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The REA rep told me they were $5 more. Total no-brainer. He said they will be available once the selection show has happened and UND knows it is placed in Fargo.

I had not picked up my tickets yet but when I called last week I was told I could "upgrade" to a reserved seat(s) instead of SRO. So I took it (duh). How would a reserved seats come up now? I was delighted but a bit shocked they were available and especially to me, since I was in the low 1000's on the list.

It is all relative, no? Not like he was coaching against the SWAC teams with a 6.8 million dollar budget. Do we have the budgets of the Big Sky BB programs?

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/03/alabama_basketball_was_going_n.html Read this article about Anthony Grant. He got fired at a rabid football school for going 117-85. The opening of the article is very familiar.

What is your point...salary and budget equals wins?

UND was ranked 318th in scoring defense last season. Let's start there.

Not sure I would play Cashman and Shanks at the same time. Way too slow and big to be able to handle athletic teams. They should interchange with each other. Need an athletic 4 out there, even if he is a bit undersized. Bernstine or Hobaugh come to mind.

EWU is a 7.5 point underdog Zags are favored by 17.5

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.