Siouxperfan7

I can only assume that attendance issues are the main reason for wanting a change. Gauranteeing the top 4 teams or every team makes it to Minneapolis would deffinitely help attendance anxiety in late March for NCHC brass. http://gazette.com/nchc-weighing-playoff-changes/article/1518556

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the law that was passed when they retired the name was that UND could not even start the process for looking for a nickname until 2015. Somehow I am thinking that has to be right because we are 7 months from 2015 and there hasn't even been a whisper about a selection process being discussed by the U niversity. Which leads me to wondering what the time frame will be for selecting a new name once the ball drops and 2015 is here.

It all comes down to in the trenches. We need to get better on the O-line and D-line. Both will lead success to the other positions. A dominant O-line will help your running game and give the QB more time in the pocket to find open recievers. A dominant D-line will slow down the running game making the other team one dimensional and allow for mre pressure on the QB. When you get your lines clicking on all cylinders, it makes the rest of your team better. That is where the focus should be and I believe Bubba and his coaches are adressing it.

Just imagine all our sports teams coming out on the court/field/ice to this music!! Best into music ever!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYZ5JcHVpa8

Potential nickname for the new lockerroom...."The Oval Office."

This just in.....Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals on NBC will be preemted by NDSU football strength and conditioning training.

So last year, the UND athletic department sold the season on our exciting home schedule. This year peoples expectations are to be a .500 team and not be blown out in the loses we do have!! Yes we do have a new coach and a new system. The die hards will be there. But to the casual fan, a .500 team is not gonna get people to games or create any interest in this team. Not meaning to be all negative, but the attendance issues from last year are deffinitely going to carry over to this year!!

Oh, didn't you know, NDSU football is more popular than NHL hockey playoffs!! (Or at least that is the way Bison fans will spin it)

Wait....so I am seeing on Twitter that there are not enough players to have an actual game on Saturday? That they will just set up different offence vs. deffense scenerios?!! Combine that with no advertising that I have seen about it and nothing planned for tailgating or anything else.....there should be tens of people there!!

Where is el forko grande? And why would a spanish/mexican/hispanic sounding town embrace Canadians so much?

Your "good ole boys" meetings are at the El Roco? I can just picture all you guys sitting around with your Old Milwaukee talking about the good ole days!!

Seems like refs don't want to make call that is questionable to give a team a power play. With the ammount of one goal and overtime games so far in the playoffs, It could end up being a huge call in the game. What everyone wants in officiating is consistency. The refs are doing a horrible job in the playoffs this year with that. They are calling the games completely different from the way the regular season was called.

IF I would guess, I put the top 4 in this order.... 5. BU 4. BC 3. Minnesota 2. UND 1. Michigan But I guess we will see what kind of a homer Dave really is!

I guess that's what happens when you take a big dumb lineman and make him a head coach!! He becomes a bid dumb head coach!!

http://www.undsports..._FOR_MOBILE=YES No W. Mich at home, and No trip to Duluth. Besides that, home/away with the rest of the NCHC.

I could see Mattson with a letter on his jersey next year as well!

And the drama continues!! http://www.myfoxtwin...s-keen-as-coach

Come on. Do you think that the Gophers goal this year was just to win a conference championship? Sure you can be proud of winning a watered down 6 team conference. But don't fall back on it and brag about it when fail to win the Natty. Sioux fans have been there. The first game of the 2011-2012 season, they raises the WCHA Championship banner at the Ralph just 6 months after failing to win the NAtional Championship we all though we were going to win. Sure we were proud of the accomplishment, but it was bitter sweet seeing that one go up instead of a NAtty banner.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! OH MY GOD!!!!! Yeah...I am sure that is what the team was saying before Saturdays game. "Well...at least we get to rase a banner. This game doesn't really matter since we have already overachieved so much this year!! HAHAHAHA Oh man. I can't stop laughing at this rediculous statement!!!!

And maybe an "overachieved" banner as well!!

2nd, 4th, 59th best team in the country. Doen't matter where you finish unless it's #1 hoisting a National Championship trophy. Every teams goal (realistic or not) is to win the National Championship. IT is not to make the Frozen Four, beat their rival in the playoffs, or make the Championship game. All other accomplishents don't matter unless you win the big one at the end. In addition to the "National Runner Up" banner they are going to proudly hang at the John, they might as wll hang a ".6" banner up as well!!

What is the average IQ of a Gopher fan....... What is the average blood alcohol level of gopher fans during games (especially the ones in dinkytown)...... What is Adam Wilcox save percentage in the National Championship game....... What is the average length of male Gopher fans Pe............ok, I won't go there!!

Rocco, do you want the semifinal game versus Minnesota to be the way you leave this program? Listen to players that have left early. Zach Parise said he regrets leaving when he did and not winning a National Championship. Go out on your terms. Not by the hands of the Gophers. Stay another year, hoist a trophy above your heat in Boston next year, and then start your pro career then.

The difference is UND fans didn't make shirts that said "Wrap around" or "3-2" after that game. You made the point in your post. " the Gophers did not go on to win it all." Yes is was a big win and a crazy way to win a game. But because Minnesota didn't go on to win the title, it takes a little bit of the luster off of it. Gopher fans can bring up .6, make t-shirts, etc. But it will only remind them that 2 days after that game, they went on to lose the National Championship and get dominated by Union.

I heard from a source that some players are thinking of leaving and some players are thinking about staying. I also heard from another source that I am connected to that the decisions will most likely come between now and the bigining of next years season.