jdub27

Agree 100% but I don't foresee women's hockey ever getting the ax.

That was my original thought as well, but the latest I was told is that UND is exploring offsetting it with sports outside women's hockey. They could still end up doing it that way and how the Big Sky meetings shake out may help determine that. Personally, I'd prefer they applied it to WBB or VB.

There hasn't been anything official, but I believe the Big Sky will allow it but it will be up to the individual schools to what extent they want to participate. Guessing there will be some Big Sky meetings in the future that will clarify it. If UND offsets their men's hockey stipends on the women's side in basketball and volleyball, it would be a huge advantage. Have you heard something that the Big Sky will offer it in men's basketball? If so, I'd assume it would be pretty much allowed across the board, especially due to it having Title IX implications.

Unlike the Bisonation twitter feed.....must have struck a nerve...

With the news of NDSU stealing a Duluth commit, just thought this was pretty funny.

Won't argue that, guess it is tough to gauge. Last year they split with Sac St and Portland St during the regular season (home team winning each game) and beat them both in the Big Sky tournament. Same thing the year before, splitting with Southern Utah in the first round and then lost a heartbreaker by two to Weber after not even being close either game in the regular season. And again, while competition was again questionable, they won the Great West tournament as the #3 seed (8-4 in league play) and #2 seed (6-4 in league play)*. *The last regular season game against Utah Valley (their only conference loss) was still one of the most exciting games and finishes I've seen in person.

I'd argue his teams have played their best basketball starting in conference play and into February and March and into the conference tournaments (excluding the Big Sky finals last year when half the roster was injured). Don't have the time to look it up at the moment but I would guess his winning percentage goes up as the year goes on (especially the last 3-4 years). Granted with poor OOC results, the bar hasn't been set terribly high.

Ding, ding, ding.

So you are saying it isn't true and NDSU wouldn't threaten to pull a scholarship if a verbal visited another school and hasn't done so in the past?

Awarri Smith and Troy Hansen are the two I'd love to see help round out this class. Think both could be contributors very quickly.

Good insight. Shoot Jones an e-mail, bet he hadn't thought of that yet. Bet Coleman wishes they wouldn't have worked on rebounding so much this past week, he wouldn't have ended up with his eye/face busted up.

It's pretty obvious the bolded part is your main problem, seems to be where all your issues stem from. And the rest is hypotheticals. I could not care less what "could" have happened if they lost their first game in the Big Sky tournament, they didn't. And then they won the next won. And if you want to talk "what-ifs", then UND beats Weber last year if they don't have half of their contributors hurt for the championship game. See how easy that is? Also, Brewster took over a team that was 21-11 and led them to an 11-18 record, a team of which not only had he been on the staff for the previous 4 years (9 years total) but was the main recruiter and had basically been running it for the few previous seasons. Should have fired though him I guess. Just for jollies, records/results after two years of conference play: Jones: 24-16 - finished 3rd and T-2nd, 2 Big Sky tournaments (lost in semi's and final's), 2 postseason tournaments (CIT, 0-2 record) Brewster: 21-19 - finished T-9th and T-1st, 1 Big Sky tournament (missed first year, won second year), 1 NCCA tournament And before you start putting words in people's mouths, still not endorsing Jones or trying to sign him to any sort of extension nor do I think Brewster should have been fired.

Per a Gopher friend (yuck), NDSU threatened the possibility of pulling a verbal commit's scholarship if he went on his planned visit to Minnesota this weekend. The kid currently holds a PWO from them and his dad played at Minnesota. Interesting if true. Guessing that is something that happens quite a bit with the P5 schools but after hearing from the faithful how NDSU encourages kids to take all their visits and only does positive recruiting, seems a little contradictory.

Who's defending Jones? I don't see CMSioux sticking up for him anywhere in his posts, he's clearly stating why he enjoys sports and what it means to him. Just because he doesn't want to run the athletic department into the ground in buyout fees and fire every coach on a whim doesn't mean he's in favor of giving the coach a lifetime extension.

Haha. Chumming the water. Probably not a good sign that people are actually believing this though.

Nice. Welcome Tim!

Pretty much. Missing the BSC tourney makes the rope that much shorter next year. Team seems to be competing but just can't put it together for extended periods. Jones was definitely rolling some new lineups today trying to find something that works. Saw a lot less 3 guard lineups but foul trouble was part of it.

Not a good overtime, can't turn it over like that. Ugh.

Wow. Tyler from 4 feet behind the 3 point line to tie it with less then 2 seconds left. Going to OT.

Shields and Shanks played some extended minutes together. Looked pretty good together.

Playing with a lot better energy. Down 26-25. Defensive effort at a different level then at the beginning.

O'D

No surprise but his title is incredibly and intentionally misleading. The committee did not recommend "no nickname" being a permanent option, they just stated that it will not be eliminated as a possibility and have no assurance that doing so would not be in violation of the settlement agreement. If you read the report, you would come to a completely different opinion than what he presented by cherry picking a couple passages. Being aligned with someone who despises higher ed and college athletics and has no interest in what's best for UND is not a position I want to be in on this topic.

21 - 62 Louser's bill goes down in flames.

Everyone knows that's the Rahjahs.