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Again, UND does not belong at the same level as Minot and Mary. It's hard to argue UND is not at the level it needs to be. Just can't support 20+ sports.

Yeah, it should have been brutally honest. A school the size of UND cannot financially support more varsity programs than schools in the P5 conferences with athletic budgets many times larger than UNDs. They also don't belong in the same division as Minot St., Mary and Northern St. It should not have been hard to see to be completely honest. It should have been identified a lot earlier than now.

I appreciate the insight. At the end of the day, it is all a blurry grey area. I for one had no idea that UND was threatened to be taken to court when UND women's hockey was started. I about fell off my chair when reading UNDBiz's post. I appreciate you posting that screen shot. With that, I can understand some of the hesitation to face that again but in this case, I truly feel UND internally is being its own worst enemy. If you want to get out from behind this thing throw this stuff out there. Don't waste time having coaches addition to keep their sports. Try and explain what you are doing as positively as possible as trying to remain compliant vs. how other similar schools are doing it. At the end of the day, UND cannot manage 20 sports. I had a Facebook friend absolutely beside himself on how UND could be cutting sports. When I told him UND sponsors more varsity sports than the University of Texas he didn't believe me. Some of these facts are what needs to be out there. The days of a D2 bus league are gone.

Scheduling the other Dakota schools has not been easy.

Also, if UND wanted to prove a point and raise awareness to what they are doing is correct and other schools is wrong, laying out the explanation for tiers should have been done at the first meeting and again at the second meeting and possibly released a press release for the public. Than you go from being a cluster to full transparency to the general public.

And this is where Title IX is flawed. I would love to see what UND could do adding $400,000 to each the WBB and WVB budgets. If my math is right, adding to those two sports, UND could feed 6 more athletes prime rib. We could afford to add to women's track and field and soccer scholorships. All this while getting rid of women's hockey. I believe what you are saying in theory but when you look around college athletics and what schools are spending on coaches salaries, special trips and locker rooms for football and/or MBB (depending on the school), I have a hard time believing the NCAA could ever enforce this at an institution.

This game will be a great game. SUU has played a very good schedule and lost to some very good football teams. Assuming we win at years end SUU could be 7-4 with losses to Montana, UND, University of Utah and BYU. That is not a bad resume. Some quality losses there. SUU is in the same spot as UND in trying to gain recognition as a Big Sky contender very year. They have been successful proving it for a little longer than us and have a talented roster. This game will set my expectations for this team going forward. I won't pick against UND but expect a close game and am really looking forward to Saturday UND- 28 SUU- 27

I respect Schlossman and Miller for being critical of UND and its leadership. You will not find that at any other media outlet in any other ND city/university. In other cities the media are fed the stories to write and question nothing. However, I disagree with Brad last night. He is tweeting about the meeting and how inappropriate it was. Everyone in the meeting room knows the sport that should be cut and if that sport was cut Brad would be more critical about someone making that decision on facts me numbers alone.

I believe UND could still outbid SDSU (assuming we make the playoffs). Their last home playoff game had 4,000 fans. The last few years they have gone on the road for the playoffs.

Agree to disagree. If I am playing a team like SDSU, Montana or another MVFC or Big Sky team, I would want to play them in the Alerus. We have seen what the playoff atmosphere in there can be.

And travel for round 2. I would like to be at home as long as possible in the playoffs.

Decent thinking but top 8 teams also get homefield. I would sacrifice an additional week off to host the first playoff game in a while.

I think there is a chance Weber is ranked or flirting with the lower parts of polls when we play. Agree that we have to win the games. 8-3 gets us in. 7-4 is in he discussion. I think the part that is easy to overlook is UND won't have a buy until the last week of the season. Will that play a factor as the season goes along?

Don't forget a 7-4 team with a FBS win.

Winning matters right now but positions in the polls right now is equally important. I am not 100% convinced the polls will take care of themselves.

This program is competing for recognition nationally and locally. Letting a 30 point lead get cut in half doesn't show as well as a 30 point blowout win heading into homecoming. I have no problem playing the starters a little longer to keep a nice margin of victory.

But if you want to be considered one of the best in the conference, 30 point wins vs. teams like Sac. St are the expectation. You cringe when the starters are out there but I also understand it.

Like seeing Mercer getting involved.

And a step slower than his usual burst. Still good to see him getting reps. Get him his 100 yes than let him rest. SUU will be a test next week.

Good first half. Left some points on the field. Punt return team, or punt returner is struggling.

Will UND have the big sky freshman of the year two years in a row. Wanzek will have to be in the conversation if he keeps improving.

Lost audio as well

He struggles so much away from home Should be 10-rip

I'd love to see a game of total domination. Cal poly like from last season.

We should be favored in a lot of games but the team has to prove they are mature enough to handle the pressure IF they keep winning. Also we are not deep enough to handle any more injuries at some positions. Plus you can look back at games 1-4 to see a pretty anemic offense. We still need to prove last week was expectation on offense and not a fluke. Thank you for the compliment though and we would love to see C-P again in December.