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So that is a good reason to hijack every basketball thread into a "Fire Jones" thread? If I was on this team and all some fans wanted to talk about was firing my coach I wouldn't think much of those fans.

Then they would have nothing to talk about - team finishing 4-5 places higher than projected, great crop of talent on the court, only 2 seniors, wide open field in Reno...nah let's talk about why Jones should be fired. (Not a Jones apologist I just think we have lots better and more positive things to talk about.)

Terrible miss on the travel before the banked three.

13 for 22 in free throws for UND. Seems like several of their players are having career games.

Montana announcers ripping the ref's - welcome to our world.

Was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor?

I blame Muss.

Must be a student production - one of the primary (and simple) rules of sports production is you never change the prospective from one side of the court to the other during the game - it's just too confusing for the viewer.

Not sure in the history of UND has the football team ever had a season of all sell outs. Of course averaging more than 10,000 a game would be nice.

Just a reminder (enjoy the season) Coaches' Poll (First Place Votes) Team Points 1. Weber State 114 (6) 2. Montana 113 (6) 3. Eastern Washington 99 4. Northern Arizona 79 5. Southern Utah 64 6. Portland State 62 7. Northern Colorado 61 8. Idaho 52 8. North Dakota 52 10. Sacramento State 51 11. Montana State 31 12. Idaho State 14 Media Poll Team Points 1. Montana 220 (14) 2. Weber State 194 (2) 3. Eastern Washington 183 (1) 4. Northern Arizona 133 (1) 4. Sacramento State 133 (1) 6. Northern Colorado 117 7. Idaho 109 7. Portland State 109 9. Southern Utah 96 10. North Dakota 70 11. Montana State 64 12. Idaho State 24 No "Yah Buts" please. We are exceeding everyone's expectations except our own and the team's.

Anyone else get only a black screen on Big Sky TV? Shanks getting the usual phantom fouls.

No way he wins Coach of the Year for several reasons not the least of which is Big Sky Bias, then there is his courtside antics.

I also love how much fun this team seems to have - and they seem to trust each other. Even though Shanks has some hand coordination issue they don't give up on him - and you gotta feel for the guy because he is totally getting shafted on phantom fouls in every game (not saying there isn't room for much improvement but if he improves as much next year as he did from last year to this year he will grow into a solid contributor). Love our bench strength too and the guys waiting it out this year are going to bring even more to the table.

Sitting here with my foam hockey stick hat on, courtesy of the UNO (#mavspirit), great weekend to go on a road trip. Solid performance by UND - defense was dominating. Considering they have been swept 4 times at home since December their crowd wasn't that bad. Their students have got several routines down and they have some great video productions that get the crowd going. Thank you Joanna and Al for putting together another great bus trip. (By the way it's been my experience that on a road trip this team and its fans are all "Fighting Sioux")

Yah it's the KSTA MART

Getting ready to make a 500+ mile roadtrip to the games with about 40 of my "closest" friends.

Fans gotta be careful though because according to the NCAA even saying "UND is a great school" to a prospective recruit is a violation.

So many guys had bad games and where is Seales?

I call total BS on The Betty sicing the ushers on the student section. I talked to a securityguard andhe said is was The Betty staff thatmade the request.

From what I have read on Pro Days it is not the host schools decision on who can attend. There us an Association that governs them.

I really don't think the Marketing Department needs an email from me to figure out that if they want to create excitement about football they could start by doing more with the spring football game. The lack of effort has to be intentional and maybe it's coming from the football department. Maybe their focus during spring football doesn't lend itself to a full-blown public event. Regardless having the game at Memorial Stadium will do nothing to bring in anyone but the hard-core fans - there will be no tailgating atmosphere, funky restrooms, no PA announcer, no booths attempting to generate interest. Heck they could use the time to promote tailgating spots but that is another area where they have demonstrated they really aren't willing to put much effort in - don't get me started there (and yes many have shared many ideas for pumping this up - it's just status quo year-after year). So instead of using Spring Football as a way to jumpstart excitement for next year it will pass unnoticed within the community and there will continue to be comparisons.

Geez I hope they beef up the promotion and activities a little bit. There were six groups tailgating out of the back of their cars last year.

Dang - I have a conference that day in St. Paul all day. I'm going to be at the tourney and just hope UND is not in the 3:30 game on Saturday. If anyone wants to order Sioux Forever shirts I will give the usual Hoggsbreath discount which is $15 (and I'll throw in free shipping). Check them out at siouxpride.com and PM me.

That's the irony - it is impossible to retire a logo/name the only way to prevent its use is for the owner of the logo/name to keep using it - otherwise it becomes public domain and with all the technology it would be easy to replicate the logo.

If UND were to transfer/give rights to the O'Brien logo to Spirit Lake it would become the NCAA's worst nightmare. It wouldn't take long for it to become even more rampant. Either they would screw up the process for protecting the logo by failing to protect unauthorized use (they would need to be diligent about monitoring and addressing unlicensed use) or even worse handing it over to the company that manage their casino, who seeing the marketing value would flood the market. I highly doubt UND would ever consider this option. As it remains they can make a run of clothing every so often and make a nice little chunk of change - and if it is available every year there will always be students that gravitate toward it. This logo is never going away.