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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!!

Being the topic is recruits, here are the verbals to-date for NDSU. Michael Arndt, LaMoure ND Landon Smith, Dickinson Trinity ND Matt Anderson, Cavalier ND Lee Vandal, Rolla ND Mike Brown, Larimore ND (NDSCS Wahpeton) Matt Gratzek, Stephen-Argyle MN Chris Wellenstein, Centerville SD Christian Dallas, (NDSCS Wahpeton) Seems like a good group of instate and regional recruits!!

The separation between the Bison and Sioux programs has been and will continue to widen amoung the fans of the region and state. Statewide TV coverage of Bison football against Montana St. at the same time UND is playing Duluth. Local sportscasts showing the Bison mens basketball score against Kansas St. and then the UND score against Minot St. The top instate football recruit signing with the Bison even though all of the factors were in UNDs favor. Just a few examples to show that the separation between the athletic programs of these two fine institutions is real.

No NCC teams in the DII regional finals? Doesn't that mean that there were eight teams still playing?

Didn't SDSU women's basketball have quite of bit of success the last few years in DII? They will also be in the Bison Sports Arena next year and the year after!!

I forgot . . . and not to forget the annual sell-outs in football and basketball with the fellow DI land grant university, South Dakota State (another former NCC member) !!!!!!!!

NDSU sure doesn't need the cash from a bison-undII game. Next year the Bison have Montana St. and Northeastern (Rocky Hager) at home for football, and Kansas St. & Manhattan at home for men's BB, and Minnesota & Wisconsin-GB for women's BB. Who is comparable on undII's schedule? The Bison are DI and UND is DII. There won't be any games in the major sports until they are both in the same division. It's that simple! The U of Mary should try and get on the Bison schedule as well, what is the difference between them and undII?

I rather be a guppie or minnow with big fish like Montana St. and Southern Illinois in football and Minnesota, Wisconsin, Manhattan, Wisconsin-Green Bay, Kansas St. and Colorado St. in men's and women's basketball. Those are teams on 2005-2006 Bison schedule for the MAJOR sports of football and basketball. Except for the conference issue, the move by NDSU to DI has been very successful and will continue to grow. One example was last year's individual contributions and corporate sponsorships to Teamakers of over a million bucks. The move to DI by NDSU was indeed brilliant, as now their competition is with their peer DI institutions as mentioned above, not the Moorhead St's, Crookston's and Mary's of DII. NDSU has an association with peer DI institutions in ALL sports. I'll send my contribution to NDSU, the minnow in the DI POND, rather than UND, the big fish in the DII PUDDLE!! For the majority of sports fans, all that matters is who you play in football and basketball.

Just because UND schedules those schools in a minor DI sport of hockey doesn't mean that they will be scheduled in in the big-time sports! Nor could they care less if Bollinger is on the staff. NDSU men's basketball has games scheduled against major DI programs like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas St. and Colorado St. for the 2005-2006 year. And the NDSU men's football team will probably be playing the Gophers in the Metrodome in 2007. Talk is cheap, the Bison schedule shows that they are DI, not only in minor sports, but football and basketball as well. Can you say Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas St. and Colorado St. in men's basketball?

sioux rule! - that is your opinion! Good Night!