fightingsioux4life

Wow, some of us on here are a little ornery! Come on people, let's remember who our real enemies are (Minnesota, Boston College, WCHA refs) and quit attacking each other. We all need to be on the same page in March when the games really count! GO SIOUX!!!

We should bring back the "Common Man Football Standings" for the NHL so we can have a "beat themselves" column for the Avs! Then those announcers would feel better about the asinine comments they make during games.

You are prophetic! It's Niners vs. Ravens, Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh. I am going with the Niners by 7; they have found the right QB and have everything else they need to finish the job this time.

Everyone needs to stop giving Minnesota the national title and taking us out of the race for the MacNaughton Cup and calm down. It is mid-January. There are 3-4 teams bunched up at the top of the league standings right now. The playoffs are a couple of months away. Our team won't be in a slump forever. Once we get our line combos figured out and get back to playing solid D in front of our own net, we'll be okay. Like I said earlier this week, whatever happens this weekend, both teams will have a lot of important games down the stretch. I want a split, but getting swept wouldn't be the end of the world or the end of our season. This group still has a ton of potential and I still have faith they can realize it. GO SIOUX!!!

Let's make sure that the Minnesota Rouser is only played at the beginning and end of each period!!! Win tonight, sweep tomorrow!!! GO SIOUX!!!

It looks like it's related to the oil patch. It would be nice to capture all that natural gas and use it instead of burning it off.

Touche.

They aren't doing their about-face with the sole intention of not playing UND, but it does provide them with a convenient alibi to avoid continuing the rivalry and look generous towards the in-state schools at the same time. I just couldn't let people come on here and insist that the U of M cared so much about other D-I programs in the state when they never have in the past. Also, to have "a much bigger relationship" with schools, you have to show an interest in playing them (and not just when you have to, but when you want to). And the U of M never bent over backwards to schedule these schools before they joined the WCHA. So, please explain these "big relationships" because I just don't see them.

The U of M is only concerned about the U of M and that is it. They have never cared about the other D-I programs in the state until now, when they have big holes in their schedule and when they need a clever excuse not to schedule UND. What is laughable is that you believe what they tell you.

But the U of M really, really cares about the other programs in Minnesota! The DQ Cup is just way too prestigious for us to lose! Yeah, and pigs started flying in Iowa today.

Don't talk about GPL that way; you'll get fellow Gopher fans mad at you.

I have been following this rivalry since the mid-1990's and I have had very easy access to Minnesota media. The truth hurts, doesn't it?

I am getting really sick and tired of hearing this crap. For years, the U of M couldn't care less if schools like Bemidji State, Mankato State and St. Cloud State ever established themselves at the Division I level. They even pitched a hissy fit when KMSP-9 decided to air St. Cloud State games back in the 1990's, even though they had their own sweetheart cable deal with Midwest Sports Channel. Gopher propaganda outlets like Let's Play Hockey, WCCO's Sid Hartman and MSC made sure that most (if not all) media coverage focused on the Gophers and that's it. You wouldn't even know if anyone else had a Division I program in the state except for the mighty Golden Gophers (yes, even Duluth got ignored most of the time). But now, when the U of M needs an excuse not to play UND out of conference, all this love and affection for the State Universities of Minnesota suddenly comes out. What a crock of crap! Please go to GPL or whereever else people will buy this garbage because nobody here is buying it without a gigantic block of salt.

Get your pictures taken while you can. I will miss the old place. Lot of great players, great games, great moments.

You know, I loved ripping on Wooger when I was a student, but he's a decent guy and has always looked at UND as a true rival and respects us as a program. Unlike someone else we know.

You used more restraint than I would have. I would have had the guy kicked out on his butt for picking on my wife.

My comment was not aimed at you; it was aimed at Gopher fans that don't even think UND belongs at the same level as their team. Those are the fans that get my blood boiling.

But you are forgetting, all Rodentia cares about is Wisconsin!

Wow, a lot of negativity on this forum this week. We don't match up well with them, so we better slow the game down, our #1 goalie is in a slump and they have the greatest goaltender in the world, blah, blah, blah. I know splitting at home sucks and nobody is pleased about how we've played the past couple of weeks, but this team still has plenty of talent and has the potential to be great in March and April. I don't know what will happen this weekend, but I am a little disgusted that a good number of our fans are already writing this weekend off as a lost cause. Whatever happens this weekend (good or bad), remember that championships aren't won in January. There will be important games after this weekend for both teams.

Just like Minnesota's real hockey rival is Wisconsin. Yeah, right.

IALTO!

A lot of teams in the league have better defensive stats than we do; which is something all of us are worried about. But we have the potential to play much better in our own end if we can just pull it together as a unit. Whether it happens or not is anybody's guess.

I think the hardest step in any rebuilding program is to go from good to great. Going from bad to good usually doesn't take as long (one example of this is UND football in the late 80's). Idalski and the Lamoreaux sisters have helped get this program from bad to good in a very short period of time. The next step will take longer and require more patience from all of us.

We started the season poorly in this area, got better before Christmas and have regressed again. We did fine when we picked up three of four points vs. Denver at home. If we can get back to that, we should do fine.