Wilbur

Wait a second....you had to spell SIOUX right to get into this forum.....it all makes sense now..... This doesn't upset me, like I said, its amazing how infatuated some NDSU fans are with UND. Some guys get ticked off about it, but the fact that we see so many NDSU posters on SIOUXSPORTS.com is a good thing to me. Even if they come over and talk about our football team's lack of success. They took the time out of there day to care enough about Fighting Sioux Sports.

I agree with fire Mussman......Anyone think that Dale Lennon would be willing to come back after this season when the team is playoff eligible? What ticked me off the most was the Idaho coaches making a mockery of our defensive coaches.....They'd call time out, draw something up, and a guy would be running wide open to the corner of the end zone. That was unacceptable.....they can't score TD's on basically the same play three times....

You hear that so much from NDSU fans it gets to the point where it doesn't even make me blink anymore. So much inaccurate information is spread about Ralph Engelstad it makes me sick. Well....it almost makes me laugh.....No...Ralph didn't build the rink with blood money.....No...Ralph didn't fight in WW.I.I. for the Nazis......No...Ralph wasn't a close personal friend of one Adolf Hitler....unless Hitler made a point of buddying up with young Minnesota hockey players..... I'm not an apologist for some of the decisions he made, because some of them were definitely unacceptable, but at the same time the man did do some good in his life, and a lot of youth athletes are benefited from him sharing his personally grown fortune.

I dunno....I kind of liked it when it was stolen by certain students from both sides every year. A couple of guys from my dad's old frat stole it from NDSU the last time the Bison beat the Sioux in football. It was fun to take some pictures with the nickel, but at the same time it was great to know that NDSU had won the trophy and some UND students had taken it back. Probably goes the same way for the NDSU fans out there. The fact that the Nickel is on total lockdown.....meh.....just keeps making the memory of Sioux-Bison football go away.......

It is interesting that at every Bison game you hear "Sioux suck" with their cheers, and you see people sell the t-shirts like this family in the story. I can't remember that last time that I was at a Sioux football game and heard anything about the Bison....heck, they didn't even announce the scores of Bison games at the games I was at after NDSU made the jump. This could mean A) NDSU really is more pissed off at UND in this rivalry than UND is at NDSU....B) Hockey has become the only sport of relevance at UND during this transition (This might be my pick, but with the volleyball crowd the other night, maybe not)....C) UND doesn't really see NDSU as a football rival anymore if the schools can't agree to get the game up and going again. I finished a work training program a while back that was taught by an NDSU grad. The entire time when it wasn't about the training it was....shot at UND football.....shot at UND football.....shot at UND football......between shots at football it was all about how the rink was built by a Jew hating Nazi's blood money. At the end of the session when all was said and done he remarked how surprised he was that I didn't say anything back. I told him how, "How can I be upset?" You are more infatuated with UND than I am.....

This years team reminds me of the last Sioux team to play in the national championship, in the 2004-2005 season. Not entirely age wise, but you get my point. ~A good defensive core, with some solid defensemen. -That team had Greene, Fuher, Schneider, Smaby, Jones -This years team will have a fantastic defensive core. ~Good goaltending -Parise and Lamoureax were a good combo -I believe Dell and Eidsness are a good combo ~Young goal scorers -That team had Travis Zajac, Drew Stafford, Rusty Spirko (I know his name), etc. -This team has Rocco Grimaldi, Parks, MacMillan, a number of young guys that can score. ~Role guys. -That team had a bunch of seniors who were role guys.....Fylling, Canady, Massen, Jake Brandt (Was a huge team guy!) -This years team has important role guys as well....Rowney, Lamoureax, (May be the most important role guy this year), Rodwell, probably St. Clair. That team had a magical run the year after the team won the league, and got shut out in the NCAA's by an extremely hot goaltender. Not a lot was expected of them, but they turned some heads....The early season will provide struggles, but I think this years squad is very capable of a playoff run.

Congrats to Pat. We're biased here, but he truly was one of the best writers on USCHO. Gave extremely fair game analysis, and always seemed to get the right quotes from the right guys in his articles.

This is the type of stuff where the rivalry goes too far. I.E. the Alabama fan who poisoned the trees at Auburn. Consider the source though......

Pretty big person....pretty big person.....

Well....if hockey is your thing....send up the NDSU team to play the Sioux you big hockey fan you. I guess I'm not going to put a picture of Jensen fumbling at the one yard line, or the NDSU fan on youtube punching another fan for my avatar.....Because it really has nothing to do with the school that I cheer for, and is only an attention grabbing mechanism. I wish I had time in my day to visit another universities fan forum, and try to piss people off......guess I've got better things to do in this lifetime... You could take a page from WYOMINGBISON and actually add something to the conversation, but that'd require you to take off the green and yellow shades....

I think if UND beats Idaho it would be a game similar to that of when USF beat Notre Dame Saturday. Hope like hell that Idaho turns the ball over, don't turn the ball over at all, and score on your possessions on the plus side of the fifty. It'd be nice to see the Sioux open up the playbook a bit as well. Idaho knows they'll get a lot of Sutton.....wouldn't mind seeing a play action to Sutton to start the game and have Bradely throw the ball as far as he can down the sideline to Hardin. That may make them think twice about committing 7 or 8 to the box for run support....

A) Correct B)........ C) Correct D) Correct E)...... F) Correct G) Correct H) Correct Can anyone get the last two? Hint....not the same player.

Not a big volleyball follower....but aren't the teams separated by a net? How can one volleyball team complain about the play of another volleyball team? I mean, its not like they're out there throwing elbows.....are they?

Of course it was hostile....towards the Gophers! I was at the game the year before that was decided by the blocked field goal..........Gopher Fans around me were in utter dismay that their team was treated like the road team in that football game. Or the fact that their team wore the ugliest throwback uniforms I've ever seen....probably both...

Not a huge volleyball fan, but wow....amazing win for the ladies. I was hoping when I heard about the game that it would end up like 3-1, or 3-2.....no way did I think they'd pull it off.

Ohhh....it was one hundred percent glee. And while my brother tried to explain why it wasn't a fumble I supported the NCAA ruling of the call like a blind Eastern Washington fan.... I was thinking of the last Nickel Trophy game played between the schools....WHAT A GAME!!!!! A little trivia for you: Cheat if you want, but see how you do without a crutch. A) Who won the game? (This is easy for you Bison Fans) B) Who scored the first touchdown of the game? Team, and player please. C) Who were the starting QB's for both teams? D) What was the score of the game? E) What player scored the game winning TD in overtime? F) What player broke his leg before the last play of the game. G) Who was the last player to touch the football in the Bison-Sioux Rivalry? H) Who was the last player to make a tackle in the Bison-Sioux Rivalry? Pretty easy....but wow....what a great game that day....Someone should post it on youtube if you have the highlights....

Very much agreed. My brother is an NDSU grad and we go back and forth, which is supposed to be what happens in a good rivalry. NDSU beats Minnesota...my brother calls me to rub it in....I reply....you beat the worst DI-A team in the country by a touchdown, a team that did not win a game in regulation that season....etc. Hell...last year when everyone was telling me I should be a good North Dakotan and cheer for the Bison at Eastern Washington I jumped up in the air when Jensen fumbled away the season for NDSU at the one yard line.... I'm worried that the entire rivalry will only be talk......I would take UND losing 50-0 for five years just to have the game played again. Heck, hold it in the Fargo Dome, just start the game up again so the schools can continue to steal the Nickel Trophy from each other again..... Someone tried to compare going to Texas Tech vs. going to Iowa State, the Metrodome, or Kansas......come on.....I'm biased...but its not close....

I was making the point that NDSU hasn't gone to a Texas Tech, or a Fresno State....Thank you for backing up my point....I guess....

Yeah, UND doesn't quite fit on NDSU's schedule with the likes of those teams. Personally, I'd rather have the Sioux go and play in the Fargo dome, but with the relationship the way it is I don't mind them going on the road to play Idaho, Texas Tech, Northern Illinois, Fresno State. It sucks that the home schedule looks the way it does, but there is absolutely no argument in the fact that UND has scheduled and played in tougher DI road venues than has NDSU.

Yes....after beating mighty Lafayette College 42-6 (a team with a big TWO wins last season, over mighty Stonybrook, and mighty Bucknell), NDSU would be on the verge of putting up half a hundred on the Sioux. The Sioux hockey team would beat the NDSU hockey team 50-0, based on your avatar, thats the sport you care the most about.

So the Sioux started better than most of their schedule....alright. If that Black Hills State game wasn't the Potato Bowl game you'd be looking at one of the worst crowds for a Sioux football game at the Alerus Center all time. That should be an ugly ugly football game.

I don't see the Sioux beating Idaho after the way they looked last week, but I think they are perfectly capable of keeping it a close game. My key factors: ~Penalties....if our offensive line can't get rid of the false starts its going to be a long day in Russia...(Moscow...hah...not funny). Third and manageable...not third and fifteen. ~The running game.....Keep the clock running....keep our defense off the field....keep the chains moving....Sutton, Miller, Garman need to be huge. ~Physicality. Last year we got bullied and pushed around, and were made to look like the little sisters of the poor. I would like to see the Sioux try and be the more physical team. If they can follow those I think they'll be okay. Baby steps.....baby steps....

+1

They are especially going to need to blitz against the scholarship DI teams. There is no way they're going to get pressure with 3-4 guys against an Idaho or a Montana State. I'd rather get burned on a blitz than watch a guy stand in the pocket the entire game with a clean uniform. Not sure if there is much they can do either way against Pat Hill and Fresno State. There is a poster on this board (can't remember the name ) who talked once about the phases of a passing play, affecting the launch of a pass so it wouldn't get to the completion stage. It was like watching a completely different defense when they blitzed. When the Drake QB had time he completed passes, when he was flushed the defense was able to get off the field quite a few times.

Not a good night for UND's future opponents. Sioux Falls got beat, Montana State got beat, and Idaho got beat. The Sioux should be competitive in the Idaho game. This isn't the 45-0 Idaho team from last year. They'll have to open up the playbook a bit more, but I think the Sioux should stay within ten points.