Big A HG

LET'S F'ING GO! PUCK THE FIONEERS. Need to curb stomp these guys. I'm pumped.

Thank you for considering us power brokers, that's awfully kind. Compliment accepted. Here'd be my criteria: 1) Sweats minimally 2) Is kinda nice, but not too nice 3) Doesn't try to circumvent the university when creating new logos or wordmarks that have the possibility of being profited from privately 4) Can win NCAA tournament games with his own recruits, not someone else's 5) Knows how to recruit a goalie that isn't a one year rental from the transfer portal There's probably more, but that's a good start.

We won a title under Berry, but we all had so much more fun under Hak than Berry outside of that one year that was NINE seasons ago now. The only guy Brad beat in the NCAA tourney since then is now going to be a Division 2 team. Pitiful for a program like ours.

I've said as much as well...time to diversify the gene pool. James is probably too old to hire anyways, but he's been away from UND for so long that I don't know that he's really more of the same genes as what we've had. Blais worked for Gasparini, Hak worked for Blais, Berry worked for Hak. But, James has not really been connected to the university like the others and I think his coaching experience in major juniors while having college experience could be a good combination. He was a former WHL coach of the year fairly recently as well IIRC.

James Patrick? From Winnipeg, so can connect with Manitobans. Coaches in British Columbia for Victoria, so should be able to connect with BC and other western Canadian kids, is an alum so has ties to UND, and has had a long and successful career in the NHL. He checks a lot of boxes, but I can't say know much about his coaching ability, other than he's spent a lot of time as an NHL assistant and has some decent tenure as a WHL coach now.

Nice weekend against a sub-par familiar team. Now let's see what we've got against a very good familiar team.

Holy moly, what a goalie!

I pre-emptively posted that.....good news is I was wrong! Four more years!

I blame Brad Berry on the election results.

When the mods quote me in ten years that I wanted Berry gone...here's your proof! Bookmark it.

No, they quickly swept that whole thing under the rug.

Congrats, he's a former player, let's keep him forever then. No reason to see what else is out there I guess. He certainly hasn't done anything scummy like go through multiple layers of protection (including other former players and family members) to hide the fact that he was using a logo/wordmark that had no association with UND.

My scope is bigger than the small populace of SiouxSports these days.

Then why do many disavow any criticism of the program, no matter how ugly things look? They clearly like what they see.

You quoted the wrong post, but change is change. It always runs the risk of losing recruits, but if the coaches aren't putting the players in a position to succeed when they have more resources than any other program, then the change is worth the risk.

I agree, everyone needs to relax and give Berry 8 more years to win another NCAA regional game since that's the standard he's set so far.

What kind of fan enjoys and is okay with watching their team play like ass?

Really hurt Denver going from Gwozdecky to Montgomery to Carle since 2013.

Ha, sorry...the comment seemed odd from you, but I was in a zone.

We're a university of North Dakota...no longer The University of North Dakota.

One, UND was a second half team under Hakstol and he hasn't been the coach in ten years. Two, Cornell somehow managed to sweep us with their first two games of the year....you'd think we'd have a huge advantage of "playing together" versus them at this point in the season.

Well that makes sense....last time I flew Allegiant I came home after losing my ass too.

There are no more resources we can possibly give Berry and his players that I'm aware of. They have everything.

Just give Berry a few more years, say 7 or 8 more...he'll prove the Berry haters wrong.

Relax, it's a long season.