darell1976

Is our team viewed differently to the playoff commission because we are an independent vs being in a conference? I would think a Big Sky schedule helps compared to a real independent schedule.

First, I am sure Bubba, like some of us, blame injuries on the season we had, it was a total MASH unit. No one could see us lose that many players throughout the year. Being an independent puts more pressure on this team and on Bubba as we can't win a conference title. As we saw 7 wins doesn't produce a playoff berth, so its 8-3 or better for this team. Can it be done, sure. But playing a Pac12 title favorite doesn't start the season well. But anything can happen. I was thinking 2019 because of the NDSU game, yep 2020 is the first year in the MVFC which means Bubba's last year is the next season, he does need to produce wins but saying we need a playoff win or its fire town for him may be premature. NDSU was a powerhouse in the 80's and RT stood the thumping they gave us through 1992 before knocking them off year after year and becoming a NCC power ourselves. 1986-1989 those 4 seasons, zero playoff games and 2 out of the 4 we were above .500. 1990 new defensive coordinator (Dale Lennon) took over, and in 1992 a playoff berth (a loss to Pitt St), 1993 two playoff wins, and a conference title plus we beat the Bison. So in 1990 why did they fire the DC and not Roger Thomas? What's funny is that 3 win season for RT in 1989 was the last time he was under .500 for a season, and finished his career with 7+ wins 8 out of the next 9 seasons. Just a little history lesson.

Funny how quick people are to get rid of Bubba after just 4 seasons. Muss lasted longer and did a worse job. Bubba has a 24-22 record, compared to 18-24-1 for Roger Thomas in his first four seasons, and 23-20 for Chris Mussman in a mostly DII schedule. I think we give Bubba a chance to coach in the MVFC. His contract is up in 2021, so I say let him coach til at least 2020, thats 2 seasons in the MVFC. If he can be successful in that conference then keep him, if not then can him. But if this team doesn't make the playoffs can the assistants.

The Hawk logo has been around for two years, and doesn’t have its picture on the front of hockey jerseys or plastered all over a 100 million dollar arena so comparing the two are apples and oranges. You said non-ice sports will likely never have national recognition. And I just pointed out that college hockey isn’t nationally known. People in Texas couldn’t care less about us and I’m sure people in Alabama don’t realize they have a DI hockey team in their own state.

De Smet is where the Laura Ingalls museum is. Family road trip.

De Smet.

Like college hockey gets national recognition?

Overall it doesn’t look to bad. Still would like the logo in the middle but having them on the ends is better than nothing.

Since football is underbudgeted would that reflect their low win counts in the past 10 years? Or are they underbudgeted because of their low win count? Chicken or the egg argument.

Hockey also has had stellar seasons basically every year (except last season) where football has had average to poor with the exception of 2016, and 2011 (in the DI era).

Football averaged just under 10,000 in 2016 and just over 10,000 in 2017 which for UND’s #2 sport is pretty damn good.

No behind the basket seating?

Ungreatfulness? We all thanked RALPH for HIS great gift to the university almost 2 decades ago. I didn’t know everyone should bow down to KEM and kiss her feet for something that came from her father. MK sure the hell isn’t going to do that and I don’t blame him.

Why? How have they helped the football team with their current share of the ticket revenue, and how would their managing a larger portion of the budget help them in the future?

Not a shocker that they wouldn’t do that. What will be a shocker to them is what happens when UND takes control in twelve years. Hawk logos everywhere.

That’s what I thought too.

That’s always good news when both parties and come to an agreement and work stuff out. Of course we don’t know the details yet, but so far so good.

I suppose we could have renamed GFRR the Little Riders, or just plain River Rats is acceptable too.

Has USD and SDSU always had the same nickname of Coyotes and Jackrabbits? Even NDSU had 2 nicknames prior to Bison. The problem with us is we had a nickname for around 80 years so any name is going to take time to get use to. People are warming up to the name it’s the logo that the real argument begins. Remember the nickname is 3 years old, while the logo is 2 years old. Our local high school’s nickname is 24 years old and it’s now a household name so it is going to take time whether it’s 5, 10, or 20 years.

I would have had a tough time yelling, “Go Riders”. Nope can’t do it, and I am sure a lot of GFC alum would feel that way. I entered the name Jets but maybe being too close to Winnipeg was the reason to axe the name.

#BigfartsForever.

People commenting Sioux on his tweet are delivering that memo.

I was going off of what SV said about James Madison. Another FCS school beat the big boys. Yale won their first title against a team that won 3 of them since 2010. Yale 9 appearances, Duke 22. I think you have Yale mixed up with someone like Syracuse or John Hopkins.

Yale win the men’s lacrosse title for the little guys over Duke!! First title for Yale.