82SiouxGuy

No, it's the same thing they have said forever about York, and Berenson, and they say about Saban in football, or any of the very successful coaches. Top coaches in every college sport are going to get most of the players they want. It means they are going to be successful almost every year and that they are going to be difficult to beat. But they can be beat. You might have to do it with underdog players or better conditioning or out working them or even a lucky break or 2. But those coaches will be favored to win most years.

Dean wasn't already coaching at Minnesota.

Why don't you take your argument to the NCAA? That debate is over. Their Native American policy states that schools who do not have permission from the local tribe, permission that was needed by 2006, can't use Native American nicknames or imagery. The Settlement Agreement with UND says that UND will not use Native American imagery. It doesn't matter whether you think it's ludicrous or not. The NCAA rule is in place. They have the right to make their own rules, the courts have said so. Everyone knows it. UND isn't going to fight the rule any more. You can choose to be offended or you can choose to not be offended. But this argument is a non-starter.

Native American culture is the first thing that comes up when you search for thunderbird as a bird. The other top results are a car and software. Native American culture comes up way down the line when related to Bison or Seawolf.

Of course those are just the mandatory fees. Each individual will be different because of their program and the choices they make. These numbers were posted because NDSU fans keep posting claims that UND student fees were higher than NDSU student fees, and that the student fee increase that NDSU is trying to implement is only going to bring the NDSU total up to the same range as UND. These NDSU claims are false, as is proven by comparing the rates shown on each school's individual web site.

The problem is that the Thunderbird is often considered Native American imagery. The NCAA does not allow Native American imagery of any kind. The NCAA would have major issues with a school using a Thunderbird logo.

As I pointed out before, according to the school's web sites, NDSU already has higher student fees than UND. NDSU is planning to raise them even more. It appears that UND spends more of their fees on athletics and NDSU is going to get close to that number. But that means NDSU is spending more student fees on other parts of the school. Does the total amount of student fees at UND plus the costs of hockey tickets reach the level of total student fees paid by every NDSU student after this increase? Or don't those total student fees count at NDSU because the only thing that matters is what the athletic department gets? Or maybe NDSU fans don't notice what happens with the rest of the school.

Bottom line is that as long as Frost is coaching at Minnesota, they are probably going to get just about any top player they want.

Using unscientific internet polls as marketing research doesn't actually prove a lot. Especially when one of them is from the day of the announcement and the other is from a television station in Minneapolis, about 325 miles away from Grand Forks, and the home of a rival school in a major sport.

Minnesota had 5 or 6 of the best players in the world at the same time. 6 usually beats 2.

If the NCAA was worried about making bank on the hockey tournament they would do it completely differently. They will make minor adjustments to pairings to help attendance, especially at some rinks where they expect lower attendance. But they aren't going to wreck integrity of the pairings just to attract a few fans. The entire hockey tournament makes money the way it is, but the NCAA makes so much money on basketball and football that they aren't concerned about making a few extra dollars on hockey.

If you don't see a lot of shots you aren't always as sharp when you finally see one. Devils Lake had 3 shots on goal against Red River in 1 game this year, 1 in each period. They scored on the shot in the second period.

There are no ethical problems if you do the work, if it is original, and if you don't make any false claims. In this case they should be fine because they have stated that they did this on their own and that it was never submitted to UND. If they claimed that they did it for UND, then it would be a problem. A portfolio is used to show your skills and abilities. I've seen people submit writing samples that were never submitted to anyone. They are fine as long as they don't make false claims about being printed somewhere. The people just use them to show what they are capable of doing.

From previous articles, I believe that somewhere around the top 15 or so programs actually make money. Texas, Ohio State, and Penn State among others of their type are normally near the top. That varies from year to year. A lot of other P5 conference members probably average 20-30% of athletic spending coming from the institution in some form. That includes schools like Minnesota. Some MAC schools were in the 80% or higher range. For FCS schools that average number is probably more like 65-75%. UND and NDSU ranked near the top for FCS schools in a report from a couple of years ago, at that time NDSU was in the low 40's and UND in the upper 40's. So, out of a $20 million athletic department budget at UND, student fees and other institutional support is probably in the $9 million range.

If Minnesota makes the tournament they will automatically be in St. Paul as the host school. If Miami makes the tournament they will automatically be in Cincinnati as the host school. If Holy Cross makes the tournament they will automatically be in Worcester, MA as the host school. It is too early to know any more about which teams will be in which regionals. UND will most likely be in St. Paul if they finish as a 1 seed and are ranked higher in the Pairwise than St. Cloud. They could possibly be put in St. Paul as a 1 seed even if they are ranked lower than St. Cloud, but it isn't as likely. They could also be in St. Paul as a 2 seed, but that is harder to predict. There are 4 weekends of play before the tournament selection, a lot can change in that time.

Then UND didn't really need the Olympic sized rink if it doesn't make any difference. That was basically a waste of money. Coaches have lied for years about different sized rinks being different to play on. That's what you're claiming. Maybe you haven't noticed, not all passes can be tape to tape, sometimes there are other players in the way. Sometimes you need to use the boards. They might play differently if they are 15 feet further away. But you seem to think you're more of an expert than coaches from the NHL, college, the Olympics, etc. Again, comparing football where the game is always played on the same sized field to hockey where the rink sizes are different seems to make sense to you. Plus, most of the time NDSU and UND practice in the Fargo Dome and the Alerus the day before a game. They do that to get used to that specific playing surface. Maybe you didn't know that. Maybe you didn't notice, UND just built an indoor practice facility for times they want to practice inside to prepare for playing indoors or when the weather doesn't cooperate outside. Or why do all football teams travel to away games a day early? Oh yeah, to practice on the field where they are going to play the game. Kind of like how St Cloud is going to practice on the rink at REA on Thursday, the day before they start a conference tournament. There have been plenty of changes in tournament schedules over the years. This isn't the first time. Just because you make a claim doesn't make it a fact. But nice try.

The people running REA, who have a much better idea than you about what Ralph wanted, are the ones making the schedule. So my guess is that you are clueless and that Ralph would not be in your corner.

Size of rink makes a huge difference. The main arena at REA is 200x85. The Olympic arena is 200x100. That 15 feet changes all of the angles for passing, breakouts, etc. Again, that is why the Olympic arena was added to the facility, so the teams could prepare to play on the same size rink. NHL teams practice on the same size rink as they are going to play on. That is why your argument means nothing in this case.

This was scheduled years in advance. It is the first round of the conference tournament, and UND is a host because of their play during the year. Therefore the schedule for the weekend was set up to include practices and games for the UND women. The conference tournament is set up to put teams into the NCAA tournament, and scheduled accordingly. Or do you propose that the NCAA should base their tournament schedule on when the North Dakota High School Athletic Association wants to play the North Dakota high school tournament?

This weekend is the first round of the WCHA conference tournament. UND Women's hockey is part of the UND Hockey program. The Ralph Engelstad Arena was built to support the UND Hockey program. And horror or horrors, it is changing times of a high school tournament by a couple of hours. It didn't prevent the high school teams from playing in the building, just changed the times. Get over it. Ralph supported the entire University of North Dakota, not just the Men's Hockey team. Look it up. That's why he has donated millions of dollars to scholarships. He wasn't so narrowly focused on the hockey team as you apparently are.

Practicing on an Olympic size rink does not give effective preparation for playing on an NHL size rink. If you could prepare for either one effectively on the other, UND wouldn't need the Olympic rink to practice on for games in Colorado College. And yes, UND women's hockey practice should take priority in a UND arena over the first round of North Dakota High School hockey tournament games. All it did was move the games by a couple of hours. Attendance of UND women's hockey has nothing to do with this arrangement. Also, I'm pretty sure that this arrangement will not affect school attendance much, if at all. The Grand Forks schools, even grade schools, have Thursday and Friday off even though Red River plays in the evening session. If students were planning to come for a 1 o'clock game from anywhere other than Grand Forks it is highly unlikely that they would go to school for a couple of classes and then leave. If they are coming from Fargo or Bismarck or Minot or Dickinson to go to the tournament, they are not going to school on Thursday morning. So moving that game up a few hours isn't going to cause more of them to miss class in any significant numbers. Basically, UND hockey program in a UND facility takes priority over non-UND program.

It is primarily a University of North Dakota facility. It was built to take care of UND programs. UND programs will always take priority. The NDHSAA has always known this.

I'm pretty sure that Minnesota 9 man football title games used to start at 8 am. And North Dakota 9 man football title games start at 9.

Yes, he is.

They have for years. North Dakota has reciprocity with several states.