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Bubba may have competition from other UND coaches (basketball and baseball). Has UND ever had a multi sport athlete?

They were a good tag team, I think only one of them are alive.

Don't look at me at the Fire Hak thread, I didn't start it nor do I agree he should be fired. The CIT bids were fine when we were in the GWC and no chance at a NCAA tournament, but even so at least beat a DI transfer team in the tournament.

Sorry it was Choyt3 that said it, but someone actually compared Jones to Tom Izzo which is comical enough, then someone posted that Smith would've been fired on this board if he was coach which is also comical. Smith and Izzo did enough in their first 9 years that Jones would do in a lifetime.

Sorry I should refer back to someone who compared Jones to Tom Izzo. You are the one who said "Another legendary coach that never would have outlasted the scrutiny of the siouxsports.com evaluation process." If Jones had the resume in 9 years of coaching like Smith's first 9 there would be no fire Jones thread or a talk about firing him.

The first sentence reminds me of Muss (I know some people get pissed bringing him up but its true) Muss did enough his first 4 seasons and got a GWC title which got him an extension. Jones is doing enough by getting to at least the CIT (maybe providing a false hope) so will the basketball team implode like the football team did in 2012 and 2013? Muss recruited some good players and people got excited for the season, then the season collapsed, Jones recruited some good players will the season collapse on him to? Just too many similarities between the 2 coaches, and we don't want the basketball team to end up rebuilding from the ground up like Bubba is doing for the football team.

Sorry Muss didn't mean to hurt your feelings.

Jones is in his 9th season lets compare the two through 9 seasons: Smith: 3 20 win seasons, 3 conference titles, 2 NCAA Final Fours, 1 NCAA runner up, 1 trip to the NIT. Jones: 0 20 win seasons, 0 conference titles, 4 CIT trips (no wins) If Jones had Smith's resume the first 9 seasons I would be all for keeping him.

Both schools have 9 BSC tournament championships, UND is 1-4 all time (since moving up) against Montana, and 0-6 against Weber State. Beating them (especially whoever is leading the conference) would be an incredible feeling.

.776 career winning percentage, 27 consecutive 20 win seasons, 22 seasons with at least 25 wins, 35 consecutive seasons with a 50% or better record, 2 NC, 11 Final Fours, etc. Jones.....wouldn't even make a pimple on Smith's butt. Smith was a great coach. Coaching heaven's team now.

Your last paragraph could be applied to all sports except hockey. When your rival does something (beat a ranked team, win a NC, etc) you want to do that and one up them. NDSU wins a FCS title UND should win an FCS title (4 May be stretching it, but one will do). NDSU goes to the dance, you want to go to the dance. Right now it's flipped for women's basketball UND went to the dance now they want to go to the dance. USD beat Minnesota in football is it wrong for wanting our school to beat an FBS team? Out of the NCC 6, NDSU 2009, 2014; SDSU 2012, 2013, and UNC 2011 has made dance trips.

NDSU goes to the dance (Orange), UND goes to the CIT (Apple). NDSU beats ranked opponents (Orange) UND loses to teams like TX-PA, Omaha, and Cal Poly (Apple). Orange killed the apple by 30 points this season. #keepJones, #buttCIT

Maybe it's extremely hot under Jones' seat.

UND down 17

NAU announcers referring UND as the Mean Green.

True, and I can see tackling your conference mates instead of looking at local teams outside the conference. I wonder with Weber St down this year if that trend will continue in the upcoming seasons.

You kidding? It's a lot more windy on this side of the river.

Maybe it's setting the bar high by comparing us to NDSU, instead of comparing us to Montana or Sac State. Weber is a basketball school so we can't compare to that. Plus you got that weather factor someone brought up so NDSU compares quite equally to UND. #buttCIT

Wait you can't use NDSU as an example, some people don't like that. #buttCIT

I agree with this post!! Funny to see who is at the bottom. Boy football and basketball didn't go UNC any good moving up. At least basketball gave them a dance trip while they may want to drop football.

Jones hit his signature win last season against NDSU.

Some people claim women's basketball is different from the men's team. So you ignore Brewster's team beating teams from the SEC while the men's team is losing to teams like Omaha, Cal Poly and Tx-PA. It's about coaching, Roebuck was a great coach and Brewster is following in his steps while Jones is just moving along the CIT train. Basketball is basketball whether it's mens or womens.

Season starts tonight in the UIC/Loyola Dome Tournament in Chicago against UIC. The other teams UND plays in the tournament is Miami University, and Loyola tomorrow, then Western Illinois Sunday. UND's home opener is Friday April 10th against Sac State in a double header. http://www.undsports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&SPID=6392&SPSID=58593&DB_OEM_ID=13500

Season starts next weekend with 3 games (Fri-Sun) at Arkansas. UND's home opener is against Bakersfield Thursday April 2nd. http://www.undsports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&SPID=6384&SPSID=58539&DB_OEM_ID=13500