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#butthepenrose

I have been advocating this for several years.

Parking meters are illegal in North Dakota.

Agree 1000% Something has to change.

And you go out of your way to respond to comments I make, whether or not you were tagged in it.

It's nice I get to live rent-free inside your head.

Careful or @jdub27 will chastise you severely. 😛

It was such a departure from what I have come to expect from Chaves regarding contract extensions for coaches. That is why I was speculating whether Armacost had anything to do with it.

Good thing we are not Division 2 anymore.

I think Detroit remains the favorite in the NFC. The AFC will come down to the Chiefs, Ravens or Bills.

I agree with this. The biggest NIL deals will be in football (P4 FBS) and maybe some high-major basketball players. Hockey does not have the big media and sponsorship footprint that football and even basketball have.

Specifically..... -Chaves can stop hiring internally instead of conducting a national search. In WBB, Brewster was replaced internally by Mallory. The results speak for themselves and they are ugly. He just went internal to replace the non-renewed soccer coach. Maybe he'll get lucky on that one, but I am guessing not likely. -Chaves can stop giving coaches an infinite amount of time to build their programs. How many years should Sather get? Mallory? Any thoughts on that? The last extension he gave Bubba was outrageous. And it cost us $750K to get out of. -All the bells and whistles (facilities upgrades) are great and will help all programs recruit quality student-athletes. But if we have coaches in charge of programs that are underperforming (their players don't get better from one year to the next, they don't seem prepared for a particular opponent), I don't think they will be as successful as they should be. -UND hockey has won a bunch of Penrose Cups, but national level success has been lacking for 9 long years. Fair or not (and I don't know if it is fair), national success is what people remember. We are becoming irrelevant nationally. And the longer we are, the harder it will be to fix it. -Isn't the 1883 collective run by people outside the UND umbrella? Maybe I am wrong about that? -We have become irrelevant compared to the other 3 Dakota schools. NDSU is celebrating another FCS title, before that, SDSU won back to back FCS titles. I think Schmidt can and will turn it around, but we wasted a lot of years and money waiting for Bubba to get it turned around. And it will make Schmidt's job that much more challenging. In basketball, all the other Dakota schools have had some national success in WBB and/or MBB. Our women's team isn't even in the same galaxy as either South Dakota school. March Madness would be a huge boon for this entire athletic department and all of UND in general, but you have to get there first. -Finally, this whole concept that as long as the student-athletes are doing well in the classroom and the community, wins and losses are basically irrelevant, is a ridiculous false choice. You don't have to give up one to have the other. Yet, this false choice is spread on this forum by some contributors (they know who they are). I don't think we have to go to the Rutgers model, where we have great academics and athletic teams that are (with a few exceptions) mediocre. But please, continue insisting that UND athletics is flying high and everything is "sol-id". Just don't expect me and others to buy into it.

The truth of my final paragraph cannot be disputed.

So I'm supposed to believe that Chaves, after giving Bubba a big, fat contract extension two years ago, suddenly did a 180 and pushed him out? All the money that moved around to set up that special job for Bubba to pay him the remaining $750K on his contract, plus the six figures to hire Schmidt, must have required the cooperation of a lot of people on campus. I find it hard to believe that Chaves did that without Presidential backing and/or prompting. Chaves has a proven history of bad hires, which he then doubles and triples down on with ill-advised and unearned contract extensions. He is one of the worst athletic directors in the long and proud history of this institution. The sooner he is gone, the sooner we can get back to winning around here.

Oh please do. I could always use the free entertainment.

We are becoming irrelevant on the national stage. The lack of postseason success justifies a change at the top. You are the one that should seek help.

I really don't think the long-time supporters of this program or former coaches and players who accomplished great things at UND are "content with mediocrity". I also don't think our FB alumni were content with the direction of the program under Bubba. The problem is that we have an athletic director who doesn’t care about wins and losses or postseason success. Buying out Bubba, I believe, was driven by Armacost. Moving on from Berry will probably have to originate from the President's office as well. But the best thing Armacost can do for UND athletics is get rid of Bill Chaves and replace him with someone who has high standards for excellence.

Armacost will have to pull rank like he did with the Bubba buyout.

Also big picture: Berry is still coaching for his job.

The point is the older crowd won't be here forever. If we don't inject some life into the program and get some buzz going, it will get worse.

The PWR hole is the biggest problem right now.

Both basketball coaches need to go.

Chaves had better not even think about giving Sather an extension.

This game counts as 67% of a win, right?

I think he redeemed himself.