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"Puke-Up" should take some solace in the fact that our radio color analyst "Milk Toast" Mike Berg spent half the game talking about how great he is. Is anyone else sick of Berg doing that? He'll find a player on the other side he likes and then run off at the mouth about him and his exploits the entire game. He did that with Zenner from SDSU in 2013. Sometimes Berg forgets that he is on the UND Football Radio Network, not the other team's radio network.

Look at his work in conservation, environmentalism, regulating big business and siding with labor over management. Those attributes alone would disqualify him from today's GOP. But nice job cherry-picking.

TR would be a Democrat today, as would Lincoln and Eisenhower. None of those three men are "pure" enough for today's GOP. Anyway, I support Roughriders 100% and I encourage everyone reading this to think about the future of UND and that this vote could very well determine which name we are stuck with (for better or worse) for the rest of our lifetimes and beyond. Go Riders Go!

Okay, where is College Hockey, Inc. and the work they were supposed to do in stopping this nonsense?

You are right that negatives need to be pointed out and I apologize if I come off as hot-headed. But UND is like my second home and I have watched us slowly sink into the mire of mediocrity in several sports. And it is just getting real old. The good news is that a change is coming in the President's office and I hope that leads to some changes in the Athletic Department. Because our fans deserve better.

Excuse me, but I was one of the biggest "Fire Muss" posters on here in 2013. Now that I think Bubba should get a reasonable amount of time to fix what Mussman broke, I am "duckies and bunnies"? That just doesn't make sense. It should go without saying that the ultimate goal is winning FCS titles in FB. But that is the problem at UND, people aren't thinking like that. And that annoys the heck out of me. The differences between UND and NDSU are not that great. But NDSU has had way more success than we have over the past 10 years or so (except maybe in WBB). That tells you what a lack of leadership and, conversely, a presence of leadership looks like. And I think you know which school is in which category. The big difference between us is that you think this is just the way things are and it will likely not change anytime soon. I think we can and should do better.

Are you serious? Last time I checked, REA was built by Ralph Engelstad for the sole purpose of benefiting UND. That means REA, Inc. should exist to support UND, UND should not be serving REA, Inc. This is a problem I have pointed out many times on this forum and all I get is static and accusations that I am not a real fan. And if you really think we are supposed to just accept this cute little arrangement for the foreseeable future, then you are kidding yourself. If anything is dividing hockey from the other sports, it is this cute little arrangement. If REA wants to have their cute little tennis matches, concerts, circuses and basketball games, that is fine. But they exist to support UND, not "its own interests to look out for". If the hockey program is our main revenue sport and it isn't producing enough revenue to fund our non-revenue sports and get our underperforming, potential revenue sports out of their funks (thanks to "having their own interests to look out for"), then that is a problem that needs to be solved. Or else we shouldn't be Division I. Period. End Rant.

RD17 is saying we will never, ever do anything in any sport except hockey....ever. And even if we do, the Bison had better not have done it first or else they will have "cornered the market" on that particular sport. Because everything is a zero-sum game. Funny, that doesn't stop NDSU from having success in FB and MBB at the same time. It doesn't stop them from having success in softball (despite the same harsh climate we have to deal with). And it probably won't stop them from having VB success again someday (I don't think they'll tolerate mediocrity in that program for much longer). I guess there is an imaginary line through Hillsboro that divides the Valley into two spheres of existence: One where everything is a zero-sum game and there are no resources to do anything about anything and another where people strive to succeed and achieve excellence in everything they do. UND is the former and NDSU is the latter. But I guess if our fans like it that way, then who am I to judge?

But you are accepting and promoting mediocrity. Because we as fans just accept being average at everything except hockey, there is no pressure on Faison and Kelley to do anything about it. NDSU puts a lot of resources into football, but that doesn't prevent them from having competitive Men's Basketball teams. Again, based on your zero-sum theory, NDSU's men's basketball team should suck all the time because of football. But it doesn't. And since when do we determine which of our programs will be successful based on what NDSU does? This idea that we have to play second-fiddle to NDSU in everything because they did it first has to die. I am so sick of hearing Bison this, Bison that, "My Oh My" this, "There's your dagger!" that out of Imperial Cass County. And part of it is a result of our poorly managed transition period, when mediocrity was rewarded and there was turmoil within the athletic department. But that doesn't mean we can't and shouldn't do better. Our goals as a Division I school should be: 1) Contend both within the conference and nationally, as an FCS football program, 2) Have both men's and women's basketball programs that contend for Big Sky tournament titles and appearances in March Madness and 3) Have our other sports (Volleyball being the most prominent example) do the same. It won't happen all the time, but we should set those goals and work towards them. And that means having a President and Athletic Director that have a vision of excellence for everything we do (athletics, academics and research) and that hold people to those high standards and are willing to make changes as needed. Kelley is a rudderless ship who will be leaving port soon (Thank God). Faison (who has done some good things here) needs to start holding coaches to higher expectations or the new President should find someone who can and will. In closing, success is a choice. You seem to think it isn't, but I believe it is. And I wish UND would start making better choices instead of accepting mediocrity and malaise as "just the way things are". End Rant.

The hockey program does what it does very well and there are high standards each and every season. I just wish the rest of our programs would follow suit. And, like you, I believe our fan base tolerates way too much crap. My earlier post was a response to the idea that we should just accept mediocrity in all non-hockey programs and that is 100% unacceptable. And I agree with you, the standards and expectations around here are not even close to what they used to be and need to be. And, like I have pointed out many times before, that has to change. Or else moving up to Division I was a waste of time, energy and resources. Just like the whole nickname search fiasco has been. And that points to a lack of leadership at the top. Which is why the next President of UND needs to have a vision for excellence in all that we do here.

He's not on the hockey team, so he doesn't count, remember?

Then we should never have moved up in the first place. You are accepting and embracing mediocrity. I will not do that. And neither will a lot of other people on this forum. I suppose you have the same low standards for Men's and Women's Basketball too? Being Division I just for the sake of being Division I is a waste of time, energy and resources. I have never liked it when other schools moved up just for the Division I label and I will not stand for UND accepting mediocrity as the norm as long as I am on this planet. And this idea that athletics is a zero sum game (one revenue sport that wins and everything else has to be garbage) has to stop being promoted as fact. It is a falsehood. You conveniently left out Florida, which has won national titles in both basketball and football in recent years. But that would have ruined your argument, so I understand why you left it out. And UConn has won national titles in both Men's and Women's Basketball in the same year! Based on your hypothesis, the men's team at UConn should always suck. You can accept perennial mediocrity in FB and whatever else if you wish, I shall not. End Rant. In Bubba We Trust.

As a critic of Mollberg, I think it is time to give him a look. Studsrud is injured, Bartles is ineffective and we don't want to pull redshirts off of guys if we can help it. So it falls to Mollberg.

I agree with you. But, aren't we always being told that "You can't blame the kid for doing what is best for him, so stop complaining about it"? Well, sometimes you CAN blame the kid and this punk should be ashamed of himself. A pox on your house, son.

Well done, dakotadan, well done!

Amen x 1000!!! Well said and well done! What a great first post on this forum!

And this is the reason Kelley changed the rules to allow 3 names in the run-off instead of 2. He wants Fighting Hawks.

There is a clear generation gap between fans who have been in both buildings and fans who have only experienced the new REA and can't imagine anything else. Well stated.

Saying that a relatively new coaching staff which took over an absolute train wreck of a program less than two years ago needs more patience is now equivalent to drinking Kool-Aid? And people think I exaggerate on this forum. If we are still struggling with the same issues in 2017, then I will be concerned. But it's way, way too early to form any judgments about the long-term prospects of this coaching staff.

ROFL, Taz Boy, you haven't changed at all since the 1990's! You still know how to have fun with just about anything.

And some people totally miss the original point someone was trying to make. And, in the process, prove the original point right without the author of the original point having to say another word about it.

Please don't give Kelley any bright ideas.

Isn't that one of the main functions of a message board?

It is obvious that some of our fans think any criticism of the new REA is just not justified no matter how true it is. That is considered blasphemy on this forum.

I think a lot of school districts allow it.