(02-12-2018 09:00 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 08:43 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 05:56 PM)NoDak Wrote:  The 13000 seat arena next door can be used. Surprised they didn't have the NDSU M&W double header BB games there, as there was no hockey series that weekend. When it first opened, they staged some big games like that and drew 10k. A Kansas game was sold out.

But BB has been sliding in popularity all along, even though we have arguably the most BB tradition of Dakota schools. But hockey recruits are such high level. For example, Brock Boeser stayed for only two years, and he was recently the MVP of the NHL All Star game. Brock has only played in Tampa's arena twice, once for the All Star game and once ( actually two games) when we won a National Chanpionship.

An interesting article from a childhood UND hockey fan:
http://www.startribune.com/page-2-revisi...473749723/

So, NoDak, just in case you missed it:

(02-12-2018 02:04 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  http://www.goyotes.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=109
http://www.goyotes.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=110

Is this simply a misdirection by the MVFC?

If USD announced OOC games other than Iowa State and Kansas, you might be on to something. Teams switching conferences don't announce a new conference schedule before the actual conference switch. The OOC games only show two FBS games. If USD did more than that, it would be news.

You posters are so erroneous in your logic, like Maryland, Rutgers, West Virginia, and TCU announced their new conferences by detailing their new schedule. That thinking is so full of crap.

Conversely, then, if a team is not switching conferences, they would indeed be inclined to release conference schedules in advance, as USD just did. So USD seems to be under the assumption that the MVFC will still exist as is in 2020, just with UND added. That suggests that either the Great North will not form in 2020 or, perhaps more likely, there is in fact a secret plan, but USD is just not in on it.

What we need to figure out, then, is (1) why UND and its allies would deliberately keep USD in the dark, and (2) how they managed to convince the MVFC schools that are being left behind to pretend to schedule games against USD. These -- these are the questions.