UND to cut women's hockey

[farce poobah]

6 hours ago, tnt said:

I'm talking about Jason McLean @Fargolawyer that responded to Schlossman's Olympic post. 

Sorry. My bad. 

[Xcfire]

Since nobody cares about women’s hockey this popped up on my Twitter today 

congrats on the Mandan goalie 

I still say let other schools add women’s hockey 

https://www.ecachockey.com/women/2021-22/News/20220303_-_GOY

[jdub27]

13 hours ago, Xcfire said:

Since nobody cares about women’s hockey this popped up on my Twitter today 

congrats on the Mandan goalie 

I still say let other schools add women’s hockey 

https://www.ecachockey.com/women/2021-22/News/20220303_-_GOY

Band a group of girls together and petition the NDSU admin. If there is interest on campus, their Title IX compliance says they have to provide the sport.

[cberkas]

Congratulations to Ohio State.

This was the move and the coach UND should have made but didn't 

[SIOUXFAN97]

On 3/4/2022 at 9:48 AM, jdub27 said:

Band a group of girls together and petition the NDSU admin. If there is interest on campus, their Title IX compliance says they have to provide the sport.

exactly....move some money from football over and see what happens..

[cberkas]

St Could makes the mistake and hires Idalski 

[CMSioux]

1 hour ago, cberkas said:

St Could makes the mistake and hires Idalski 

SCSU attendance is down double digits and cuts within educational programs are constant. He's gonna find out really fast that there is no champagne and caviar in St. Cloud, it's bologna and saurkraut. 

[sioux rube]

1 hour ago, cberkas said:

St Could makes the mistake and hires Idalski 

Huge mistake 

[Sioux>Bison]

21 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

Huge mistake 

Not really he has connections now to the China pipeline of elite players……..

[sioux rube]

42 minutes ago, Sioux>Bison said:

Not really he has connections now to the China pipeline of elite players……..

Oh in that case never mind 

[Shawn-O]

2 hours ago, CMSioux said:

SCSU attendance is down double digits and cuts within educational programs are constant. He's gonna find out really fast that there is no champagne and caviar in St. Cloud, it's bologna and saurkraut. 

What about recruiting junkets to Scandinavia? 

 

[cberkas]

2 hours ago, Sioux>Bison said:

Not really he has connections now to the China pipeline of elite players……..

I died laughing at this 

[gfNDfan]

50 minutes ago, cberkas said:

I died laughing at this 

THIS IS SERIOUS!!  The china communist connection means they will be spying on Ikea in Minneapolis and probably recruit players FROM CHINA that will fart excessively and destroy the environment or at least report to their government they were trying to do that. 

[UND1983]

Be interesting to see how the SCSU budget works when trying to fit in foreign players and their highly elevated scholarship cost.  

[SWSiouxMN]

I remember back when I was at UND that SCSU usually battled Mankato for the basement of the WCHA, is that still the case?

[sioux rube]

1 hour ago, SWSiouxMN said:

I remember back when I was at UND that SCSU usually battled Mankato for the basement of the WCHA, is that still the case?

 

[SWSiouxMN]

13 minutes ago, sioux rube said:

 

So not much as changed. 

[The Sicatoka]

< sigh > 

https://www.inforum.com/opinion/columns/mcfeely-north-dakota-high-school-graduates-file-federal-lawsuit-against-und-for-cutting-womens-hockey 

 

Their efforts would be better spent raising funds for an endowment to restart the program. Instead they keep tilting at windmills. 

[FSSD]

It's clear that this group wants a pound of flesh on this deal.  Please contact NDSU and have a petition take place.  If there is enough interest they are required by law to start a program.  Problem solved.

https://www.grandforksherald.com/opinion/columns/mcfeely-north-dakota-high-school-graduates-file-federal-lawsuit-against-und-for-cutting-womens-hockey

[Oxbow6]

Does the phase "kicking the dead horse" have any validity here?

[The Sicatoka]

S²D²

[NoiseInsideMyHead]

11 minutes ago, FSSD said:

It's clear that this group wants a pound of flesh on this deal.

It finally dawned on me that it's not really UND on trial here but the law firm that gave UND the legal advice prior to pulling the trigger.  Any chance that it's the law firm that these lawyers are truly after, maybe some sort of personal vendetta or beef?

[NoiseInsideMyHead]

7 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

S²D²

R2D2's less famous cousin, and gender equality advocate for droids throughout the galaxy. 

PS - Superscript...neat trick!  How might one pull that off?

[The Sicatoka]

40 minutes ago, NoiseInsideMyHead said:

PS - Superscript...neat trick!  How might one pull that off?

Know how to code, and a language or two. 

[AJS]

Based on the article, I'm letting McFeely interpret the lawsuit, two things stick out.

1. Issue that is being attacked is the way UND calculates the opportunities for females athletes, claiming they over report that number.
2.  Call for the court to require UND to provide equal opportunity "by sponsoring additional women's sports", in the same paragraph they do mention in a quote "particularly intercollegiate ice hockey"

Unless I'm reading this wrong and as odd as this sounds, but this lawsuit might actually have more merit then the original. All UND has to do and I'm guessing they had to do it originally, but prove it out that there are equal opportunities. Done deal. Where this one differs (I believe) is if you're UND and this somehow doesn't go your way, at worst, you have to add an additional women's sport. Add back Women's Swimming and Diving. That cost about 1/4 UND Women's hockey did. 

My major issue with the original lawsuit was what made Women's hockey so much more special then Women's Soccer or Swimming and Diving. This one seems to take that specificity of the actual sport out of play.