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Didn't even catch that, nice.

Possible but with the conference invite needed and whatever new "rule" they can come up with in the way, it will definitely lead to turbulent waters.

I know that the information is really limited and cloudy right now but I wish there would have been more to that article. Not even sure what but it seemed lacking. Maybe throwing out some current UND budget numbers or something. Though with the subsidy stuff, probably not the direction to go either. I am at least glad that they are writing about it. It is going to be an absolutely massive issue and I know UND is looking at every possible way so that they are able to stay competitive. FCS is currently the biggest domino and there are a lot more have-nots than haves at this point and that could play a very instrumental part in what happens.

No, he's too busy having a slap fight with McFeely and some random dude from Iowa.

As long as we're at it, interesting to see the unofficial mouth piece for the NDSU staff taking a shot a UND while responding to a tweet of a recent UND verbal . The kid must have hurt some feelings at NDSU or something after sitting next to one of the coach's on his flight. I guess that wasn't enough because there's been quite a few comments talking down on UND's class the last few days as well. Stay classy Fargo.

Sure? From his immediate family his mom plus his two older brothers went to NDSU (one who played football) along with a sister who is currently attending plus its 4 hours closer. But way to deflect the actual point.

Moving this to the appropriate topic so the Recruiting thread isn't cluttered up again. The kid had a partial scholarship offer to WIU, which doesn't offer reciprocity to Minnesota students. His cost to attend WIU would have been somewhere between $22K-25K/year (depending on credit hours taken) to go to WIU before a partial scholarship. His cost to attend NDSU will be around $16K/year as a PWO and he has family ties to NDSU. Going to go out on a limb and guess the kid is coming out around the same on out of pocket and if he earns any sort of scholarship at NDSU over the next few years, he'll come out ahead.

Title IX applies to stipends, you'll need a lot more on the women's side in your scenario.

The best team in the conference couldn't play in the tournament and a waiver is needed to even have an autobid. Pump that moral victory against OSU though.

Handful of bars around the arena, pre-game party is typically next door at the Mattress Factory. Their arena is huge (Creighton also plays basketball there). Don't think they've ever came close to selling out unless they have a bunch of the upper deck blocked off. Even then, can't see an issue getting a ticket. Old Market area is within walking distance to the arena and has a bunch of great restaurants and bars as well. Easily one of my favorite road trips and a pretty easy drive.

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.