Siouxperfan7

Didn't INCH shut down a year or so ago because they offered an inferior service to USCHO and CHN? I guess I would be bitter too!!

The empty netter to seal the deal in Boston on Saturday night will make uip for all the ones we missed this season!!

The one thing that needs to be looked at is , yes, losing Mac especially in regards to his faceoff ability is huge. But we were awful in faceoffs on Friday with him in the lineup. Faceoffs can improve without Mac in the lineup.

Just to show how this Athletic Department values it's mens basketball program, how long do you think Hak would have been around with a .500 record for the past 9 years?!! I doubt he would have made it to year 5!! Not sure how you can look at the record the past 9 years and honeslty think that Jones is doing a great job. sure you can have a couple rebuilding seasons, much like this year. But to have the same result year in and year out and expect things to drastically change is rediculous!!

With that type of blue line defense and goaltending, you guys should be sitting in first place in the conference by at least 6 points...........oh wait

However, the 6 times he said it during the comeback game against the Gophers in the Final 5 was pretty awesome!!

So I guess we shouldn't expect any demands by our Bison trolls to have him kicked off the team for a Class B Misdemeanor. Certainly not worse than a Class A misdemanor!!

So is no news good news in ragards to Mac?!!

I wonder if Leopold will make his daughter his new agent!! http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/25088834/look-jordan-leopolds-daughter-wrote-wild-to-trade-for-her-dad

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If Kelly decides on a nickname with no input from stakeholders, he is critisized for not taking the advice of the people. Drag the process out and form committees to give people a sense of being a part of the process, critisized for dragging out the process.

Oh and one other thing that you and others seem to fail to realize. Even if UND would have gotten full support from both tribes and Kelley would have spear headed the effort, the FACT is that the Big Sky, and other conferences we were looking at joining (Summit/MVFC), had an issue with our native American name. Having the Fighting Sioux name after the NCAA came out against them in 2005 became a problem for many Universities. For a school that just reclassified to D1 and in search of conference affiliation, it became a big problem.

The Standing Rock tribal council was never going to put it up for a vote and let the people decide and thus was never going to give approval of the Sioux name. The settlement agreement gauranteed that the name would be retired. What was Kelley supposed to do? Sure he could have renounced the NCAA about how stupid they were with this policy, but what good would that have done? Was he supposed to go to the Standing Rock Tribe and get on his knees in front of the tribal council and beg? So please tell me some actions Kelley could have legitimitely done that would have let UND keep the Fighting Sioux name? Because they way I see it, there was very little he could have done based on the fact that any actions that could have been done wwould have to have taken place before he took office.

Another reason why displaying the sign was dumb. Writing an opinion piece in the Herald or the Dakota Student expressing your reasons why you believe Kelley should be fired would get your point across much better than a vague banner at a hockey game. Sure, the banner is getting more attention, but again that brings me back to the point that it was more about the kids than the actual message they were trying to get across. These students knew they were going to be approached by REA officials and most likeley would have to take down the sign. So instead of creating a discussion about the reasons they feel Kelley is to be fired in the appropriate way, all they ended up doing is creating a discussion about a sign and a couple kids having to take i down and whetehr or not they were kicked out of the game or not. Again, making it about themselves and not the issue.

If the students intended it to be related, it was very dumb on their part. Kelley had absulutely nothing to d0 with the name being retired. Sure he is involved in replacing it, but to be mad at Kelley for the NCAA coming up with a policy and the Standing Rock tribe not giving approval is just idiotic.

Yet another example of the loud, vocal minority protesting something and making it more about themselves than the actual issue. If it was about the issue, these students would have held the sign up in the first period right when the game started. Instead, they "conveniently" did it in the waning seconds when the game was all but over. So to me, watching the entire game was more important than the message they were trying to convey with the sign. Agree that these types of protests have a time and place. Typically if it is the wrong time an/or place, you will usually know it because you will be asked to stop your protesting actions.

Compared to 14 Titles by that other school in town in that same time frame! Wait, I thought Central was the dominant power in not only this town but the state?!! (I kid also)

When did the sign actually get displayes? I wasn't there, but I am hearing that is was very late in the third period. So it is a possiblilty that by the time that these kids were done meeting with REA officials, the game was already over.

Like I said. You can be upset with what Kelley has done in regards to the process of retiring the Fighting Siouc name. But he had nothing to do with the actual decision to retirement of the name. Of course one of his responsiblilities when he was hired was to handle the retirement of the name. People, especially these students, are mad at the wrong person. RObhert Kelley did not retire the Fighting Sioux name. The NCAA did. Be mad at them. Make a sign voicing your upset with the NCAA. Placing blame on the wrong person makes you look like a fool.

Hey dan, instead of continueing the drumbeat of ripping on UND and pumping your chest about NDSU and their successes, why don't you actually use your eyes and brain, read the sentences you are commenting on, and actually comment on what is being discussed. Your 3rd grade responses to adult topics really make you to look the fool. Welcome to an adult conversation. If that is to much for you to handle, head back over to Bisonville with the other 20 yr olds. Might fit in better over there, intelectually!

I'll put the debate on whether or not these kids had the right to hold up that sign or not aside for a second. What were these kids protesting? Kelly's involvement in the retirement of the Fighting Sioux nickname? First of all, the settlement was signed before Kelley even took office. So To think Kelley is the one that somehoe worked with the NCAA to get rid of the name is wimply wrong. Second, the two involved were a freshman and a sophomore. So that means that they were still in elelmentary school when all this went down initially. Now Of course they are college kids and could have dome some research of what has happened in the last 10 years regarding the Fighting Sioux name in that time. It is well documented. Obviously they didn't. Now you can be upset with how Kelley is handling the issue, that's fine. But to me these kids are upset about the retirement of the name. Blaming Kelley for the initial ritrement of the name is idiotic because he was not even here when it all went down. Now of course these kids could have been protesting the cancellation of Springfest, well then that'sa different thing. And outside the student population, you won't gain much support there.

Dean Blaise 2009 - Present!!

I have an "odd" feeling that this is Red River's year!! Go Riders!!

I thought that if a player commits to a school and the coach leaves for another coaching job, that commit can follow the coach there (if he wants them and there is a spot open of course) and the player does not have to sit out a year. If a coach is fired and the player has already signed his letter of intent, if they wanted to play somewhere else they would have to sit out a year. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that is how it works.

Let the games begin!!

Best moments that stand out in my mind from that era (in no particular order) - Digger's tackle on 4th down to seal the voctory against the Bison in 2003. - Mustard's tip toe TD against Pitt State. - "The Catch" in Florence. - Goal line stand against UC Davis and how rocking the Alerus was that game. - First NDSU game at the Alerus. Tailgate lot was packed. Place was filled to the rafters. Endzone concourse was 3 rows deep. - Fist game at the Alerus in 2001. Not so much a great game but a great experience being at the new home of UND football!!