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Bottom line is baseball should have been cut years ago. Women's hockey should be next. Whether or not the state of ND is flush with cash, or running a deficit and demanding cuts, UND is better off without these sports.

I am not a "big time" donor, nor am I a former athlete. So I suspect my "access" is the same as any other average Alum/Champions Club Member. In the 7 or 8 years he's been here, I've probably emailed him half a dozen times, and he's replied to every one of them within a day. One time he even sent me a hand written note when I voiced my concerns over the direction of the football program. I've sat next to him on a football charter and shaken hands with him at a basketball game. Pretty confident he wouldn't know who I was if I ran into him tomorrow, but in my experiences with him his communication skills are just fine. My biggest complaint about Faison is how long he's left the men's basketball program fall into the pits. But with all the budget cutting going on by the higher ups above him, maybe that is why Brian Jones appears to be finding himself in the rare circumstance of entering a season with only one year remaining on his contract? As just some rube on a message board though, I am not 100% sure how to quantify great qualities of an AD, but I would point out that Faison handled the break up of the WCHA about as well as could possibly be expected, he got UND into the Big Sky (which rejected multiple other former NCC members), he got the High Performance Center built, he's raised the football budget to be competitive within the Big Sky, he's overseen a national championship in hockey. Seems like he hasn't completely run this place into the ground.................... His predecessors biggest accomplishment was doing 50+ push-ups on the sidelines at football games. Did that make Buning a great communicator?

I commend Faison for this. Baseball should have been dropped 8 years ago. I know I sound harsh, but no amount of "fundraising" put on by the Thome family would ever come close to stopping the bleeding within the athletic department that sponsoring baseball caused.......

I believe this is the last season of the ROOT Sports contract. The thing that irritates me about the deal is that they were originally supposed to cover men's basketball games too, up to 12 games per year, plus the conference tournament semis. Would be nice to have a TV partner that would cover the basketball tourney.

IMO, it is a horse a piece between WDAY or KFGO as to who the Fargo affiliate is. Both are heritage stations with big signals that have a lot of listeners. I don't think UND sports are ever going to be a big talker on locally hosted Fargo talk shows, simply because they are Fargo based with mostly Fargo listeners, hence all the Bison talk. Radio FM Media must have put out major coin to get the rights away from KFGO. Seems like a major downgrade to me as far as listener-ship and signal quality, but as someone else said this is largely mitigated by online options these days. KFGO will continue to talk Bison, just like WDAY has ever since they lost the contract, but I think it will be significantly less. Personally, I prefer WDAY to KFGO as our affiliate simply because of the way they treated UND in the last round, tearing up our agreement halfway through the deal to get NDSU. Plus, I appreciate that WDAY airs the Coache's Show and also airs basketball & volleyball games from time to time. KFGO never did that and they have way more stations to work with. As far as a larger talk-show presence for UND, the best place to start IMO would be to come to an agreement with KNOX in Grand Forks and make them the flagship. They are the only talk station in GF, and they don't talk much UND sports because it would basically be advertising for their competition. They have an awesome sports guy in Ryan Cunningham who would do a great job and love to talk and be involved with UND sports I am sure. Other than the coaches show, the only local UND radio talk happens between 6 and 7 AM on Tim & Swyg right after they read the GF Herald over the air and right before they discuss Swyg's lawn issues. Even as little talk UND gets in Fargo, it is honestly not much more in Grand Forks, because they keep making Clear Channel the flagship and they really have no talk presence at all.

Weber is a 15 seed, will play #2 Xavier in St Louis.....

As someone who has been very critical of Jones the last few seasons, I give him a ton credit for this season. Given how far into the ground he ran this program last season, the turnaround this year is quite remarkable. The problem is, I still feel that a season like this one is pretty much the ceiling under Jones. It would be quite difficult to fire him considering how the team performed this year. But I also don't feel this year's efforts warrants an extension. I would like to see Faison make him play out the final year of his contract and see how next season goes. IMO, UND has already been extremely patient with him during his time here. There is not a single other DI school that is going to offer him a head coaching position. Show more improvement next year and earn a long term extension.

Again I ask, did Avants foul out? Because Avants makes layups......

And I should also add that Senglin was unbelievable.

Game lost by missed free throws and missed lay ups.......

Did Avant's foul out? Why is Shanks playing?

Bolomboy is so tough...

Solid defensively, forcing plenty of turnovers. Need to start hitting shots. Seem a bit out of control at the offensive end.

Two minutes into he broadcast and the play by play guy has called us North Dakota State twice,....

Just curious, does anybody here actually know of any UND fans that went to the Tourney that is not a UND employee or a player relative?

Announced attendance for the Montana- Sac game was 2,361.......

SLC gets my vote......

Announced attendance for our game was 1,003

The color guy, Joe Cravens, was the head coach at Weber before Randy Rahe. Also is the former coach of Idaho and Utah.

I want to see Blake and Benton in this game.

Men's Session 1 Announced Attendance PSU v. UNC..............1,311 UND v. SUU..............1,406 SAC v. MSU..............1,723 EWU v. NAU..............1,723

Big Sky reporting attendance of 1,311 for the PSU/UNC game. Looked like just a fraction of that number in the seats.

Would have been nice if the athletic department would have at least sent the cheerleaders out to Reno, and maybe even the pep band. Maybe at minimum give the illusion that they care.

Avants getting the start

Portland St gets by Northern Colorado. Viks will face Weber on Thursday. Watched the highlights, place looked empty.