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Home teams wanted to use their 3rd jerseys more so they changed it to home darks. Wish it was home whites, as it is nice to see other teams colors more.

Look at the ownership situation throughout the league. It's not just the southern teams.

UND took Gene's terms on the home and home. and then Gene changed his mind. Who is to say if UND took the 2 games in the Fargodome that Gene wouldn't then demand a third game in the dome before signing the contract? It's a moving target with Gene, why should anyone believe that's changed suddenly?

Faison cares about the fans and wants to give them the game that 98% of the people want to see?

But have you seen the bruins golf game?!?!?

Why does everything have to be compared to another team? You're right, you are consistent. You write off the antics of the Penguins because "it's not as bad as the Bruins." That may be true but it doesn't make Pittsburgh angels.

Obviously, having a UC-Davis and Northern Arizona home game in there is a positive sign for UND's chances if the team becomes a little more successful.

How many TVs in North Dakota have Root sports? That's why UND is not on Root.

How many accounts does a banned user get to make?

Bergeron and Cookes hits are completely different. Bergeron was a clean hit, he didn't alter his course but the Montreal guy did which resulted in the shot to the knee. Cooke stuck his leg out after Barrie moved out of the way. Funny how if you have an extensive list of suspensions your penalty is worse.

That lasted long...

The clause will be around for at least one more season unless they completely restructure the contract. Faison was talking about it with Duluth's AD and Josh Fenton at the awards banquet.

The tough thing about AF is that they would struggle to compete due to recruiting difficulties. It's less noticeable in Atlantic Hockey. The Falcons play some of their best hockey of the year vs DU and CC and have won several of those games recently. However, those results are unsustainable over the season. AF would go from perennial top 4 in AH to bottom four in NCHC.

Playoff games like last night are great when you don't really have a dog in the fight. Mildly cheered for the Avs because I want to see a game live in every round. Cheered loudly on Zach's snipe and got a lot of looks. My buddy and I wore Sioux jerseys and got a lot of Go Sioux cheers from other fans. Our roommate is a Florida kid and is starting to become a Sioux fan. He can see we aren't lying when we say "Sioux fans are everywhere." Go Wild in game 6, then go Avs the rest of the way!

But if Grand Forks got an AHL team it would all be ok.

A majority of it, yes. The schools get a little bit of money but it's not as much as a regular season series.

Any thread with DaveK in it will undoubtedly turn to a discussion about hair bands.

The conference pays for travel for all teams for the conference tournament and the first round. By going to just two first round series you're saving money that can be used to bring more teams to Minneapolis which will help make more $$$.

It is only the second year of the men's tennis program and unfortunately UND doesn't have the skills of a guy like Brad Schlossman on the team.

My guess is Sutter is planning on starting Jones in game 3 and knew how badly everyone was playing for LA. If he throws Jones in there and Jones gives up a handful of goals, he may have just earned himself two goalies with confidence issues.

How long until you start the "Fire Bubba" thread to "keep it out of the gameday threads"?

Depends on if the conference flies me out again for the tourney. Probably a yes!

So this is just another Fire Jones thread just with the caveat that his replacement should be a good coach that gets paid similarly to the other Dakota schools? Glad we needed a new thread for that...

It's the traditional response because it's true. Let me know when a Jones team doesn't finish top 3 in the big sky and at that point we can start talking about the hot seat. Until then, I think he has earned his salary and the fans support.

I love it when people freak out about low salaries of Jones and Mussman. Both were hired before UND was d1. Should they have received a 100% raise just because und moved up? Faison opened up the checkbook to buy out Mussman and hire Bubba. I see no reason why he wouldn't for men's basketball. It's a good thing nobody here is the AD because at this point we would be on our fifth coach in two years, Brewster would have been fired last year and our football teams play book would include chucking the pigskin.