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And a lot of season-ticket holders who were assured by upper management that they are committed to building a winner in the Motor City will soon be gone as well. Talk about bait and switch. Who's next, Matthew Stafford?

Where it gets frustrating is when the apologists keep pulling out the same tired old talking points. If you think Jones should get as much rope as he wants, then bring some serious beef to the table. Anything less is just cheap spin.

Enough with the "transition" excuse! We cannot use that anymore (not that we should have ever used it in the first place).

Our problems are with losing teams, poor coaching and lack of leadership in the athletic department and in the President's office. None of those things would be different if we were in the Slummit/MVFC instead of the Big Sky.

Empire on Fox is pretty good. It's on Wednesday nights at 8pm CT.

The Big Dogz on KJ108 (Tanner and Mars) condemned the Eagles to hell for pulling that little stunt. And I cast the deciding vote!

.......for all the wrong reasons. Finished it for you!

How about getting rid of the "North" and going with just plain "Stars"? That would work with our school colors and it wouldn't be that difficult to come up with a logo that passes copyright muster.

No, we like to point out that NDSU was turned down for Big Sky membership not once, but twice, and now they act like it's a bad conference and that UND shouldn't have joined it. Sour grapes anyone?

Nice cheap shot. Is that how you always debate people? I just cannot get excited about a league full of schools like IUPUI and IPFW.

Take a chill pill MafiaMan, I was just being snarky.

And Dallas needs to remember how average Romo was without a solid running game. And I am sorry, but you need a good running back no matter how good the O-Line is. They are both important. Without Murray, the Cowboys will go back to being 8-8 or 9-7. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Wow, that didn't take long. Seriously, I just want a name that will give us a solid identity, is marketable and will stand the test of time.

IALTO!

Cue the dictionary nerds in three...two...one...

"We are a no-name school with no identity!" You left that part out.

This is why the Summit is called the "Slummit" by some on here (including me). And no amount of spin can change that.

Amen to that. And this year's team has the potential to get it done.

If the Slummit is such a great conference, why are Slummit schools constantly looking for different conferences to jump to?

Because that is where the jobs they want are. That doesn't mean UND will have a big problem beating NDSU for FB, MBB and WBB recruits. If that was the case, we would always suck and that hasn't been the track record.

I am not blaming the hockey program itself, I am blaming UND's administration and athletic department for only caring about hockey and putting all non-hockey sports on the back-burner when it comes to allocating resources, marketing and so on. I am proud of our hockey program and I am a season ticket holder in REA. But I am also a season ticket holder for FB in the Alerus Center and if Bubba gets treated like a red-headed stepchild like Lennon was, he will struggle to take the program where he wants to take it. That is what I was criticizing.

IALTO!

I am not blaming NDSU for bettering themselves, I am simply pointing out that our mediocrity combined with their success will make our task that much harder. It is our own fault, I get that. But comparing UND to NDSU is as good of an apples to apples comparison as there is. If you have a better one, please share it with us. And I agree with you on your last point; it is time the fan base and the administration (Faison, I am talking to you) stop putting up with this mediocrity (which started with our crappy transition) and start demanding the excellence we used to experience around here. I have been ranting about that for a couple of years and all I get from the "ducky and bunny" crowd on here is static.

Beat it troll, don't you have a Scott Miller costume party to go to?

It isn't luck, it's having an athletic department and an administration that values and demands excellence in whatever sport they have chosen to sponsor. The sort of mediocrity with our MBB team would not be tolerated at NDSU. Triple the intolerance level for FB. Craig Bohl would probably have lost his job if he didn't pull off the quick turnaround after the 3-8 debacle in 2009. In Grand Forks, he would have gotten a contract extension and way too much rope to hang himself and the program with. This hockey-only attitude might have worked in Division II, but it simply will not cut it in Division I. If Bubba doesn't get what he needs in the next couple of years, if Brewster doesn't get what he needs in the next couple of years, if Jones is allowed to continue burying the MBB program in mediocrity, this sorry state of affairs will continue, if not get worse. As Scott Miller would say, "My oh My!"