jdub27

More made up arguments. You could actually be right on this, but not for the reasons you think.

He's not going anywhere. Gobc can't afford the buyout.

Who's saying anything different? Outside of a few who can't enjoy anything and need to downplay any sign of success or improvement of course.

Conveniently left out the first win of the three in the row they've won. No one is pretending they've knocked off any world beaters. But they are winning close games and the ones they should. Like I said, some people aren't happy unless they or miserable. Or they find out that things aren't as black and white as they'd like to pretend. But continue to make ridiculous claims and argue things no one is saying.

Gotta love how some people literally can't enjoy any sort of success or victory. How miserable does that have to be?

Based on what? A very small minority of people who are still angry about who knows what? The process worked exactly as intended and laid out from the very beginning. There were multiple stop-guards in place to protect Grand Forks and allow the plug to be pulled on the project if an actual reason to do so came up. One did and it was immediately shutdown by the city council. The mayor following through with what he campaigned on, trying to grow the city economy, does not put him on the hot seat.

And he'll leave and the program will likely fall back into the abyss because he didn't build anything. Look at Missouri State's FB program. Petrino tried to do the same thing before he bolted. And then bolted again a few weeks later. And MSU's football program is going to continue to struggle. Absolutely need to use the transfer portal to plug holes. But it isn't going to build into long-term success if that is the plan. What they are doing now isn't working either and they are trying to adjust. Easier said than done, otherwise it would work for everyone....

Let's hope tonight is the night that he unveils his no-hesitation 3 point shot.

The conference would take over their primary media rights, so I would assume so. BUT......they would get to be big-timey FBS beat writers!!

NDSU students don't see the need/want to give additional funds to athletics. UND students voted to increase what they contributed share. UND also provides more student aid and a more proportionate balance of opportunities to women's sports, which tend to bring in less revenue to cover their operating costs.

Not a single person has said that. His previous body of work indicates that he is. Well respected people, at all different levels from NAIA to D1, concur with it. For many different reasons, it isn't translating. No one is disputing this either.

Like Bruns, Ihenacho and Ndoukou? I am not as concerned about recruiting the talent as I am about retaining it. That's the piece that needs to be figured out.

It wasn't even near 90%, with Nelson, Morgan and Skunberg returning, 2 of which play at around an all-conference caliber, but yes they lost a lot. And their incredibly inconsistency shows it. However our game against them was a complete joke. The coaching staff has been pretty straight forward on that, saying that was the one game this year the team absolutely did not compete. I would be surprised to see a similar result tomorrow.

Around just under 40% of the minutes played this year come from kids who had never played a D1 college basketball game before this season. Levias did play at a community college two years ago and then was injured last year, so if you want to pull out his minutes, that still leaves 1/3 of the total minutes being played by true freshman. That clearly isn't the only issue, those players give UND the best chance to win so they need to be on the floor. They also need to adapt to the speed and learn to win at this level. They are running out of time on this season, hopefully some of the flashes they've shown can hold up instead of panicking and watching leads slip away. Just for comparison, NDSU also has around 38% of their minutes coming from freshman. They are also, not surprisingly, incredibly inconsistent. They have the advantage of leaning on a fringe NBA prospect and one of the better big men in the Summit in Nelson and Morgan along with Skunberg who has played quite a few minutes in his couple years there. Oral Roberts has 1 freshman on their roster and he averages a whopping 7.4 minutes a game. SDSU is at about 27% (including RS-Fr Mors).

I'm sure people are pretending that is real, but I'd really like to know where an additional $10 million or so annually is going to come from. The only FBS conference who might be remotely interested right now is C-USA and that's because they are a dumpster fire. NDSU doesn't add more revenue than they would get in return to the MWC or AAC. Might work for the MAC but.... Geography is a real thing. Even for an football-only invite, their location does not add anything that benefits other conferences, unless they can convince someone that 3+ hours to the MSP market unlocks that somehow. Doesn't work on the media side of things and it is a pretty big stretch as it relates to recruiting. The MAC is such a tight knit footprint that Fargo to Dekalb (the closest MAC school) is 600 miles. Dekalb to Buffalo (the furthest bus trip in the MAC) is also 600 miles.

I don't know the time line of when it may or may not be complete, but they are actively working on it with the REA. https://fightinghawks.com/news/2022/9/30/general-north-dakota-athletics-releases-master-facilities-plan.aspx

Not sure how old picture is, but looks like boards are up in this one. Hard to tell what they did when NDSU played UND at the REA about 10 years ago. https://fightinghawks.com/galleries/mens-basketball/mens-basketball-vs-north-dakot/861

Still waiting to see all these quotes that prove the strawman argument's you build up to justify your ridiculous attitude. You continue to argue things that no one is saying all while actually ignoring the full scope of situations and calling the ones you do see excuses. No one has said things are anywhere near perfect. No one has said that there isn't definite room for improvement. Everyone agrees that things need to be looked and evaluated across the board from staff to resources to facilities. Maybe work on getting over yourself and join the rest of us in the real world, helping find ways to help the athletic department and University be the best they can be. # #instantgratification #allhatnocattle #LOUDNOISES

Imagine thinking this is true....

If it would be plausible, this would be really cool. But everything I've seen shows that the cost is prohibitive and I would guess the Hyslop will be long gone by then.

You are so far out of bounds in your criticism it's becoming comical. It must be absolutely miserable that every little thing the institution you supposedly support does makes you react the way you do.

Who's UND going to play to draw a crowd that makes it worthwhile there? The two answers are NDSU and maybe SDSU. Is playing a conference game there instead of the Alerus really a net positive for the football team? And that's assuming the opponent signs off on it. I could see trying to schedule St. Thomas there now that they are D1 but you have to find a year they can play and then hope Target Field would be able to accommodate.

Fair, but the huge focus continues to be the need to get HPCII done (along with another smaller project that should be announced soon). I think they have done some pretty creative things to find funding sources for projects (see Memorial Village). That doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement, because it is definitely there. No one in the athletic department would argue any differently. Part of that also falls with the Alumni Foundation. Bringing Brekke back (who has a lot of ties to the MBB program) should help with that. The water was soured with basketball alums under the previous regime and the current staff has been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to improve it and I believe they've made some decent progress there. If you look at the Betty, there is a donor wall that would reflect some of that.

If you're going to be constantly negative, then don't be surprised that those people who have/use a different perspective to voice their opinions. I don't think anyone thinks everything is perfect or even close to it. But you do you.

Just because everyone doesn't demand instant change or coaches fired at the drop of a hat, does not mean people don't want more. There is zero guarantee that change equates to instant success. Some people believe in a process to set groundwork for sustained success. And it isn't easy nor guaranteed. You need to trust the right people are in place to do the job and understand the tools/resources they have to move forward.