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What I think is funny is Kolpack actually went to Gene Taylor to get his thoughts. Like he has any control over the situation and what was he going to say about it? I'm sure he's thrilled the sports director of their new radio station is the voice of the Sioux. I'm also sure he's thrilled that his new radio station paid to pick up the games of the "niche" sport no one cares about. That is about as funny as the 180's that went on over a B'ville.

This is a great hire. I was a little nervous on who we would get to replace Hammer, especially as time went along. A good radio voice will be very important in the Big Sky and Jack sounds like he is very excited to be that voice. Welcome Jack.

It would be nice if we could get something worked out with Jack. He is very, very good at what he does and really enjoys the sports he covers. He's done a great job in Bismarck the last few seasons.

Well said vince. That is what I was trying to say but you said it much better than I did.

On another positive note I have heard very good things on our LB crew for this upcoming season. As long as we stay healthy we should continue to improve there. That is so important to our defense and will also help our secondary out. We have been lacking that the last 3-4 seasons and its showed.

Agreed Bin. I think the big thing will be if Hall and Mackey can have the confidence this year to not have to give the 7 yard cushion. Also throw Brown in the mix and get his feet wet and I'm ok with this. If Hawkins can be the playmaker at safety that he was at corner that should help. Watkins has to reprove everything to me as he didn't play well last year. I don't know if its his confidence or what he was worried about but he needs to get A LOT better before fall.

This is when spring ball will start to get interesting. Most guys look pretty good before they put the pads on. Now that the guys will be at least in shells everyday some seperation will happen at some positions and the young guys will get some valuable learning experience. Depth along the dline will be crucial this year. I'm still holding out hope about the possible transfer I heard about at NG. I would feel pretty good going into the season 3 deep there.

I think it was mentioned earlier as Stanchick would be out of spring ball while trying to heal from his broken leg. It was a pretty good fracture.

You mean the WCHA with two teams remaining along with Notre Dame and Michigan, yep thats the conference. Your fanbase seems pretty concerned with UND and the direction UND is headed. That concern really hit an all time high about the same time the Big Sky announcement came about. Weird. I find your fanbases constant "concern" rather entertaining, like this gentleman taking the time to start this thread. Not knowing anything about UND but yet knowing of our poor recent seasons and also knowing enough of what we have returning to now understand our excitement for our future. Did you create another account Danno? Couldn't support your envy for UND with just one?

You don't plan fishing trip where there isn't any fish. You don't plan a ski trip where there isn't any snow. And you don't plan a gay prom where there isn't............well you get the idea. Thanks for stopping by.

I agree with darell..... Not a fan of that game on the schedule.

I'm in this catergory. I'm thinking this is going to make more schools fold than it does help college hockey. This is also why UND and a few of the other schools have to be careful. If they form a conference and leave a few other schools out in the cold other schools are in trouble. I hope I'm wrong but I see this move by the Big Ten taking schools away from college hockey, not adding any new ones.

Obviously UND's or Drads thought on this isn't going to stop it from happening. I have no problem with not saying anything and if there is a plan, doing it behind closed doors. If we say we're with the WCHA and jump ship we look foolish, if we say we're looking to jump ship and than no one wants to join up we look foolish. Better to remain silent, FOCUS ON THE IMMEDIATE TASK AT HAND OF WINNING ANOTHER NC, than worry about something we have no control over. I'm sure no matter what stance Hak or the administration takes someone on this board will be up in arms anyways.

Thats when all was good with the NCAA, no one knows what is going to happen now. We could just as easily get back on the sanctions list and Minnesota and Wisconsin have an easy answer for not wanting to get beat by us, the NCAA sanctions list.

Maybe they wouldn't have paid cause they couldn't afford it. I find it funny that a tournament good enough for the Oregon Ducks, Boise St. and others would not be good enough for ndsu.

So thats like you and all the other bison fans who say we are so over UN, we don't care about them anymo, OH I suppose we better start 3 threads a day on our message board about them and chime in on thier site everyday.

Thank you for your interest in Fighting Sioux athletics. You obviously have some time now since your team is all done for the year. Our team still playing obviously bothers you enough to come on here and post. Thanks for visiting and you'll be able to follow the Fighting Sioux where ever you are on Nat'l TV.

Our sophmore class is still playing this year. Have fun sitting at home. Thanks for stopping by.

A little bit of bitterness there. Have fun sitting at home and thanks for the well wishes.

Stay classy buddy. Mac gave his opinion but trust me when I say he respects the opinion of others that don't agree with him. He doesn't need a screen name to give his opinion and he doesn't hold a grudge and take shots at those on the other side. Grow up. Mac gave his time for the nickname and raised points that any athletic alum of UND can't deny.

Unless the top team from your conference gets a couple of "quality" wins along the way it doesn't matter what your conference RPI is. Any other team but Oakland this year out of the Summit is a 14,15,16.

Maybe the state could have just asked Standing Rock to have a vote. These guys don't have anything better to do than try and hang on to something that is really not something that should be in Senate. This is like steroids and baseball, old men putting their power somewhere it doesn't belong.

There are 3 parties I believe are responsible for our schedule- 1) Bunning- a team can bring in a Drake type filler game every year without much problem. Its when you need to get 3-4 filler games. These need to be long term agreements. When Bunning was here we could have started scheduling some of the 2 for 1's early in the transition to get some home games later on, he didn't even try. Everyone knows how he ran the athletic dept. so its no suprise. He didn't make things very easy for- 2) Faison- He could have maybe got a little more agressive right away as well but didn't. I really don't blame him for not doing any form of 2 for 1's this year as next year is going to be more challenging and we don't even know what our conference schedule for next year will look like. We do know that our non-conference schedule for next year is going to look pretty good so he did his job there. Its just not easy filling 6 games a year when you are having a dip in- 3) Fan support- We knew the transition was going to be tough. We have had some games in the past few years where support has been aweful. Students all the way up, that should change but you can't put all the blame on our staff. WE actually have balanced books here and don't spend money we don't have. Our AD's can't spend $100,000-$200,000 for 3 home games a year when the support just isn't there. Not being elgible for the playoffs really turned off the average fan as games where meaningless.

Well said Star. ++++++

With what I have witnessed from the NCAA if a non BCS school does not play by their rules they will go out of their way to make it hell for them. Yet they will bend their own rules for BCS schools and players. We are a pimple on the ass of the whole scheme of college athletics and not one of the big boys, the NCAA doesn't care if it pisses us off and as long as they are writing the checks there are a whole lot of schools who are going to go right along with their plan.