fightingsioux4life

How in the HECK are they getting any kind of "significant return" with the crowds they have drawn to Target Center since this tournament started? Nothing but empty seats if one of the teams isn't North Dakota. What happens if we don't make it one year? It will look like the B1G tournament last year at the X. It would make the league look bad. We should seriously think about getting rid of the post-season tournament like the B1G and WCHA have done.

I always used to get the Best Western Regency Plaza Hotel-St. Paul East, located in Oakdale, MN. It is one mile north of the I94-I494-I694 interchange and has several restaurants nearby (Demori's, IHOP, Sgt. Peppers Bar & Grille). It is an easy drive from the east to downtown St. Paul. I also have figured out how to get a room there for about $50 using Priceline's Name Your Own Price feature every single time. If the NCHC moves the tournament to the X, I am definitely staying there again.

What has always bothered me is that if all this cash is flowing back into UND, why is UND always struggling with "lack of resources" for programs? The new REA must rake in many times what the old REA did, but it doesn't seem to make our budgets easier to balance.

Why does it cost UND over $2 million to use REA? I thought all these concerts, tennis matches, HS tournaments, circuses, etc. were supposed to help pay the operating expenses for the arena? I thought Ralph built this arena to benefit UND and give our programs a distinct advantage compared to everyone else with regard to financial resources? Honest questions, as I can't make sense of it all.

Heck, even if you are self-employed, you are never off the leash.

That level of intensity is just not there for a game that doesn't count in the standings or on the stat sheet. We'll bring it when it really matters.

That is like Michigan and Ohio State not wanting to play each other in football. Crazy talk Fetch, crazy!

If there are any #FireBerry trolls, I will happily take them out to the woodshed.

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I have no problem continuing to play Manitoba to kick off the season.

After hanging #8, I think Berry has plenty of slack on his leash.

To be fair, almost everyone in the building thought it was an incomplete forward pass except for the zebras and Gordon.

I saw that too. Does Schlossman (who I am warming up to, believe it or not) really think we won't win another natty for 30 years? I hope that isn't what he meant because that is crazy talk. During our 16 year long championship drought, there were a couple of 30+ win teams who had single digit loss totals and a bunch of 25+ win teams with loss totals in the low teens. I don't think last year's team was a once in a generation occurrence. We aren't the Butler of NCAA Division I hockey, we are more like Duke, North Carolina or Kansas.

It's a good thing the Olympics are before football season starts or that wouldn't be on either.

Hey now, comments like that sometimes come back to bite you in the a$$. Miami is a solid program and they aren't going anywhere.

My pick for Funny Post of the Year.

Hope she doesn't read this forum or you'll be sleeping on the couch tonight!

The scalpers that work outside of Mariucci Arena would disagree with you.

Well, Bubba and his staff are going to do whatever they can to bring home an FCS title. Think big and you will likely have success. Think small and that is what you will have to settle for.

I was talking about financial support to fund coaches salaries, recruiting, etc. If that isn't there, the wins won't be there. And you better get used to comparisons to NDSU because they are our sister institution in North Dakota and the region. It's the best measuring stick we have, albeit not perfect.

The problem is that some people think hockey being #1 means absolutely nothing else matters. That is not the kind of attitude that breeds success throughout the athletic department. And if we don't give "top notch support" for FB now, a run of FCS titles will never happen. I like what President Kennedy is pushing for: quality over quantity. If cutting 2 to 3 sports helps us better fund FB, MBB and WBB, I am all for it.

We had some Friday night FB games at the Alerus Center in 2001; I guess we could have done that for this game.

Welcome to our dysfunctional little family!

Makes perfect sense to me. SKOL VIKINGS!!!

So what will you do if it is those teams in the Super Bowl?