jdub27

Why? If they fund hockey at the D-1 level and participate in the postseason tournament, what does it have to do with the rest of their athletic department? I should have pointed out that the 6 Ivy League hockey schools don't offer scholarships but do participate in the playoffs. And on the FCS side in the Patriot League, 6 of the 7 schools just started offering scholarships in 2012.

Before the 2013 season started, Kuper was due to make $4.5 million but it was not guaranteed. Becuase of his injury and it wasn't known how much he would play, he renegotiated his 2013 contract to remain on the team. For 2013, he was guaranteed $1.05 million with another $1.7 million in game/playing bonuses. He still has unguaranteed amounts of $5 million and $5.5 million remaining for 2014 and 2015 which I would guess will get renegotiated as well.

I agree a lot with the comparison. One thing to point out, the FCS isn't exactly a balanced field in terms of funding/participation across the board. The FCS has one league that doens't offer athletic scholarship (Pioneer League - 12 teams) and two that don't participate in the playoffs (Ivy League - 8 teams and SWAC - 10 teams). Approximately 25% of the sub-division has no interest or chance at the championship yet are still considered on the same level as the rest of the teams.

Is not taking a job you're not offered along the same lines of not losing a kid because you pull his offer when you find out they are committing elsewhere? Just trying to follow your logic.

You missed a few of his other alter egos so I helped you out.

Just want to point out, the last time the Summit (Mid-Con) League got a 12 seed, its membership was: Valpo Buffalo WIU Troy State Northeastern Illinois UMKC Chicago State Central Connecticut St YSU

You said the committee chairman stated Oral Roberts was the first team left out of the field in 2012. That's false. They were one of six teams in the conversation for a spot that never even materialized. Quite a big difference. And while i don't think it is ridiculous to think that the Summit will get a 12 seed at some point, I'm curious when it has happened before? For sure not in the last decade. Edit: Valpo of the Mid-Continent Conference was a 12 seed in 1997.

But you are the one pounding your chest about almost getting a hypothetical spot, while managing to leave out the correct details of the story. Moral victory!

Except that isn't what actually happened. They would have been one of 6 teams considered for the last spot that never ended up existing. They showed the committee wrong by getting bounced in the first round of the NIT by Nevada on their way out of the Summit.

Yet you and him are the ones who have been put in multiple timeouts. You just seem to keep ignoring yours which are supposed to be permanent.

Next they'll be telling you their football coach would only leave for a B1G or Big 12 job, BCS auto-qualifying conference at minimum.

Capacity for the Fargodome is 19,000. Including playoff games, attendance was 98% of capacity. The only game that actually topped 19,000 was homecoming, though the first two were very close to reaching that threshold. Once NDSU starts putting a donation requirement on all season tickets, then it will be a valid comparison of season ticket holders and demand.

And the majority of NDSU's football games weren't sellouts either. Tickets available the day of for almost every one of them. People were giving them away in the tailgating lots. Not sure what your point is.

They sure put a lot of work into the low majors in that bracketology. Pick the current leader and give them a spot. Until the new ESPN bracketology came out yesterday, both conferences were slated for a 15 seed, but of course you weren't going to bring that up. When the actual committee does their seeding and look at why the RPI of the Summit is where it is and then look at their (lack of) top 100 wins, you are going to end up being disappointed. And I like how you conveniently ignored your ignorance on the historical seeding of the conferences.

At least you remain consistently inconsistent in your stances and standards.

Dean Smith started coaching UNC in 1961 and didn't win a title until 1982. Turned out waiting it out on that guy was a good idea.

80 pages in this thread would indicate otherwise.

If I remember correctly, he applied for the job in Mankato in April but didn't get it. Hak restructured the staff, Eades was let go and then named Head Coach/GM of the USHL team in Sioux Falls a week later. Guessing there was all kinds of behind the scenes stuff going on before things were announced, but that is the publicly available timeline.

You obviously have a personal thing for Steve Johnson so I won't even argue with you on that. Guentzel seems like he will someday be a solid head coach and likely soon, but there is no way to know whether he would be better than Hak. Plus, who's to say he'd have any interest in coaching at UND. And I think you're over-exaggerating on a slide since Eades departure. Since big picture results seem to be the issue with Hak, in 3 of Eades's last 4 years at UND, they lost in the Regional Finals. First year without him, loss in the Regional Finals. Quite the slide.

Saw Carr at the hockey game on Friday. He looks he's been putting serious work in, can't wait to see him on the field this year. Have a feeling that he will do some special things over his next four years here.

The second part I believe is correct and why he wasn't in the running. Blais recommended his Associate Head Coach, the guy he picked to be his second in command for multiple years.

Must have forgot to put my tinfoil hat on before I typed.

The part where he was the most qualified to take over and recommended by Blais? Or the part where they extended a top 5 coach in the nation?

Actual spot on analysis? This must be the kind of stuff we would get if people actually watched the game instead of sat up in the bar slamming beers and complaining about other's job status.

You know who was in charge of recruiting under Blais right?