fightingsioux4life

You mean Berry is literally Bubba.

I agree with you. The PWR becomes more important the closer we get to March.

Those bad games vs. Bemidji (loss) and RMU (lost lead late in 3rd) are looming very large now.

Now watch it happen.

These are the games that will boost our PWR if we win.

We are fortunate to not be trailing. Two posts and a few chances botched by Western.

At least we aren't missing the net as much tonight.

One of the most complete periods all season.

Can't disagree with you at all.

Is there enough money after the Bubba buyout?

It is nice to have options again after all those injuries in the first half.

#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.