The Herald reads Sioux Sports...

I am the author of the infamous thread, “Fire head coach Dave Hakstol Dusting off an old thread - Actually it's a new one.” In the past we have had fans that after one bad loss or a rough start of a season are calling for the head coach Dave Hakstol. I have been guilty of this in the past as well and till I kind of got a feel for the kind of coach that Dave Hakstol is. One loss or sweep doesn’t’ seem to rattle the head coach and he never seems to lose focus even when it seems like times are bleak. Sure he has lost a few NCAA games over the course of his coaching tenure but so have other great head hockey coaches. The “Hockey Messiah” Jerry York took something like 12 seasons to win an NCAA title at B.C. But I digress… The bar is set pretty high in Grand Forks, ND. It also looks like the local media reads the fan message boards as well.

Apparently, it takes an 8-4 Nebraska-Omaha pounding on UND at Ralph Engelstad Arena to usher fans to their ledges.

Most goals given up in 19 years in Grand Forks? Hakstol’s a hack.

Mavs start 5-for-5 on the power play? Genoway can go away.

Dumb penalty after dumb penalty? Hextall might as well join Hakstol on that first bus out of Grand Forks.

And it just had to be Nebraska-Omaha, headed by former Sioux coach Dean Blais — the leader of the Sioux during their 1997 and 2000 national titles.

That meant as of Saturday afternoon, it was reaffirmed for a good chunk of Sioux fans that coach Blais does indeed walk on both frozen water and water.

The online message board Siouxsports.com even saw its legendary and laughable “Fire head coach Dave Hakstol” thread re-emerge. It’s five pages of babble and counting.

During each game throughout the season, Herald UND hockey writer Brad Schlossman and UND sports information director Jayson Hajdu conduct a live chat online that includes reader comments.

Instead of strictly providing updates Friday night, Schlossman and Hajdu supplied more therapy than Dr. Phil. Their voices of reason soothed a panicky fan base so often that they should have charged for the session.

Where, oh where, has perspective gone?

You’d think UND was scrounging in a season of mediocrity, fending off Michigan Tech and Alaska-Anchorage to battle back to the middle of the pack in the WCHA.

If you happened to just stumble upon some of these fan meltdowns, you wouldn’t think UND was ranked No. 2 in the country at the time. Or in first place in the WCHA. Or that the Sioux are 14-3-1 in their last 18 games after Saturday’s 4-2 win over the Mavericks. (Oh yeah, those UND bums found a way to somehow pick up a win Saturday).[Read the Whole Article]

What brought Sioux fans to the ledge this time? This time it took an 8-4 thumping loss at the hands of former Fighting Sioux head hockey coach Dean Blais to bring out the fans that wanted Dave Hakstol to be fired as head coach of the UND Fighting Sioux hockey team. I posted this thread with my tongue in cheek because I thought would illustrate how impassioned our fan base can be some times, but it’s also silly to expect a hockey coach that has an 18-7-2 record, that’s sitting second in the college hockey’s toughest league having played the toughest schedule to date to be fired from his job. My friend Amy aka LGM’s thinks Sioux fans are cult followers, maybe she is right?