MafiaMan

Kind of like they made examples of Ohio State and Auburn BEFORE they played the national championship football game two years ago? Oh, wait, there were millions to be made (or potentially lost), so we'll fix things after the fact. If Congress can waste time investigating steroids in baseball, why aren't senators and representatives screaming for an investigation into the NCAA and its tactics?

Lots of AHL coaches have gotten the call-up and done quite well in the NHL...John Stevens, Peter Laviolette, Kevin Dineen, Bruce Boudreau, Claude Noel...and that's just off the top of my head. Saying a move to a coaching position in the AHL would be a downgrade compared to coaching in college isn't necessarily a fact. It depends on what the coach's ultimate goal is.

Boston U? Holy Cross (a must-win game if ever there was one!)? Northern Michigan? Nice!

Thanks for the plug. This year, I'm presenting Tom and Jossie with an 8X10 of the group photo we took last March. Good stuff!

NorthDakotaHockey already provided directions...conveniently located about 3 minutes north of the Hoggsbreath, too.

If it wasn't for the fact that it's a total Minnesota Wild rip-off, this is actually a pretty sweet jersey.

And maybe games with Michigan, Michigan State, Boston University, Boston College, Maine, New Hampshire, and Notre Dame instead.

You and I had quite the back-and-forth on that thread...I'll take your comment here as a compliment. Rodgers is a great QB...and I personally think Favre will jump off a cliff if Aaron wins one more Super Bowl.

During my time at UND, I rarely missed a football, hockey, men's basketball, OR women's basketball game. Just an FYI for you since you think I'm a hockey nut. Do you Sioux hockey players get up for a game against Michigan Tech because they're an in-conference rival or might be more excited about a non-conference game against BC or Maine?

I'm a broken record...change the nickname tomorrow and they won't be coming back to Grand Forks any more than once every 5-10 years anyways.

And that'll be true REGARDLESS of whether it's Sioux or Glittery Unicorns as the nickname. Ummm...88-89 NMU games were unbelievable...and the crowds were pretty good in the following years as NMU was solid in '88-'92 and won the national title in '91. Best UND home game I ever saw was the Sioux coming back from a 5-0 third period deficit against the Wildcats to earn a 5-5 OT tie.

I told you clowns that it wasn't the end of the world, LOL, but you guys KILLED me on that thread. All of my Packer fan friends now SWEAR that they thought Ted Thompson was right all along. Riiiiight.

I was simply pointing out that schools are eliminating sports or considering that thought...not implying that UND wipe out its bocce ball team in order to save money for hockey.

And I remember standing in line at 3:00 pm during the 88/89 season waiting for the doors to open up at 6:00 pm for the Friday night Gopher game. The Dakota Student reported that several thousand students went home without getting into the rink. Most games required you to be in line by 4:30-5:00 pm in order to get a decent seat.

LOL, Oxbow...nice to see you again. Looks like your tears have dried from Brett Favre retiring.

bincitysioux himself was just griping about men's basketball attendance being under 1,600 per game on another forum.

Really? Have you seen the stands at an Alabama basketball game lately? Maybe they need to cut a dozen football scholarships and find some basketball players. Or maybe Alabama understands that nothing will change the fact that football butters the bread...like hockey in Grand Forks. Unless you're one of the visionaries picturing 25,000 fans watching football every weekend at the Alerus Center.

LOL...so going 10 years between NATIONAL hockey titles affects attendance and qualifies as a time frame when football and basketball were bigger interests on campus? How has attendance at REA been during the "down years of Sioux hockey," or 2001-2011?

Schools all over the country are discussing eliminating sports. You only need to look at St Cloud State and their football program for something local.

When was THAT? 1994-1996? A bad 3-year stretch of hockey?

Really? UND hockey is far and away the biggest attendance sport in Grand Forks. It's a smaller scale but a valid comparison. I didn't say elimination of sports 2-16 was anything I favored.

I guess if you consider Michigan Tech, Nebraska-Omaha, St Cloud State, Bemidji, and Mankato "premier", then you're correct. Every week? I mean no disrespect to those schools, but when I hear "premier" and "college hockey," the first visions that come into my head aren't those. I can't believe people think UND/UM home and away EVERY year is an option when they're not in the same conference. That's simply not going to happen regardless of the nickname.

Do you think sacrifices in programs 2-16 at Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama, or LSU are made to benefit program #1?

True story...we played in a broomball tournament in 2004 the day after the giant tsunami hit Indonesia...one of the teams in the tournament was a team called "Tsunami". The team had been around for YEARS. After their first game (we were up next), their opponent and several fans chided them for being insensitive and expressed disgust at their jerseys. 24 hours earlier, those same people would have had to google the word "tsunami" to find out what it meant. I know your nickname was tongue-in-cheek, but much like the Utah high school "Cougar" story, you simply can't make this stuff up.

Exactly. Bemidji, Nebraska Omaha, Duluth, Mankato, St Cloud, etc...will all be lobbying Minnesota and Wisconsin to stay on their schedules. Folks thinking UND would play Minnesota and Wisconsin in non-conference action EVERY hockey season REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE NICKNAME IS are sadly mistaken.