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How does Cost of Attendance stipends get involved here? Is that something they can use as punishment?

Kind of playing it fast and loose with the word "cheaply" there!!

The Gophers just lost 5-0 to a very bad Michigan State team who is 42nd in the Pairwise. I wouldn't put faith in the Gophers beating anyone right now!!

So, you are telling me we all have to cheer for the gophers to lose in the B1G tourney? No problem there!!

Screeching Hawk after every touchdown!!!

Minnesota could win the regular season Championship and miss the playoffs!! HA!! Doesn't get much better than that! Yeah Big 10!!

Being the #1 overall seed and having to play the potential Big 10 Regular Season and Tournament champs in the first round when it is basically a home game for them would be pretty ridiculous. So I guess the question is what is more important? Keeping the #1 seed closest to home, or matching them up with the #16 seed?

So is the new Fighting Hawks logo going to be on the 2016 NCHC Championship banner? Should it be? Will fans boo a National Championship banner being raised to the rafters with the Fighting Hawks logo on it?

Ummmm.......this is for a football game....not hockey!!

#1 in the Pairwise!!

First Championship as the Fighting Hawks!!

I always find it funny that NDSU fans in 2003 were mad at UND fans for saying that the Bison would never be able to compete at the FCS level and would not even come close to winning a National Championship. And, now they are saying the exact same thing about UND football.

Best......pep band.......song......EVER!!!!!!! Especially the actions by the band members!!

Watching games now on TV, it is pretty obvious that fan interaction and excitement has been greatly reduced because of people tuning out and looking at their smart phones. And its not just students. Just really annoying to see fans that are there to watch the game mentally check out spend the entire game on their phone.

If your nickname is Tribe and you have a feather in your logo, then that's probably not gonna fly. But is the NCAA really going to come to UND after their logo comes out and say that their bird logo can't have feathers? As rediculous as it sounds, UND needs to nip tis in the bud and just ask for clarification. Seems stupid to have to ask if birds can have feathers....but hey, its the NCAA!!!

Kind of contradicted yourself there in one sentence!!!

Some people are probably going to hate this suggestion, but Can the Alerus/Betty/Ralph use a hawk scream to initiate the crowd to get up and get loud? Play the hawk sound followed by a pump up song to get the crowd going. I am sure there are other schools that have been successful using their animal roar, screech, etc. Worth a try I think. Obviously with the Sioux logo we could not do that (not gonna do the tomahawk chop or anything like that). Now we have the opportunity to embrace the new logo and use it in our cheers. I say do it.

http://www.undsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=210101296 So I guess they did tryouts last year. Wow. That was the best they could get? No offense, but they could do a lot better.

The PA announcer does play a pretty big role in creating the atmosphere. At any games. Obviously scoring, making big plays, and winning plays the main roll. But a PA announcer that helps fans engage in the game by encouraging fans to cheer, announcing scored and big plays enthusiastically, etc when done right, can be very effective. Last years PA guys was pretty brutal. Maybe the Alerus needs to hold open tryouts much like the Ralph did when they found Looker.

http://www.thespectrum.com/story/sports/2016/03/01/big-sky-could-idaho-footballs-future-after-leaving-sun-belt/81167778/ First I have heard about splitting the FCS conference and having an autobid for each!!

Don't forget personnel TV screens at every seat as well as free bottle service!!

I just don't know how the Alerus Center can consistently under perform in regards to gameday atmosphere. There are plenty of examples that they could look at that other schools do that they can earn from an adopt. Don't even have to go that far to see it. Go 70 miles south and see how the Fargodome does their gameday production. The production team at the Alerus has to be consistently researching and upgrading their in game production and looking to see what is working around the country at other Universities. If that is not happening, that would be extremely disappointing.

If only there was an arena that is within driving distance for 6 of the 8 NCHC schools that holds 10,000+ who hosts hockey in the building all the time!!!!

Being in a hockey only conference, the priority of the conference is pretty obvious. In the B1G, hockey is the 3rd most important priority, and it is treated that way. Looking at the state both leagues are currently in, I'll take take the NCHC or the B1G every day of the week and twice on Sunday! (Well, maybe not Thursdays ).

The Final 5 I think is scheduled thru 2017. Not sure when the B1G is. The NCHC needs to really make a strong bid to move the Final Faceoff to the X. Biggest question is do they want to relocate from the Target Center?