Quote Originally Posted by Yote 53 View Post
Some of you guys are looking at this wrong. I swear the anti-hockey sentiment for some of you is there just because that school up north has it. Fielding a successful hockey program and being great in football and basketball are not mutually exclusive. I also believe that men's hockey would be competitively and financially successful at NDSU. But I also believe it would be successful at those same levels at either USD or SDSU, whichever one goes first, if they played their home games in Sioux Falls. The downfall to adding ANY men's program is Title 9. In order to start up a program like men's hockey it would need to be offset by adding a women's sport. The sport cited most often is women's hockey, but why? Why not field a women's lacrosse program instead. It would be much cheaper than women's hockey and is growing at a much faster rate than a sport like women's field hockey.

The opportunities are there for the expansion of college hockey. The big hurdle of having a conference to play in is not there as the WCHA is available and is in the region.
If you are a top 20 athletic department in the country and have money/donors willing to throw money at a sport, sure. The Dakota schools don't have that kind of cash sitting around.