fightingsioux4life

Yeah......well, they will have to prove it on the ice or it doesn't count for much. We are King of the Mountain in this sport, until someone beats us in the playoffs.

What? Are you freaking trolling? MBB is NOT "...the top sports show by far in fargo." Not. Even. Close. It's football now and (probably) forever down there. And if we are going to use the "Hockey is king, nothing else matters" excuse, then why did we move our programs up to Division I?

This is the mentality I don't want to take root in Grand Forks with regard to MBB. I know Bubba is not thinking that small with regard to his program.

You are right in that winning more will put more butts in the seats and make better home schedules more realistic. I just get tired of hearing we don't have the resources for this and that, when all of these factors you and other people are bringing up were in place when we were making the decision whether or not to move up. We have to overcome them or this Division I experiment will look like a bad idea.

What? The Slummit is about the same in MBB as the Big Sky Conference: not very prestigious. Oh, and of course, #buttRPI

Really? If this were the case, it wouldn't have taken 10+ years to finish the renovations to the BSA.

Can't argue with that too much.

If you mean football is the undisputed #2 sport on campus and in town, I agree with you. But we still need to make our basketball programs the best they can be. A trip to March Madness would be a huge publicity coup for the entire university.

Okay Mr. Solutions, explain why a school that is very similar to UND in many aspects, is a part of the NDUS, and which is facing the same budgetary issues UND is much more successful than UND at getting Division I teams to come to town. That is what I meant by "explaining away". The whole Fargo Megalopolis argument doesn't hold water with me; it's one freaking hour away via Interstate. Grand Forks isn't Barrow, Alaska. At least you didn't use the "Grand Forks is too cold during the winter" argument that some people have used on here. Partnering with NDSU is a good idea, but with their current leadership and their attitude towards UND, I don't think that will happen. But considering that their President is likely on his way out the door, that could change soon. Finally, our poor attendance won't get better until the team performs more consistently over the course of a season. People are taking a wait and see attitude toward the team (like with football). I do hope Jones can have a big year and get this program to the next level.

Exactly, you simply cannot explain this away.

This message was sent via e-mail to the UND community several minutes ago. I have bolded some key passages: Could this spell the end of swimming and diving? Are our teams going to have the resources needed to compete? Thoughts anyone?

Credit for what? For barely winning a watered-down B1G Conference? And what happened in 2014 has little bearing on what is happening today. The Gopher program is clearly suffering by being in a garbage league with garbage opponents. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Dan Marino?

Never is a very long time, my friend.

I would point to the early 2000's as an example of how Bison football is not immune to the occasional down periods. UND hockey was down in the early 1990's. And in both cases, changes were made at the top.

Nothing lasts forever. Just look at the Atlanta Braves in MLB.

Never saw this coming. But knowing this team, they'll slide back to being bad before long.

Maybe this coach should have applied for the Army coaching job? Or VMI? The kind of athletes Texas will recruit and sign are athletes who usually are holding multiple scholarship offers in their hands. If you go all boot camp like this, you risk losing athletes to rival schools. And in FBS, if you don't win, at some point you will be fired. Having a bunch of 4.0 GPA's or community service work will not prevent that from happening.

But don't you understand? NDSU is a big-time intercollegiate sports campus now! They are now in the same league as Alabama, Ohio State, Oregon and USC! I'd like them to schedule a football game vs. Alabama so they can get a painful reminder of just how small-time they really are outside of our region.

Are you saying you can get NBC programming that our local affiliate is not carrying? Please tell us more.

That is the point I was making earlier. We don't know until we all know.

Good point. But I will believe Grady is done for good when I hear it from Bubba himself.

Thus my question "What the heck do you know?". I get tired of these rumors being spread on this discussion forum without any idea where the info came from.

What the heck do you know? Don't make comments if you can't or won't back them up.