fightingsioux4life

I think it is important to remember that for a lot of these kids, this is their first sustained time away from home. It is not surprising that some of them are feeling homesick and thinking twice about going to school here.

You know what the worst part of this is? Why we sit here and bicker about who is or isn't leaving our program, Joel Heitkamp is on KFGO broadcasting live from the Fargodump, doing a 3 hour pre-pre-game show before NDSU's nationally televised FCS Semifinal game vs. Richmond. Bubba's rebuiilding job cannot be finished soon enough.

If you can't share names, don't drop hints.

They have to protect their precious tax exempt status and their antitrust exemption.

Don't let the NCAA hear that, they'll bombard you with evidence to the contrary. But seriously, this is a consequence of the "hockey-only" attitude by many people in Grand Forks and in the region as a whole. Kids today are better informed than previous generations and when they hear negative comments about non-hockey programs or sense an attitude of "who cares about FB, hockey is all that matters, blah, blah, blah", it might make them think "Why bother working my butt off if nobody cares?". I trust the coaching staff to deal with this appropriately, but a stronger commitment from the administration (that means YOU Faison and whomever gets hired to replace Kelley) and the UND fan base in Grand Forks and the surrounding areas is needed from now on. Either we are serious about putting a nationally-contending FCS team on the field or we aren't.

The NHL season is a marathon, not a sprint. It is way too early to predict where any team will finish. All this speculation on what Hakstol will or won't do with the Flyers is kind of pointless.

29-22 UND 6:54 left in 1st half VCSU will have to shoot better than this if they want to keep it close.

UND up 27-17 middle of first half.

Imagine having two Santiagos in the backfield at the same time! Studsrud wouldn't have to do anything but hand off to those guys.

If we take care of business and win the conference title, we won't have to worry about that.

I honestly would rather sneak up on the rest of the league than have a target on our backs.

That was good.

With all the turmoil and chaos going on at WIU right now (not to mention the rumors of moving down a division), I am not surprised he picked UND instead.

What the $%&* is going on? It seems like every other day I check the FB forum, a kid is "leaving the team" for this or that. Enough bad news already! I know I said earlier that the coaching staff will have us ready for 2016, but that doesn't mean roster defections are a good thing. Anything that hurts our depth is not good.

Apology accepted. Whatever it is, I am sure Bubba and his staff will deal with it appropriately and have us ready for 2016. In Bubba We Trust.

Crap, what is it this time?

Welcome to the UND family Dijon! We look forward to watching you in action.

That's cute. And it very well might not effect anybody else. But it would result in a lot of changes for UND and the schools in the BSC, MVFC and SL.

I have a feeling that other shoe will drop very soon.

I said it was speculation. But it is also worth watching. Nielson just made a lateral move within the same conference. That usually doesn't happen without some extenuating circumstances involved.

I posted this in another thread, but it seems more relevant here: Some people are speculating that Nielson moved from Western Illinois to South Dakota because of upcoming changes at WIU that may involve moving down to Division II for budgetary reasons. That would open up a spot in the MVFC/Summit League. And that would probably open up the debate within UND's fan base on if we should make the move so we are in the same league as the other Dakota schools. If this goes down, it will set off a possible domino effect in intercollegiate athletics in the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains.

Some people are speculating that Nielson moved from Western Illinois to South Dakota because of upcoming changes at WIU that may involve moving down to Division II for budgetary reasons. That would open up a spot in the MVFC/Summit League. And that would probably open up the debate within UND's fan base on if we should make the move so we are in the same league as the other Dakota schools. If this goes down, it will set off a possible domino effect in intercollegiate athletics in the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains.

The day is coming when EVERYTHING is in HD and SD doesn't even exist anymore.

They are probably planning their eventual trip to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl.

They did before and they'll do so again.