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The GFC. Great Frontier Conference.

That will teach em. I bet the school closes.

The one thing I've learned in my life is that if you have an opinion, hearing facts that run counter to that opinion rarely change your opinion. Facts won't matter to people who feel they got the shaft. The minority is venting right now but the vast majority fall into two groups. 1. People who understand why it was cut 2. People who are saying "UND had women's hockey?" 2.

LOL, self importance and cheapness, they come by it naturally.. By the way, could you please make a donation, they would like the whole family to be able to see them in the Olympics. Give it time, their 15 minutes will be up. They will go away...But they will conveniently forget their wallet and somebody else will have to pay for the cab.

There is nothing "Big Time" about women's hockey.

This has always been my favorite argument! Olympians? LOL. US women's hockey team went 2-2 against high school boys teams. That's some world class athletes. "Hey ND legislators, what a bunch of dicks you are to not subsidize a sport that loses 1.5 million dollars every year so that tens of people can watch the awe inspiring athletic talent of Olympians from Finland!"

This is by far the best decision made at UND in the last 20 years! Somebody made a decision based on numbers and facts instead of feelings. I asked a lot of people today what they thought should be cut at UND and they all said Women's Hockey. It was painfully obvious to anyone with objectivity that this needed to be done.

I'd look for Neverman to move from RB to ILB. If he wants a chance to play it's probably the best option.

OK, cut all swimming and diving, the pool upkeep must be expensive. Next cut the budgets on soccer and Womens hockey to get you the rest of the way there. On a side note, why does soccer cost so much? A pool is a hell of a lot more expensive than a yard. Ask anyone in the southern states.

By the looks of this cut WIH and all swimming & diving. This should give the athletic department some needed wiggle room but It won't happen. In order to not cause a title IX problem could they cut WIH and just MS&D? My hunch is they keep WIH and tennis. Everybody else on your list is in trouble.

Bad grades or bad advice?

Does anyone know where Quintin Seguin (the DE from Canada) ended up? I had heard that his coach thought he should go FBS. The Canadian football website still lists him as a North Dakota commit.

I know I'm sounding a little like the "common man" but first off, national outcry? You think the entire nation cares about UND women's hockey? And second, "major women's sport?" This should be entered into the proposterus statement tournament. Personally, I think if they can find almost as much savings cutting M/W swimming as women's hockey, as has been mentioned here, I'd cut the swimming. North Dakota is more of a hockey place than a swimming place. Your talk of national prominence with this major woman's sport is a little over the top. The fact that no one outside the sports information director can name a freshman on the team should have been your first clue.

Johannesson is a RB

TBR, are you my wife? The initials don't match but the grammar Nazi bit is spot on.

Great Theory! Are you pumped for the new Star Wars Movie!!

My question with this is, what evidence is there that the Big Sky is so much more highly thought of nation wide? I like the teams in the big sky also, but do you think if you are from Tennessee, Florida or Texas that when you're talking college athletics with your buddies you will say "you know, that university of North Dakota has some awesome athletic programs. I know this because they are in that world renowned conference called the Big Sky!" Maybe Montana State should move to the MVFC. They would seperate themselves from that boring regional rivalry with Montana thus raising their status nationwide. Or better yet, UND can move to Hockey East, Boston College and Notre Dame sure Trump Duluth and St. Cloud State. We need to think bigger!! I love the fact that the Big Sky is a single home for all sports, unlike what we are headed for now, but having closer more regional rivalry's makes more sense.

I'm not obsessed with NDSU. This conference will bring more fans to the game. Not just NDSU but USD, SDSU and Northern Iowa will have fans at the alerus. Montana is the only team currently who brings more than just parents. It's also great for the students, remember the days of stealing the nickel or the mascots head? Does anybody think that wanting to play Minnesota in hockey means your obsessed with the gophers? Fact is the old WCHA was better than the NCHC and the old NCC was better than anything we've had since. This is a great move and long overdue.

I believe the days of $90 season football tickets will come to an end.

This is a good deal! This is where we should have been all along. It will peak fan interest. Can't wait to get NDSU, SDSU, USD and Northern Iowa in the alerus!! You'll see, it's going to be a blast!

This post proves that your either a few sandwiches short of a picnic or just an angry, unhappy A-hole. Either way I'm done reading this thread or anything else you post. It's sad to think I'm never going to get the time back I've spent on this nonsense...

Does that work if you play a freshman in a game and then decide to take him back out the rest of the year, or do you have to be injured?

When I hear bison media types talking about next year, they all talk as if Deluca will be back next year. A. Isn't Deluca a senior? B. If he was senior this year, how do they already know he will be granted a Hardship? I thought they had to wait until the end of the season to apply?

I couldn't agree more. A Jones coached team will be undisciplined and play foolishly at times. Just watch all the one handed passes Crandel does when they are not needed. He passes one handed from the top of the key to the wing every time. A competent coach would have him sitting right next to him until he learned to do it right. I think we have all seen what a Jones coached team will look like, UNDISCIPLINED. My point was that the Iowa coach is a tool. That is a cold hard fact.

I am not a Jones fan, but McCaffrey is an even bigger cry baby than Jones. He always costs his team at least one Victory a season with a multiple technical game. The players were stupid in stealing the ball but McCaffrey way over reacted. Watch Iowa this season and you will come to the same conclusion I have, their coach is a dumb ass.