NoiseInsideMyHead

Typical SiouxSports genius at work. Y'all downvote like monkeys on a banana but nobody has the courage (or the intellectual capacity) to respond with so much as a grunt. Let me spell it out for you. To the public, this looks bad. Either the University of North Dakota is incompetent (i.e., logo selected in June but somehow can't get around to ordering stencils for almost 3 months?), is wishy-washy and uncommitted to the new logo it launched with fanfare not so long ago (and paid $50k for), is beholden to a single sport/program (i.e., inmates running the asylum), or is the arena's bitch. What's your pleasure? Which explanation makes you feel #UNDproud?

No matter how you feel about the new logo, this is really embarrassing for the University. Best case scenario? Looks like they don't have their act together. Worst case need not be stated, but it ain't pretty.

From the pages of the REA-to-English Dictionary:

You're in good company. A lot of the posters on here are quite familiar with eating off of sidewalks.

Columbia Road...three city blocks...four months and counting. Meanwhile, in China: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/watch-116-excavators-demolish-a-massive-overpass-in-jus-1786244829

Amen. Every dollar paid to the investigator is a dollar wasted.

Just a friendly reminder that single-game tickets for your Defending National Champion UND Fighting Hawks Men's Hockey Team went on sale today. BONUS REMINDER: This would be a great opportunity to redeem those Ticketmaster settlement discount voucher codes you might not even remember or know you had. If anybody needs help locating such codes and/or redeeming them, post a request here and I'll give you a quick tutorial BEFORE you check-out at the TM site.

What's next? Car dealerships charging for test drives?

Which principle is that? It's not like the applicants were simply not selected...there was no selection at all. Giving back the money was the only proper thing to do.

I'm guessing that there weren't photos of campus co-eds on the ballot.

Yet, to anyone without this particular axe to grind, this piece does indeed present a cogent, campus-neutral critique of the critics of higher ed.

You and others seem to have a serious hang-up (bordering on inferiority complex) about UND. I count exactly 3 paragraphs (out of 21!) that have remotely anything to do with Grand Forks.

Nobody's perfect.

I would encourage you to read beyond the petty swipe at UND and look at the bigger picture. One need not take sides in UND vs NDSU when the issue in question is The World vs Higher Ed in ND.

But the attacks are tired and the attackers predictable. At some point, the only response to constant complainers is to hand them a mirror.

I don't exactly care for McFeely, but he hits the nail on the head here. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4105788-mcfeely-stop-me-if-youve-heard-one

The only thing I'm emotionally invested in is trying to have a thoughtful, reasoned discussion on this topic, which the mouth-breathers on this site are completely incapable of doing.

If it's so common, find me something -- anything -- to back up your claim. I'll wait.

You call me out for spewing "garbage" but you clearly don't disagree. I plainly asked for evidence that our MBB coaches are underpaid. You and Csonked seem to have some, although I don't quite know where your 'half of our peers' comes from. OP had NOTHING but an apparent beef against women's hockey and complete ignorance about the cost of doing business. Is it too much to ask for people to support their opinions with at least some form of evidence or rational thought? This whole tirade of 'WH must be cut because I just saw a budget figure and it costs more than MBB' is a joke and speaks poorly to one's intelligence.

You can read whatever you want into it, but I would direct your attention to the word "non-constructive." I, for one, am intrigued by the level of sustained bitterness, and I want to know if and for how long people intend to keep throwing a tantrum and lowering themselves to profanity and infantilism. What you call a complaint, I call fascination.

You'll note that I did not advocate for keeping any coach or assistant. But you damn well cannot ignore the market when it comes time to hire their replacements. And to anyone who thinks that aggregate MBB coaching salaries need to exceed aggregate WH coaching salaries "just because," you'll need to come up with something better to persuade people who are willing to look beyond the blood lust and rhetoric and who are cognizant of life in the real world.

Because Faison controls the market, right? Do you have any idea how economics works? Supply and demand? There are >300 D1 men's basketball programs cranking out well over 1000 grads per year, all of whom are presumably qualified to be a paid (admittedly, lowly) assistant at a D1 school. Not to mention thousands upon thousands of lower division players. That's a new crop of hungry-for-experience coaching meat IN ADDITION TO the existing pool of candidates, every year. Does anyone believe that the competition for college hockey coaches - particularly on the women's side - even approaches that level? Moreover, your selected data without reference to market factors such as league/regional averages, years of experience, etc. is completely meaningless. This is at least the second post criticizing BF because the total line item budget for (poster's less preferred sport) is higher than the total line item budget for (poster's more preferred sport), oblivious to the simple and obvious fact that some sports just cost more to play. When did sports fans become such socialists? If you want to say that the MBB assistants are underpaid, fine. We can gather some data and have that discussion. But don't lazily shovel that crap on the WH program with nothing to back it up.

http://thehockeywriters.com/canadian-junior-hockey-teams-logo-labelled-discriminatory/

http://www.ncaa.org/about/ncaa-core-values

Wow. Think about that for a second. And then remember why we're all here. Pulling the welcome mat from future generations and showing current participants the door are not exactly what #myUND is all about. Which is precisely why killing programs should not be taken lightly or dismissed with a cavalier attitude. A student athlete who pours their heart, soul, blood, sweat, and tears into the University of North Dakota deserves so much more, especially when nobody shows up to watch. Who are any of us to place a value on their experience?