lets drop baseball and add hockey

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D2 football team with 28 scholarships and not 60+ and taking advantage of NDSU and UND not raiding MN kids like they used to for that level of play.

Traditionally strong Hockey program that has been around for over 30+ years and amazingly had never won a national title til this week.

Huge difference in the scenarios of their programs and us adding hockey. Our football team offers close to around $400,000 more in scholarship money and likely has a recruiting budget 3 times the size of UMD. Your trying to compare regional and national and the $$$ don't add up.

How long are fans willing to wait for a winner until everyone is ready to dismantle the hockey program? Unless you fork over $250,000-$300,000 for Dean Blais you will not have an immediate winner.

Besides that WOMENS HOCKEY WILL BE REQUIRED!!!!!!!!!!! Their is absolutely NO way around it!

They have absolutely benefitted from NDSU/UND/SDSU/USD leaving D2. Shows how watered down it is. But it's stilll a good accomplishment to win the D2 Championship. Heck, NAIA teams beat UND now!

Listening to Sid and Dave this morning, they said a big part of the Championship was the new hockey arena that got built this year. It's nice but not huge. Capacity just over 6700 fans.

I think it's an added bonus that we already have the Scheels Center which is smaller but a great facility. It is certainly no Ralph but it's still as nice or nicer than many of the arenas and it can be ugraded as well. If you compare it to CHA teams, it's bigger than most. Smaller than WCHA arenas.

We don't need a big name coach. There are so few teams out there there are not many opportunities being given to coaches. However if we end up selling out every game and raising donations, we may have enough money to pay a coach like that.

We have to explore the idea. I think it's idiotic to just flat out say "no we dont' have the money and there is no chance of it working." How about we actually research it first. Who knows? There could be a ton of potential donors out there. Of course they are not going to show up unless we ask. Moorhead State even claimed to have had enough donors to pull it off.

Finish the SHAC. Research it.