southpaw

So what you're saying is you haven't had a correct prediction since 2010?

Yup, it was significantly cheaper for me to fly in/out of Jamestown or Devils Lake than GF.

I'm just curious. When was the last prediction you made that actually came true?

When did the WCC get water polo? Some of their teams are in the GCC, some are in the WWPA and the WWPA already goes to Colorado for Air Force. The Falcons do two-game road trips frequently to California, so those WWPA teams could easily do the Colorado swing for the 3+ teams that make the trip each season.

I've got "Go UND" on my Colorado license plates. I debated doing FNHawks but would have had to go through the process again.

Who let those UNC fans in there?!?!?

Mankato applied, as did ASU. Bowling Green was approached about applying but didn't.

No, they won't receive reduced exit fees. The exit fees were put in place because the NCHC saw how easily teams left the WCHA. When you're starting a new conference, if there are some struggles early-on, you don't want teams looking for an easy exit. WMU and Miami won't be leaving anytime soon.

Is that not a reason to cheer for Phili to win?

The bolded part is why I doubt he will settle for a backup job.

Huh....

You posted a link to the news page of the Ellensberg, WA newspaper, not to any specific story that might validate your claims. You might as well have just linked to "this reputable source here."

I don't think any conference thinks it will keep the same membership for 20 years, because that's how long it will take for a Pac12 hockey conference to join. The "short term" benefits of having a P5 school that is willing to spend money in your conference will outweigh them leaving in 2040.

Smile more and chat it up. That's all that matters to some people.

Speaking of losing vs Philly... how are the Vikings going to choke this one away? The Eagles may be the #1 seed but the Vikings should be favored. So is it wide-left for the three-peat? Keenum hits a wide open Diggs on a route as time is about to expire, but he celebrates too early, fumbles the ball and the Eagles recover for the win? Wentz comes out of the locker room with a bionic leg and proceeds to throw for 400 yards in the first quarter?

Where are these people who are convinced it's going to happen soon? I'm seeing lots of posts between their fans citing a poster on the WAC board who has shown he is consistently crazy and wrong about these types of things. So then I got bored and wandered over to the WAC board and sure enough, there is a poster named NoDak who has a strikingly similar condescending tone to his posts as you do. And sure enough, everyone there thinks he is an idiot.

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.