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This could open the door for Dixon Ward's son Taylor to decommit from UNO and end up on the UND blue line.

There has to be a different SID for men's and women's hockey. It's the same reason there are different SIDs for men's and women's basketball. How is the WBB SID supposed to do both home MBB and road WBB games at the same time? With Mitch needing to do WBB play-by-play, it's tough to move him to the MBB side. I'm sure Jayson would love a 5th employee to increase coverage and provide a second contact for football, MBB and hockey that stays at home. North Dakota and Idaho are the only flagship universities that have fewer than 5 Sports Information employees and has split coverage between MBB and football. The Air Force Academy has five full-time sports information employees and yet the MBB and FB SID is the same person.

That was quite the jump you just took. I've only said that big-time programs don't take interns and make them the SIDs for the two biggest NCAA sports. I think some changes are needed in the UND athletic media department. I don't work for UND and I don't work in that department, so I'm not about to give Jayson some suggestions on what to change. Ross Ladue was an intern prior to being hired as the WH, soccer, softball and M&W tennis teams. Not exactly showcase sports at UND. However, he had held his current position at Bemidji State from 2009-2011. I have no idea the quality of Ross' work but with the WH and football schedules overlapping for 2+ months of the year it makes it tough to move him to MBB or WBB. There are capable people that can be found and brought in. But just looks at the resumes of the people that are brought in for the big time sports. They aren't interns. Ryan Powell was at UCF covering football before he came to UND. Wigness was a two-time Sports Information Director for 7 years and now he does women's basketball, volleyball and swimming and diving. He would be great for MBB although is play-by-play duties for WBB are very helpful and is something many smaller athletic departments do. Great ideas are definitely helpful and change could make things better. At the same time, the athletic department is going through budget cuts and adding new staff isn't an option. Bottom line: UND isn't in a position to have separate SIDs for the two biggest NCAA sports.

UND has been the top seeded team each year and has had the same locker room each time. It's the only one that has a back entrance through the room to the bench. There are two sets of locker rooms. They usually have it split up based on the Friday matchups. The team that shares the same bench that UND had in that picture has to walk down a hallway, up some stairs and from the corner by the zamboni. In last year's picture, Denver had the locker room just outside of their bench, which was across the hall from UND's. The other team that shared that bench had to walk down a hallway and up some stairs to get to the bench. The locker rooms haven't been assigned yet by the NCHC but once I know, I'll post it here.

I apologize. I mistakenly thought when you said there are plenty of interns who could be promoted to become the football or basketball SID that you meant there are plenty of interns who could be promoted to become the football or basketball SID. Clearly, I was just confused and should have read what you meant, not what you wrote.

But only in the second half of the game

But he was not in charge of hockey media relations until Dan Benson left in 2008.

They don't promote an intern to a top sport.

You want UND to act like a big-time institution and yet you want them to have an intern become an SID for football or basketball?

The official Frozen Faceoff party bar is at The Pint.

Playing devil's advocate... he probably has a better chance of becoming OC at EWU vs UND if it seemed like Rudolph was staying for a long time.

For those who can't watch online... This is the bracket and it updates live: http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/basketball-men/d1

Let's be honest, UND probably would be too.

So winning two more games now makes Jones a solid coach in your eyes?

That would be very big of you. However, I doubt many others on here would be saying the same. Over the past four days he has won coach of the year and secured UND's first conference championship in the last 20+ years and yet it's 90% bashing on here. A lot of people feeling the need to say "I didn't believe he could do it..." as if when UND loses in the tournament they can then say "seee!!! I told you so!!!!"

Yup, the great west in football and the big sky in basketball are exactly the same. Feel free to head over to Bubba's office and tell him that UND can't win the championship in the next four years because we haven't hit that 10 year mark that Muss' extension set them back.

Yes, it is Friday/Saturday. Here's a breakdown of the times (all Eastern) from last year's Friday & Saturday games: Friday Semifinals: 2:00 pm 4:30 pm 5:30 pm 8:00 pm Saturday Finals: 6:00 pm 9:00 pm

If Teeder doesn't post a recap about a practice, did it actually happen?

UND has never lost when Wilkie and Tucker Poolman both score, Johnson gives up less than 3 goals and Boeser and Shaw are injured. That is the key to winning.

It will be official tomorrow morning.

This seems like good practice for most UND fans: Watching a sporting event on TV that is at the Orleans Arena.

It's fitting a fan of a Boston fan would make an exception for the weather considering UND's fogged out game at BC!

Is it though? Would NCHC fans want to go to a Tech vs Bowling Green game? Non-UND fans don't tend to show up in droves anyway so how would that draw more fans?

That doesn't make much sense as they're building stores across the country.

But if "clearly" it doesn't work for hockey then why do we need to see what happens? I mean, you've already stated it doesn't work for hockey and there is no debate. So why should we all wait?