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  1. fightingsioux4life
    I for one am anxious to put the chaos and dysfunction behind us and focus on the future.
  2. fightingsioux4life
    Hang in there. Mankato would make a great replacement for Miami when they leave (which is only a matter of time).
  3. fightingsioux4life
    It's hard to distinguish between the true stuff and the b.s.
  4. fightingsioux4life
    A lot of people didn't understand the post.
  5. fightingsioux4life
    How many of those people care about hockey? How many of those people even know their alma mater sponsors hockey? We have always had to go up against bigger schools with bigger enrollment and larger numbers of alumni. This is just another challenge for us to overcome. We can either 1) Rise up to meet it or 2) Give up and don't even try. I'm choosing #1.
  6. fightingsioux4life
    We're waiting.
  7. fightingsioux4life
    Enough of the market size b.s. Reaching out to alumni and former players goes far beyond the city limits of Grand Forks. These are people who love UND and love the program just as much, if not more, than the people here. But you have to reach out to them and court them. Explain how crucial this is to the future health and success of the program and I think they'll respond big time. But it won't happen organically.
  8. fightingsioux4life
    -First he needs to finish filling out his staff. -Then he has to plug all the holes in the roster. -Then he has to make sure our verbal commits don't leave us. I agree with you 100% on more effort and energy being needed with NIL from everyone. But Jax hasn't been on the job for even one month yet. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will the 1883 Collective.
  9. fightingsioux4life
    I agree with you for once. The team goes winless and he's suing on Title 9 grounds? This case is DOA.
  10. fightingsioux4life
    The one in Florida, right? 😝
  11. fightingsioux4life
    This is a pet peeve of mine. Everytime someone portals from one place to another, immediately people start throwing around six and seven figure numbers without any credible proof to back it up. Does anyone really believe that USD football players were getting seven figures apiece to portal out? If they were that good, they wouldn't have ended up in Vermillion in the first place.
  12. fightingsioux4life
    Our NIL efforts have been too little and too late so far. If we can get our act together, I think we'll have another card we can play in situations like that. UND simply cannot allow itself to be dragged down to mid-major status in hockey. It would drag the entire athletic department down into a black hole from which there would be no escape. We need to get our crap together and do it quickly. Bring back the swagger.
  13. fightingsioux4life
    Isn't this the same coach that finished his last season winless?
  14. fightingsioux4life
    BU has no football and is low level mid major in BB. So based on your criteria, they don't belong on your own list. Denver has more Nattys than any of those "big time" schools you mentioned. The national championship has been dominated by either 1) small private schools or 2) non P4 schools since realignment in 2013. UND has always been at a disadvantage when it comes to media market size, population base, enrollment, alumni base and so on. And yet, REA is full of green and white banners. It's time to get our swagger back and stop looking for straw men to blame for our problems.
  15. fightingsioux4life
    This is what bothers me right now. We need to get our swagger back. Jax and his staff need to reestablish our program as a force in the world of recruiting. That means not taking a backseat to anyone. The overall message has to be: We are a blue blood in this sport and we aren't going anywhere.
  16. fightingsioux4life
    The head coaching change and having one staff position still open complicates things. It's entirely possible that Jax has some irons in the fire we don't know about.
  17. fightingsioux4life
    What's false?
  18. fightingsioux4life
    If CBSSN cares only about basketball, then we should dump them. If they want to maintain a relationship with the NCHC and have this exclusive contract, then they will have to up their game considerably. Time for some outside the box thinking; even if some people here don't care for it.
  19. fightingsioux4life
    Too early to make predictions about next year. We still don't know what the final roster will look like. Just like with FB, it's too early to make judgments about 2025-26.
  20. fightingsioux4life
    You're right. I guess I am just anxious for Jax and his staff to reestablish us as a force in recruiting circles.
  21. fightingsioux4life
    Why don't we have a shot at them? When did we start lowering expectations in the area of recruiting? It's time we get our swagger back. Enough of the bull$h!t already.
  22. fightingsioux4life
    No, I don't. I like where we are. I'm just playing Devil's Advocate since a few people on here think it should be considered.
  23. fightingsioux4life
    I wonder how many people at Notre Dame even know they sponsor hockey? 😷 Seriously though, it has been well documented that Minnesota hockey fans are not happy North Dakota is in a different conference now. I imagine Wisconsin fans have similar feelings. Our program offers a large, passionate fan base that travels well and could help put butts in seats that would otherwise remain empty. Not to mention adding more eyeballs to television ratings. But I am more than happy with our program remaining in the National CHAMPIONSHIP Hockey Conference. 🙂
  24. fightingsioux4life
    You just said it's against B1G rules to share BTN money with non B1G members? And this isn't FB. Notre Dame is not a big time school in hockey or anything else besides FB. I'm not a big fan of leaving the NCHC anyway; I just wouldn't want to leave unless it made sense financially and otherwise.
  25. fightingsioux4life
    Notre Dame agreed to those terms?
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