fightingsioux4life

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.

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.