Siouxperfan7

So why do you do it then???

Question for you on something that has bugged me in your posts. Why do you use the word "teh" when you say "teh UND" and "teh Herd"? Is there an inside joke or something I am missing out on??

New for this year... http://www.ncaa.org/...e in ice hockey The thing that I like the most about the new rules is the ability for leagues to adopt a 4 on 4 overtime. I hope the NCHC strongly considers adopting this. Would make for some fun overtimes!!!

I can understand Bison fans being a fan of UND hockey. there are a lot of those. But a person that cheers for both UND and NDSU in football?? WOW...didn't think such a person existed!!

How about the place that moved into that building when it moved....Dagwoods!! Before the smoking ban at GF bars went into effect, this was the only bar in Grand Forks that was smoke free!! Deffinitely a plus for people that didn't want to reak of smoke after being out at a bar. Loved the sandwiches and the Mug Club deals were pretty good. Got a couple mugs from there in my cupboard right now!!

Seasoned fries with nacho cheese and a butterfinger malt. Didn't get much better than that at Toppers!!

Toppers on Washington. Now that place was the bomb!!!

Dude..whatever!! Seriously..you are annoying!!!

Exactly 1 month till kickoff!! Let the countdown begin!!!

I would love to see a former Sioux hockey player be a color commentator with Hammer. Got to be some former player out there that would be good. What's Brad Miller doing these days??!!!

You know what I meant. A big time FCS football conference. Obviously I don't think the Big Sky is at the same level as the SEC, Big 12, PAC 12, etc.

Let's try to fill the Alerus Center seats before we talk about overflow into the ballroom or anywhere else. If you want to come tailgaiting and watch the game.....go to the actual game!! Tickets aren't that expensive. Last I checked you could get season tickets for as low as $60.

Ummmm.....was this a serious question? Ballroom attendance counting for total attendace? Could we count the people watching in Taven United and in their hotel rooms in the Canad Inn as well?? Obviously it is stadium attendance. Come on man!!

What always bugged me about Sweeney was that he got so excited when something good happend for UND, he got this high pitched whiney voice that you could barely make out what he was saying. I am all for showing enthusiasm, but it is was just annoying to watch a hockey game when every time the puck got near the net he freaked out and sounded all high and whiney. Not knocking the guy personally, just not a fan of his broadcast syle.

Alright...leave the political discussions at the door. This is a UND sports site.

Interesting tweet by Coach Kotelnicki. Must have been a pretty good recruit!! Josh Kotelnicki‏@CoachKotelnicki Lots of "firsts" in recruiting this year....but today was the first staff 2 staff member chest bump over recruiting! All I can say per NCAA!

I am sure they have the money to get the hockey program started. I think that the Penn State athletic program will be fine. Many people are saying that this is going to significantly damage their athletic department and it will take a decade to recover. Penn State has plenty of money. they can afford to pay 60 million dollars over the next 4 years. Happy Valley will still be packed for every home game in the next 4 years. Penn State will still win games as well. So while they are dishing out money every year as part of their penalty and losing money from not being in any Bowl games, Penn State will still be very financially well off iver the next few years.

That's fine and dandy if you are MSU Moorhead or Mankato. But this is UND. We are D1 and in a big time D1 conference in the Big Sky. We are on the brink of starting in a new hockey conference that is looking to become the top conferences in college hockey. Also, with Midco UND is tupgrading its televison broadcasts with shows and HD in the future. UND athletics is now in the big time now. An upgrade in the broadcast of games was needed and IMO satisfied with hiring Hammer.

I do agree that there will be a committee formed that will eventually decide on a nickname. However, I don't think that it will be formed anytime soon as we have, by state law, till 2015 to decide on a new name. What I am hoping is there will be continuing discussion on boards like this to what they new name should be. That way in a year or two when a decision needs to be made as to what UND will have as a new name, there will be one that poeple have been talking that would be acceptable. Hopefully this committee will listen to the fans.

Dan Hammer replacing Pat Sweeney.....Yep, that's a good thing!!!

I just love how NDSU is coming off a National Championship and Bison fans are still concerned about what that little insignificant school (in their opinion) up the road is doing!!!

Well obviously Bohl and the rest of his coaches were inpressed since they offered him a scholarship after that game!! I know its hard for a Bison fan to believe that a good player would choose UND over NDSU, but guess what...it happened. Has happened before and no doubt will happen many many more times in the future.

NDSU really didn't want him anyway. Just like Molberg!!

I will disagree with you that in fact it did have to do with atheletics and gaining an advantage on the playing field. Why did they keep all of this a secret. Paterno knew about this. The fact that he didn't report this is awful. If all of this would have come out 10 years ago, they would have most likely fired Paterno back then. You don't think that Penn State has a recruiting advantage in Joe Paterno? He is their number one football recruiting tool. Not having him as head coach would have dramatically hurt recruiting of top players. So because they covered up all these allegations, they knew their were going to be reprocutions if this ever came out. So by keeping it a secret and having Joe Paterno continue to remain the head coach, they absulutely gained an advantage in recruiting which translates to the playing field. So vacating all wins during this time persiod was ,IMO, absulutely appropriate.

Only difference is FBS schools lose millions each year when they don't make a bowl game. FCS schools lose thousands.