Another reason to clean up the language. Check out his blurb from Ryan Bakken's weekly column.
Instead, it’s because The Hammer, aka The Hakker, aka Coach Dave Hakstol said to knock it off at a student forum. The Hakstol glare can melt granite. “He definitely commanded the room,” Austin Dhuyvetter said. “He opened my eyes.”
The eye-opening wasn’t about its naughtiness but its bottom line. “Our games are now on the Fox Network, and the chants can be heard on the TV,” Dhuyvetter said. “If the games are no longer on TV, we won’t get the top recruits. And if we don’t get the top recruits, our team won’t be as good.”
Junior Samantha Dhuyvetter, Austin’s sister, agreed. “When Hakstol says it’s disrespectful, we need to tone it down. He’s a big guy in our university, and everyone respects him.
“When Hakstol said it hurts recruiting, our fans said, ‘Oh, now I get it.’”
The Dhuyvetter siblings combined to produce the night’s best sign, which had defenseman Chay Genoway’s head pasted atop Superman’s body, with the words, “Up, up and Genoway.”
Clever signs, not crude vulgarities, hopefully now will be the calling card of UND’s rabid student section, which creates a dynamic atmosphere when it doesn’t make us old folks blush. [Grand Forks Herald]
Good post Goon.
ReplyDeleteFrom the nickname dispute to this controversy, Hakstol proves time and again that he has a pair.