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Why does everyone have this love fest with talking about WMU and Miami leaving? Please show me one article that has any sort of official, even an anonymous one, saying those two schools are unhappy in the NCHC? Or that they're looking to leave because of travel. Not a blog post without any quotes, but something even semi-substantial. WMU's hockey budget is 1.6 million. If they announce right now they're leaving, they'll owe 1.5 million. With the NCHC's operating budget going up every year, by the end of the year WMU would have to pay more than its annual hockey budget just to leave the conference. And that doesn't eliminate the travel costs. Unless they decided to bus to every opponent under 10 hours, they're flying the exact same amount as they do now when its combined with their non-conference schedule. The benefit of being out-of-conference with the WCHA schools is the ability to schedule them in non-conference. Look at WMU's schedule... they have a home and home with BGSU and Ferris. If they join the WCHA, they now only have Miami close-by to schedule OOC, whereas they have LSSU, MTU, Ferris, Northern and Bowling Green. If we were talking an all-sport conference, then having really close schools is a great budget saving opportunity. But when you still have five non-conference weekends to schedule then it's not that big of a deal.

I don't believe they think something was imminent, but apparently they do think there was more to talk about than just the email. Tom listed off a couple of questions but there likely were more, which would lead to follow-up questions. Sure every answer could be "Right now, we don't have that info but we'll get it to you as soon as we can," but at least it's an answer. Why release it when you're out of town and can't just set aside an hour to talk to the Herald? And you don't email your questions. That's going to get a canned "PR" response every time and it's not how the media works. Show me one story where it says "we emailed him asking for comment, but he was unavailable."

That's the point of the article... Everyone is left in a wait and see mode instead of Kennedy being available and willing to comment.

I think Tom makes some fair points. Why drop this on a Tuesday when the bus tour is scheduled beforehand? Why not send it out when you're actually in town and then take an hour to answer questions with the media? It was a chance for Kennedy to be public about it. Instead he hides behind an email, a bus and Peter Johnson.

Is that star under the beak supposed to be the outline of North Dakota and Grand Forks? Good to know UND is now located in Edinburg, in a rectangleish area that doesn't look like North Dakota. Also, way too much grey. Especially with the beak and the outline being the same color.

When you screw up at work do people talk to your boss first or do they bring it up with you first? Why bring Jayson into it when a simple email to Ryan would likely have the result you want. That is, unless the result you want is to get Jayson in trouble too because you have some sort of vendetta against him. Jayson spoke with his staff about it after it happened. Ryan forgot to do it after a couple games while doing the rest of his post-game duties. Jayson addressed it and it's not an issue now.

Whoa. Let me get this straight. If UND decided to be the Fighting Sioux again and held an event like this, the crowd would be bigger? You don't say. That's some groundbreaking news right there. So far, we have seen people all over the map on opinions on some of the fan-created logos. There is no concensus, so what exactly is a "nice looking Fighting Hawks logo"? Nice to a couple of kids? I think the current logo is nice looking and apparently so do others. Feel free to create a logo that everyone feels is nice looking. When that happens, I expect a huge crowd!

I love those facts you just touted. When the Dacotah legacy collection was released, there was nobody outside waiting to get in.

What you just said doesn't make Goon wrong. Haj is the men's hockey SID. If you have problems with non-hockey sports not being updated, take it up with the SIDs for that sport. What part don't you understand that Jayson doesn't update every sport and doesn't micromanage his people? Bring your issue to that SID, if it doesn't change, bring your issue to Jayson. But don't instantly blame Jayson for sports that aren't his not being updated. If you underperform at your job, do you think people should first blame your boss?

Seriously Dave? This is ridiculous. I agree with your top two but that's it. I know you're a homer for your new favorite team and conference but I expected more out of you. North Dakota Boston U. Michigan Minnesota Boston College Denver Penn State Wisconsin Michigan State Ohio State

Doubtful, unless they leave Eversport. That company does not have the ability to do Roku apps at this time.

Nchc.TV will now be available on Roku and Apple TV.

Port is nothing compared to reporters/bloggers in other states.

Is Joe still at TE? Anyone know how he has looked?

I am shocked! https://www.sayanythingblog.com/entry/text-messages-show-ndsu-dean-bresciani-wasnt-necessarily-controversial-media-rules/

I like the black on green. I wonder why they didn't do that for the helmets?

Agreed. I'm pretty upset the Gophers ruined tradition and got away from this logo: and why did they get rid of these jerseys? Apparently tradition means nothing at your beloved U!

What happened to you never posting here again?

Winning the most races since April 1st, 2016! Nobody even close... especially DU who couldn't even make the championship game. They had no reason to even make it to the frozen four with those talentless, quitters who couldn't even win the race.

It was through nchc.tv, a pay subscription. BigSkyTV carries all UND games on they network for free.

The numbers look like Nascar numbers. Not a big fan of those. I like the logo

If he breaks any of the rules, NDSU won't hesitate to pull his credential. He'll know not to test the boundaries after they have restricted him so much.

Glad to see you're happy just making the frozen four.

National Championship appearances past decade: North Dakota: 1 Minnesota: 1 National Championship appearances since UND won in 2000: North Dakota: 3 Minnesota: 3 National Championships since UND won in 2000: North Dakota: 1 Minnesota: 2

I appreciate a good Homer UND piece every now and then, but really? "Every player in coach Bubba Schweigert’s lockeroom has bought in to his strong run first smashmouth style of play..."