Dustin

Yep. Regardless of potential playoff implications, what happens tomorrow is a harbinger of UND football for the next couple seasons.

This is basically Mark Pryor. He could coach, win, and recruit (at least until he stopped caring). BUUUT, he didn't buy into the community, and as a result, his care for the program waned. And then when he left, his lack of care manifested in a couple years' time to a team that's 1-28. He didn't even use UND as stepping stone (he went to a Division III school); that's how little he cared about being in Grand Forks.

We definitely don't want to be the Dakota team that can't beat any other Dakota team.

This logo on the shoulders would make these jerseys perfect.

That would look pretty sweet in a National Championship team photo

That is my guess as well.

I've always like a hockey jersey with a diagonal name (whether it be school name or team name). For instance, the classic Wisconsin jersey.

I agree. Though, we can essentially have "Nodak" or "Nodaks" as an alternate name, kind of like the "Zags" for Gonzaga. Maybe it will catch on enough that it becomes our official unofficial name.

I knew he had the first brother, but did not know about the second.

Did we really never beat Montana in men's basketball while we were in the Big Sky?!

It happened against Illinois St. for sure - that could be the one you're thinking of. I think because Tommy is on the smaller side, he's probably been told by HS coaches (or naturally does it out of self defense) to not expose himself by running. I think our coaches are working on getting this as part of his game, and I think this will be become an element of his game. I don't think he'll scare defensive coordinators with his running/scrambling, but he'll better learn that there are situations where it is a good option. I've thought a couple times when it was 3rd & short at the goal line, they should have Tommy do a designed run because the defense would never suspect it!

Awesome perseverance to come all the way back for the win! Fun fun game.

Whether he "said something" or not, he needs to go. Huge disappointment.

I watched the VB game on TV Saturday night. There was a guy acting as the head coach, but I'm not sure if it was Steve Rindfleisch.

Yes, the Maag fumble really bothered me. Same deal as an earlier game when he was unnecessarily fighting for yards inside the 10 yard line. I feel like the Belquist(?) one was offset by the miraculous catch by Boltman that actually did set up a touchdown.

Though I know this season has been far from where we had all hoped, the fact that we are having this conversation is good.

I see that it has since been removed. Someone must have finally caught it.

How awesome would it be if it actually WERE sunny in the Alerus?! A glass roof would really "brighten" the game day experience.

Official UND sports website shows this weekend's games as being on Midco. I was thinking that's a typo, so I went to the Midco programming guide the other night and it had "To Be Announced," so maybe?? Anyone with insight? https://fightinghawks.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/schedule

Not trying to be mean and resurrect bad memories, but I wish you guys would have won the Natty back in 2009. It would have been great for your school, great for the eventual NCHC, and great for college hockey to have another school with championship banner.

Yeah, I maybe should have looked at who these coaches are. I just looked at the teams’ records.

It seems like every weekend is a deju vu from Saturday to Sunday!

Or you could keep repeating the process until a winner is determined. With this set up, it seems like you wouldn't have to play that many rounds of power play chances to get a winner. Even if they had to play 5 complete rounds (a "complete round" being 2 minutes of power play and 2 minutes of penalty kill), that's still the same amount of actual game action as one complete period. I feel this would be incredibly exciting. Power Plays and Penalty Kills are usually tense moments in the game. Plus, you're still playing ACTUAL hockey, rather than an extremely unlikely real game scenario of 3x3 or a never real game scenario of a shootout. Something to consider is what happens when the teams aren't at even strength at the end of regulation. Would that remainder of that penalty carry over so one team actually starts out 5x3? That would certainly give a penalty call in the last 2 minutes of regulation a lot of weight. Same with taking a penalty during the OT. If the PK team gets the PP team to commit a penalty which results in 4x4 play, and then the original PK team scores, is it over? I would say yes.

This actually sounds really awesome.

Awesome