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Today's Fargo Fourm is reporting, this past school year, '08-'09, the 11 colleges in ND gave away $24 million in tuition waivers/breaks . To who? Almost exclusively to grad students and students who arrive from outside the state and country...mostly though to foreign students. Of course, NDSU is leading the way in this fiasco, too! The college president's are defending these waivers by saying these students provide "diversity, brainpower and economic benefits"!?!? Really? At the cost of $24 million! If I want diversity, I'll go eat at Juano's downtown. If I want brainpower, I'll watch "Who wants to be a Millionaire". If I want economic benefits, I'll clip coupons from the Sunday Fargo Forum! So for $24M, our colleges are providing grad degrees, for FREE, in Chemical, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, then we are sending these individuals back to Pakistan, Iran... And what is this state and this country getting out of this deal? BTW, have a friend who's son didn't go back to SU this semester because he couldn't afford it! Where is his free tuition?

The faculty, employees and students of NDSU, as well as the general taxpaying public (which includes myself) are probably looking for the TRUTH. $1.8 mil shortfall now is at $2.5 mil. Money being shifted from "fund" to "fund" at NDSU. And it makes no sense to you as to why some people want to know the truth about these issues at NDSU?

BTW...Whiskey Joe was a "visionary!" Tell that to the faculty, employees and students at NDSU that are going to have to clean up this accounting oversight!

Favre must be a boil on your a** or you have a hidden man-crush for all the venom you spew about him. I'm a Packer backer. I'm glad we have Rodgers for our future. But come on...41 yrs. old with 37 TDs and 7 INTs! Give him some props...he's making most MIN fans say "AP who?" This is his show from here on out and at 41 myself what he is doing is amazing. (He is a diva but we all knew that years ago.)

Local Fox News in Fargo reported tonight NDSU budget shortfall really at @ $2.5 million! Let's hear from some SU tools how 2+2=3 in this scenerio!

You look up "Tool" in the new urban dictionary and there is his big fat ugly mug! Guy's a total JA! Minnesota can claim him since he sends most of his time near DL.

You are correct in the fact we have lots of grinders, but look at how many games we have had the lead in? You just need to have more goals than the other guys at the end of 60 minutes. With that being said we've played 24 games and in only 10 games have we scored 4 or more goals. And only ONCE in the last 10.

As a Packer fan, the Vikings win was bitter sweet. Favre still has it! Wow! AP? This is Favre's gig now! Things worked out well for Favre and the Vikes and frankly Rodgers is who I'm glad is at QB for GB. Potential short term gain vs. potential long tern success? I'll take the later with Rodgers. Go Vikings!? PS...Teddy T. is still an ass!

Exactly. I don't dislike Hak. I just think he has a confusing coaching style. This team is at it's best when it just goes and goes! That's why I've asked..what is our identity/system under Hak? There isn't all this "man love" for Dean as some think, but again you knew what you were going to get consistantly night in and out...a fast skating team that was looking to score regardless if they were up or down 3. At some point you have to mold your system to take advantage of the talent you have. This is not a lock down, defensive bunch. They play good transition D, but not this "trap" garbage. Let 'em fly, Hak!

So you are saying split!? We don't have an "A" game on Sat. nights.

Bottom line is we need our playmakers, you insert who you think that is/they are, to start making plays. I'm not going single anybody out, but there a couple guys IMO that are underachieving badly and are due! Got to start scoring more that 2-3 goals a game if we are going to turn this around. Plus BE has got to step it up a notch from here on out. Not that his body of work this year has been bad by any stretch, but I just think he has the ability to be better than he has been lately.

UND and CC will finish 5th and 6th. I think we finish 5th. UM's schedule is as brutal as ours...they sneak up to 6th at best.

But he had a system that never waivered...didn't always get the perfect result. Thru Hak's tenure what is our system or identity??

The thing about Blais and his teams, you knew what you were going to get night in and out regardless of the score...a team that was going to fly around the ice and try to outscore you. If they were up by 2 they'd try to get up be three. Pressure, pressure, pressure. His system is/was to put the other team on it's heels all the time. Hak sends them out flying, gets a lead in most games then shuts it down. This past Friday was a prime example. 31 shots on goal, but only 4 in the 3rd and OT. To tough IMO to have players constantly switching gears based on the score...because it's obviously not working as is.

Hak is a good guy and good coach...problem I see is implementing a system that fits your talent. Not shoving a square peg in a round hole. We are not a great defensive team, nor are we a good offensive team. But from what I see the systems in place both on D and offense are not getting the most out of the talent we have. To me that's the biggest issue. If we have scorers as some say...why can't we score? If we have solid defensive d-man as some say, why can't we hold onto a lead? If we have a good goaltender as some say, why can't he give us a 34 out of 35 shots on goal effort once in awhile or make the big save when we need it? Injuries are part of any season, but there still is too much talent to be in the spot we are currently IMO.

What frickin' game was Hak watching??? Agree with you there. All h*** could of broke loose.

Kind of need that component to win games! I've said this from early on, we don't have many finishers/goal scorers. Got some very good talent, but you got to bury the puck. Case in point...tonight!

Pretty safe to say, for Pairwise and WCHA standings, we need at least 3 out of the next 4 games.

Total tool if he said that...like we say at the golf course "he couldn't do that again hitting 2 bags of balls". He played his game of the year!

Agree with BE. We go into every game basically down 2 goals cause you know he going to give up 2, whether earned or soft. Some say youth, some say coaching on the not being able to hold a lead thing. I don't know what to say other than we can't hold a lead!

Kangas stops 34 of 35. When are we going to see that in net? For all the games we've given away this year, it would be kind of fun to steal at least one at some point.

This team has too many physical and mental shortcomings that continually rear their ugly heads. Sad as this team has talent.

Best post of the weekend!!!

Malone wielding it like an axe...good grief!