Found this on the UND board...WOW exactly how I and a LOT of other avid HBU fans feel

What is happening on the court this year is just unfair. It's unfair to the students who have fees built into their tuition which include ticket fees so they can go to games for "free", it's unfair to the long time ticket holders, it's unfair to the alumni, it's unfair to the players who have worn a UND basketball jersey in the past, and it's unfair to the entire state of North Dakota. When the decision was made to go division 1 we immediately committed to being a nationally recognized program. Our scores show up on the bottom line of the ESPN ticker every night and quite frankly it's horribly embarassing to think that some potential recruit in North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, or Texas is watching a Tar Heels game and sees North Dakota 61 MAYVILLE 73 or North Dakota 41 Texas A&M 82. I know when I see scores like that on the bottom line I usually just assume that it's some D2 school getting wrecked by a large state school because that's the only time that should ever happen. Oh wait LeMoyne BEAT SYRACUSE this year in an exhibition. If we are going to commit to becomming D1 I don't think it's acceptable for any of us to be satisified with what is happening this year. Division 1 programs don't just sit back and say "ahhh shucks, give it some time." I mean we could do that, but I typically think that programs who do that never figure it out and play D1 for all of the wrong reasons. So what I'm trying to say is if you're pissed off about how this year is going, you have every right to be, and don't feel bad about it because as a stakeholder in the program you are entitled to see a respectable product on the floor.

That being said, I don't think that we should be beating the Texas A&M's of the world yet, but we should be competing. Maybe score 60 points against an above average team every now and then. Maybe not get doubled up? The worst part of all of this is that I'm fairly convinced that there are at least 10 guys walking around the campus that could beat the varsity this year. So how can this be fixed? When I found out we were going D1 I thought that all of our sports would be okay, and our toughest time would be men's basketball just based on the fact that there aren't division 1 basketball players in the region and our recruiting base will have to change drastically if we ever want to find players who can compete at that level. D1 players are athletes, we don't have any athletes. The easy fix is to at least recruit athletes who can match up against the guy across from them at least physically. Give them a chance, I really don't blame the players on this years team for what is happening this year. It's not their fault that recruited them to play D1 basketball when they have the skill set of a mediocre D2 basketball player. I mean that's like having some coach come up to you when you're in high school averaging 20 ppg at some horrible Class B school and telling you that they think you're a D1 basketball player. I don't blame them for thinking "holy crap, I can play D1 ball" when someone who should know what a D1 player looks like is telling them that. That's obviously easier said that done, but it can be done. We were able to recruit guys who could compete before (a certain center who outplayed Drew Gooden comes to mind) and now we have more incentive to get players like that to show up. If Bryan Jones isn't out looking at some JUCO players to fix this problem by next year something is wrong. Because there are athletes in those JUCO programs who are of D1 ability and who will be servicable until we can get our own guys coming through here from the start. It worked for NDSU (Andre Smith from NDSCS) and people around here aren't going to wait around for 4 years, and quite frankly they shouldn't have to.

Seriously, HBU FANS WE ARE NOT ALONE IN OUR STRUGGLES!!!!