps Wayzata to state tournament.
http://video.startribune.com/mark-senden-helps-wayzata-to-hockey-state-tourney/370050191/
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All that needs to happen for the Big Ten Conference to become even more irrelevant is for the other conferences to stop scheduling them. Let them play each other 6 times a year. Mariucci Arena is half empty and the Kohl Center is even worse.
When the conference changes happened the big mouthed Gophers fans were spouting off that North Dakota would be the program that would be hurt the most. And then Lucia decided he wasn't going to grace UND fans with his Gophers anymore. This was hailed as the final blow to Sioux hockey because North Dakota couldn't survive without the mighty Gophers on the schedule. Well, North Dakota is still playing in front of a packed house and the Gophers and Badgers are playing in front of parents, family and a few friends, just like your typical Bantam game.
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Oops. I think petey23 might have just went third person there. Crap I just did it again.
Herschel Walker....is that you?? :-)
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Check with your wife. Maybe she can do the math for you. :-)