fightingsioux4life

That is why I am choosing not to watch this year. I can hardly wait until October so we can turn our program around and get back to winning.

I wouldn't want to risk NCAA sanctions, so I think we better do this 100% above board.

I like this idea, but UND cannot be involved in it (NCAA rule).

Are you referring to where the visiting team's bus drives inside? I think @Frozen4sioux was talking about parking for fans going to the games.

The NCAA requires us to sponsor X number of sports as a Division I institution. The Summit League has requirements as well. And we need to stop looking at this as a pure zero-sum game. There is vast untapped fundraising potential that we are simply not tapping. And as for getting blue chippers, having local businesses start up NIL programs would help. The "heated underground parking" would benefit us fans more than anyone else.

He is in prison now? When we won it all in 2016, he went on an online tirade about how we don't deserve it and how awful we are as fans.

It's probably ROOT Beer, but that is fine by me.

Pointing out weaknesses and shortcomings in your own team and/or institution does not mean you "aren't really a UND fan". It means you don't like where your team and/or institution is and want them to do better. A lot of the shameless apologists on this forum don't understand that and probably never will.

He's going from Defensive Coordinator to Defensive Backs coach. That isn't a downgrade?

Lot of good teams left in their path to overcome. And they will not hang onto their top talent for three to four years. NHL agents are probably lurking in the shadows of every arena they are in right now in case they are eliminated so they can get a contract signed.

If we don't have the facilities and money to win big at hockey now, we never will. Those complaints are 100% legitimate for our other sports however.

There is a proven history of UND losing coaches to lateral moves, with the coaches making more money at their new location. That has "basis in truth" Mr. @jdub27. If this is an exception to that, I will gladly stand corrected. And Mr. @SiouxBoys, a coach isn't going to poor-mouth their previous employer over a low salary, in public anyway. The "closer to family" line is sometimes used to avoid answering questions about that. And I thought collegiate athletics was all about the Benjamins?

So you think coaches routinely make lateral moves for less money? I maintain it is a rare exception and not the rule. If this is an exception, so be it. But our salaries are still too low to retain quality coaches.

What percentage of coaches ever take a lower-ranked job at a school at the same level (FCS in this case) for less money? I would guess the percentage is pretty miniscule. This could be one of those exceptional cases, I'll grant you, but I am skeptical of that. We have lost MBB coaches to lateral moves within our own conference and those coaches made more money in their new jobs. I am guessing this is another example of that. But even if I am wrong in this case, low coaches salaries are still a big problem at UND.

F the Goofers. Every team that plays them from now on is my favorite team. I want Dubay crying in his beer before this tournament is over.

A downgrade job.....with a higher salary. Let that sink in.

I think St. Thomas will be more committed to winning than Miami is. The Redhawks haven't been good at anything for quite awhile now. The 2009 Runner-Up finish is a distant memory.

Roll out the young D men and live with their mistakes. Hopefully, they grow and learn together and develop chemistry.

They peaked too soon.

So the Summit was wrong to take them? They saw the same potential that I and others see. Getting kicked out of the MIAC was the best thing that could have happened to St. Thomas; their full potential can now be unlocked and unleashed. In 5 years, St. Thomas will be a factor in Division I hockey. You cannot say the same thing about Miami.

Pricknold is not my favorite person in the world, but it still beats the other three teams mentioned.

They will outgrow that conference in about 5 years.

I don't know if the coaches are interested in him at all or not, but we cannot adopt a mid-major attitude towards top talent. The B1G is our most dangerous enemy. We have to be willing to engage and fight with them for recruits. There is no getting around it.

As did I.

I know and you are 1000% correct; that was embarrassing. But I also think St. Thomas is a much more attractive school overall.