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I think 2013 is the 12 week season. Why are we still scheduling D2 teams? 2012 we are playoff eligible and there is no playoff help by playing a D2 team. Do you see NDSU playing them..NO! There are other BSC teams not a "conference game" why not play them. Enough of the no crowd games against D2 schools. Whats next another Sioux Falls game in 2013?
I agree with darell.....
Not a fan of that game on the schedule.
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I will take that as a compliment of the highest order.
Delany is an egotistical idiot. He is also not a hockey guy. No one in the BigTen(+2) is hockey.
This sport is going to get pushed aside by the BT. All this is to them is revenue capture. They don't care if they kill the CCHA in the process.
And if that happens, you'll see DI hockey fall even further into the irrelevant category.
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.
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Good article and insight by the UNO beat writer Chad Purcell.
Brad does a super job covering Sioux hockey, but I've not been impressed with his coverage of this issue. We've known the BTHC was coming for more than a year now. We know if there is going to be any reactionary conference allignment movement, North Dakota is going to be a major player. Yet I still have no idea where the UND coaches and administration stand on this issue. Are they standing firm with the WCHA or are they "weighing their options?" You'd think a young budding journalist would be all over this angle of the story.
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.
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Yes, we did, at Madison. Plus, I believe our women's softball team is scheduled to play Bucky again in Madison this spring.
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.
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Actually, One of the years when NDSU was still in their transition, which was the first or second year of the CBI, Scotty Miller asked Miles if they were asked, would they play in the CBI, and they said they most likely would not pay the fee to get into the tournament.
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.
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I'm sure if the MVFC/Summit offer UND, the rest of the Big Sky would say . . . UND oh please don't le, you can't be s, OK that would be fine.
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.
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Agreed that the BIson need a point guard. That is the only position NDSU could have pulled off the Sioux roster this year and put in the starting line-up. The ONLY one. And the Bison have an athletic point guard transfer that had to sit out this year that is a good ball handler, can score and has a 42" vertical. They will be fine next year.
The Sioux got an automatic invite to a 4th tier tournament by winning a horrible conference's tournament. Don't get too excited. If you are beating a 5-26 team in the semi-finals on a questionable foul call if the final second, maybe you want to hold off on declaring their recruiting classes great.
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.
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You're delusional. You also thought your sophomore class was fated for greatness too. What happen to that?
Our sophmore class is still playing this year. Have fun sitting at home. Thanks for stopping by.
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Pretty damn impressive late season run. The Bison are the better team.........but the Bison will be sitting a home........Nothing like a strong finish in the end.
A little bit of bitterness there. Have fun sitting at home and thanks for the well wishes.
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Is that you Mac Schneider?
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.
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I do think it matters. Even though it may be one team, the higher your conference RPI the more likely the top couple of teams will be able to maintain an RPI that can get them at 10-12 seed....which increases the "chance" of a win.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Coaching. Attitude.
Almost every Sioux fan believes Roebuck bleeds Green. Roebuck is the one face of Sioux athletics that has stayed in the game for two decades. Fans relate to him and his intense loyalty to UND.
Jones on the hand, probably because of his personality, hasn't really endeared himself with the fan base. If he wins, he's gone. Men's basketball had basically a five year gap that more or less was a disgrace to it's tradition.
Lennon almost had an iconic quality about him as head coach that gave whoever followed a very difficult task. Even if Mussman has winning seasons the next couple of years, fans just don't sense the confidence and attitude that they want in that program.
UND hockey is at a stage where the program overshadows any coach. Granted, no one questions Hak bleeding green.
If one looks at women's BB attendance at NDSU, it has basically fallen off a cliff. Without Amy Ruley, NDSU women's BB lost it's identity, and hence now has few followers. The real test of a coach is did they leave a program legacy. With Travis Brewster as heir apparent, UND women's basketball tradition seems much more likely to survive a coaching transition.
Well said Star. ++++++
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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.
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It amazes me that so many on this board want to give Kelley and Faison a free pass.
The denials yesterday by Kelley and Faison are just artfully worded denials like those given by any talented politician.
Kelley is stridently anti-Sioux nickname and two years ago he believed that the nickname was too big a hurdle for a successive DI transition. For him to scheme with Douple to use conference leverage as a means to get rid of the nickname is an rational - but unethical - plan. Conference affiliation was seen as the arrow that would kill the Sioux nickname: the perfect assassination weapon.
Remember, at the time, Spirit Lake approval did not seem possible. Kelley, with his PC mindset, could easily see a Douple agreement as silently heroic. Kelley likely dreamed of the private accolades he would receive from the hallowed grounds of Berkely, Madison, and Boston if he could successfully remove the name.
It's very telling that no other conference commissioner anyway has ever stated that the Sioux name - especially with the NCAA agreement - was ever a hindrance to membership. Patty Viverito never expressed that lie, neither did Fullerton. Douple's line about the nickname actually implicated the NCAA with duplicity, which the NCAA never would have wanted for legal reasons.
Douple's story is plausible. There is much more to this story than will ever come to light.
Anyone denying that Kelley did not have powerful motivations to make an agreement with Douple is hopelessly naive.
Good theory Star but in my mind if a deal was made than UND ends up in the Summit plain and simple.
Those other conference either made it perfectly clear that they where not interested in expanding (MVFC) or did not have to deal with the nickname issue since the plan was already in place (BigSky).
Once Gene Taylor first stated the Summit teams would not schedule UND due to the nickname and USD got accepted into the Summit than Douple insisted no visit would happen at UND until the nickname was resolved one way or the other he and the Summit where involved. I'm not giving a free pass but for as smart as you are making Kelly sound he had to have known if he didn't join the Summit this was all coming out.
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I don't blame kolpack for writing this story at all. Imagine for a moment the source is the same and the info differs slightly. Imagine Douple told Kolpack that Chapman asked, pressured, insinuated, etc., Douple to discourage anyone from scheduling UND and smeared UND to the Summit presidents.
Should Kolpack sit on that story? Even if he can't verify Douple's statement with another source? I think by virtue of Douple's position, his statement is in and of itself, newsworthy.
Again, not saying it shouldn't have been printed but when there is no proof of what actually happened, what a person believes depends on who he believes. Kolpack printing the story could uncover a bunch of worms. Remember the night USD accepted the MVFC invite and Terry V. blogged about how if people knew the entire story of what actually went down that it would raise some eyebrows? I doubt he was just talking about a conversation between Kelly and Douple.
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What do you consider facts. Douple says one thing and Kelly is saying it never happened. Believe what you want but this has nothng to do with NDSU. Everyone knows Kelly wanted the name gone soit's not a stretch to say he's had talks with Douple about helping get rid of the name.
And its not a stretch to say there is some sour grapes by Douple and he's looking to save some face and to answer your question I, like most people consider facts something that can be proven. Its not uncommon for a person to stretch the truth to cover thier ass, ask your former president.
Its clear there are no facts to back up what anyone is saying yet it makes a good story for the newspapers. I don't think this has anything to do with ndsu either but since there are no facts to go on with this story that can't be proven either. This whole story is based on who or what a person wants to believe.
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Delusional reasoning at it's finest.
Apparently in Fargo a story can be made with no facts and as long as it doesn't involve ndsu it is held as gospel.
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Seriously??? The nickname to supporters, alum and students is bigger than just the hockey team. The fact that the hockey team is the financial engine the runs the athletic dept. is another issue and debate. Kelly and Fasion have never shown support publically for keeping the nickname/logo.. Right or wrong that leaves a very bitter taste in a majority of supporters/alum and specifically this alum. I'm glad that UND is in the Big Sky, but the reality is any other athletic team, especially men's FB or BB is a looooooong way from being relevent on the D1 scene. Hockey is the university flagship athletic team like it or not but to throw that progam under the bus and use it as leverage to your liking in this nickname agrument is _______! Someone else can fill in the blank.
I didn't know that Kelly or Faison could have forced Standing Rock to have a vote. Their lack of public support had nothing to do with them not voting.
All "other" programs are a lot closer to being relevant now that the nickname issue is almost resolved one way or the other. Bottom line is when the agreement was made to drop the name UND had no conference and most of its sports teams where not elgible for post season elgibility for another 10 years. I don't care if you are John Wooden you are not recruiting any players to come play for you if you can't play in the post season. I wasn't throwing hockey under the bus I was stating the obvious that if "the financial engine of the athletic dept" was in the same situation of all other sports and was never going to be post season elgible dropping the nickname would have been done immediately. Stating that is not a reach at all.
Oxbow, trust me I played with the name on front of my jersey and am sad to see it go but I also want our sports teams to get back to being competitive. It is more painful to me to see where our teams have fallen to than lose the nickname. Thats coming from a football alum. As long as the nickname issue was hanging over our head we where always going to be a looooooong way from being relevent. Like it or not the NCAA was going to make it a hurdle to high to overcome in sports where you are competing for recruits against more than 60 schools. Also, to answer the next question that comes up no one knows the Big Sky's stance on the nickname becasue they never had to deal with it. A decision was already made on the nickname before we got accepted.
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If this impacted hockey like it does the other sports the name would have been gone 2 years ago.
Isnt' this the truth.
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Tell that to some UND professors who let their anti-nickname views get the best of them. So are you saying Hakstol and Roebuck were unprofessional because they love the name and support it?
Professors at all universities have been sharing their views on all subjects that don't belong in the classrooms for years. This list also includes politics and maybe religious views which also have no place in classrooms. This is not going to change however no matter how much you wish it wasn't there.
As far as Hakstol and Roebuck they are in completely different situations and you should understand that. The first calls a lot of former players made was to the coaches of their specific programs. In a way they where a lot more the voice of the alumni than the AD who's job it is to look at the effect on the entire athletic dept., not just one piece of it. Hakstol could care less how much changing the name affected the football team. Mussman could care less how much changing the name affected the golf team. Each coach has a job to do and that is win, if they don't win it really won't matter what the nickname is. They also have to answer questions when they have a gathering of alumni and are asking for money to support their programs. I'm guessing there would have been a lot of pissed off hockey alumni when they meet in Las Vegas if Hak didn't give his opinion. And by Roebuk giving his opinion it wasn't going to matter, he didn't have final say in joining a conference. If the AD says he loves the name but than votes to drop it so teams can get into a autobid conference he looks a lot more foolish than he would if he just avoids the question all together. Darrell I know you understand that a coach and an AD are in two different categories when it comes to this.
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Why not say it. What are they going to do fire him. There would be un uproar if Faison was fired for supporting the name.
Personally I am sure he supports the name. The difficulty it has created for his day to day activities he probably isn't sad to see it go. Therefore he has no opinion. I don't think it is chicken !@#$ at all for him not to answer the question. His opinion will only cause an discussion either way. His opinion is not going to suddenly change anything. Its called being professional and not letting emotion get in the way.
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It really rubs me the wrong way when someone responses to a very serious allegation with the, "I don't recall" line. An event and statement of this magnitude, in his position, is not something he would forget. If this was a statement he would NEVER make, and didn't make, he should simply state, "I would never, and never did pressure the Summit league to..."
If someone asks you, "Did you say (insert outrageous statement you would never make)?" I assume your response would be "Hell No!," not "I don't recall."
Without any personal information I don't like to make a judgment on someone's character, but there are some causes for concern.
I don't think a professional answer when you are under oath would be "Hell no".
If the meeting this morning would have taken place at the Comfort Inn in north Bismarck than possibly answering this way would have been ok. When every news paper and news outlet in the state is there you do have to keep your answer professional.
Bin said it best earlier when he said the Summit's stance was made perfectly clear by Gene Taylor way, way before this all came up. Douple only solidified that stance as he came out a number of times and said how the nickname issue was affecting membership and scheduling. Any pressure put on by UND would have also had to have been placed on the presidents and AD's of other schools in the conference as well. Why didn't Kolpack ask any of them?
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