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Man, both of our basketball programs have a long road back to respectability! I think FB will make the playoffs before either BB team finishes in the top half of the BSC.

After reading all this stuff, here are my thoughts: 1) I am very happy in the Big Sky Conference. 2) I do not care if we ever play FU in football in the regular season again. 3) The Scummit League is a dumping ground for schools that have no better options. FU fans just can't accept that. I wouldn't be able to either if UND was stuck there. 4) The shoe will be on the other foot someday, and FU fans will have to eat all the "kind" words they have had for our rough transition period. That is all. Back to regularly-scheduled speculation!

The women's team is hitting their stride at the absolute best possible time. Look for them to make a run at the WCHA playoff title and another NCAA birth. Any questions Idalski critics?

I am not scared of Rodentia. We played them man to man on Saturday on the road and the next time we play them, we will beat them.

With Mike Eaves and the Badgers, 2-1 is a high-scoring game.

I think everybody just needs to take a deep breath and wait to see what kind of network Midco builds. I think it will be first-class when it is finished. Then everybody can go back, read all these negative comments and laugh about it.

http://siouxsports.c...htingsioux4life My WCHA picks

Isn't this sad commentary on our society?

You just contradicted yourself here. It's not a "free market" when there is only one choice for consumers, that's called a monopoly. And Ticketmaster has a reputation of running potential competitors out of the market; that is also not indicative of a "free market". The term "free market" is used to justify anything and everything a business chooses to do; when they instead should be called out on it. At some point, somebody with deep pockets is going to launch a competing service and the gravy train will be over. Their day of reckoning will come and no one will feel sorry for them. Of course, that won't stop them from whining and crying about how "unfair" it is they have to compete for customers. That is, after all, what bullies do when they are finally confronted.

This is the problem with our non-hockey programs right now (and in the past as well): not enough "preaching" (aka "marketing") of our basketball and football programs. Just because some individuals cannot have season tickets to everything doesn't mean they should have to keep their mouths shut about it. The more Darrell and myself and others talk about this, the better. Otherwise, moving up was a mistake.

Open field, I think.

Please don't bring her name up. We are still cleaning up the mess she left behind.

Kudos to you for having the guts to post here. You were getting ripped pretty good on here during the nickname/logo soap opera. I don't always agree with you, but I welcome your input here.

No, but I suppose I could do some digging online.

You can't really blame them, most of them weren't even born or were very young when UND Men's Basketball was worth the price of admission.

A picture of the DeFauw hit is hanging in REA on the wall in the stairwell on the third level, just outside Section 306. I love looking at it everytime I take the stairs down.

Be careful. Anytime anyone comes up with an innovative, out-of-the-box solution, they are told that the idea "simply is not feasible" without any explanation as to why. But seriously, wouldn't it save money having one broadcasting team do both at the same time. The Vikings did this with their preseason games in 2012 and it worked pretty good. Thoughts?

That was very thinly-veiled sarcasm. He should have put at the end of it.

Another weekend, another must-win game. 3-1 Sioux (empty netter to seal it, another strong game by Gothberg)

The 1996-97 class will always have a special place in my heart. Two NCAA titles, three WCHA regular season titles, two WCHA playoff titles and a bunch of all-WCHA and all-American selections. And it included two Minnesota players (Peter Armbrust, Brad DeFauw) whom Gopher fans insisted over and over that their team never really wanted anyway! They were the first two kids Blais stole out from under the nose of the Wooger and they added a physical presence that the team needed at the time. And please, no more emphasis on how many players reached the freaking NHL! I think the standard should focus on what they accomplished as a group in college hockey.

Yeah, the Hakstol-Hale-O'Keefe Dynasty now rules the athletic department. Good luck overcoming it.

We should just call him "Coach Stand Pat". Seriously though, back in the early 1990's, we had a head coach (won't say who it is, just that he has an Italian last name) who was stubbornly attached to a certain coaching and recruiting philosophy that just didn't work anymore. And we all know how that movie ends. Not saying it's going to happen again, but it's worth remembering the past, because with human beings it has a nasty habit of repeating itself.

I think he is taking a shot at Jayson for whatever reason. Just ignore him.

Samsung is one of the best brands out there. Me and my wife have two Samsungs and they are fantastic. Sony is good, too.

Thank you for showing your face on here and answering questions and taking all the slings and arrows that come with it. I think the quality of the product will improve as time goes on. Remember, FSSN wasn't the greatest when they first started and they had WDAZ broadcasters and staff to lean on. Midco is starting from scratch and there are bound to be problems at first. But in the long run, this partnership will benefit both UND and Midco. Patience people, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater too soon.