fightingsioux4life

People have sent e-mails to decision makers and posted the responses on this forum. It was the same stuff you always post; boilerplate taking points that don't address the concerns people have. How many more years should Bubba have to fix this mess? 5? 10? 15? Please try to answer the question this time.

I am not turning on anyone. I am simply pointing out that all @jdub27 has to offer is boilerplate talking points that don't address the issues we are discussing and don't answer the questions some people here have. It was not a personal attack, which was happening earlier on this topic. That is what that comment was referring to.

We should focus on getting this program back into contention for Nattys, not scheduling more of these "destination games". What good are these games if we continue to lose them?

Being at home will help prevent this. The Canisius disaster was on the road.

You will defend anything and everything this athletic department does, no matter how bad the results are. All you ever offer are the same tired old boilerplate talking points.

Wave the white flag and accept that this is as good as it will ever get? Nope, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. You are part of the problem around here. Low expectations, no standards of any kind. Based on your assessment, we should just join the Pioneer League. I personally would rather drop the sport than do that, but that's just my opinion. It's been 15+ years of mostly mind-numbing mediocrity and it's people with your attitude that have helped make it possible. Congratulations.

It is insane that we have a critical must-sweep series before Thanksgiving.

I think we should start both goalies (one on Friday, one on Saturday) until one emerges. Then ride that guy into the playoffs.

Let's not start turning on each other. Our enemy is mediocrity and lack of standards, not each other.

I would gladly contribute something to a buyout effort. I am sure others would as well. So spare me the "those who don't donate" crap. I just pointed out the reality of how all this is funded. Whether you or I like it or not (and I think it is pretty ridiculous) is irrelevant.

The 360 guys are way more objective than Tom Miller or anyone else at the Heraldo.

A buyout will be cheaper a year from now. Whether that will make any difference is unknown.

We need to get over this aversion to "spending other peoples money" because that is what funds intercollegiate athletics today. Whether we think it's "immoral" or "wrong" or just plain ridiculous is irrelevant. Either we adapt to that reality or we get left behind. We never should have moved up to D-1 without some idea to properly fund our programs at a level where we could compete. That is the ultimate root of our current problems.

If wins and losses are 100% irrelevant, we are officially running this program like a high school program.

Lol yourself. This isn't funny. My point is that Chaves will keep extending him indefinitely so he doesn't have to have that difficult conversation with him. And if he does that, you'll probably give us another contract negotiation lesson in support of it.

So basically Bubba has a lifetime contract as long as he wants it. Unacceptable. But keep cheerleading him if you want. I am through listening to the alibis and excuses.

That had better not happen.

That putrid situation ends in 2030.

So our obligation is to put up and shut up? Do that if you want, but don't expect the rest of us to do it. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy. Your post has more than a touch of that.

Making the playoffs in a severely watered-down down FCS is not a great accomplishment. There are high schools in Texas with higher expectations for their FB team than there is here. To each their own.

It doesn't matter whose fault it is? So there is no accountability for Chaves on down? Everyone gets extended into infinity and the rest of us are supposed to just shut up and accept it? Sorry, but that is 1000% unacceptable. What a nice racket Chaves has set up for himself and the rest of the department! The only one who can change it is Armacost.

Name one hire that Chaves has made that has worked out in any meaningful way. You can't........unless you are fine with all the mediocrity. I am not with it.

I look at it differently. The resources available make a crap product less tolerable, not more. There is no excuse for underachieving with the resources available here.

But we can't expect that kind of success here because the NCAA tournament is "one and done" and it's all about "luck". (sarcasm) Cripes, our program is sinking into the black hole of low expectations and even worse results. I am sick of playing second and third fiddle to other teams in the national college hockey scene. This should not be a problem here. Ever.