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2012-2013 North Dakota Hockey: Season Thread

Fighting Sioux 23 said:
Best to just place him on ignore.

A very nice couple of recruits that North Dakota picked up here in the last week. I look forward to seeing them in Kelly Green and White.

It is fun seeing some of the Gopher fans getting in a tizzy about this. This is especially true when Gopher fans won a few recruiting battles over the last year and a few North Dakota fans got all in a tizzy, Gopher fans chastised them. What goes around, comes around. :p:D:D
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You're right. So sorry for calling out someone for posting outrageous nonsense. I mean, how dare I ask someone to provide a source to back their statement. I mean, let's just forget the fact that the source provided proved he was wrong. Please forgive me. Must just be the "tizzy" I'm in :rolleyes:
 
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Re: 2012-2013 North Dakota Hockey: Season Thread

Reading the current thread about the ramifications for North Dakota, long term, about joining the NCHC, and in the context of this article, which appears in today's Omaha World Herald:

http://www.omaha.com/article/201212...rts-says-balancing-uno-budget-just-first-step

..........it got me to wondering about something I probably should know and I am sure you all do. Why don't the Bison have a D-1 hockey program? I can make a lot of educated guesses about the possible answer(s) to this one, some of which I am sure are at least partly the reason. If there was enough pent-up hockey demand at Moorhead to darn near get a program off the ground, I'd have to think it would be a lot easier to do at/in Fargo. Why them and not NDSU? Because there was/is more sentiment for it on one side of the river than the other? My bet is that this has been discussed at some level or at some point. I'm sure this has some sort of lengthy explanation.

UNO fans (me included) have/had been kind of insular from all things WCHA until we actually joined the conference (and, by inference, all things North Dakota hockey) and only in the past 3 seasons have we really been exposed to any level of this. In our particular case we had hardly even scheduled much in the way of WCHA teams before we joined the conference. UNO, before joining, had played a grand total of 59 games, ever, against WCHA teams and 26 of those were against Mankato (unique situation) and 6 more were against BSU, who we joined the conference with. To give you an idea, we'd played MN, CC, & AA a grand total of once, each, and, as you all know, we'd never played North Dakota at all (still scratching my head, even to this day, wondering how that happened, or, didn't, in this case).

So, please forgive me if this question seems sort of ignorant because I am sure this one is in the realm of common knowledge up there. It'd have to be.
 
midwest hockey said:
I'm sure he had plenty of reasons for making his choice, and I'd bet his parents supported him 100%. It's not a bad idea to grow UP outside the shadow you grew in. But be careful about the quote stuff. 16YO kids making comments to 3rd rate journalists doesn't equal truth. Good for him, he's a nice player that is going to have the chance to carve his own path.
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Very nicely put. Agree 100%. UND is a good program, and if he wanted to cut his own path, you can't really fault him for his decision. Poganski was a great get for UND too. Nice little pre-Christmas coup for UND.

Merry Christmas all :)
 
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Siouxfaninseattle said:
Anyway, how are everyone else's expectations coming along? Where do you see this team going in the second half?

I see them going to Pittsburgh!!
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Personally, I would love to see UND win either the Broadmoor and MacNaughton or both, but NCAA title would be nice.
 
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Red Cows said:
..........it got me to wondering about something I probably should know and I am sure you all do. Why don't the Bison have a D-1 hockey program?
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I was told by someone that there is a big Bison Football and Basketball donor that doesn't want Division I hockey at NDSU and that he would pull funding if NDSU added hockey. I am not a NDSU fan by any shade of the imagination so you can take this for what it's worth.
 
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Goon said:
I was told by someone that there is a big Bison Football and Basketball donor that doesn't want Division I hockey at NDSU and that he would pull funding if NDSU added hockey. I am not a NDSU fan by any shade of the imagination so you can take this for what it's worth.
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I can't even imagine what the rationale for that stance might be. The only guess I can make is that this donor might be worried about the effect it might have on athletic dept. monies and their budget needs if they did. I suppose there might be some legitimacy to a concern like that since both the Bison basketball and football programs are riding very high right now. Maybe he is worried about the affect adding hockey might have on the athletic department? It certainly had a profound impact on football at UNO although the hockey team isn't the biggest reason for it's demise here by a long shot. That's a lot longer story than just that one tidbit.
 
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Goon said:
I was told by someone that there is a big Bison Football and Basketball donor that doesn't want Division I hockey at NDSU and that he would pull funding if NDSU added hockey. I am not a NDSU fan by any shade of the imagination so you can take this for what it's worth.
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He or she better have a lot money to order an athletic department to pull funding. IMO, if a Terry Peluga comes around and donates 88 million dollars the Bison or whatever they are called would jump at the chance to add hockey.
 
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4four4 said:
He or she better have a lot money to order an athletic department to pull funding. IMO, if a Terry Peluga comes around and donates 88 million dollars the Bison or whatever they are called would jump at the chance to add hockey.
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Perhaps this person would worry that a hockey team would pull funding and hurt the football and pumpkin pushing parts of the athletic depts.
 
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Biddco said:
Perhaps this person would worry that a hockey team would pull funding and hurt the football and pumpkin pushing parts of the athletic depts.
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NDSU is never getting a hockey team and that's a fact Jack! Hockey fans in Fargo are UND fans and I-29 is full of their trucks and suburbans every home weekend, you can hear them in the stands yelling "shoot it siooooooooux!!" every time UND crosses the red line.
 
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Biddco said:
Perhaps this person would worry that a hockey team would pull funding and hurt the football and pumpkin pushing parts of the athletic depts.
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They have had a good run in both sports so I can understand why he or she might think that.
 
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cross cheque said:
NDSU is never getting a hockey team and that's a fact Jack! Hockey fans in Fargo are UND fans and I-29 is full of their trucks and suburbans every home weekend, you can hear them in the stands yelling "shoot it siooooooooux!!" every time UND crosses the red line.
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A lot of premature shooters in that group, I'm told.
 
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Red Cows said:
I can't even imagine what the rationale for that stance might be. The only guess I can make is that this donor might be worried about the effect it might have on athletic dept. monies and their budget needs if they did. I suppose there might be some legitimacy to a concern like that since both the Bison basketball and football programs are riding very high right now. Maybe he is worried about the affect adding hockey might have on the athletic department? It certainly had a profound impact on football at UNO although the hockey team isn't the biggest reason for it's demise here by a long shot. That's a lot longer story than just that one tidbit.
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I don't know why someone would make that threat? Hockey is a different niche than basketball. Scheels Arena is already in place so, I think hockey is a no brainer.
 
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