Bison Dan

We went head to head with only a few recruits with UND but we heard that UND was telling them that our coaching staff was in disarray and that UND had the largest engineering school in ND. Heard the engineering one from the recruits HS coach. Both recruits committed to NDSU after learning the truth. Negitive recruiting usually fails.

Talked with AD from NDSU and SDSU - They both turned them down. They both said they could play them anytime they wanted but if it was going to be a FBC game they wanted to make some money or have a return game which we know that Hawaii will not do. Plus it's a bitch of a trip if you have to play the next week. There's no upside to the game.

You know this how? When Hawaii contacted us they would only pay expenses. But maybe they're having a hard time getting home games too. We'll see.

Hawaii is a non money game - they pay your expenses over and back and that's it. Good job on San Diego & Fresno but 2 NAIA home games?

What mess? It was RT's decision not to play - we're just finishing what he started.

Well hell if UND is willing to only play in Fargo I don't think we have any problems.

UND will not come to the dome without a return game - get it!

Your right forgot about that last one.

Plague? What world are you in - Did you see the vote 90-3.... You forgot we gain NOTHING by playing you. That's why it won't happen for awhile. Last time I looked you only had 3 home games. You only had 4 last year with a 10 game schedule. Had to hurt the bottom line.

Your equating fighting to spanking?

Lets put it this way they're be light years ahead of anything you'll put on the floor....

Never said that we could replace them just we won't be as bad as most of you are hoping for.

Fact is you don't know which Summit teams will be good next year and you don't know the quality of NDSU's red shirting class. Coach Saul was in on recruiting all the senior kids. Who do you think was in on the Wis. kids? Sure it hurts to lose 4 great starters but we'll reload and give it a run.

NDSU has proven they don't need to play UND - The same can't be said for UND yet. With only 4 home games last year and only 3 scheduled this year it looks like your having a lot harder time of it. By the way where is all that political clout that some of the previous posters were talking about? Talked with a friend in the legislature and he said that everyone he talked to in the legislature that wasn't a NDSU or UND fan told him that they were proud of the way NDSU has handled the transition and especially beating MN in football. They weren't about to interfere with the scheduling. They would like to see the game but understood the complexity of the issue and why now it would cost NDSU money to start a home and home. They're hoping that UND can get into the MVC.

Untrue about the bb tournament. You always had the Hyslop which holds as many as the BSA - attendance was the problem.

I agree I hope they stay a long time and so does everyone else. You & everyone else seem to forget about Title 9 for adding sports.

Neither the Dome or NDSU has the EXTRA cash it would take for hockey..... It's not going to happen..

Man you sure like to propose preposterous scenarios. If I was you I'd worry (create scenairos) more about how the REA will look when they replace all the logo's and how the REA foundation will view the new nickname and not whether NDSU will add hockey. (which will never happen)

He's been kicked off it.

Why would you be talking about something that will never happen?

A little history lesson. The only reason "pipes" were added to the FD was as a backup in case the predicted event days didn't pan out. Then hockey could be added. Since the FD has never had a problem with event days and is highly sucessful hockey was never added. The FD is now all paid off and more than paying it's way. It's doing exactly what it was designed for. Adding hockey would be a money loser for the FD because of all the event days taken away, it will never happen - ever.

Your right the name has nothing to do with it - IMO

Foss is a die hard UND hockey fan and sees the move as a financial threath to the hockey program. His article is the worst kind of journalism, big time bias..

Yea he so ignorant he he's got us through our transition with flying colors, into two conferences (real ones), great schedules, sold out fb games, 3 games with MN, and has increase funding greatly. If that's ignorant so be it but I'll take Gene over your disfunctional AD any day of the week. USD is way ahead of you in their transition and all you can do is bitch about playing NDSU. Think about it, do you hear USD bitching about not playing SDSU? No all their doing is coming up with great schedules and are knocking on the door for joining a conference. If your administration doesn't get their act together soon you're going to be an independent along time.

You guys are all too funny - with the nickname issue and no conference in site, you're all worried about playing NDSU. Did you see USD got a 2010 game with MN? We have verbals for those dates and Gene is just waiting for the contracts to come back before their announced. It's called putting together a good schedule something maybe your administration should try to do. By the way Gene still hasn't recieved a phone call from Faison about a game. Must be high on his list of things not to do. I noticed that no one on this board is bitching about your 09 schedule and taking Faison to task. You're all good little soldiers.....