speedkills

I have had this conversations numerous times with a huge financial benefactor to NDSU. He claims that everytime hockey is brought up, the pieces of the puzzle just does not add up for NDSU. He claims that NDSU needs to seek out their own identity and they want to establish this by concentrating on FB and BB which appeals more to the masses. His theory on collge hockey is that is does not appeal to masses across the county which is hard to argue with. He also mentioned how difficult it would be to recruit against established programs much less UND. He compared it to MSU Mankato recruiting against the U of M. The impression I got from him is that it is talked about but in reality this not going to happen in the near future. So with no plans on paper and no facility being built in the near future, I do not believe Dean Blais will applying for this job.

I am curious the last time NDSU played Boston College in football for a national championship. Or better yet, the last time the University of Michigan came to Fargo for an athletic event as slight underdogs. I think we get the picture. The comparison is absolutley absurd! Come on people, lets be honest. We all know where the bear $hits in the woods.

The four I things I looked at from last weekend were this. Gophs never had a lead all weekend, Gophs had eight goals scored on them in one game, they were at home, and the Sioux won this tourney with out Drew. That is not the kind of momentum you want coming into a regional, much less a regional in Grand Forks. If I were a gopher fan, I must remind you of a certain Denver team that beat the the "Siouxpermen" two years ago in Colorado and ended up with all the marbles. Oh yea, the WCHA title anchor you picked a couple weeks ago is not going to help the golden cause either. I would have to argue that the physcial and mental grind to bring a conference title home does take a toll and we may have witnessed some fallout last weeknd from the Gophs effort. I pick momentum and the SIOUX.