UND1983

Who said UND is begging to play every other year? If they wanted that contract, they would have took it. How does the article from Duluth say that "nobody wants to play us"? Are you OK Dan?

You said that keeping the nickname does not benefit the university. My question is: if they keep the nickname, who does it benefit then? You obviously want to keep it so who do you see benefitting from keeping it?

Benny, I am still waiting on your answer to my question............

So who will benefit from keeping the name? What is your end game?

No. Not interested.

Great point. There is no way that Wisconsin or Minnesota will be able to keep their doors open without those two games per year vs. UND. Not a chance.

You seem to know an awful lot about NDSU and their scheduling-plus an obvious slant towards their side. Is this imposter #5 for the year?

For the last time Dan, it is easy to want to keep playing when your first recruiting class(the winter BEFORE the transition started) was aided by the increase to 60 scholarships. Then, on top of that NDSU brought in Juco transfers to help the process. These were all things that would have made it uneven within 2 years and were unavailable to UND. Three years in would have been 3 full classes of full scholarships (63) plus Jucos.

Finally your true feelings are coming out after all that nostalgia bullsh*t you said earlier. Nobody bit so you turned back into Fetch 2.

This is so consistently pathetic. They lead games for 37 minutes then cough them up. At some point somebody needs to get some balls on that team and take over the game. Good teams have the ball in their best players hands damn near every possession in the last 2-3 minutes. I have never seen a team with less guts than this one.

Add another one to list of who finally let out their true feelings about UND.

BINGO!

Yes they would be charged. The price of season tickets would go up accordingly with what they charged for that game, in the year it is played.

If Gene would figure out how to charge more for a premium game it would be very good financially. He could easily charge $15-25 more per ticket for that game.

Just to clarify for myself and maybe others, what does the "No" vote do? How is the ballot question going to be laid out?

You said it much better than me, well written.

....and what is the main sport of the"nickname at all costs" crowd? Go back and look at the comments from that "crowd" once they were pushed about their thoughts on the "other sports".

One good thing that has come of this debate is we officially know what the "die-hard" hockey fans think of the rest of the athletic department. Not all hockey fans, but the hard-core ones. I hope all the UND basketball, football, and volleyball fans out there remember this for the future.

Where is he going to go - toil in the AHL somewhere and uproot his family because of a nickname? He is at the top of college hockey already, its either NHL or down. We all know he isn't going anywhere because of the name, it would be because of a better opportunity.

So you are saying he would be true leader if he could just muster up one buddy to vote for UND? He would be a true leader if the vote was 10-1 against UND? Seriously?

Nobody has any credibility on a message board. You should know that. Question for you: If the name changes and is deemed to never come back, will you still go to hockey games?

You are a really smart guy. If athletic departments around the country went by your idea, there would be 1, maybe 2 sports at each college because 95% of them lose money. It's pretty obvious to everybody but you that college athletic departments are built around giving student athletes the opportunity to play sports at the collegiate level, whether their chosen program is fiscally viable or not. Somehow these schools have made it work for over 100 years.

You just said Baseball, Football, Golf, etc.

Sacrifices like sending them back to D2 or cutting the programs all together? No. That is what SiouxForever called for. You guys are so delusional. BTW, the AD at LSU and Alabama doesn't need to make sacrifices to support their football programs, they are just fine on their own.

At least you admitted it. So in your eyes, athletic departments around the country should sacrifice sports #2-16 at any time if it will benefit sport #1? Interesting theory.