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Many fans went to the Women's game and stayed for just part of the men. They played exciting basketball and drew fun crowds/

How about investing in an offense that doesn't run that double reverse?

If women played a version of football (flag for example) you can bet that the support across the country would be about the same as for women's hockey.

And many more - I just ran out of brain power after two.

I really hate to see him go early, but positive endorsements by NHL Stars such as Parise, Toews, and soon Boeser and Jost do a lot for UND Hockey.

I have to admit I am really not used to rebuilding seasons - I have said before (to much criticism) that I thought we had a couple of misfire recruiting years (stars aside). For example, what if instead of Wilke we got another forward with comparable scoring stats and potential who improved in college and became a stud? Whole new ballgame.

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I'll have what you're smokiing

But track, swimming etc don't cost north of 1.5 million

Sadly, Women's Hockey is not a flagship anything/

Agree - so why are guys like Luke Johnson so eager to go pro

Getting a high level talent like Boeser always has a risk of early signing and I think UND does as well an anyone in keeping them for as long as possible. However, we seem to be hit with a lot of painful mid-level early signings - the Luke Johnson type where almost everyone can see the minor leagues in his future. Does this happen to other teams to this extent too? I don't follow closely enough to know. It seems like it is easier to plan for the high end signings than the mid level flight. In my opinion the lower ones are the ones that are hurting college hockey in that it is harder and harder to develop continuity in your program.

Agree, but you have to admit that opportunistic is not a way you would describe this year's Sioux team.

We need to be serious on the recuriting trail as we have guys that just haven't upped their game much - too much dead weight

We make 3-4 deadly mistakes in the D end each game and don't have a lot of guys who can close the deal scoring with regularity - we have a lot of swipes at an open net and either miss or miss-fire. Add a power play that everyone involved should be ashamed of and voila

I'll admit to being a critic of Coach Jones in the past. However, I believe this season has earned him an extension. I do, however, have a hard time erasing from my memory the years in which we had great talent and played an almost unwatchable version of street ball (let's clear out so Huff can go 1 on 4). I sincerely hope Jones has grown as a coach and will not revert to what we went through a few years ago.

When we keep our heads in the game and play for 60 we are one dangerous team that can beat any team in the country - They could be deadly in the tournament.

Two big questions that I think most are thinking? - First, is this year an outlier or has Jones really upped his coaching chops? Second - does a conference championship outweigh the years where we had great talent and played street ball?

I'll have what he's drinking

Thanks

I 'm out of town trying to follow the game here - i have zero idea what is going on

This would make a ton of sense if you never watched our team play - The optics on this team are awful. People are riled up more for how they got to 16 pairwise than the fact we are at 16th pairwise. I have not seen a Sioux team consistently mail it in like this group for over 20 years. They were painful to watch - lack of effort, refusal to play for all 60, lack of improvement, same mistakes over and over, no leadership - you name it. I would feel much much differently if this were a scrappy team of young guys working their butts off and who have shown improvement and given us hope for next year.

Starting last December

When I mentioned that I was severely criticized - but it is true we have a serious talent gap - We are skating Wilkie who is having a Blutarski season 0.000

Talent can be up and down - here we expect mostly up But how many times have you seen a Sioux team just mail it in like this group. Maybe once or twice in the last 3 decades - Coaches have some serious work and recruiting to do it's one thing to have your young but scrappy team get beat because of youth - this year's performance is quite something else