Bison Dan

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.....

Your post was good for a laugh! I didn't see you so worried about not playing us in 04-08? What happened? Now the shoes on the other foot and you don't like it. Too bad! I wouldn't worry about our attendence I'd worry about a 3 game home schedule with SFU as one of them and SFU again in 2011. Faison panicked, face it. The BIG picture is your transition isn't going so well and to deflect attention away from it your administration is crying it's not FAIR that we can't play NDSU. Sad....

Now more SLOWLY you know this for a fact HOW?? Face it you're just using that as a excuse for Faison saying he wants to play NDSU but not talking with Gene Taylor. Looks like to me you guys got another AD that is proving to be incompetent. You seem to forget that we're doing just fine and their is no reason or upside for NDSU to play UND.

How do you think the churches will like "Ghost Riders"?

Faison wants to play NDSU but won't talk or call Gene Taylor??? How does that work?

Another classy statement by someone without a clue.

Boy you can really tell that your transition is going shi$$y with all the "it's NDSU and Gene's fault" posts. Laughable - Lack of leadership has brought you to this point and nothing else. Where's the big DI plan for moving up? I'll tell you, there isn't one - the leadership had the attitude if NDSU can do we sure as hell had do it. The only one making any sense is dakotadan with his post. Keep blaming other people for your troubles and see where that gets you. I don't know how much more plain it can be said, we aren't going to play you until you're done with your transition. We went through our without playing you and came out okay, are you saying that UND can't do the same?

Where were you 5 years ago when UND wouldn't schedule NDSU (in any sport)? Go through your transition and then we'll talk. It's simple. NDSU has proved it doesn't need UND - Can you say the same? Can you say hypocrite!

Now everything is NDSU's fault. You guys are unbelievable. Where was all this "lets play NDSU" during our transition??? We went through it without you, now its your turn. You sound like little girls when things don't go your way. Because things aren't going your way it has to be someone elses fault. UND made this situation your in and you have no one to blame but the administrators at UND. No one is pulling Douple strings. Is it NDSU's fault that you scheduled SFU in 09 & 11? How about the NCAA lawsuit?? Douple's opposition to the nickname?? It's always easy to blame someone else instead of looking within isn't it ?

Really - bigger joke?? Montana Tech was in our first year of transition not the second or 4th year. Our second year we had 11 game schedule with 1 - DII school and the rest were DI-AA - with Montana State, Southern ILL, NW State, Weber State, Nicholls State & the rest Great West teams. 6 home games and 5 away. You can spin it anyway you want but Faison scheduled it and I'm sure it will be crowd pleaser!!

The only thing that Virg cares about at UND is hockey.

It's the same situation that brought a SDSU linemen to UND a couple years ago.

Shows how little you know about NDSU and how much you might wish it to be true. With better play out of 2 positions (kicker & qb) we'd be in the playoffs. By the way no one trashes coaches & players more than this board.

Expect alot of disappointment when comparing yourselves to NDSU's transition. "Lose to tougher competition" ? Who?

Another kool-aid drinker!! Future bright for the Sioux? What do you base that on? You'd just lost to a team that hasn't won a game EVER in the Great West conference until you showed up. Like I said we have one or two positions to improve on, you have a whole team.

Who's the cool-aid drinker?