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Because they're new and they're winning. What happens when they have a few LSSU seasons

Can you please clarify which posts recently constitute politics? I posted, without commentary, an article about an athlete who died. Is that not the purpose of this thread?

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No points on Saturday. Hopefully, Jax uses this as a learning opportunity and he benches Liver next weekend.

It's almost as if having a monopoly over athletics opportunities for 18-24 year olds is coming back to haunt the NCAA. It may seem drastic with how much the courts are clawing back the stranglehold the NCAA has had on athletes since its inception but it only seems drastic when compared to what was available previously.

Don't assume Livanavage will leave. There are people close to him who want him to stay. He's also pretty smart in knowing what his future will likely be: maybe 3-4 seasons bouncing between NHL and AHL before heading over to Europe.

This isn't the 80s and 90s anymore. Commitment doesn't mean sticking with a school for 4-5 years. It means fulfilling your obligations, which is a one year contract to be a student athlete. There's no guarantee for these adults that the contract will be there next year. Not to mention, any member of the staff can and does leave year over year. Is that teaching commitment? You have no idea what that bonus means to each player. For some, it is life changing regardless of future earnings. You make it sound like meeting their obligations, getting paid for their value, and choosing the path that they believe is best for them is a bad thing.

Why? You keep repeating that players have a better chance at going pro by staying at UND but that's just not true. This school has zero recent history of putting multiple players in the NFL or CFL. Go to Iowa, make some money, get a degree, and if you have the chance to keep playing then great. If not, you've got more money and a degree from a more well-known school.

He had already played his freshman year with a 2.07 GAA and .910 save percentage in 26 games before Karl joined the staff.

Karl was a full time assistant from 2019-2025. Name one incoming freshman goalie that he recruited during that time who left UND significantly better than when they arrived.

Extend Sather

Davos heading into their fifth game in five days while the USCS on their second in four and fourth in six. Will be interesting to see who they play in net. Assuming Gajan is over his minor injury, I'd expect him to go.

You all would be so upset to know who is representing UND in Europe Be prepared for some green at the Olympics

Not surprising Canadian fans don't want to attend events in the US right now.

Nobody said it's great programming, but go ahead and pretend that's the case if it hurts your feelings less. It costs ESPN virtually nothing to show that content. It costs ESPN money to crew and broadcast college hockey but essentially gain no more viewers. College hockey does not bring significant viewership numbers.

Sure.... a state with open records laws decided to forego those to hire a backdoor replacement and are trusting high-school kids to keep it a secret. That also assumes the AD isn't feeding information to the local media on a regular basis. There's a reason you see the Herald with articles ready to go after announcements.

It's not that hard to understand. Those shows make more money for ESPN than broadcasting college hockey. The production quality and announcers needed toto move a game from ESPN+ to a linear channel does not equate to advertising dollars due to viewers.

I'd like to see Ben Barr get in and then obviously Smaby and JPL getting some assistant roles.

Clearly there is some agreement by at least one admin because take a look at the Other Sports section now. You can actually find the relevant other topics. But her new thread today in the UND Men's Basketball thread is a perfect example. "How did the UND Men's Basketball Team Do As of Late?" is a great topic to include in the 25-26 Season thread - where there could be additional actual conversation. And, if we're lucky, one of her blogs will spur great discussion about the 25-26 season, so doesn't it make sense that we'd want that included in the 25-26 season thread? It's a mixture of wanting a cleaner experience when trying to find certain threads while actually giving her blog more visibility by including her posts in the main threads themselves.

That's quite the jump. What part of the below gives you the idea that I'd like for her to be banned? @Und Princess has a blog post about the awards for Volleyball and Soccer teams? Go ahead and post those in the specific 2025 volleyball and 2025 soccer threads. It could build conversation about the post rather than a separate thread for each individual blog post. It also helps when people have her blocked so that they can easily skip over the posts, since threads started by blocked users are not hidden.

Hey admins - there have been quite a few new threads being created where it appears the sole purpose is to redirect people to someone's personal blog. I'm not against anyone promoting additional "articles" about UND athletics, but more often than not these new threads have zero replies. The "Other Sports" section is a perfect example. All of these posts could instead be included in their already existing respective sport threads. Instead, all of the legitimate threads about Other Sports are buried behind a couple dozen zero-reply threads about someone's blog. But truthfully, even when they are posted in the respective threads - there is no attempt at furthering discussion or interaction. It's essentially a copy/paste of "Hey Hawks fans, go check out my blog at this link. Have a great day!"

Or.... actually pay for the content.

link?