fightingsioux4life

If you don't have the best athletes your country has to offer, you are going to struggle. If athletes cannot afford to take time off to play in international competition, they simply won't play. There is no getting around those two things.

And I am saying that is a bad idea. The Olympics are supposed to be for amateurs.

I also don't like politics contaminating my sports coverage, but I haven't seen any political nonsense in Schlossman's articles. When he covers UND hockey, he covers UND hockey. I don't care what he does on his personal social media accounts on his own time. And I think interjecting politics into this thread is a violation of forum guidelines.

Fine. But if the women decide to "deal with it" by walking and not playing, will you be on here b!tching about the United States performing poorly in international competition?

What you are forgetting is that the men are largely professionals making good money, while the women are amateurs who don't have a professional league to make money in. By telling the women to, in effect, "put up and shut up", you are discouraging them from pursuing a spot on international teams (Olympic and IIHF). That will eventually translate into disappointing results on the international stage. And the first people to b!tch about it will be the same people who are telling the women to "put up and shut up". The Olympics are supposed to be amateur, not professional. We should encourage the amateur aspect, not discourage it by telling our prospective athletes to "put up and shut up". For the record, I do not like having professional athletes in the Olympics, whether it be hockey, basketball or anything else. Just make all Olympic sports amateur only and that should level the playing field across the board.

It is apparent that Trev Alberts only cares about UN-Lincoln and UN-Omaha can just wither on the vine and die. Sad, very sad indeed. Good luck to you and your fellow UNO fans in finding a top-notch coach to run your program.

http://www.azdesertswarm.com/basketball/2017/3/12/14896712/ncaa-tournament-bracket-getting-to-know-arizona-first-round-opponent-north-dakota-predictions In that case, maybe we should just forfeit.

Was watching them break down the brackets on ESPNU. Spent about five minutes trying to figure out how South Dakota State can beat Gonzaga. Spent about ten minutes analyzing Florida Gulf Coast's chances of knocking off Florida State. When they came to the UND-Arizona match-up......"Any reason Arizona doesn't advance? Nope? Okay, let's move on to talk about VCU and St. Mary's and then we'll talk about Arizona some more." I hope the coaches are recording stuff like this; it would light a fire under my a$$ if I was a player on the team. Clark Kellogg on CBS actually gave us some respect, saying he thinks Arizona wins, but that the game could be closer than people think. But most people are acting like the Mildcats have a first round bye. GO HAWKS, SHOCK THE WORLD!!!

Meh, it still involved Arizona choking. They haven't won anything in 20 freaking years and all we are hearing about today is their path to the Final Four is all but assured.

2016 isn't recent?

This x 1000!!!

They like to pretend that the Summit is a multi-bid conference, when in fact it is not. And most people think we will get a 15 seed, not the 16 seed and/or play-in game that the Bison rubes think we will get stuck with. I love the smell of payback in the morning!!!

So it isn't always the goaltender's fault? Good to know, some people on this forum still haven't figured that out.

That would have been insane for parking and the REA management and staff!

I was stuck at home all weekend trying to get rid of the week-long Headcold from Hell, so I had to watch it on TV. I was yelling stuff like that last night too. "Get it out of the zone already!!!" At least things turned out for us.

I think this season has bought Jones some serious slack on his leash. Give him a three year extension and see if this is a trend or not.

Is there a second?

You took the bait, son. Nice job.

So if UND beats their first round opponent, will that be ignored in favor of NDSU softball?

That is probably why nothing has happened with regard to women's hockey. They are waiting until the final decisions are made in April. If women's hockey is cut, they won't have to hire a coach or give an extension to the current coach. If it isn't cut, we'll either hear that Idalski has been extended or that he has "resigned" and a search will start for his replacement.

The Fargo media can suck our exhaust fumes for all I care. The bottom line is, we are getting national exposure and (for once) NDSU is not.

ROFL, let's see if Bison Nation really meant that or if it was just a self-serving statement. I am guessing the latter.

For these kids, this is the biggest thing they have ever been a part of (up to this point). So it must really hurt when they work so hard for something and then it just doesn't happen. That is why we love sports so much. The thrill of victory.......and the agony of defeat. It is a timeless concept, passed down from one generation to the next.

It is no secret that a lot of Big Sky schools didn't want UND to join their conference. Makes me want us to win tomorrow even more.