Quote Originally Posted by BigLakeBison View Post
There are also 9 division 1 hockey schools located within a 6 hour drive of Fargo. There's lots of talent to recruit but lots of people recruiting. Those 9 schools also all have or will have dedicated arena's in which they are the major tenant. NDSU would need significant amounts of money in order to compete. Seems like it would be a much easier task to improve basketball than sinking money into hockey. I love the sport of hockey but to me it doesn't make much sense at NDSU unless there is a significant private money stream that is willing to get it off the ground like Penn State had.

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All true except for the fact that NDSU has no ambitions in basketball to be anything other than a low major. Winning the Summit league tournament championship game is our super bowl. When football moves to FBS we will have zero sports on campus capable of winning a team national championship. ZERO, and considering our history, that sucks and is unacceptable. I'm not saying we will be the next great thing at Hockey, but if funded right, we would occasionally be in the mix.