jdub27

Who's arguing for an extension?

2019: 271 (Jones players and coaching) Not sure what they point of continuing to point out what was on the team (or frankly not on the team) when Sather showed up? Things have clearly went downhill from there. A combination of a bare cupboard, inability to reload, coaching decisions, transfer portal, VISA issues, Covid, etc, etc, etc. It obviously hasn't worked out anywhere near the way anyone would hope.

Seems to me there was more to his "question" than that....

Wonder if any of that is correlated with significant budget cuts across the whole University, including athletics (which was more than just a few teams being cut)?

Imagine holding a grudge years later towards someone for a decision made at age 23 that fulfills their lifelong dream.

UNI isn't going to trade having their basketball program in the MVC to start up hockey and join the NCHC/Summit. That's pretty ridiculous.

Know of any alumni that have recently sold their business for $3 billion? They would be good people to start with. Even ndsu found someone that sold their company for $2.7 billion and got almost 1/3 of their practice facility covered. Right time, right place kind of thing. Not a whole lot different than the REA/Betty. Waiting for a similar but much smaller "official" announcement sooner than later than will be pretty cool for UND and the community. It's fun when parts of renderings come to life.

This one would be the obvious choice. Would even work better if people knew when it was open. The LISTEN Center is currently in there. The state gaming website has reports that show the quarterly numbers (with the most recent being December, 2020) but it lists all sites of each organization together. If anyone does look through it, note that it only shows adjusted gross proceeds and zero expenses are taking out, its just the handle less prizes. They do, but feel free to look through their donation history on their tax returns and tell me where the overwhelming majority of their funds go.

As long as they don't do what they did to the rest of it. What a waste of money that project was.

Add in Blue Line Club as part of hockey as well. I wish UND would get into charitable gaming, but competition for sites is pretty fierce and what non-profit's spot are you going take over? And, right or wrong, how does that go over in the community?

Bold strategy. But I'd be interested how you draw up the paperwork that makes your conference affiliation in one sport completely contingent on remaining in a completely separate, unrelated conference. If you want to bring hockey under the Summit umbrella (not a fan of that idea), you might be on to something. Football makes more sense to bring into the fold anyway.

That part is disappointing. Given the depth of your questions, I would have asked for an actual meeting (or phone call depending on your location). Someone from the Athletic Department or Alumni Foundation should be able to find 15-20 minutes to have a conversation with you. They spend time talking to plenty of people who have a lot less substance than what you asked. Guessing there were parts of it they couldn't answer or disclose at the time, but that doesn't mean there couldn't still be a response.

He already has them in the Summit League? What are you yelling about?

Yes, telling people to use the proper channels which could help expedite any sort of change is changing the subject. I'm just got going to sit and anonymously bash. Not my style nor does it accomplish anything. But if that's what you feel is going to make a difference, have at it. My commentary has been made with my name behind it to people within UND. As for the quality of coach he is, it is what it is. As is their record this year. I don't think they correlate as much as you do, but who knows. I do assume you'll have your resume dusted off and get things turned around quickly when the time comes. Everyone here wants to see the teams be successful.

With all the smart people on here, I'm sure he could learn a few things. But if it don't think receiving fan/booster feedback doesn't play into decision making, I don't know what to tell. And I suppose queue another downvote since encouraging people to do something real is just a crazy idea. Internet reactions will probably be the thing that changes everything anyway.

Who said that? I mean besides you just making things up? I specifically told you to contact someone who could actually make a difference to voice your concerns and you responded in the 100% completely predictable way and downvoted it. Apparently you care so much that you won't actually do anything about it beyond complaining on the internet. But, I guess that makes you feel good, so you do you. The rest of us will actually spend our time having real conversations, voicing concerns, trying to understand what is going on and what positive things we can do to help right the issues. But to each their own.

So who were they supposed to hire??

Disagree. If you ask for an audience and time (respectfully of course), you will get it.

I'm dead serious when I say that anyone with concerns should be reaching out directly to the Athletic Director to voice them. People actually voicing their opinion to decision makers can make a difference. Time is made for donors to give their input. Put down the bottle. This is absurd. The thought was that we did that. The hire was lauded by pretty much everyone. It clearly hasn't turned out the way anyone had hoped.

If they people behind this can make it pencil out, it might move forward. If they can't make money, it won't happen. Would be similar to the "extra" postseason MBB/WBB tournaments. How much are schools willing to chip in for some extra practice and games?

This wasn't even by anyone on the team or even students at UND at the time. It was from 4 "would-be" students. Wow.

Wow. Didn't know that was going to be so controversial. Weird hill to die on but you do you.

Who's arguing any of that outside of your last comments? The point is, we've seen how hard it is to crack the polls if you don't start in them. Like it or not, that kind of thing is taken into account later in the year.

From what I can tell, he's giving plenty of guys the chance for that role and they still can't find the right combo to take it and run. Just when you think its close, you see why he needs to try another combo. No doubt that it is incredibly frustrating but this isn't how he handled line-ups in the past.

Important to start in the polls for next season. Drake and NAU to start before a bye week. Then a bit of a tough stretch with Boise State, SDSU, WIU, NDSU and UNI. 4-3 minimum heading into the home stretch. 5-2 or better would be very nice.