fightingsioux4life

The warning signs with Muss were there long before the disasterous 2013 season that finally ended that regime. I will acknowledge I was slow getting onto the Fire Muss bandwagon; Darrell saw it coming way earlier than I did. Having different opinions and different perspectives is fine. But I have noticed that the "all positive, all the time" people are given more tolerance for their opinions, while those of us that think it is important to point out negative aspects of our programs are barely tolerated on this forum. That is what I meant by being "the bad guy". I don't make things personal on here and I don't tell people to shut up (except the FU and Goofer trolls), but I have been told (either explicitly or implicitly) to shut up on several occasions. So I guess that could be construed as "martyrdom", although I don't consider myself a martyr; these are 1st world problems after all.

Well, somebody has to be the bad guy and tell it like it is. I have been that guy before and I am glad Darrell is here so I don't always have to do it. Darrell was right about Muss and I suspect he is right about Jones too. But all he gets is flack from people for not being positive all the time. Well, I appreciate his truth-telling and it is unfortunate that others don't appreciate it more. And as for the "optics of buying out a coach's contract" in the current budget situation, that didn't seem to be a problem when it came time to buy out Muss. If it is important enough, we will find a way. If not, we will find an excuse. Finally, I don't care if MBB finishes in the top half of the Big Sky Conference. The benchmarks for this program must be higher than that or there is no point in having a Division I MBB team.

So all these years, they were able to make money with WDAZ covering Grand Forks and Devils Lake. And now, all of a sudden, they can't? You can buy that load of *bleep* if you want. Me and Fetch are not. And I still cannot figure out how KVLY and KXJB can be owned by the same people in the same market. Maybe it is time we start enforcing our anti-trust laws instead of rubber stamping every merger that gets proposed.

The goal isn't to be "respectable" in the Big Sky Conference. It is to win post-season tournaments and perhaps win a game or two in the NCAA tournament. Anything less than that is not good enough.

Nice personal attack. When you are all hat and no cattle, that is all that you are left with I guess.

I don't think Faison is thinking this. And if he is, that is the next job that needs to be looked at for an upgrade.

I hope it's nothing bad at all. But it looks like it's something more than a case of the flu.

If it's something like mono, then you can scratch her for the rest of the season.

Yeah, I know that. I was speculating that they would get rid of the Heraldo to save money and replace it with the Fargo Forum.

And it is also inevitable that I will not bother watching their newscast anymore. Fargo really thinks it is Minneapolis. What's next, the Grand Forks Heraldo gets shut down and we are force-fed the Fargo Forum?

Beating a MAC team once early in a season is fine. Beating MAC teams over the course of a typical 11 game season is quite different.

No, it's a cold, hard fact. A lot of kids that used to live in the now-defunct Lincoln Park and Riverside Park neighborhoods went to GFC. But, like i said, Central is back to being good year in and year out.

So if they were won before 1967, they don't count? Should we forfeit them? The Flood of 1997 really screwed up the population patterns in Grand Forks and that hurt Central's hockey program big-time. They are now starting to get back to being consistently good.

That still doesn't answer the question of who has more titles.

C'mon man, that was weak! You have to have something better than that in your arsenal!

Let's remember how many overall titles GFC has!* *Hint: It's more than that other high school on the south end of Grand Forks!

This has the potential to be the biggest storm we have had since the Christmas storm in 2009. Do not play around with this, watch the forecasts and make your travel plans accordingly.

The stats don't tell the whole story. This team has a problem with discipline, cohesiveness and as we've seen the past couple of weeks, maintaining composure toward the end of games. Those are the biggest problems with this program and those fall on Jones and his staff.

A successful AD? Yeah. A gigantic, colossal, Grade A Certified toolbox? A definite YES.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Hope they make better decisions on players than they did last year.

No problem, I should have been more clear.

Taylor isn't in charge there, though, he is an assistant AD.

hoops44 doesn't care about winning, he is content with just having a team with a Division I classification.

Yes, you are correct. I think it is safe to say that Jones is auditioning to keep his job this season.