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Wasn't women's hockey started after local youth girls hockey club raised a stink about opportunity? The school formed a committee (go figure) to look at the costs and knew at that time (late 90s?) it would be a challenge. I don't recall Ralph being a part of that.

I've heard mouth piece #1 admit they did offer and the relationship he had with UND coaches was pretty tight. That fan base is so obnoxious today.

!@#$ that. Tough to compare basketball teams from one bid conferences unless they play head to head. Usually one or two teams rule the conference and it's hard to say how those teams would match up.

Head to head results are pretty telling for me this year. I could care less about what happened when UND was in the Great West.

But don't save a lot of money by being cut.

It's pretty hard to argue with the facts. Where the university would get in trouble is if/when the waffle again and try to give a sport life again. Make a decision, cut it and be done. Lay the costs out at the start.

This ^^^ I believe there will be initial "backlash" from any sport cut. Than people go about their business and realize it doesn't change their weekends because they weren't attending games anyways.

I see the surprise being a late addition and not a late back out.

Fan support would not suffer if it was gone.

They will cut the 6.9% that is being asked. Maybe some extra for other spending.

I'm sure there will be an article in the Forum, ah never. No one in Fargo media dare rock the boat and ask a difficult question.

Don't even need ESPN for ESPN3 access. I don't have cable but our internet provider (Cable One) gets me access to ESPN3.

How many more money trees did they plant on the FU campus this year? He didn't even think about the woman's scholarships/sport that need to be added as well. Great humor for a Monday.

If you have the watchESPN app can you not stream it on your phone?

Haha. I didn't read that right. Thanks for clarifying. Not sure what is funnier, the new stadium or the Fargodome expansion by 2020

Remember the jokes FU fans made about UND being the outlier in the Big Sky? They may want to go back and look at a Mountain West conference map. Nothing speaks Mountain West like red river valley. It's only 800 miles from Fargo to Larimie, schools trying to save every penny they can would love that travel partnership.

How will they pay for any of this?

Hahaha. So you were denying NDSU ever offered when it was never discussed what position he was offered for. You immediately shot down NDSU even offered. You are one of the most insecure fans around. Must suck to monitor fan boards daily.

According to NDSUs own employees, they are closer to Alabama than UND. Yep, FCS semi finalist Wasnt aware you could drink on the job at FU?

They offered Ott after they had that commitment. He told them he appreciated the relationship he had built with the UND staff. Believe Danno if you want but it's true. Shocking to some.

The sad truth is those dip shits believe it. Good lord. Put the bottle down.

You don't develop rivalries when you are on the losing end of most games. Sitting behind the visitors bench at the Alerus it is crazy how much more intense the games have gotten and other teams have become over the last two years. If we string together a couple more years similar to the last two, I almost guarantee by 2020 we will be circled on teams calendars and they will be happy to see us go for reasons other than the travel.

I agree with this post and it is very well said. We should not stop at changing conferences. Need to cut sports and truly fund programs at a "championship level" like Kennedy said. If we do this, it will make this move much better. If we only change conferences and change nothing else I don't get as excited about it.

You may want to check the expenses allocated towards each if it's listed. This was probably fine before the committee said each expense should be allocated towards the appropriate sport. The numbers likely wouldn't look so favorable.

I'd go check with one of your main local recruiting guru's on b'ville. Like a good agent, he has said this absolutely was true and Ott did not give NDSU consideration because of fact that UND was on him early and the relationship they have.