fightingsioux4life

This program needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. No more promoting from within. Get rid of absolutely everybody and let the new head coach build the program however he sees fit. This might convince the younger kids in the program now (the ones that aren't playing much now, but that have lots of potential) that it might be worth sticking around. We are a couple more dismal seasons from being a perennial doormat in the Big Sky Conference (dare I say Morningside). We must blow it up and start over. The cost of not doing this far exceeds the cost of doing it.

Okay, but they are inevitably connected.

If you are saying that, I believe that this team has truly hit rock bottom.

153 points used to represent a season-long total for our defense! And sometimes it was even less than that!

And 2+2=5

They are speaking more truth than our broadcasting team ever dares to speak. Because we all know what happens to anyone (Paul Ralston) who dares to tell it like it is.

Muss and his staff have lost the team. That should be the last straw.

The TD we gave up right before the end of the first half was very similar to the TD that ended the losing streak 20 years ago. Weird.

If we are down 35 points, I probably will head out early again. I also left early in game one when we had a huge lead over Valparaiso. In both cases, the outcome was determined, it was getting late and I had to pick up some groceries on the way home. Any other litmus tests you want me to take? One other thing, based on the effort (or lack thereof) we saw vs. Montana, what were the chances of a comeback like the one vs. South Dakota in 2011? Slim and none.

If you don't like the discussion.....don't read it!

You mean like this?

But we still have Eastern Washington coming up in two weeks. That could get real ugly if the defense doesn't improve at least a little bit.

I didn't know Luke Skywalker played in the NHL!

Agreed. I don't want the NCHC to have great teams that nobody knows about because we aren't pro-active in things like this.

Yeah, during my many trips to the Final Five, I noticed that the X has even higher prices than REA. $40 for a freaking bag of M&M's? I better get a whole case of M&M's for that! But my waistline doesn't need the calories.

Prices at REA are astronomical. I'll eat at home before the game whenever possible. I do like the fountain Coke, it is reasonably priced. But I generally avoid everything else.

IALTO!!!

Of course, this is the same person who, when we was with the sports division of the Heraldo, used to pick against UND all the time. If Bakken had been accurate, the team would have finished 3-8 or 2-9 year after year. Having said that, I guess I am not all that anxious about it. It will happen when it happens. It probably will happen in the playoffs before it happens in the regular season. My response to Bakken is this: Face it, not all UND fans are obsessed with playing FU again. I am one of those fans.

The lack of class will tarnish what is supposed to be a positive day for NDSU football. This is national television; that stuff will make them look bad.

No, based on the entire tenure of this regime.

Not to mention pushing the right buttons on these kids to get the best out of them and enforcing discipline on about a hundred 18 to 23 year olds. Areas that this regime has not been doing a good job in.

BV will crash.

I think Muss has Jim Wacker syndrome. The Gophers would get beat 35-0 and Wacker would tell the media that if a couple of plays were different, they would have had a chance. Yeah, and pigs fly south for the winter.

This is the point that Mariucci doesn't get. You cannot treat hockey like football or basketball, they are different animals. And I am sorry, but slathering BTN lipstick on this pig won't make it look any nicer. If Ohio State had a national powerhouse hockey program, I might even tune in and watch it. But they don't, so that makes this match-up an overrated, overhyped spectacle. Enjoy your time in Big Ten Hockey Hell. I, for one, am glad UND is a part of a strong conference, top to bottom, the NCHC.

You aren't happy about the program.....but you think this regime should get more time, even with the sorry record we have posted against ranked FCS teams during the past 5 years? That was what the photo was for, you are kidding yourself if you think things are going to get better before they get worse.