nd1sufan

This I agree with. The regular season champ should get to host the tournament.

I'm sorry, I didn't see the comments of Jones and the players after the game. I'm assuming they said this game didn't really matter to them, because the beat the Bison back in November.

Because they were playing a team that doesn't play defense.

Actually, they won many National Championships at their previous level. UND has a below 500 record at their current level and hasn't come close to making the playoffs . Just a bit of a difference.

I think maybe they are just saying maybe you should be somewhat competitive in the division you are in before talking about moving up.

Yeah. Huff would have scored because he would have taken 12 shots in those 12 minutes.

That's right, UND didn't want him. Rivals has him with offers from Illinois State, USD and UND also.

UND hockey was playing last night. Any hockey fan in North Dakota would be watching UND hockey and not a meaningless NHL game.

Do your remember the last D1 football championship UND won or the last time their men's basketball team went to the "Big Dance"? Oh yeah, never.

Actually, a prerequisite for FBS football is a stadium large enough to hold and to average 15,000 fans for a certain number of years. That is something that is not attainable at UND right now. However, NDSU actually qualifies right now. Unless Ralph Engelstad rises from the grave and they somehow convince him to build a new stadium they can play hockey and football in, it isn't happening at UND.

Hires another what?

How is that rivalry with MSU and Montana going for you guys? I see you had all of 1,600 and 2,000 fans for those men's BB games last week with your team fighting for the 2nd seed (possibly 1st seed and home court) in the BSC. I guess the rivalry is really resonating with your fans.

Harvard, Yale, Columbia, etc. must spend an awful lot of time shunning the advances of the BCS conferences. With their academics, I'm sure they could get into any conference they would like.

Absolutely agree. Seems like a class act and a very good person and coach. If I had a daughter playing HS basketball would definitely push her toward UND over current situation at NDSU, as hard as that is for me to say. It would be fitting for him to lead the first ND D1 women's team to the ladies "Big Dance". I hope they get to host the BSC tournament and make it this year.

The Weber State AD is absolutely ecstatic about the Bison coming to town. He is tweeting about them setting a new attendance record. Apparently a much bigger game for them than any BSC game.

Actually Mr Kuper made $1.05 million last year. Not exactly more than former Bison. That was the total amount that was guaranteed. If he hadn't agreed to the restructuring, they would have paid him the $1.05 million and cut him. But don't let facts get in the way of your argument.

But I'm sure the 1's and 2's they are targeting are schools new to FCS, have had no success in FCS, have not beaten an FBS team, play in a stadium of 12,000 and average 6,000 fans. I guess SV is right, I'm sure an FBS offer is already in the mail to Grand Forks.

That's it, Gene Taylor has been afraid to put UND on the football schedule the last ten years. I think there was some fear when the series was stopped, but that fear came from 75 miles north. As for NDSU football being #2 in the state, I see where the NDSU athletic department pocketed close to a half a million on trademark revenue from sales of athletic merchandise and are expecting to see an increase this year. Any idea of how much the UND athletic department gets from merchandise sales? I haven't seen anything published on it. Has anyone else seen this number?

What to wear when going outside in below zero temps. How not to get caught using and or dealing steroids and other drugs. Proper payments to cabbies when you are hammered. Do not get into vehicles with our intoxicated coaches. Oh wait, wrong school.

Sorry, don't know him personally. He just comes off as a less than pleasant person to deal with. You can even tell on the radio after a loss that Hennessy is not quite sure if he will be on, and if he is he kind of tiptoes through the questioning. I know Joel Heitkamp (a UND alum and fan) has not had very nice things to say about him and his access to the media. Christopher Gabriel has had Mussman on every week the past couple of years during the season on the Fargo UND affiliate. He had Hak on a couple of weeks last year and then that kind of stopped. Officially it was he had a hard time working it into his schedule. Heard it may have been he wasn't thrilled with some of the questioning.

Missouri State in just football or all sports? I can't see them leaving the MVC in other sports.

How about Hak should go because of "lack of success", and yes, no Natty's in 12 or 13 years for UND hockey is lack of success, and because he is such a d#&k. Wouldn't it be nice to have a head coach that you could actually call on a radio show and ask him a question without being afraid of getting your head bitten off? Just an honest question, not trying to start anything.

Actually according to the USCHO, the last year of the old Ralph UND averaged 3,291 fans per game for men's hockey. If my memory is correct it held close to 6,000. I guess they weren't selling out back in the day.

You are right, it's not. It is however the only way to get through life if you are stuck in Grand Forks.

gfhockey is right. With all of the advantages UND hockey has over 95% of the other D1 hockey schools, a ten or more year draught without a national title would be unacceptable. With the facilities, tradition and pick of recruits, draughts like that should not happen.