MafiaMan

If Kelley is concerned because merchandise sales are down...just wait until UND breaks out a Sundogs logo on its t-shirts and replica jerseys. It'll make new Coke look like a smash hit by comparison. And if they go with "sUNDogs" just to be cute...I'm at a loss for words.

Well done, Buckeyes. You can't stop the speed of the Big 10!

...and BOOM goes the dynamite.

I'll be absolutely stunned if the final five doesn't look something like this: Spirit Sundogs Flames Pride Blizzard

Limited releases indeed. Fire up the screen printing machine once every few years, put 50 over-priced t-shirts on the rack at the UND Bookstore or Scheels, BOOM! Trademark protected.

No way Bobby Bowden wins an NCAA football championship with you as Athletic Director. 1976 to 1992 without one? Not on your watch. Bo Schembechler at Michigan: 0 NCAA football championships, 5-12 record in bowl games. 1969-1989. No way he makes it to 1980 with you as AD - he'd lost 7 consecutive bowl games by then. No way LEGENDARY coaches like that survive in today's "gimme gimme gimme" climate. And, for the record, Doug Woog is a good man and was a good coach. It's a damn shame he never won an NCAA title.

If by "knowing football," you mean being connected with UND politics and the football program there, you would be correct. If you're talking college football in general, I'd beg to differ.

College hockey EXPANSION? But how can that be? dlsiouxfan is over in the Football forums telling anyone and everyone that college hockey is practically on life support! GET ME THE PADDLES!

Hear hear! It's a lot like the news media and politicians a few years ago who condemned Charlie Hebdo for printing certain cartoons...only to quickly wrap themselves in the "I am Charlie" blanket now covering France. Total hypocrites.

Wow! Yesterday's loss was the 9th time Peyton Manning's team lost its first game of the playoffs...ouch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrg7bRS4A4g side note: No truth to the rumor that Goon was the jersey tucker used in this video clip...

Is Peyton Manning retiring? Who cares. Someone find out why he's tucking his Broncos jersey into his jeans on those Papa John's commercials!

Lots of those thinking it is time for Lucia to go are in the Mike Guentzel camp. Personally, I think Grant Potulny is a good candidate for a head coaching job somewhere. Too green for Minnesota, but if a job opens up at a smaller school, he should get a look.

Amazing how NFL pundits work...at about 3:00 pm yesterday, Peyton Manning was one of the all-time greats and the Broncos were headed for New England and an epic clash of the titans...by 9:00 pm last night, the same folks on ESPN Fox 1 were pretty much saying that Peyton's done in Denver and his career might be over.

The "Minnesota Nice" philosophy.

Given the fact that schools like Penn State and Arizona State have added or are adding D1 men's hockey programs, dare I disagree with your "declining" popularity and fan base conclusion?

Contrary to what dlsioux might think, I bet 99% of UND hockey fans (myself included) would completely agree with everything you just wrote above.

BTW, dlsiouxfan, do you think this is only a UND issue? Tell me, how does Kentucky treat its basketball program compared to its football program? On the flip side, Alabama values football a hellofa lot more than basketball. Can you compare Georgia football with Georgia basketball? Kansas basketball vs Kansas football? Penn State?

Actually, I know for a fact that many fans who attend NDSU football games also attend UND hockey games. You're suggesting that UND should tell local hockey fans to buzz off and try to recruit football fans from elsewhere around town?

I grew up in SW ND and had a passion for college basketball and football. I knew nothing about hockey and had to be dragged out of my dorm room to opening night at the old REA in 1988. I spent more than my share of time in the student section on the east side of Memorial Stadium during home football games - mostly freezing my butt off - and couldn't even tell you the number of women's and men's basketball games I attended at Hyslop Sports Center. But, go ahead and label me a "hockey rube" based on your limited message board knowledge of who I am. You make a lot of condesceding generalizations in your rant. I get it too - you hate hockey. Fine, that's your choice. But if you want football to succeed at UND, you're going to need some of those hockey fans to attend a few games.

Chicken parm you taste so good... Post-game hot tub feels so warm... I'll never make a Super Bowl again...

So let's assume Dez was falling over the goal line when that happened...is that a TD because he has crossed the imaginary plane of the goal line?