Tweets of the day - UND suspends four captains

Can someone at @undsports let AD Brian Faison know that he is the Athletic Director not a Head Coach at the University of North Dakota.
— Mike Commodore (@commie22) September 18, 2012

@bruceciskie @chrisdilks The relatively swift punishment and the wording throughout release certainly leaves a lot open to interpretation.
— Chris Peters (@chrismpeters) September 18, 2012

If you weren't on the internet or a had smart phone today - then you probably haven't noticed the UND Hockey team was making news off of the ice this morning and this is a collection of some of the tweets that I found worthy of being posted for all to see.

I don't know or care what happened at that team party. Hats off to UND for sending a strong message. Don't see enough of that these days.
— Bruce Ciskie (@BruceCiskie) September 18, 2012

@Bruce Ciskie the voice the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs was the voice of reason this morning as this incident broke and of course Drunk Hockey Guy wasn't buying any of it this morning.

@umdpenaltybox My point is that neither UMD nor UMN fans are in any position to throw stones, esp given the way UND handled this one.
— Bruce Ciskie (@BruceCiskie) September 18, 2012

@mikemcfeelykfgo that was not last season it was during the 2010-11 season.
— Eric J. Burton (@goon48) September 18, 2012

Three of 4 U of North Dakota captains suspended by team are NHL draftees. Andrew MacWilliam (TOR), Danny Kristo (MTL), Corban Knight (FLA)
— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) September 18, 2012

Via KFGO News: Grand Forks city police say they did not respond to any calls regarding UND hockey party. Checking on campus police calls.
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 18, 2012

According to online court records, no citations were handed out to any players.
— Schlossman (@SchlossmanGF) September 18, 2012

Men's hockey captains suspended for season opener bit.ly/UjDRK5
— North Dakota MHockey (@UNDMHockey) September 18, 2012

UND suspended team captains MacWilliam, Knight, Kristo and Rowney for season opener due to a team party Saturday night.
— Schlossman (@SchlossmanGF) September 18, 2012

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McFeely on the Travis Beck incident.

(cont.) As officers yelled at pair to stop, suspects ran inside apartment building. Police later caught one suspect (Beck) leaving building.
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

It's too easy... This is a snap shot of KFGO 790 A.M. radio talk show host Mike McFeely and his twitter feed today. You can see that McFeely broke down the Travis Beck incident pretty well. As most of you know NDSU's Football team has had a few of their players get into trouble with the law. If you have been reading the Fargo and Grand Forks newspapers or watching the local news you will see that the NDSU Football players are making the news on and off of the football field.

More on Travis Beck sitch: Beck and another person were walking near NDSU campus at 3 a.m. on July 21. One was carrying parking sign (more)
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

For the UND football fans that went to school during the 1990's you probably can still remember - this is kind of reminiscent of the Rocky Hagler days when he has the head coach of the NDSU Bison and they too had fair number of players that got in trouble with the law - just like Craig Bohl's players have this past year and into the summer. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming days and weeks. I am sure that Craig Bohl will probably say that this is a whole lot to do about nothing.

(cont.) Police say Beck had been drinking when they tried to stop him near campus July 20, but he ran. He was MVP of title game.
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

(cont.) Beck pleaded not guilty to Class B misdemeanor charges in August, but will attend a change of plea hearing tomorrow.
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

People can say why does it matter - here is the problem - Craig Bohl knew that the petition fraud charges were coming down on 10 his players and the could have ended all of this with simply suspending his players for their game against RMU and this would have been over. Instead head coach Craig Bohl and the Athletic director choose to say this.

NDSU starting linebacker Travis Beck will have 2nd court appearance tomorrow for minor consumption and resisting arrest. (more)
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 10, 2012

“There are not going to be any suspensions,” Taylor emphatically said after the game. “These kids don’t deserve a suspension. I’m not going to suspend them and neither is Craig (head coach Craig Bohl). As far as we are concerned, it is over.”

By making comments like this Bohl is actually putting his program under the scope - so just when the head coach thought maybe this would pass a the Travis Beck incident just compounds what happened last weekend.

Few things before bed...

NDSU players disenfranchised entire state & possibly cost conservation $80M/year, yet Taylor and Bohl are angry people are talking about it?
— Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyKFGO) September 9, 2012

Like him or hate him - Mick McFeely of KFGO radio out of Fargo, ND says some interesting things and with this tweet he nailed it. Dennis Anderson of the Star and Tribune also touched on this subject as well.

Also, I will be doing some writing for the Hockey Writers as well - as an NCAA hockey writers. This was posted on twitter as well tonight - I will be doing some writing for Inside Hockey but also the Hockey Writers as well. This blog will still be here as well.

Please give our new #NCAAHockey writer Eric Burton a follow @goon48 He'll have you covered all season!!
— THW - Combine (@THWCombine) September 10, 2012

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