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Gotcha. Kinda funny though..

I kinda wonder if P5 guys will start accepting more low/mid major offers to gain playing time and experience prior to transferring to a P5 school. Think juniors/USHL for hockey. Even NHL draft picks play juniors while knowing they will probably leave college early, rather playing 4 yrs of college hockey. Would a guy like Klabo develop faster if he played at UND as a freshman vs riding the bench at a P5? Not saying whether or not this is or should his or UND's approach - it just crossed my mind. A p5 could also suggest that to a kid... telling them to play somewhere they will see the floor and then transfer with 1yr experience.

This post is kind of ironic. Do you you mind specifying who "you" is?

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Kind of random, but did UND ever do anything to honor Bill Fitch in his passing? He was at UND for 5 years I believe. I ask because I don't remember seeing anything from UND about it, but I could have missed something. UND has a proud basketball history... curious if/how much basketball alumni are involved in any way with the program now days? History and tradition mean a lot to a lot of people, including former players, donors, and recruits. Could UND do better in this regard to improve the programs footing? Did J.J. Safranski play ball at UND for example?

Gonna guess they weren't weather related.

Umm, not only hockey. Pretty sure the women's basketball team just signed 3 and 4 star recruits who had other options in warmer climates. Football beats out Southern teams all the time. UND volleyball has historically recruited well enough to be a strong team, despite the weather. Actually, come to think of it, it's pretty amazing that UND has the enrollment it does when pretty much anyone can choose to go to a school in a warmer climate.

Relative to the competition, does Deboer have better or worse facilities than Bubba? Despite the football team still not having a legit locker room (old one was going to be condemned) Bubba has put together a top 15 football program and the team is getting better and better. Program is still trending in the right direction whether you feel like admitting it or not. Program support matters just as much as coaching - see Stig for example. Bubba just crushed Petrino this year as well, in Petrino's third season, but coaching...

Weak argument. Blame weather all you want but other programs (at UND) don't have an issue recruiting players who have other offers in better climates, and despite the hockey argument and the basketball team losing nearly every game, UND still has better attendance and fan support than 100 plus other programs in the country. No legit reason for UND to be a bottom 300 team. Yes they need better funding, but with the goal being Summit League Championships. Prior to the transfer portal rule change, other teams played by the same rules as we did and they were also able to keep players around longer, as well. UND isn't the only team to have more guys transfer out after the rule change - biggest difference is that we have a coach that hasn't seemed to adapt... with all the D1 guys in the transfer portal it's pretty crazy to see Sather start the same DII talent year after year.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BhUwOiKU4UtqZb_VIWvz3uXPjeO243ku

This is data from covid year where everything was cancelled

yeah but that one is like a year old now. new ones are due to the ncaa by Jan 15th I think.

I tried this a few years ago. It works if you are craving a fast food taco.

Wilson? Although anyone that saw his hudl prob didn't think so. His juco coaching staff had to reach out to UND in order for him to get a D1 offer. Nobody in the country was interested in him. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Especially with the transfer portal.

Will you have a link again for today's game?

Anyone know where to find the primary source for the NCAA's current NIL rules and guidance? I can't find it on the NCAA's website, but I know they have posted it somewhere.

Is there a way to flag counterfit stuff on Amazon? This is 100% counterfeit yes? AHAJAY Men's #11 Zach Parise Jersey College Fighting Sioux Green Hockey Jersey https://a.co/d/aN01Ppr

I stumbled upon this article. Given the current events it is somewhat interesting. Did Marlan Haakenson ever pursue the Fighting Hawks trademark thing? https://www.sayanythingblog.com/entry/former-bismarck-mayor-sends-letter-to-und-president-demanding-north-dakota-be-added-to-nickname-vote/

Is Brady Stevens coming back? We need a kicker?

Hot take: (This is in consideration of todays current environment with the transfer portal and nil etc..) I bet you if UND offered Hooker and Crandall coaching gigs, even with zero coaching experience, they could come in as a pair and do better than any coach we eventually end up hiring. Maybe get Jones back here with them for experience.. just go back to Ballin' like in the Huff days, maybe with a hint of Dunk City mixed in. Make UND a fun place for transfers to play at and build the fan base up a bit. UND doesn't have the fan base or location to continue with the old school, team building/slow pace/defensive basketball approach that suits a guy like Sather. Hope I'm wrong. I'd prefer Sathers approach if he can be successful and retain talent, but that's how I feel if he doesn't pan out. Seriously think that if I was AD, his continued employment would be dependent on if he can retain this years freshman recruiting class. If he can, I'd let him play out the last year of his contract next season to better determine if he is truly building something with legitimate potential. I don't think recruits care that much anymore whether or not a coach is at the beginning or the end of their contracts as much as they used to because in reality, it doesn't matter at all - coaches get fired or leave with multiple years remaining on their contracts all the time.

Same. If I got to choose, it would be Baseball > LAX > Soccer. Greatly miss having a sport to watch in the spring/summer (besides softball). Would be awesome to have a little facility near the dorms for the students to walk over to. Baseball also has the potential to produce a few MLB guys as well (fun). But I think LAX would have the highest ceiling. If Lax, I'd build a smaller dedicated track and field facility like NDSU and kick T&F out of the HPC. LAX would play in the HPC with the new bleachers that are in there, and I'd finish the elevated walking track that was originally planned for standing room seating. Being that we live in reality, all excess funding should be pumped into basketball and volleyball. If our AD were to add an un-endowed sport, it would be a fireable offense, imo. (did golf ever raise their required endowment money?)

Air Force! Our pres has a history there, tons of Alumni in Colorado, plus we're an aviation school. There a reason you mention Army, specifically that I'm not thinking of? That said, their stadium is defiantly a bucket list item... If not football, the same concept could potentially be used for basketball as well. Could even share a charter. WMU struggles to get D1 home basketball games just like us - they had 4 non D1 home games this year so such a setup could be mutually beneficial. Football would obviously be preferable. Biggest problem with Air Force and Army, and potentially others, would be arena size. If it were a non NCHC team, maybe a larger venue could be used and the hockey game would be treated as a Neutral Site game. If Air Force, for example, CC's old arena could be used instead of their home rink. Split ticket sales 50/50 for hockey with normal FBS football payout on top of that. Both schools could come out ahead. Hypothetically. With football be scheduled so many years in advance, something like this would be really tough to pull off though. Which is why I mentioned basketball. Could be a home and home thing and each team could use their home hockey arena.

One big change that nobody is mentioning. Maybe a quality comparison between the current and former EMU coaching staff isn't exactly Apples to Apples. Likewise, maybe SDSU's coach didn't spontaneously become a better coach after 20 years by moving FCS. Maybe Bubba actually does have a higher ceiling than some are willing to admit. What changed at EMU? Did they finally get rid of "bad" coaches such as DeBoer and hire a good coaching staff or was it something else? I think the quality of a coach isn't as black and white, good or bad, as so many want to believe. https://emueagles.com/facilities/student-athlete-performance-center/36 More than 300 alumni, donors and guests joined staff from the Eastern Michigan University Department of Athletics and campus administration to usher in a new era in EMU athletics with the grand opening of the Student-Athlete Performance Center, Aug. 27, 2019. In use by student-athletes since mid-July, the event welcomed members of the public to the new facility for the first time. The first major construction project on the athletics campus since the opening of the Convocation Center in 1998, the Student Athlete Performance Center is the first phase of the athletic department's plan to build a safe and highly-effective atmosphere for its student-athletes through the continual revitalization of its facilities and athletic campus. Breaking ground in the fall of 2018, the new sports medicine and training facilities provides a 63,000 square foot structure that houses the sports medicine, performance and equipment operations areas. Additionally, the facility has locker rooms, coaches' offices, and meeting spaces for the football team, while also including a new video board inside Rynearson Stadium. Designed to enhance the student-athlete and fan experience at Eastern Michigan, the two story building offers a wide variety of operational spaces and amenities which allow for that goal to be met.

Probably right. I still think more publicity could lead to larger donations from people or local businesses that may not be on their radar, however. Even if they do get shovels in the ground this spring, I don't think that suggests this strategy was successful if you consider how long they have been trying to put this together, and if you look at the way other schools approached and succeeded in fundraising for projects of a similar size. For example, Montana State and SDSU have been much more public in their fundraising efforts. Props to UND for working to finally get this stuff built though. While a disagree with their strategy, I appreciate their intent. UND has implied for a couple years now that they are "close", but it appears they have yet to line up the necessary funding. I think this likely causes potential donors to think that their donations are not needed, and as a result, such money doesn't end up going to UND at all. For example, I know that I would donate extra for this specific project, but if they don't want my "meaningless" donation, that money sure as heck isn't instead going to UND's general athletics fund.