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Does anyone know how many home games we will be playing next year? Mussman stated on the Sioux sports show last night that there will be a total of 11 games. He said that 10 have already been scheduled and that once the last game is signed the schedule will be released. I think this is what we know so far: HOME: UC-Davis South Dakota Idaho State DII team AWAY: Cal-Poly Southern Utah Northwestern St. ? Texas Tech Is there any games I'm missing or incorrect about? Coach also stated on last nights program that there will not be a return game to Grand Forks by SELA... I guess I wasn't quick enough with my typing

Idaho St. leads Eastern Washington 31-28 in the third quarter. E Washington hung in the game against Texas Tech and could have beat Colorado.

Nice to see Central Washington up but I dont think we play either of those two teams. Im a bit surprised at the UC Davis score.

I feel the same way and have stated that on other threads. However, after thinking about this a bit more, I can kind of see this point of view. I am an Alum of UND. If I were not an Alum, I could see not supporting the team if it were to change it's name. For example, I have always been a fan of the Tarheels basketball team. I do not have any ties to the school. I like the name tarheels and their school colors. If they got rid of the name and changed colors, I would honestly say I probably wouldn't follow them as closely as I would otherwise. That being said, if you have ties (ie. attended/graduated) from the school, I feel you should support your alma mater no matter what their athletic teams are called.

This example still doesn't work for me Dave. Had the Houston Oilers moved to Nasheville and stuck with the Tennesse Oilers, only to change their name to the Titans after two seasons, I would say that they would have had the same support. However, they did not have a stadium those first two years and thus played in Memphis... It gets kind of complicated but here is a link about their move... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Titans Scroll down to the '97-'98 era...

You can't be serious with this post? These are totally two different scenarios. If they closed down the University of North Dakota and let's say moved it to Bismarck...current students/athletes/faculty and all. Then they opened up a new school, Grand Forks CC, at the "old location of UND" and of course with a different nickname, then you may have a point. I too am a die hard pro Sioux nickname supporter, but I would agree with Sioux-cia that we are cheering on the students/athletes of this fine institution and not the nickname.

Thanks...I guess I was aware of those other events but this one snuck up on me. Hopefully I can make the time to attend this event.

I was just checking my email and received an advertisement from the Ralph that states Travis Roy will be speaking at the Chester Fritz on Monday September 29th. Looks to be an interesting presentation. Sorry I don't have a link...

Minnesota will continue to schedule FCS teams. The head coach may say one thing while their AD says another. Here is a link to a McFeely blog where he quotes both Bohl and Taylor about contacts they have had with the Gophers about a possible matchup in the near future.... http://www.areavoices.com/mcfeely/?blog=32888 According to the USD Headcoach, they have a game scheduled with the Gophers for 2010. Not sure if they would schedule UND due to their policy on Native American nicknames. There was also a rumor that Wisconsin was trying to schedule UND this year, but UND didn't feel it would be ready to take on a team the caliber of Wisconsin this year. Not sure if it was true or not, but as stated earlier, Wisconsin did schedule Cal Poly. With a twelve game schedule, there will always be FBS teams looking to schedule FCS teams...

I agree with your post, except for the Minnesota thing. Don't they still have a policy in place stating they won't play teams with Native American logos/mascots? Wisconsin had a similar policy at one time but then amended theirs...I believe. Either way, there are teams that are willing to schedule UND regardless of their nickname...

It would be nice to see GF awarded the tournament again...I had a blast in '04-'05. However I still think Buffalo is the front runner. I had to take a double look at who wrote that article you referenced...At first glance I thought it was a former Sioux player

Thanks...I took a minute to check it out. Not a lot talk about their game against us. I don't know a whole lot about them, but I'm sure they will be tougher than ISU.

Does anyone know if SE Louisiana has a fan forum?

I agree that it's rather disappointing they aren't televising more football games. I wonder if this game will truly be a FSSN broadcast or if they will just be picking up the SD feed. It was posted earlier that USD will be televising the rest of their home football games on the Midcontinent channel (Channel 23).

Had it not been for the short week to prepare and perhaps some elevation issues, I feel ISU would not have made the rally they did in the second half. It's not to say we would have totally shut them down, but I doubt we would have given up four touchdowns. One positive I am taking from this games is that it appears as though the coaching staff had our kids ready to play. This is one question mark I have had since the loss of Coach Lennon. He always had his teams prepared. We only had four days to prepare for this game...techinically...and our team came out and were ready to go in the first half...particularily on offense. I believe this is a good sign for our coaching staff. We will see if this continues going in to next weeks game.

Wow...I step away from my computer for a few hours and in that time we go from up 61-39 to trailing 76-24. I agree that something is fishy. Montreal also has a sizeable lead in the question about Robert Lang...

Did anyone make the trip to Pocatello? I'm curious as to how many Sioux fans made the trip? What was their game day atmosphere in comparison to ours?

Good job Sioux fans...although it's not over yet. Sioux lead 60%-40%.

UND currently leading 51%-49%...Make sure you vote!

After listening to that, I'll predict a 31-13 Sioux victory...hopefully it's by more.

Got my vote in! When does this round of voting end...I was too lazy to read the fine print... Nevermind...I see that we have until September 22nd...get your votes in!

I only saw it scroll across once...it was actually listed as Grand Fork not Grand Forks.

I knew FCS schools did well last year, but I didn't realize how well. The Kolpack article incorrectly stated UNH (FCS)beat Delaware. UD is actually an FCS school. UNH beat FBS school Army last week.

Yeah...I voted around 15 times just to see if it would cut me off and it didn't. I'm not sure how many of those votes actually counted though. I checked the percentage after each time and it remained 51%-49% in favor of the good guys after each of my votes.

Got my vote in...any idea on how many times a person can vote? I agree that if we get by London, Montreal will be difficult to beat.