TheFlop
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1 hour ago, Old Fella said:
Who else is complaining? It's over a year since the covid began. Ever thought of changing schools?
Careful what you wish for. Keep too many classes online for too long and take away too many extracurricular activities (player and spectator) and UND turns into Univ of Phoenix.
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1 minute ago, jdub27 said:
Who said I agreed with it? The rules were known well in advance and they haven't changed. Pretending this whole thing is some new revelation and complaining about it is equally as void of common sense.
If I'm supposed to be picking up some check at UND, that's news to me. Might have to run over to Twamley next time I'm near campus to see if they've been holding out on me.
Point being that if no one ever spoke up, no rules would ever change. The "we should just be happy they are letting us do something" mentality has gotten crazy.
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5 minutes ago, neoflex said:
So out of 64 NCAA basketball teams, none were disqualified at tournament time for COVID under the same testing protocols (?). But out of 16 hockey teams, 2 are already out. That's some pretty crazy statistics.
And despite roster sizes 4-5 times bigger than hockey...none of the major football bowl games were cancelled. Have a hard time believing that all testing has been done equally across all sports.
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2 minutes ago, jdub27 said:Brilliant response. UND's president wields a helluva sword if he's the one setting the NCAA testing policy that has literally been in place for all sports all season.
Keep yelling into the wind about things that everyone has known about and accepted for months on end. Hopefully you eventually get the results you are looking for.
Keep just blindly complying with whatever is fed to you even if it is completely void of common sense.
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11 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:
Ya.....cause that's what everyone who took time off from work, traveled and paid for tickets to go today's games is hoping for.
Gotta be honest, the writing was on the wall with this one. Anyone that poured a bunch of money into this knew the risks given the way NCAA caved to the just flatten the curve narrative.
Meanwhile the rest of the students on campus will be out boozing at various local bars tonight and won't need to be tested 3 times in 72 hours before they return to school on Monday.
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To avoid a complete knockout due to positives or contact tracing, I wonder what precautions UND has put in place. Wouldn't they almost need to compartment their socializing to avoid that scenario? I.e. 3 players groups can hang together but you better not all gather as a team?
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2 minutes ago, stoneySIOUX said:
A very large chunk of the team apparently got COVID in the summer. So, *knock wood* I think we're ok.
The let'er rip mentality worked if that's the case. Stories were abound this summer of UND athletes partying together even to the point of getting party busses together.
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It's unfortunate. Hopefully all hockey fans including Sioux fans have stated bracing themselves for what seems like the inevitable. Two teams knocked out in under a week.....and there is still 2 weeks until the Frozen Four
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Typical Bubba UND team. Lots of slaps on the backs and false hope to begin the season, the huge let down turning point of the season.....and another season of maybe just eking into the postseason only to lose right away.
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Even with the bad PI calls, the game isn't even close in the trenches.
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4 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:
It's their super bowl.
Please, it's UND's Super Bowl and they are laying a turd.
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Is Paul Rudolph calling plays again?
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NDSU 31 UND 10
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15 hours ago, jdub27 said:
What level has that happened at? They are usually pretty strict on who is allowed to play up and I've seen very little of it.
Higher level within the appropriate age group.
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On 2/17/2021 at 1:02 PM, Kab said:
if you didn’t drive a suburban you weren’t in the club.
maybe that has changed now since I’ve been away from it for 20 years now.
No you pretty much nailed it. Suburban or Yukon XL no more than 2-3 years old (mid or top trim level of course). But there is much more to being part of the club than just having the vehicle. You also must have at least one decal on back window of vehicle advertising which AAA spring team(s) you bought your kids onto the previous year (AAA in name only as the vast majority of the teams have no tryout process and instead are determined by a group of parents kissing a** and pretending to like the couple people in charge of picking the team.......even though secretely no one likes them).
Regular season teams are determined by a tryout process but instead of hiring independent evaluators to slot kids which is something USA hockey will help facilitate, GF does their own thing in house. In Grand Forks you mostly have dad coach evaluators whose careers fizzled out in high school trying to make sure their kids are always slotted on the best team whether their talent warrants it or not. When Steve Johnson hit Hwy 2 to go coach UMC he drug a trail of parents whose lips were still attached to his rear. Too many egos to get all their kids on a AA team? Just create an extra AA team like they did at GF PeeWee this year even though there is only one AA Bantam team for those kids to feed into.
One more thing you can't forget, can't be a hockey mom without black Canada goose down jacket. Without one of those you might as well be from North of Demers.
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48 minutes ago, jdub27 said:
I didn't know speeding had the ability to spread to the car next to you or exponentially other cars on the road.
And what happens when you don't follow the rules of the road that you agreed to, even if it is for 1 mph over? There are consequences.
We're not talking about all rules, we're talking about what venues agreed upon, during a pandemic, in order to have the maximum amount of fans. Why don't you send Jody Hodgson an email and suggest they just use "a little common sense" and see what his response is. I'm sure he'd be happy to share what they've had to do to get to this point and why things are they way they are.Now you are reaching. Speeding has the opportunity to cause harm just like coming in close contact with someone carrying Covid-19. The common sense part that you are struggling with is being able to recognize is that speeding 26 in a 25 has very minimal (if any) effect on the probably of serious injury. However going 50 in a 25 is a different deal. Similarly, standing shoulder to shoulder with 2000 people in the concourse isn't the best idea right now.......but a small group of 4 sitting with their mask down in a large arena spaced out from the next person offers minimal if any extra risk (much like speeding 26 in a 25).
As for your continued obsession with "Ask Jody, Ask Jody"....frankly I don't care what he has to say on the topic. At the end of the day I'm spending my money elsewhere until the product is back to normal.
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Just now, jdub27 said:
They already paid for the ticket, which means they agreed to comply with the rules that came with it which have been absolutely clear from the beginning. I'm not sure what line of thinking you have where you assume the venues can just change the plans that were OK'd and agreed upon after the fact just because. That's not how it works at all.
By obtaining a driver's license and driving on the roads in North Dakota you agree to follow the rules of the road......doesn't mean that officers pulling you over everytime you are only 1mph over the speed limit is necessary......or that it will result in roads that are significantly safer.
So rules are rules and they must always be followed no matter what?
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15 minutes ago, jdub27 said:Curious what the ticket price has to do with anything? Are you immune from possibly spreading Covid if you paid a certain amount for tickets? Or you should just get special privileges because you have a 1099 that look like gfhockey's?
If you don't want to wear a mask, don't go. It is literally as simple as that and it has nothing to do with whether you agree with it in principal or not. Is it incovenient? Absolutely, but nowhere near as inconvenient as the amount of work that UND and the REA (plus the Betty and Alerus) put into being able to have the amount of fans that they currently can, which was a mind-numbingly ridiculous amount just so they put something towards the giant holes in their budgets. A huge part of the deal was people had to agree to wear masks. Somehow people blowing a gasket because the workers (who are literally just doing what they are required to in order to keep their part-time jobs) are actually enforcing it, because again, they have to. That's up there with yelling at the grocery store worker who asks you to put a mask on. Somehow kids can sit in school all day, 5 days a week wearing a mask but a couple hours to enjoy a sporting event is just too much for some people.
See this is the flip side of the unwavering "just comply and be happy we are giving you something" attitude that exists. You can force someone to wear a mask in a store.....or a stadium.....but you can't force someone to want to go to that store or stadium. The price paid for a ticket absolutely comes into play. Is it worth the hassle and decreased experience if you are paying $25 for a ticket? Maybe. Is it worth paying more for that "experience" than what you would have paid for a normal experience one year earlier? Absolutely not. This is where the common sense comes into play. Yes enforce it in the concourse, lines, etc......but when people are already spaced out and sitting with people they know be smart enough to not hassle a family of 4 that paid $400 to watch a game about putting masks up in between bites.
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On 2/12/2021 at 8:51 AM, Siouxperfan7 said:
Still lots of tickets for next weekends game (and the other games as well). So what is keeping people from buying tickets? Is it the obvious answer of COVID and people not wanting to be in crowds? The ticket price? The fact that the atmosphere will be pretty dead? Just surprised that so many tickets still remain.
A severely degraded experience is the reason. No tailgating (it could be 35 and sunny pregame) and the real risk of mask police breathing down your neck. Also, youth travel sports like basketball and hockey are in full swing which doesn't help since people have busy schedules. Finally, the last part that people don't want to talk about is the total lack of buzz surrounding the program as they trot out old slow and steady Bubba for yet another season of guaranteed mediocrity.
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15 hours ago, siouxfan512 said:
Can UND pay for the players to attend kicking camps, or does that all have to be on their own?
Wouldn't that be like when the Vikings sent Troy Williamson to a hand/eye coordination specialist? Maybe a little too late by then?
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Price was reasons 1-5 for why tickets went unsold. UND tried to make back too much money too quickly. A premium price can be justified for a premium product/atmosphere like a packed house UND/Gopher game. However few people are willing to pay out that kind of money for the privilege of reduced concession options, less breathability via a mask, a list of rules they must follow, and a reduced social experience of not running into all of your buddies in the concourse.
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21 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:
it starts and ends with kostitch...how much longer are we gonna to have jv special teams and be ok with it?
It's not really a great sign when an up and coming younger coach stagnates for 7 years as a special teams coach at a program not known for paying a boatload of money to coaches. The good ones are typically plucked away by other programs after that amount of time.
Whether it's a lack of special teams talent or a lack of coaching ability, it falls on the head coach to fix it. Finally dumping Rudolph and giving Freund a shot was better late than never. Maybe it's getting close to time for another change.
The NCAA's. UND vs. Duluth
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They're off. Better pop one in soon or else they are setting themselves up for a weak Duluth goal to steal this.