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Bubba didn’t “insist”. He was part of the decision. There was tremendous pressure from across the state and from Alumni.

So we quit? “ History says” if you don’t think you can compete, you can’t. Maybe that’s why we have struggled “for years”. That’s also one of the reasons we didn’t move up to FCS when we should have. Someone didn’t think we could compete. Our coaches need to go after the best kids that we think fit our needs and culture. We will get some kids cuz of academics, some kids cuz of family ties, some kids cuz other schools missed on them. We also need to convince some kids of the future of our program who want to be part of turning the program around. That’s how we start getting those so called top end kids, not by sitting on our ass and worrying about the past.

Anyone with that philosophy won’t get things turned around. We can certainly compete for the “top kids”. We also need to get “top Enders” at Christmas. We need to work harder to get them until we get things turned around.

This was rather disturbing, but then I learned “the rest of the story “. Apparently the “complaint” is years old. It was investigated internally and by the state board of medical examiners and found to be without merit. I don’t know anything else about the issue other than these cases can drag on for years. Media recently jumped on this. They should have included it had already been reviewed by the SDak board of medical examiners and found to be without merit.

Yes.

Yeah it did, sorry. I couldn’t let some of it go unchallenged. I’m done.

I don’t think anyone disputes millions of people experience side effects from medications every year. My colleagues and patients who are Chiropractors would disagree with your generalization. I refer to chiropractors regularly and we consult with each other regularly. They have an area of expertise that can benefit my patients including acupuncture. We work together and can walk down the next hall to consult each other. Your claims about how I feel and think are as inaccurate as your muscle testing voodoo. I don’t know of any good chiropractors trying to convince unsuspecting patients of the goofy stuff you are doing. In my residency we had an annual update from one of the staff who had taught in one of the chiropractic programs. He kept us up to date on changes and advances in chiropractic practice and warned us to stay away from people like you. He felt your bs was fraud. I don’t work with Drs who think they are God’s nor any who don’t want to help their patients get well. Your anti traditional medicine rhetoric is nothing new and usually comes from those who can’t build up a busy practice providing traditional chiropractic care. They are often “anti Vaxers” and usually sell their supplements, mega vitamins, and herbs out of their own office at a premium price. We offer biogenetic testing to all of our patients for $49 and we adjust our recommendations and treatments based on their genetics. Having a patient hold their arms out and thinking one can diagnose what’s in the blood stream based on response to varying amounts of pressure has no factual basis nor evidence to support it. I could do the same video with any of my patients and get the same thing without “adjusting “ the knee. I don’t care what you do as long as you do no harm. If people want to pay you for that more power to you. We have derailed this subject to long, thanks for the entertainment.

The study you refer to was published by the AMA journal which you claim is beholding to the pharmaceutical industry. If your claim is true why would they publish the article? The study is valid but your claim of a “huge fraction” of ER visits are due to adverse drug events is proven inaccurate by your own reference. 9.7 per thousand visits for those over 65 and 3.1 per thousand visits are both less than 1% not a huge fraction as you claim nor is less than 1% a majority of visits. Do you even know how to read or understand a scientific study? I assume you mean generic medication instead of “genetic “ which is the term you use. Our computer programs defer to generic medication automatically. One must manually override to write for a brand name medication. Your “natural based curses” you refer to make no sense. I assume you meant cures but you never tell us what they are. Scientists and Medical providers have a moral and ethical obligation to share all scientific and medical breakthroughs especially if they are safer, more effective, less expensive etc. Unfortunately, these “practitioners “ seem to want to keep their secrets to themselves. Ask these folks what the mark-up is on their unproven products. It’s significant. The pharmaceutical industry has nothing on these folks. I have worked or studied in hospitals around the country and in the military and other countries. I have very seldom met a physician who doesn’t believe in God. Your “life experience” seems to be a bit lacking. Your arguments are shallow and flawed. Making medical and scientific claims without evidence only hurts the naturopathic movement.

How would you know what fraction of ER visits is due to pharmaceutical side effects? I was chief of emergency services in one hospital, medical director of another and did ER work for many years. That was not true in my experience. What is your experience? I doubt you have ER experience so what is your reference. I’m not a member of the AMA so I don’t know their relationship with pharmaceutical companies. Many ER visits aren’t emergencies. We advise people against eating processed foods regardless of where you get your groceries.Whole foods have organic foods. All grocery stores have natural foods and most now have an organic section. The growing of foods organically is thought to be better for the environment. Last time I checked we didn’t have evidence that organic foods we more nutritious than non-organic foods. You make unsubstantiated statements which are easy to prove false. What is your training and experience you base this on? You basically support my arguments concerning outlandish claims and statements made by people with inadequate training or experience to have credibility. To many who prey on those poor suffering souls desperate for help who will pay almost anything for worthless supplements and unproven/untested snake oil remedies. You might want to research how many billions Americans spend on these untested remedies. It is almost as big of a problem as our over priced pharmaceutical drugs, but at least our prescriptions have to undergo testing and scrutiny and have some evidence they do what they claim they do.

This is such nonsense and without factual evidence. Modern medicine includes close attention to the importance of daily exercise, proper sleep, dental care and of course nutrition. Most surgeries do not have bad results. What is your evidence. Surgeries are reviewed at hospitals and surgery centers across the entire country. Those statistics are available to the public. Peer review is done is hospitals/surgeries/clinics across the country. Deaths, surgical errors, medication errors, falls, injuries, complaints etc are all reviewed. Mistakes are dealt with and policy changes and corrective action plans put in place. Complaints to the State Board of Medical Examiners are all addressed, even those without evidence or cause. All pharmaceutical drugs have potential side effects and the providers and patients must weigh risks vs benefits before the patient makes an informed decision. Every Herbal product, naturopathic supplement also has potential risks and side effects including death, cancer risks, kidney and liver damage. The issue most educated and intelligent people raise with your claims is what evidence do you have to support your claims? Very few people have parasites in their bodies. Who told you this nonsense and where is your evidence? Most of the stool culture results I have seen are negative for parasites. The human body is full of bacteria which when overgrown or removed can cause a multitude of problems. The people who go to a few weekend workshops then pass themselves off as Naturopathic “doctors” should have the same regulation, oversights, education requirements, and reviews medical doctors/chiropractors/dentists/physical and occupational therapists undergo. Blood letting or when done by professionals phlebotomy is an important tool in modern medicine for a few select problems, but cutting someone’s skin with a scalpel then putting blood in a test tube and holding it up to the light, then making a diagnosis is nothing short of crazy and dangerous. Time and proper care, diet, and lifestyle changes certainly can improve heart failure, early kidney failure and diabetes. It is very rare that end stage heart failure or renal failure will ever save a patient from the need of a transplant or death. To refer to isolated cases where patients supposedly needed a heart or kidney transplant without the audience knowing what the medical records and studies showed is not evidence. The majority of licensed physicians and other providers include the natural, dietary and appropriate homeopathic approach to the patient and your ridiculous comments are without evidence or merit. Too many times have I dealt with patients given a diagnosis by one of these so called naturopathic folks that I can easily prove with a simple test is false. What I can’t do is get them a refund for the hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars wasted on unnecessary supplements or vitamins that did no more than give the patient expensive poop. Difficult patients that traditional providers struggle to help often have pain, fatigue, weight, psychological problems etc. that are difficult to find a cause or cure for. There are also a multitude of patients that we may not know at first what the issues are. Your insulting and inaccurate comments focus on those we struggle with. We also can be wrong or make mistakes. If an alternative provider can help someone that traditional providers can’t, I’m all for it. It happens. They should be able to do so under the microscope of state boards and reviews like the rest of us and be subject to reprimand for make false or misleading statements.

Any reason the UND golf coaches couldn’t be the golf pros? Great way to supplement income. Do they still have the driving range? Does the pro shop have golf gear? A great place to sell UND gear and golf accessories. Coordinate with bookstore/Scheels/REA to supply. UND will need to aggressively market the venue and if necessary remodeling/repurposing to be used as a venue for events. Should be able to provide catering/restaurant services through UND food service. Do some weekend golf outings in fall with UND athletics and UND alumni assn. Opportunities to provide a venue for GF Park Board to use for part of youth golf program? Whomever is heading this up will need to be hustling year round and think outside the box to make this a special fun venue.

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What reason does one have to bring this comment to our recruiting thread when we have just had an excellent start to the recruiting season? Do we really need all of us to make the same lame comments about coaches for and against in June? It’s a pointless discussion and our opinions aren’t going to make a lick of difference in June, July, August, Sept. We have a staff in place and they are working very hard to move the program forward. Committed recruits and prospective recruits don’t need to check this page to see who else is committed or offered and read someone here wants to discuss getting rid of coaches (one of which the kid and his family may have made a great connection to). Your or my lame opinions about coaches belong elsewhere.

“Unwarranted arrogance “ ? What is that??? Is there such a thing as warranted arrogance? First of all there are a lot of people who know quite a bit about hockey, but very little about coaching. We have been fortunate to have four outstanding coaches at UND since the Mid 1970’s. They all have different personalities. To judge a coaches ability solely based on National titles is a bit shallow just as judging their personalities based on whether or not they will hang out with or drink with some of our fans is flawed. They were, and still are, approachable. They all were wary of the media and wary that anything they say or do with fans can be taken out of context. They keep a tight social circle of trusted friends and family for good reason. Too many fans cross the line of what is acceptable in interacting with players and coaches and the smart ones will do their best to protect their private lives and their time with family and friends. That often comes across as being aloof or arrogant.

Not saying he isn’t a good get but if he is going to score at this level he will need to be able to shoot. Tougher to dunk at this level due to bigger more athletic defenders than kids see in HS or prep school. Time will tell. I guess out recruiting low level D1 schools doesn’t impress me much. Nothing against the kid. Great to have him.

What???? Where do you come up with that? Good find and a nice addition but more highly sought after by whom? Am I missing something here?

Zach Muckenhirn is with Orioles AA team. Had been invited to spring training this spring.

I don’t think it works that way. The donor may mandate a domed facility but who would UND’s mandate go to??? You are correct in stating a domed stadium would be a priority for long term baseball success.

Frankly I couldn’t care less about their interest. I care even less what their fans think. He is an outstanding athlete who our coaches wanted badly and they see a great future for him at UND. I also prefer not to hear a regular update on what their fans think.

Because too many people forget how important the off line is regardless of who the RB is. JJ if he stays healthy, has the ability to be an All American if our oline plays well. I agree Gordon right now is right behind him. Two very good backs. How they use the other backs, when and where will depend on the oline and our off scheme. We also need to remember our receivers block well. A lot of teams don’t have that advantage. Our TE’s have also blocked well but it will be interesting to see how we use our TE’s this year.

The President will need to discuss the agreement but needs to be more diplomatic. On paper this agreement, many years later, doesn’t seem to make sense. As an investment to obtain well over a million dollars for UND, it does. I try to remember donors don’t owe the recipient anything and often like the subsequent perks. When Ralph made his donation he stated was remained after the arena was built was to be used to support UND athletics. We all need to focus on the big picture and positioning ourselves for long term success. Some people forget Clifford and Strinden were key figures in Ralph’s donation and plans. We need to aggressively move toward finding the key donors for Women’s athletics, as well as FB and MBB without having to wait for a new contract. It will take donors with a net worth of a lot more than 3-5 million but it will also take 5,000 people to up their annual donation to $1,000 or more per year. UND alumni office and coaches work very hard to make that happen.

I wouldn’t want to defund hockey. Former hockey guy stepped up and made a donation which should keep hockey well funded for the foreseeable future. We may need to tweak the contract so all FB,VB, MBB,WBB revenues primarily benefit the respective sports those revenues come from if any of those revenues are directed elsewhere. Chaves challenge is to find the boosters to provide the resources to provide financial stability to our other sports. That means increasing revenues to allow us to increase our coaches salaries across the board. What’s good for hockey is good for our other sports and vice versa. We also need to move beyond the name/logo fiasco.

Hockey doesn’t dictate BB salaries. Chaves does. Lots of work to be done.

Think they could remember the plays?

Outstanding goalie with coaching experience. Also one of the brighter players to go through the program. College coaching experience. A smart goalie, like a QB or middle LB in FB or point guard in BB should be communicating and guiding his teammates at his end of the ice. He has to be able to communicate and lead if he is one of the best. As an assistant you better be paying attention to all positions and what the team schemes are offensively and defensively and what works and doesn’t work on PP and PK. If you play college hockey and don’t understand what each position player is supposed to be doing on each shift and during every situation, then you aren’t going to develop to your full potential. I would expect he has been developing these abilities and his leadership abilities. At this level it is no longer something as stupid as 30 min “bag skate”. I predict he will do a great job and someday be a head coach if that is his passion.