Shawn-O

Get your a$$ up to Grand Forks for Homecoming and the Quinnipiac series. Put that Goofer hall of fame game 5h1t out of your head.

I said that to needle and cajole. I know from your posts that you can't stand basketball. WE Fest looks like another stellar line-up this year, with the exception of Keith Urban.

You should consider turning your kids on to basketball, and spend the difference.

Check out Wolfmother. Classic sound, but the kiddies are diggin' 'em.

I guess ClearChannel didn't see it that way.

How so?

"Pro-communist ideals"? Yeah, that's not hysterical. If you're getting offended by comments on this board, then click the mouse button somewhere else. It seems quite simple to me. Ask all the budgetary questions you want, just don't hijack every thread. Keep it here. If Jim didn't want discourse on the subject, he would've likely banned your rear-end a number of weeks ago.

To me, the whole thing seems like yet another layer of bureaucracy that should be eliminated. What a waste of taxpayer money.

If you're comparing the Frozen Four and the College World Series, I agree. I'm sure we'll be seeing the Jacks and Bison making regular appearances in Omaha very soon. Let me get this straight. Baseball is more popular where the weather is warm, and hockey is a bigger deal where the weather is colder? Got it. Football and basketball are bigger on the national stage than other sports? Great stuff. Very relevant. You're something else, Mr. Gloom & Doom. UND has had several years in it's athletic history where both hockey and basketball thrived, in the win column and at the box office. There's no reason why we can't get back to that again. To suggest that the UND hockey program is in any way a liability to UND athletics is delusional.

I guess we'll find out in Cedar Falls on September 9. That will be a great measuring stick. My opinion, I think you're dead wrong, and UNI will handle the Sioux with relative ease.

Speaking of wishful thinking. UND is going D-I whether you like it or not. Accept it. Gee, I guess everyone will stay put for the next three years, there will be no new conference opportunities opening up. Get real. Congratulations on the upcoming Mid-Con bid, btw.

Well, there goes my afternoon. Great link.

Maybe this guy can give him a few pointers.

I couldn't agree more. Judging from the early chatter in the message boards and the blogosphere, UND has the early P.R. advantage, but there's a very long way to go.

Now the story will ratchet up to a national level, which I think bodes well for UND. We are seeing a story unfold that is on the front lines in the battle against political correctness. As others have stated, it isn't just about keeping the nickname and logo anymore.

Forney and Okposo won't be too shabby, either.

AZSIOUX, Love, love, l-o-v-e the new signature line.

Great post. And the hosting of D-2 post-season events is out the window with the NCAA nickname fight, so there goes what minimal revenue upside that existed. Lacrosse is starting to taking off here in the Twin Cities, so that could be a solid recruiting base that UND would have to themselves. Hangin' with schools like Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Johns Hopkins ain't so bad either. I'm sold on the men's side, the jury is out on women's lacrosse, in my opinion. Agreed. Longer term, add in a small piece of the March Madness TV pie (<$50K is my guess, it isn't huge for the lower-tier DI's). Sandwich a Gopher women's game into a Saturday afternoon during a Sioux-Gopher hockey weekend, that would be good fun. Irrelevant. Sames goes true in D2. We'll continue to get the aspiring doctors, lawyers, etc. It's the battleground programs like business and engineering where I think there is truly future students at stake.

Ditto.

***Biting....tongue.....*** I can't give you a pass on this one. Let's be honest, the national publicity of the Fighting Sioux Frozen Four and championship teams eclipses by tenfold any of NDSU's title teams in football. With that said, I'll be the first to admit that if NDSU, god forbid, were to get into the Big Dance, the attention would blow away anything we've seen on the hockey front. Let's get a grip, here.

Looks like the admin pulled the pin on him.

Know your audience. I highly doubt anyone here will engage you in this discussion. Take this crap to GPL where it belongs.

You're an MBA, right? The value of the future tuition stream of 12 kids sitting in todays kindergarden classes would cover this deficit. That's assuming zero donations post-grad. Enjoy your vacation!

Hockey will be just fine, and we could share in the Frozen Four dough that Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, New Hampshire, Denver, (the list goes on and on) are getting. I'm not saying it's big bucks, but it's money we are now leaving on the table.