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Yes. Disaster, money pit, black hole, whatever. Discussion about semantics and hyperbole is pretty pointless. Then thank goodness we don't have a college dancing program I guess. Agreed. Again, I really do understand the purpose of Title IX and how it works. I referred to it my first post on this thread. Title IX compliance doesn't take away the facts about the numbers. Even if Women's Hockey wasn't a Title IX sport, it would still grossly operate in the red on the Pro Forma. All I did was join the discussion on whether or not Women's Hockey is a "money pit". Some people don't want to hear it, but the fact is that it is right now. My understanding is that they take in less than half of the very little ticket revenue they generate and NONE of concession sales at REA. Having said that, I really hope the program catches on and gets to the point when it's not a financial burden for the athletic department sooner rather than later.

I explicitly referred to Title IX in a previous post. Never have I questioned the legality of it. We can agree or disagree whether you or I like Title IX or not. However, the fact still remains that Womens Hockey is a fiscal disaster, correct?

I don't really argue with anything you say here and you have a point to a certain degree. It's just that womens hockey is so extremely financially inept. I'd love to see the balance sheet on that budget.

Great job by Faison to keep Hardee around. He has definitely taken the volleyball program to another level. And let's not kid ourselves, womens hockey is a Title IX money pit nightmare for our athletic department.

What a great investment for the UND Athletic Department.

How does USD's Tyler Starr only make 3rd team after collecting 14 sacks as a sophomore? The guy is pure hell off the edge for opposing offensive tackles. Surprised Brenneman's 8.5 sacks as a junior didn't warrant a spot on the 3rd team as well. But I digress. Preseason teams are worthless. You want to be on the post season teams.

Freund was a great QB at UND, one of the best. But Reed Manke was the stud that led UND to a win at Northern Iowa that day in Cedar Falls. I can't say enough about how underrated Reed Manke was and is as a UND QB. Kid was a flat-out gamer and winner.

Yes of course they do, and they come in droves dressed in yellow and green.... Or is that the John Deere swap meet?.... Hard to tell the difference sometimes.

I like your optimism and I really hope you end up being right, but I think we should all be cautious about our expectations regarding the talent of this 2012 team right now. They haven't done anything yet to prove that to be true. I hope they prove it on the field this year so I can join you in saying that though.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........I see......

Maybe I'm still reading this wrong, but I'm just trying to figure out how UNI played like crap against ndsu on October 29th because they were looking ahead to the Montana playoff game on December 9th. I think that's pretty amazing. Am I missing something?

Respectfully, can you please stop with the foot-stomping bull$***? I don't understand why you continue to do this.

I used to really enjoy reading Kolpack's work before he went full-blown propanganda minister for ndsu during the last 4-5 years. He is the most crass, brash unprofessional journalist in the upper midwest. He's also pretty cavalier with his language at times on his Twitter account, something I don't typically expect to see from a professional journalist. Here are some of my recent favorite excerpts: From April 4th, 2012: "If I were UND coach other than hockey, I'd be distributing my resume like the Home Shopping Network. #byebyebigsky" From April 4th, 2012: "If I were parent of UND athlete other than hockey, I would have some serious concerns/questions." From March 7th, 2012: ”So 740 is carrying the Big Sky Conference basketball title game. For some reason, I thought RFM is voice of the Bison and Summit League.” From September 19th, 2011: "@TerryVandrovec I think you're right. I think the FCS coaches who vote on the poll got UND and NDSU mixed up." From September 19th, 2011: "I expect it from fb fans, but now I'm getting !@#$ from an SID on a public domain." (He actually posted the "S" word on his account) From September 21st, 2011: "@TerryVandrovec UND A.D. should consider the same message for his employees." (regarding twitter accounts) From October 28th, 2011: "Kolpack: Ridiculous FCS coaches poll needs to either shape up or ship out | INFORUM | Fargo, ND http://shar.es/bZ6Ye" From January 17th, 2012: "NDSU 27, UND 23 at the half." (His 2nd tweet on the UND-NDSU mens bball game. Shockingly, no tweet about the rest of the game that he was physically attending, nor a score update to report after half-time. By the way, UND won that game) From February 8th, 2012: "Still getting compliments on my Joe Chapman column prior to FCS title game last month." From February 18th, 2012: "Looks to me like the Star-Trib fumbled in the Vikes stadium story. Anonymous sources r risky, I rarely, rarely use them." From December 16th, 2011: "Unconfirmed report says Bemidji WR Carey Woods verballed to NDSU." As of June 13th, the guy was still talking about his theory and the supposed 'mix-up' in the schools in the FCS coaches poll last fall. He's a complete blow-hard, who can't be taken seriously anymore when it comes to the critcal word "objectivity". All signs point to Kolpack being a fan, booster, mouthpiece and employee for the ndsu athletic department. I guarantee you he owns at least one yellow bison thong. Right now, Dom Izzo is the only sports media guy I take seriously in Fargo.

I'm no expert, but I tend to agree to GFG on this one. Seems like a good small school player with some decent top-end speed. He's playing against some very suspect competition each week and he shows stiffness in his hips. Just my opinion, but I'd be surprised if we offer him a scholarship. Would be a great preferred walk-on candidate though.

Well then I digress. That's good to hear.

You sure about that? I could be wrong, but I have heard in the past that the REA/UND contracts are not very friendly to UND. Maybe this has changed and/or maybe I'm wrong.

Fixed it.

I got the exact same email response, verbatim. Anybody know Randy Newman well?

I understand what you are saying, but.... It's ok to put "Big Sky" logos on the turf but not "UND"? Is there another potential future Big Sky Football tenant that we aren't aware of? It just makes no sense to me. Why would we half-ass this type of project? Do it right the 1st time.

Unless my eyes are already deceiving me, it has Big Sky logos on each side.

I would let Brian Faison know your feelings on this. I tend to agree with most of the comments here.

Not stoking the coals here, just giving my worthless opinion on this. All I can say is that I am glad this forum is being constructively critical of our staff for being too aggressive in recruiting high school student-athletes. I would MUCH rather have it this way rather than being critical for not being aggressive enough. Lets say we have 50 offers out already. Like others have stated, probably half of those 'early' offers will end up going to FBS schools. The other half will be divided among the top 10 FCS schools that recruit in the region - of which 3 or less will ultimately be in the running on signing day. If you do the math, that doesn't leave many for each school. If we were to get just 10 of these hypothetical 50 early offers, the coaching staff would be ecstatic I'm guessing. And if they want to get the 20-25 they get each year, they still have to go get 10-15 more kids. The numbers say we should be offering way more kids early - presuming we have enough info to properly evaluate and justify the offer. The kids love the early attention and sometimes it holds water for them when they make their final decision. I hope the coaches get criticized for offering too many kids. That's a good thing. It also drives up the competitive market for these kids as there are only so many scholarships to go around. It also would be nice to have to tell kids "no" wouldn't it? Also, it creates a 'first come, first serve' atmosphere for the recruits: "We've got 3 scholarship offers to QBs this year. First one to say yes is who we are taking in this class...". Some FCS schools are very lazy in recruiting. School X sees that School Y has offered a kid, so they offer him in turn without doing their own homework and only because of the recruiting competition. Trust me, it happens all the time. This is a non-issue in my opinion. Mussman, Kotelnicki and the staff have this thing right. Keep offering away....

I'll go out on a limb and say we get at least one verbal after this weekend. From what I understand, there will be a TON of recruits on campus again for the spring game Junior Day.