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TV Ratings The facts cannot be ignored. The 2015-16 FCS National Championship football game had more national TV viewers than ALL 3 games of the 2016 Frozen Four college hockey tournament. Frozen Four TV Ratings UND/Denver 361K BC/Quin 138 UND/Quin 541K Total 1.04M FCS TV Ratings NDSU/Jack St. 1.40M

There is nothing better than DI college basketball. Wow, what a couple of great games tonight. Wisconsin and Kentucky survived to move on to the Final Four. The teams, fans and viewers were hanging on by each possession. No wonder it is called March Madness. The TV ratings for the Kentucky & Notre Dame must be off the charts!!

Gonzaga blew out Iowa by 20 points. The TV announcers mentioned several times during the game that the tough game Gonzaga had against NDSU may help the Zags as they move forward in the tournament. UNI is down by 8 early in the second half, don't know if they can come back against an athletic Louisville team.

I believe that both UND & NDSU had interest in Olson, but not sure if the DI qualifications would have been met. Heidelbach is a good baller, but has slow feet. Good in open space when running but when stationary he gets beat every time on the first step by him.

Back to the original post, having the Bison on KFYR/Clear Channel is huge. Not only for football, but also one basketball game per week. The tide has changed and this media change clearly demonstrates that NDSU athletics is indeed the premier program in North Dakota.

I disagree with your post. The Bison are doing the right thing by scheduling two turds for nonconference games, which by the way are still FCS opponents. Don't you know that the Bison's conference schedule includes 5 teams that were ranked and the Gateway is without question the best FSC conference around.

No doubt that the football conference situation worked out just great for Chapman & Taylor. What FCS school wouldn't want to be in the Gateway, the best conference in the division? Congrats to them for securing membership in this high profile conference. Good luck to NDSU and SDSU as they begin their "real" FCS football conference journey next season.

NDSU & SDSU will get into the Gateway Conference and further seperate themselves from other "following" institutions. It doesn't matter what some coaches or ADs say, it is the Presidents that vote!!

A loss to U of Mary!! Losses last year to Mayville & Minot. And a pending move up to DI. Maybe it should be a move down.

I hope the hockey tournament went well. It's good that they have it in Grand Forks. There has been only minimial following or coverage anywhere else in the state. But that is to be expected I guess with no hockey interest from the general sports fan!! What was the attendance, the arena looked empty on the Thursday & Friday TV highlights?

It is amusing, as alot of the topics on Bisonville aren't even about UND athletics. Did you see the two most recent about Kuppchella's parking ramp and UND's advertising efforts in Fargo. Does Grand Forks have a phobia about Fargo and Division I NDSU?

And look how many of the posts are from UND posters on Bisonville!! UND supporters must have issues judging by all of their posts on someone else's board!!

UND recruited all four that signed with the Bison no doubt, and wanted the other three that signed with other NCC schools. You don't want to lose in-state talent to programs like Duluth & Augie!!

Check out the Circle of Champions and Teamakers donators in the Bison football and program guides, one of the top contributors is a UND graduate. His reasons, are DI and the professionalism of the NDSU staff!!