UND1983

Hoopster is selling hope to try and calm the masses and you just bought it. Thumbs up dude.

So our goal is mediocrity? He should stay because he is a mediocre coach. Thanks for clarifying.

I wouldn't call it restructuring when coaches leave for other jobs. Backfilling, maybe. When the last assistant left for USD and Craig Smith that should have told people alot about what he thought of his future at UND.

NDSU lost more than UND did (4 seniors that scored over 1,000 points) and have a brand new coach. Their record = 21-9. Losing players is not an excuse. The problem is what you did in recruiting while those players were becoming juniors and seniors. Who is the "young talent READY" for next year?

So in 3 years he produced 4 "HS" recruits: 1 home run, one that doesn't play yet, one transfer, and one that will never be more than a role player (Cashman). But now he is supposed to get 3 MORE years to fix his mistakes in recruiting, after being the coach for 9 years? I thought recruiting was supposed to get better after the transition and nickname issues were gone.

And about 30 pages ago we confirmed that this was no "rebuilding" job. You rebuild with youth, players you can build around for 4-5 years. A coach doesn't rebuild with 9 transfers. Jones did not want to rebuild, he wanted a quick fix to stem the tide, hence all the transfers. His high school recruiting has been poor in the past 3 years.

I remember saying that its almost like they put that 5 year NCAA criteria in there just so Smith couldn't get it. He was at Mayville.

I am assuming that Rich still sends McDermott a Xmas/Thank you card every year for putting his best team's together in the late 80's-early 90's. Mac could recruit.

When do those type of tickets go on sale?

Only because of his contract and how few people actually support the BB team. No private money to buy him out. Great point. Next year won't be much better so he will get the gate then.

Does DTV even have Fox Sports Pacific anymore?

UND resting anybody tonight or business as usual?

Crawl back? The Summit was practically begging UND to join and UND turned them down cause Patty lacked the foresight. She is the one who needs to wake up and offer the invite and then it would happen. Send Youngstown JC to the east.

One seat isn't going to draw as much. Who the hell wants to go sit by themselves? And if its a UND fan they are not sitting by themselves surrounded by SU fans.

So now it was 20,000 in Frisco? Number just keeps climbing. Has nothing to do with being excited about football in general. Its being excited about that game. Did you factor in the Concordia faction of your fan base?

NDSU ticket holders are going to rip off other NDSU fans as much as they are UND fans.

How would you know - they never play any other sports? Look at UND's roster. They are saying "ALL-AROUND". Repeat: ALL-AROUND. Not on skates. I know nothing about how a certain sports stacks up vs. another and it really doesn't matter. But, to say they are better without having seen any of them actually play another sport or do other activities is asinine. Hockey is one sport. Football is one sport. Both are specific with specific skills.

Think you missed the point. They aren't playing hockey while they are "working out". Everyone knows they are good at hockey.

Cool, now we are talking about hockey in the football forum again. Neato.

More of general comment based on the nature of freshman, etc. Let's just wait and see before we proclaim the future is looking good.

UND is fighting for those same "JV" titles that you mock. Stupid comment.

Way to not address what he said Dan, stupid comment again. Heard any more about UND football signees that are ineligible right now? Your last story was fascinating!

Before we start pinning our future hopes on redshirt's and incoming freshman, lets wait and see who is actually on the roster come September. The redshirt's need to be eligible after a year of college.

To sum it up, UND's best player is only honorable mention material in the 28th best league America. Where is all this great recruiting we heard about? These are now D1 players I've been told.

Our RPI is 280+, which makes it OK to lose to similarily dogsh*t teams.