fightingsioux4life

Enough of the SIU rhetoric, you are sounding like the NDSU trolls. Lennon is in charge at SIU, Bubba was the defensive coordinator. Lennon had the final say in all matters, not Bubba. Maybe Bubba didn't have enough of the right talent to execute his scheme the way he wanted to? This is a different recruiting footprint than SIU and the kind of kids we go after will be different. Your comparison isn't really apples to apples.

Bubba is still cleaning house from the Mussman regime. Also, you have guys like Chris Brown, who quit when he lost his starting job. Those things take a toll on depth.

Real intelligent post, JohnboyND7.

When Bubba gets his own kids in here (it will probably take two recruiting classes), then I think the bleeding will stop.

The team is so short on players that Bubba has to pull the redshirts. I am sure he doesn't like doing it, but the previous regime damaged the program to the point where it is almost like starting over from scratch.

This is what I have been saying all year. 100% spot on.

It's a fact and I would have been happier to have ZERO consultants; I think we could have managed this better ourselves.

Because when you are paying a consultant lots of money, you have to pretend that Fighting Hawks fits the original criteria so the expenditure can be justified.

I don't think geaux_sioux was suggesting that turnovers be tolerated. He was talking about how it will take this program longer to turn around than most people on here would like.

The boundaries clearly need to be redrawn to reflect what Grand Forks is in 2015, not in 1985. Draw a line from the south end along Washington Street north to Demers Avenue, then follow Demers westward to the west end of town. Central would get all the students east and north of that line, Red River would get all the students west and south of that line. I think that would balance things nicely.

Well, I have tried to be professional about all this, but this is an emotional and passionate topic, so I guess we all need to think twice before we post something. I know I have been doing that a lot lately.

This is true of any building, no matter how nice or ugly it is. And don't think we cannot have down years; look at what is happening in Madison right now. It can and will happen, as much as I wish it would not. And before the new REA, UND was at a disadvantage regarding facilities when compared to Minnesota and some other schools. And that didn't stop us from winning championships and putting winning teams on the ice. Facilities are important, and at some point we would have had to upgrade our home arena, but they are not necessarily more important than coaching, recruiting, community support, fundraising and so on. My point is that after being in both buildings, the Old REA had much more intensity than the new REA. I know we can't go back in time and I accept that, but I was just pointing it out.

No, they can campaign for whatever they want. But I did think it was a little disturbing at how many people jumped on the Nodaks bandwagon after Berry and the team said what they said. It smacked of a herd mentality. I really hope everyone who can vote does so after doing their homework and reaching their own conclusion, not because someone else says so.

I agree, but the original point was that the new REA has a better winning percentage. I simply wanted to point out that the new REA has been around half as long as the old REA was, thus skewing the percentages.

So Brad Berry and the Men's Hockey team can openly campaign for Nodaks, but supporters of Roughriders can't do the same? What world are you living in? And since you brought it up, the Nodaks crowd hasn't exactly been polite about their support for their choice either. Bottom line: I want this done right and I want this done as soon as possible. This is dividing our fan base and that is not good. I will support our teams no matter what happens and I would like to get back to arguing with Bison and Gopher fans instead of each other.

And you also must realize that the old REA was in use about twice as long as the new REA has been in use since it opened. We have had one losing season since the new REA opened, while the old REA saw some lean years in the 1970's and early 1990's. So of course the winning percentage will be better in the new REA vs. the old REA. The simple fact is, the old REA seated fewer people (6,067) and all of those people were die-hard, rabid fans of the team. The new REA holds twice as many (12,000), but has a lot of corporate, "here to be seen by whomever" fans, some of whom probably don't know the difference between off-sides and icing. That, my friend, is why the new REA will never quite match the intensity and chaos of the old REA.

That is what I have been saying for months.

I agree with you and I think the coaching staff will stock this program with talented kids who have character and positive attitudes and work habits. But that will take a couple of years. I imagine Bubba and his staff will be on the road as soon as the season is over.

While I have a hard time not disliking Ron His Horse Knows More after his slanderous and false comments about UND being a racist and hateful place, even a broken clock is right twice a day. And one of those times was when he suggested Roughriders as a replacement for Fighting Sioux. A good idea is a good idea, even if the originator of that idea is someone you don't like otherwise.

Have you forgotten what a train wreck this program was just two years ago? In football, if you don't have the numbers, if you don't have the depth across the board, you are going to struggle because injuries are inevitable. That is the next challenge for Bubba and company; building depth across the board so that injuries don't destroy an entire season of work. Give this staff another couple of recruiting classes and then you can make some informed judgments on whether we are headed in the right direction. But it's way, way too early to claim that "we'll always be a second rate team" based on what has happened this year.

Man, don't get me started on this. When the old REA closed its doors for good in 2001, it marked the end of one of the best home-ice advantages in college hockey. The new REA will never match that. At least the Betty is similar to Hyslop in terms of atmosphere and home-court advantage.

I am thinking he can't or doesn't want to name his sources.

I was thinking the same thing earlier today! We could make the logo an UAS drone or something. That would be a nice tie-in to the GFAFB.

Well, it does seem to be getting the most hate right now from the non-PC voters.