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“Heart attack”. Coronary artery disease isn’t a risk factor for either Covid or the vaccine.

Died of “natural causes”. That leaves the vaccine out.

His sister said it wasn’t related to the vaccine.

She died of suicide according to her father.

On the contrary, you just expressed your opinion and I doubt you gave UND $50,000.

I can take anything you want to toss out here but if you think it’s clear that everyone outside the ss.com experts can tell when your pals are “kidding” or “sarcastic”, I beg to differ.

I didn’t say I thought the program was going in the right direction. My comment about a buyout was to those who are frustrated someone else isn’t doing it. I’ve never liked the comments from those who have answers as long as someone else pays for it. My comments aren’t to everyone who wants a coaching change but to those who want someone else to pay for a buyout. I have no issues with those whose opinion is to change coaches. Maybe they are correct. I’m not blind. My basketball experiences, and coaching experiences are irrelevant. You may think your basketball experience and expertise far exceeds mine and anyone else who isn’t in full agreement. You may be right. I’m smart enough to know I haven’t kept up with either sport to think I can coach. Maybe others have. My initial comment was after a post related to a poll that might influence UND “brass”. I made another comment about the AD’s home phone number. Some of you infer an awful lot from nothing. Because one disagrees there is no reason to take it as an offense.

That is why you aren’t in control. You aren’t experienced enough nor capable of being in “control”. I assume that means you won’t be forking over your $50,000 share of the buyout. You equated me with a term used to describe white women who use their so called “white privilege” to get what they want. You say it is because I felt an administrator’s home phone is off limits. You can do that because you can hide on a public forum and get away with it. I would give big odds that you have no idea what it is like to have meals interrupted either home with family or in public. I doubt you have any idea you no what it is like to have family time interrupted either at home or in public because some moronic fan whose life revolves around a sports team wants an autograph, photo or to give you an opinion. You seem to fit the bill, but I have no idea if you are an expert like or some poor misunderstood soul who was the 12th man on his 9th grade BB team and pines away for those days. Of course the guy who posted the comment about Chaves home number was “kidding”. Easy to say that but there was no indication he was kidding.

Read earlier posts: “ a sharp vote of no confidence from the most active fans of the program looks a lot like a referendum on coach Sather and that should carry some weight with the brass”. That is the post I initially responded to.

My opinion, right or wrong is 5 years. It gives a coach a chance to build his or her program with their own recruits. I’m not sure if Sather can get this done, but I like his freshmen. Missing on Nelson hurt. My life doesn’t revolve around UND athletics so although it’s frustrating to see our teams struggle, it doesn’t affect me. It’s great when we have loyal fans who attend games whenever they can and do their best to support our programs. They recurring theme of people who don’t lose sleep because of the success or lack of success of our athletic teams are satisfied with mediocrity is nonsense. It was different when I played or coached but those days are long gone. Nothing wrong with different opinions or solutions, but that should mean we can disagree.

Nice remark Sparky. Why don’t you and the others who have all of the answers pool your funds and buyout Sather’s contract. Some have suggested that. You folks then need to get together and pool your funds and make an offer to UND decision makers. That is a frequent answer to our program struggles in multiple sports and it’s a reasonable consideration. Without the funds it won’t happen, but those clamoring for coaching change want it done with someone else’s money. There are enough of you to toss in $50,000 per person and you may be able to make it happen. Maybe could get coaching change in FB while you are at it but that may cost $100,000 per donor. If you and your pals want coaching changes make it happen. My point was that a poll serves no purpose, but if you and your pals feel better have at it.

The programs biggest fans? I’m not convinced. Programs biggest critics? Maybe. I’m always amazed at the folks who criticize coaches, players, officials, and whose only answer is to fire the coach, get their bloomers in a wrinkle when someone would disagree or criticize. You know… the point of a public forum.

UND isn’t ever going to allow something like this to ever influence coaching decisions nor should they. It serves no purpose.

SDSU is loaded next year. Lots of talent returning. I’m guessing they don’t miss a beat. Bison will need to reload but they have had good recruiting classes. They will be vulnerable. If we improve,as we should, we can be there. MVFC will still be tough for any team to go undefeated. I’m not sure which other teams have most key players returning, but UND should be better especially if we can improve defensively.

Same problem Squirt teams have. Everyone goes to the puck.

I would hope you are kidding. His home phone should be off limits for work related issues. It isn’t difficult to make an appointment to see him. It isn’t difficult to email him. I would hope we all have enough class to leave these guys and their families alone at home or if they are with their families/friends at church or restaurant.

Not sure what way you are referring to. But a cheap shot to the chin of an opponent by one of our veteran players at a critical time in a critical game is not going to hold anyone accountable. It actually rewarded the opponent with a 5 min major and loss of a key player for the rest of the weekend.

Yeah, I get that, but it doesn’t work that way anymore. Ludwig, Howard Walker, John Marks, Rick Wilson, Eades, Archibald, and others had a way of discouraging those cheap shots. Long ago they might get 2min for roughing or 5 for fighting and sometimes stayed in the game.

Poor officiating doesn’t create an undisciplined cheap shot like that. Doesn’t matter what the other guy did. These guys must be disciplined enough and tough enough not to retaliate. No excuses.

But that wasn’t it.

Point well taken in that traveling is too often missed or not called. I didn’t notice it until they showed the replay but she clearly took 3 steps.

She wasn’t out of bounds but she clearly traveled.

Where do you come up with the nonsense about a “personal vendetta “? This was a response specifically regarding TE’s. It isn’t a comment about the Championship game. It was a response about getting TE’s like SDSU/NDSU. My response also doesn’t mean I can’t see the value of guys who can play in the NFL. It means I am concerned more about what UND FB does. I also misstated where Kraft is from but I still wonder how many other offers he had. I still believe we have talented athletes at some positions, including tight end who if they aren’t going to get on the field at TE can help us at other positions. Just my opinion.

If you aren’t going to put our TE’s in our pass patterns, you won’t know what they can do. Did Kraft from Madison SDak have multiple offers? We have had 6’4” - 6’5” 250 lb TE’s who were multi sport athletes and showed they can catch the ball. I could care less if they play in the NFL. I think they could be very effective if they were included in the passing game. You aren’t going to get TE’s to come here if you won’t through them the ball.

Yup. We have gotten to the level of being competitive. But we can’t plateau at this level. It’s difficult to move up to a top 10 team and beyond, but if it was easy anyone could do it. I don’t care who the coaches are as long as we get there and once there, stay there. That is where UND, the other Dakotas and the Montanas should be. SDSU may be better next year than this year. I would expect the same from UND.