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The whole day by day philosophy would mean you are continually getting better, stronger, more resilient, which would mean at some point you could win on the road. The last two years we played decent early, then imploded the rest of the year, which is the exact opposite of the day by day mantra. South Dakota seems to be the team that is building like SDSU and looking more the part physically of a program building day by day. We don’t even look like a team that is building and looking the part of a physically dominant team with dependable depth that looks the part as well. I will say that the day by day philosophy is pertinent to the resources we our giving the program to be able to compete, and as far as I know that should put us above South Dakota. Bubba has had ample time to build with the increased resources given to him. With the next phases of the facilities coming on board, it is time to give someone else an earlier start to building the program into something that is going forward rather than staying stagnant and spinning our wheels. If either of them care about the state of the program, Chaves and Bubba need to do the right thing for the sake of the program.

You know that, I know that, but people that aren’t sports minded don’t get that, which is why Chaves gives out contract extensions.

Apparently the guys don’t want to see the griddy enough.

Bubba’s postgame, how proud he is the guys didn’t quit.

It’s almost like Bubba is doing it as a middle finger to the fans. In my eyes Bubba has no legacy at UND, and as such should have no position waiting for him when this debacle finally ends.

Actually, I think we are unlucky to have those games at home while we are having injury issues. I would rather we have the ability to make up ground if we need to later in the season by having those higher ranked teams at home. I share your concerns that we may drop a game or two to those teams we need to be beating. My concern is that we haven't taken advantage of the regionals we host and that if we do drop some of those games we will be behind the eight ball again in that regard. Not getting to regionals is one thing, but then when you do get there not even making a dent is a combination they definitely need to break.

Before the season, I would say that Berg and Zmolek were two of the key guys on the team, and ones we could ill afford to lose for any extended length of time. We seem to have bad luck in losing guys like Sanderson and Pyke at the wrong time. Like I said before, hopefully we can keep our head above water and we get those guys back at the right time to make a run.

That would be fine, but you still need to find the right person. Everyone was so enamored by Hastings, but he hasn't exactly been ripping it up at Wisconsin, even getting some nice recruits. I certainly like Raboin at Augustana, but there is no guarantee that when you get more talent to work with that you are automatically going to succeed. There were many that thought the grass was greener on the other side of Dave Hakstol, now they seem to have brain fog and forget how brutal they were about him during his regime.

At the risk of being overdone --

... and go Dalton Andrew go!

Looks like we might be looking just to keep our heads above water until after Christmas. Need to keep getting contributions from guys like Montgomery, whether that be at defense or forward.

Nice to see Schultz pick it up after having 1 point in his first nine games. He seems to have found his stride.

Makes sense, so start it up again by mentioning it, instead of just letting it be with Sicatoka’s admonishment.

Did Michigan State decide they didn't have room for Potter a year early? I think I would have made room for someone like him, even if it meant carrying an extra guy.

You do realize that we have won more league titles than anyone, and that the complaint for the most part isn't the regular season success, but that of the post season. People want to have it both ways, they say all that they care about are post season results, but then complain all the time when we lose games that in their eyes are basically meaningless, except to the extent that they do enough to make the NCAA tournament.

Isn’t it rainy season in October in Seattle?

Now let's see if we can be in on Dayne Beuker or Benak, and we'd really be rolling. Both of them are still available, aren't they?

When you just missed the NCAA tournament a year ago, I’m sure it is tough to go to an unproven goalie against a team that could be a pairwise killer. I guess you have to get them in sometime, but it has got to be a hard decision when you know how tight the final pairwise always is.

Nothing about Bubba screams inspiration. Think of it, the only time his team looked truly inspired was against the Bison last year as a result of a Dale Lennon speech.

Especially since most of the wins are against the worse of the worst.

Bubba seems to have realized by now though that his supposed calling card as a coach—the defense— is absolutely terrible, so he doesn’t show much confidence in them. The fact that he hasn’t been able to fix the defense in forever, as well as his inability to figure out a way for his team to perform on the road is a huge indictment on his regime. Is there any requirement from the administration for him to take at least small steps forward?

…and without our shutdown defenseman.

So when we still had a 3 point lead, did it look like Smith tip toed the sideline and should have been closer to a first down, if not a first down? Only saw the one look, but was wondering if we should have challenged that, if not for the spot alone.

So let me get this straight, Bubba won’t let another quarterback play, except if it is a very short yardage play, or if the game is on the line?

Wow, go figure a young team like BU having growing pains. If we gave up as many breakaways and odd man rushes that they did tonight this board would need to be shut down.