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58 minutes ago, nodak651 said:
They don't have a rink.
There has to be a curling rink nearby they can use for practice and games
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I agree it would be nice to see curling sponsored as an NCAA sport but you idea of using the Olympic rink as a curling sheet won't work. You either need an off-site facility like NDSU does in the Fargo Curling Club, or you need a rink dedicated to curling. It's not as simple as changing the Olympic Arena to a curling arena whenever there might be a match. Hockey ice is not curling ice. There are big differences and for it to make sense you need dedicated curling ice.
Surely, there are many northern cities that have curling clubs and it would just be a matter of finding an agreement similar to what many university club teams already have. It would be a good sport to sponsor but other than every 4 years, I don't see it being a big draw that would be worth the investment in scholarships.
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2 hours ago, ND-fan said:
I have a question is AIU roster made up largely older college players from juniors and also from overseas where they are largely on average older group of players. If this is the case hasn't this been trend In college hockey that you can win with these older mature players in the tournament then young super talents what use to be model for winning in college hockey. That age experience and strength becomes advantage in playoff hockey for colleges. This is just a thought but I would like here some discussion on this.
A quick look at their roster shows it's pretty balanced throughout the years but they definitely have a lot of overseas guys. Would be interesting to see a map of all their players, from Cali and Florida to Norway and Ljubljana.
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13 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:
high faluting who know supposedly everything poster
This reminds me of someone, but I just can't put my finger on it.
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12 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:
Metro State has turned down the WAC offer.
https://msudenver.edu/early-bird/2019/03/18-dii-vote.shtml
Might be a different story when the Big Sky offers and there is convenient travel partners.
Metro St -No Col
Dixie St - SUU
Idaho St - UVU
Portland St - CWU
Mudh less travel expense compared to the WAC and not too much more than the RMAC which has SD, NMex and Utah schools.
What happened to the WAC doing a favor for the Big Sky?
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If someone in the NCHC deserved to win it, I'd have to give a nod to David Carle, even if I don't really like DU. The number of interactions I've had with him have all been great and it's sometimes tough to cheer against a team when you get to know some of the staff around it.
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2 hours ago, The Exiled One said:
Out of respect for the player's privacy. They should be free to contemplate their decision without us rubes chiming in.
If I knew it was 100% certain I'd absolutely say who it is. Of course, it's not 100% until the player has told both coaching staffs, which hasn't happened to my knowledge. If I learn that has happened I will break the news here first.
I agree but why even chime in the first time?
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I think if UND had a better coach, they could have had more success which would have saved the program. There was definitely talent but they never seemed to put it all together.
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Let's take the extra money UND will receive from NDSU's win and use it to buy out Jones.
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6 hours ago, jdub27 said:
Hopefully a few more have this attitude and I can upgrade my seats across the board.
But just curious, which of the cut sports did you spent time and money following that is now causing you heartburn not being around?
And which coaches were different in 2016 when UND had an incredible year in athletics?
I assume his donations went up after that year because they're based on the results of teams...
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1 hour ago, SiouxVolley said:
The resident trolls have been saying that for years but will be forced to eat crow. UMKC has had opportunity to return, but the Summit is just a D2 league according to Kansas Citians.
There is not enough mens soccer teams unless NDSU wants to start it up or baseball unless UND restarts it. The trolls just can't keep in mind the sports that are needed for an autobid, as they are inadvertently calling for fb to be dropped.
Football trumps everything so the Summit needs to go in that direction instead of mens soccer and baseball as it is now.
It would be smart to move the MVFC officially under the Summit name to prevent those issues. Adding UNC stretches the footprint a lot to the west, but if Augie drops FB, that brings the number of teams to 12 and allows for east/west divisions with 3 crossover games for 8 total games per school. Unfortunately, the west division would be killer with UND, UNC, NDSU, SDSU, USD, and probably UNI.
That leaves the east as MSU, the ISUs, Southern Ill, Western Ill and Youngstown St. I'd much rather be in the east than the west but at the same time, you could have an NCHC-type situation where the west's strength of schedule helps more teams with average records get in.
If Augie doesn't drop football and gets into the new summit football league, you don't really need UNC, as DU doesn't want to be a travel partner with them anyway. Your west becomes the Dakota 4, UNI and Augie. The east stays the same, which is still much easier for them.
No clue if it happens, but it would keep that stability in 6-8 teams that aren't likely to leave each other and make the conference scramble.
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CC has agreed to build a new parking lot for 100 vehicles as well as a parking garage for the new arena. Parking at CC is already pretty limited, so both will help clean up some of the on-street parking issues in the Old North End area. There shouldn't be too many additional cars from visiting fans, except for some from DU and UND, as most visiting fans will stay in hotels nearby and can walk the 8-10 blocks or use planned shuttle buses. It's a good idea to fix a known problem that will only get worse once the arena is built and hopefully will ease some of the current issues facing property owners in that area.
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9 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:
EWU had to sell tickets to NDSU fans to even afford Frisco. EWU hired Lynn Hickey because she has experience at transitioning to FBS.
Just like the Big Sky hired Andrea Williams to help with the FBS transition?
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Saw a twitter post from an ndsu fan saying they're jealous of UND's FBS schedule. Has Matt Larsen scheduled any fbs games? Seems like they have many gaps in future years.
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51 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
So........how many consecutive missed NCAAs is too many to stop making excuses and watered down comparisons?
Asking for a former coach named Gino.
Certainly it's more than two.
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On 2/18/2019 at 4:20 AM, Cratter said:
You must have missed the part where I wrote Bubbs will miss the NCAA tournament in back to back years.
That hasn't happened at UND in over 20+ years.
Something that has happened at every other university in the last 12 years and for every school other than DU, it was this decade.
DUs two misses were the two years immediately following their back to back titles. Did they suddenly no longer become an elite program?
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46 minutes ago, Cratter said:
Thome has checked all three boxes so far. That means....
Thome's day are numbered at UND?
There are the "official stories" you read about from Brad, and there are "the other side" stories of what happens...
And Brad knows all of them, which is why it's mighty helpful to be a good friend of his. And why Stoney should be a highly trusted poster about unreported issues.
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2 hours ago, Milo said:
No. Their wins were in the Big 10. A bigger deal than Wyo for sure even though it was the Gophers. The Dakota Big 3, as you call them, all beat the Gophers. The Bison beat them several times. Of course NDSUs FBS win streak is unparalleled in FCS history Their wins are impressive indeed.
So what you're saying is that getting a win over Wyoming is nothing special because it is easy to do?
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16 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:
Now back to the thread. How many decades has the goal of the US been to be fossil fuel independent yet once achieved, which the US is, we're going to scrap those fuels altogether?
The goal of the U.S. was to make it to the moon. They achieved that goal, but times change and it doesn't make sense to continue to keep that as your goal.
Same with energy. You don't need to scrap those fuels all together right now, but you need to supplement it with something that is sustainable. A couple hundred miles from me, a city that was built 400 years ago is going to be destroyed because of the push for coal mining. That makes zero sense. You don't need to expand the use of fossil fuels, every country should be expanding the use of renewable energy and working toward making that sustainable.
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44 minutes ago, Milo said:
Its no badge of honor to try and prove you are not the worst.
and yet here you are...
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1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:
Please return with valid data.
Better yet, just don't return.
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4 hours ago, bincitysioux said:
Wait a second.........
I thought we were going to be flush with cash after moving to the Summit because travel expenses would be a fraction of what they were in the Big Sky and the Sioux Center was going to be filled to the rafters with Summit opponents coming to town.
Did something change?
Do you realize what a budget deficit is? When you need to cut things just to get back to breaking even, you don't suddenly become "flush" with money.
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17 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
Not good first go of it in recruiting for Freund.
1 hour ago, UND-FB-FAN said:Exaggerate much?
My thoughts exactly.
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28 minutes ago, Milo said:
If the claim is average funding at UND with 27 million and hockey, one comes to the conclusion schools like NDSU & SDSU with similar budgets and no hockey are funding at a rate much above average. That is of course my point: those programs are already close to FBS spending and so are their results. UND May have the smallest D1 athletic budget in the country among schools funding hockey along with a full slate of D1 sports.
Money is tight. The move out of the Big Sky was a survival move. A move to FBS will be a return to big travel and huge additional expenses in scholarships, coaches salaries etc. All of these dollars will have to be found and hoping for higher attendance won’t do it.
When the mighty land grants announced their plans I think UND was correct when they said the division 1 move made no financial sense. It didn’t for UND. Mankato, Omaha, UMD and St Cloud knew this too. Without concrete solutions to these financial problems FBS is a pipe dream for UND. In fact, the move up has been a disaster for athletics at UND while St Cloud and the others have enjoyed ongoing success.
How does your NDSU afford the move to FBS? They can't increase attendance without building a new stadium and this time won't be able to do it with the city's help. Sports 2-4 are floundering and have been a mess recently. Attendance can only go up slightly, but you see that happening with a new schedule of MAC teams that nobody in Fargo cares about? The savings from the Summit/MVFC are big for the Dakota schools and if NDSU goes FBS, they'll lose that in order to play games against exciting teams like Eastern Michigan, Kent State and Buffalo. Take a look at the average MAC home football schedule against FBS opponents:
-Syracuse (ACC) at Western Michigan, on Aug. 31 (CBS Sports Network);
-Cincinnati (American) at Miami on Sept. 8 (at Paul Brown Stadium);
-Kansas (Big-12) at Central Michigan on Sept. 8;
-Maryland (Big Ten) at Bowling Green on Sept. 8;
-Utah (Pac-12) at NIU on Sept. 8;
-Miami (Fla.) (ACC) at Toledo on Sept. 15;
-Western Kentucky (C-USA) at Ball State on Sept. 22;
-Army (Independent) at Buffalo on Sept. 29;
-UMass (Independent) at Ohio on Sept. 29;
-Army (Independent) at Eastern Michigan on Oct. 27.I don't think moving up makes sense for any of the local schools because attendance can't grow with the cost of the move. Even with new stadiums, you'll run out of people to go to games. Throw in a few down years, the ability to not play for a national championship and games against teams people have never heard of and you're not generating the millions of dollars it's going to cost to move up.
University of North Dakota Hockey 2019-20 Season
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The move has more to do with being closer to family with a second child on the way.