I agree. I live 100 miles from GF and have been going to to Football games for years but rarely went to anything else. Then I heard about the FSSN and how all the home hockey games were on it. So about 4 years ago I got the satellite equipment to watch the games. Now I'm a Fighting Sioux Club member and a hockey season ticket holder.
WDAZ isn't the same as FSSN. UND and Midcontinent are broadcasting these games and they pay WDAZ to produce them. The good thing about it is that UND is actually in control of what games (home games anyways) get televised. The bad thing is that this arrangement has led to fewer games of anykind actually on WDAZ Ch. 8. Not even the Gopher hockey games are going to be on DAZ this year. In the end, it does come down to the administration at UND. The FSSN is great resource that is not used enough. All home games should be on cable, and if WDAZ or any other station wants to hold the rights to Sioux sports, they should be required to carry X number of games on the network each year.
The media contracts are up after this year.
NDSU purchases air time from North Dakota's NBC stations for their games, and they did the same for their game that was on FSN North. They're smart to do it too. UND should be doing something similiar. Like I said, all home games on cable, big games on a network.