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Gotta reduce the # of tournaments. Too many and it dilutes the product. When you have 40+ tournaments the top guys aren’t playing in them all. Tpc twin cities is a red headed step child compared to other events. The week after the players fly back from the UK and the location/course isn’t exactly inspiring.

If your only motivation is money then yeah I definitely get it. However, Cam Smith has $10 Mil in earnings this year alone. Not to mention how the PGA Tour has responded with big money events at the end of each season so those career earnings of Bubba and ZJ are dated and will be surpassed by many players in the next 5 years(which is how long the LIV contract is for). Don't forget many players status for future major championships are in serious jeopardy. The OWGR does not currently recognize 54 hole events.

Yeah a lot of money but then you're pretty much owned by the Saudi Gov't and get to be their mouthpiece, I get why some washed up guys are taking the money and running but it's shocking to me that some younger ones are when they have their whole careers ahead of them. Henrik Stenson giving up the Ryder Cup captaincy for the $ was shocking to me, he must be in some real financial trouble is all I can imagine. It's a really dark time for professional golf.

I remember hearing about that course when they broke ground for it, awesome to see it's almost open so I can plan a trip. Reminds me of Links of ND but turned up to an 11, very cool land to build a golf course on!

While I love the idea of recreating that style of course, North Dakota doesn't have the sand-based land or the weather to maintain the fescue grass that makes the ball run like it does over in Scotland. The US has a lot of faux-links style courses that look like links but don't play that way. For example, King's Walk is described by some as "links" because it lacks trees but it plays like a parkland due to the soil it's on it's more target golf than playing it along the ground. There are very few actual links courses this side of the pond that mimic what's played in the Scotland, Ireland, and England. The closest to us that sort of gets there is Sand Valley in Wisconsin but even that falls a bit short. Some of the courses that are true links style in the US are Sandhills in Nebraska which is private and Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon. If you've ever played a true links style course it is, in my opinion, the most fun style of golf to play anywhere.

I don't know why but I like having a 34 in net again.

You must be new here Stoney

With UND's history of shot suppression, all I've ever asked of a UND goalie is above .910 throughout the year. Anything above .920 and we're at least a top 5 team in the country.

Huge if true

Also on board for this

I'm less worried about the goal song than I am about all of the music played before and throughout the game. We don't need to unironically be playing songs from 10-15 years ago, let's keep up with the times. Sure, mix in some classics(looking at you AC/DC) but time to retire a lot of these songs that have been played into the ground. And for the love of God read the room! No baby shark when we're playing our biggest rival and there's 3 minutes left in the game!

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Any of you guys on here got some free time in the next few days? Seems like a lot of great advice on here that Coach Berry could and should be listening to. Maybe someone with a line to schloss could print these posts out so Berry knows he has to make tough decisions and get rid of the awe shucks attitude. There’s a treasure trove of good information on this board that the coach doesn’t have!!

Yeah you’d think out of those 4 guys at minimum 1 or 2 would be able to bury the puck at the NCAA level. Is it October yet?

Sounds like 4 pretty impressive freshmen forwards are coming in next year, all ranked in the top 20 in ushl scoring one of them being a rookie in the league. I’m pretty excited to see their game translate myself.

I mean if you want a guy that gets all the recruits we could investigate Mel Pearson as an option… there’s a chance he’s searching soon

Your statement leads me to believe you think it’s an act. Why is that? One thing that strikes me about Berry is when he’s done with an interview/press conference/etc he takes extra time to thank the person doing the interview or something along those lines. He also takes a lot of extra time to appreciate all the support the program gets, including things that aren’t posted by the UND hockey social media. From all my experiences with him, he’s just a genuinely good person. When I lived across the street from him as a kid he’d invite the neighborhood kids over, give us candy bars and answer all our questions about playing in the NHL. Before he moved away he stopped at my house and gave me a hockey stick from his nhl career. IMO These aren’t things people do for notoriety or because they want to appear good. It’s because they are good.

"Logic is the thief of overreaction" -InHeavenThereIsNoBeer(just now)

Reposting from a March 2nd post I made this year with adjustments for DU's 2022 title. I've added in quotations how many seasons since that program's most recent title. Titles Years Eligible Avg Years Between Titles Denver(0) 9 71 7.9 Michigan(24) 9 74 8.2 Nodak(6) 8 73 9.2 Wisco(16) 6 57 9.5 Gophers(19) 5 74 14.8 BC(10) 5 7458 14.8 UMD(2) 3 58 19.3 This is solely focusing on national titles. You add in league titles and the picture gets even more clear we aren't watching average hockey at The Ralph every Friday and Saturday night. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to stir something up or just needs more attention.

I noticed a couple of really bad pinches after DU scored, were taking risks they hadn't taken in the previous 50 minutes of the game. One of those terrible pinches lead to the 2 on 1 goal by Rizzo that was essentially the dagger.

Yeah learning that, but man it’s so much more carefree when your self worth isn’t tied to a teams success of which you have no control over.

Honestly don’t know why some of you still cheer for UND or are you this negative with everything in your lives? “Yeah I won the million dollar lottery but some other guy won a bigger one. And think of the taxes!”

Thanks for putting all that together. As I suspected, no program has been as “consistent” about being in the mix every year. As someone else mentioned that won’t stop the teeth knashing of the “natty or bust” crowd. However, I think level headed adults can recognize how impressive that is without qualifying it with “but where are da nattys?”

I don't know how to put this exactly but is there a school in the last 15-20 years that's had a better average pairwise ranking than UND? What's the worst they've finished? 20th? Every other school seems to have had a real huge clunker year(or 3!)