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I stopped giving to UND after a non-athletic program that changed my life was cut. The people responsible for that are now gone but I don't have an educational program to donate to anymore. The hiring of Chaves has given me the desire to resume donations and send them to the athletic department. I doubt I'm alone in wanting to give him the funding necessary to do great things. If MM gets elevated by Chaves, those donations will increase further. Faison did a lot to progress a majority of UND sports and I'm glad he was our AD. All of my interactions with him were great. I know he will be missed by many of his employees.

It's the internet... And someone is wrong!

So you just listed a lot of UND grads who had success coming back, but are questioning if UND hires from within? And it's because a significantly under qualified great guy didn't get a job this time around.

Seriously, enough of your crap predictions that are consistently wrong. Not every thread needs to be turned into your ramblings about FBS.

I just wouldn't be surprised if they sent three lower tier candidates intentionally.

I have been on hiring committees before where we needed to send 3 finalists to the director for final approval. We had multiple candidates who were clearly second tier that we didn't think should be hired. One candidate was clearly the best. We chose to send that top candidate, one under qualified internal candidate and one third tier candidate. We knew the leader would see the top candidate as the best and he did.

I completely agree. UND should go with the man that UND has first-hand knowledge of being a successful AD.

And that's where I think my snarky post should have been more clear. I wasn't characterizing all private funding as spending other people's money, just you saying "we need to buy him out" but not actually contributing to that buyout. I think we all want to prioritize other people's money into the sport or category we think it best fits, be it IPF part 2, higher coaches salaries, or buying out the coach. But for some of us, two of those things are necessary at some point but the third one is more of a trivial/personal opinion thing.

If it's not about MBB, then why bring up a post that was specifically about buying out the MBB coach? I work in intercollegiate athletics with a school that created a non-profit organization to handle all of the donations that come into the athletic department, so I'm very familiar with how things get funded. Private funding is extremely important to any athletic department and the new AD will need to rely on that private funding if they want to sustain and improve the athletic department and its facilities. However, the new AD also has to prioritize those private donations and I'm assuming buying out the reigning conference champion basketball coach is a lot lower on the list than a lot of other coach related financial issues.

Well, when your solution to getting rid of a coach who just signed a 4-year extension is to have other people pay for it, then yeah you're just spending other people's money. That coach just led UND to its biggest tournament ever. I don't want to turn this into a bashing of Jones thread, but at some point we are going to be stuck with coaches people don't like and the solution is not to always buy them out instantly. And that's not an attitude of accepting mediocrity, it's an attitude of accepting that we can't do a buyout without funding from other sources. And I'm not ready to take money that could have been donated to other programs just to get rid of a coach that won the conference tournament last year.

The game against AF falls solely on the shoulders of new NCHC ref Nathan Weiler. He called all but one of the penalties on AF. The conference is very aware and Din Adam apologized to Frank. FYI, no part of the NCHC has been housed on any school's campus. It has always been off site in Colorado Springs.

No. Things like this happen quite often. An employee applies for a position they're not quite qualified for yet. They recieve an interview and are moved forward because they're a fairly decent candidate. They don't get the job because of the lack of experience, but they appreciate the opportunity and know what they need to get there. If the new AD is smart, they make him his second hand man. He knows the culture, how to recruit and is then a great option as the next AD.

I can't wait to hear how her experience as at a G5 leader will get her hired as she leads UND into the new WAC!

And six months later, team up with Darryl to bring up this same thread if they go 0-2 in conference play.

You seem really good at spending other people's money. I assume you won't be one of those 200,000 people that donates $1,000 dollars so we have $200 million dollar budget?

The team UCF just beat is the only team to beat the two teams in the "championship" this year. I know you can't extrapolate like that, but the Knights got screwed.

UCFis ranked higher than any team Alabama beat. The Crimson Tide lost their only game against a team currently ranked in the Top 15.

This is an awkward thread to revive. I'm sure I'm not the only one who was looking for a press conference today about Hakstol, only to find you quoted a post from two and a half years ago.

It's likely they had already looked for, or known live, that WMU had not gained possession. So you go to the offside portion.

I'll be honest. I was wrong here. I thought Frank's Honda and Toyota Auto Repair off Adams Avenue in San Diego was really going to lead the Toreros to victory.

You also would get ripped for your "prediction" that you state as fact, especially if you're consistently wrong. And you forgot to mention the reasoning behind you knowing San Diego will go to Frisco: because the name of the stadium in Frisco is Toyota Stadium and San Diego plays their games in a stadium near a Toyota dealership!

Do we need a "Prospects that could be at least slightly more than just good hockey players" thread?

Until you provide a quote anywhere from me that says that I think FBS is impossible, I'll continue to regard your posts as the ramblings of a crazy, old man who continues to prove how out of touch he is.

That's just hilarious coming from you. We don't throw crazy ideas out there as if they are fact. We didn't predict the Big Sky to WAC transition with dates and all, only to be proven immensely wrong. We both have sources that are much stronger than anything you've ever had and we trust those sources when it comes to conference alignment. That's true for both hockey and all-sport conferences. It's why we aren't "always wrong too" and why people don't call us out on anything.

And his little Facebook outburst while openly touting himself as an NCHC official wasn't the best decision. The league doesn't look too kindly at stuff like that.