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And you wasted how many years at NDSU? So why are you here? This forum isn't for Bison fans to discuss NDSU, bison sports, or even Sioux sports. It's for Sioux fans to discuss Sioux sports and issues that effect Sioux sports.

Every game next year IMHO will easily exceed this year's games attendance. UND hosts Cal Poly again next year (likely in the Potato Bowl), and would bet the attendance will be well over 11,000. Homecoming vs NAU and game vs Montana will be near sell outs. Even the opener against South Dakota Mines will draw, because of so much anticipation over the end of transition and entry into the Big Sky. UND is not like other transitioning schools, where all they had was football homecoming as the game to come "home" to. As a team, we just need a QB and more depth. At this point, just wish Landry was still eligible. We'd be 6-1 with a long ball throwing threat.

Sioux win streak up to 8 and record moves to 20-4. Last two regular season home games coming up on Thursday night and Saturday afternoon against UTPA and HBU. Next year in the Big Sky, volleyball could easily see 1500 or more avg attendance, making it a top 25 draw. http://fs.ncaa.org/D.../2011/vbatt.pdf If a Sioux team plays recognizable opponents and consistently win, it will draw well.

Will be interesting to see what the Minnesota series will draw. Since the men are in Anchorage, the time zone difference will allow fans to attend without sacrificing listening/viewing to the men's games. Predicting 7000. The Wisconsin and Mn-Duluth series should also draw well, but the men are in town those weekends too. Matinee games don't draw as well. Probably 4000 or so for those games.

And may be exactly what the Big Sky is waiting for: 12 all-sport teams + 14 football teams in two divisions. If the Big Sky added Idaho and went to divisions, it would probably look like this: FB: Pacific - Cal Poly, UC Davis, Sac St, Portland St, NAU, SUU, Weber St Mountain - E Wash, Idaho, Montana, Montana St, Idaho St, UNC, UND BB: Move Idaho State to Pacific Division (travel partner for Weber St)

UND simply needs a JC QB or two on campus for spring drills. Right now, the QB cupboard is absolutely bare and has been for nearly two seasons. Up until this game, Bradley couldn't pass but at least hadn't made stupid decisions. Can't say that anymore. Next fall, need Mollberg and at least two other QBs on this team.

The Boston Globe, which has broken most of the realignment stories from the Big East, is reporting that the Big East, CUSA, and MWC may form 32 team league with playoffs: http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/extras/colleges_blog/2011/10/big_east_mwc_c-.html Technically, that new conference could only have a championship game as an extra game. But, if it creatively scheduled to have a TBD conference opponent during its last weekend for divisional championships (as well as #2's playing each other), this could actually happen. The BCS conferences might be livid. The setup would steal three schools from the WAC: Utah State, San Jose St, and La Tech.

The difference between the top two and bottom two in the Big Sky is massive. Last year, based on Sagarin, UND would have finished only ahead of Sac State and Idaho State. With another year of experience and more depth, Portland St, NAU, and MSU might be within UND's grasp. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/bkt1011.htm

With an announced attendance tonight of over 3000, seems there are a lot of people with those thoughts. Sioux averaging over 2400. Season should easily yield a record total home attendance.

SloStang: Just wanted to thank you for being such a fair and impartial fan on other boards. You are a class act! When the Mustangs aren't playing the Sioux, I root for Cal Poly because of fans like you.

Montana has had a huge push to get lights installed before next season. I took that as interest in FBS and thereby allowing evening televised games (which the WAC would have required). If Montana truly doesn't have to go to FBS to gain a much more substantial TV package, that would certainly help keep both Montanas in the Big Sky and FCS.

Perpetual Big Sky women's leader Montana is not favored this year. It will be interesting to see how UND will stack up against the Big Sky this year- if no where else but Sagarin and Massey Ratings. 2011-12 Preseason Big Sky Coaches Poll 1. Portland State (6) – 61 2. Montana (1) – 55 3. Northern Colorado (1) — 49 4. Montana State (1) — 47 5. Idaho State – 34 6. Northern Arizona – 28 7. Eastern Washington – 26 8. Weber State – 13 9. Sacramento State – 11 2011-12 Preseason Big Sky Media Poll 1. Portland State (11) – 156 2. Northern Colorado (2) – 134 3. Montana (3) — 129 4. Montana State (2) — 125 5. Idaho State (1) – 114 6. Eastern Washington – 73 7. Northern Arizona – 54 8. Weber State – 38 9. Sacramento State – 32

This should be the season we start tracking the Big Sky to see how well we fit in. Weber State has the most NCAA appearances of any Big Sky school, and are favored again. Media Preseason Poll 1. Weber State (19) ………………………………………………………210 2. Montana (4) ……………………………………………………………..193 3. Northern Colorado (1) ………………………………………………..141 4. Northern Arizona ………………………………………………………125 5. Portland State ………………………………………………………….. 112 6. Eastern Washington ………………………………………………….109 7. Montana State ………………………………………………………….101 8. Sacramento State ……………………………………………………….45 9. Idaho State ……………………………………………………………….41 Coaches’ Preseason Poll 1. Weber State (8) ………………………………………………..64 2. Montana (1) ……………………………………………………..56 3. Eastern Washington …………………………………………42 4. Northern Colorado ……………………………………………41 5. Portland State ………………………………………………….38 6. Northern Arizona ………………………………………………35 7. Montana State …………………………………………………24 8. Sacramento State …………………………………………….16 9. Idaho State ………………………………………………………..9

So you're saying the best NDSU could do was the "plainish" fat chick? Before there is all kinds of angry biso replies, even their own fan base said that at the time.

The CUSA-MWC football-only merger may not last. The announcement was made at the last minute - when word leaked that Boise St, UCF, Houston, and SMU would be getting Big East bids. Those four, especially Boise State, are critical for that merged conference to get off the drawing board. The BCS Bowls are not at all happy with the Big East situation - UConn only sold like 5000 seats to the Fiesta Bowl last year and was a horrible ratings draw. Cincinnati the previous two years sold tickets, but didn't yield ratings or produce a decent BCS game. TCU was looked at as the savior of the Big East - at least by the BCS Bowls - but with TCU gone, Boise State is the critical component that the Big East needs. Boise State is one of the few remaining non-BCS schools (as well as Navy, Army, and Air Force) that can draw ratings, and is the only one of those that can be competitive for a national championship. If Mizzou really goes to the SEC (horrible cultural fit IMHO and Mizzou will be a perpetual loser there), and the Big 12 takes two or three Big East teams, the Big East may not survive as a football league. Because a Big East basketball conference may be born, and wholesale restructuring of remaining Big East / CUSA / MWC / WAC / Sunbelt, the next few months may be the most traumatic the lower DI conferences (both football and basketball) have ever experienced.

That site has decent graphics and news feeds, but its forum content isn't that much different from Bleacher Reports. IMHO, the posters associated with the forums there lack insight: all about geography and not about cultural/alumni/program fit. It's essentially about 10 posters like MplsBison all stating that UND must absolutely positively move to the Summit League. None of them, even after exhaustive explanations, can grasp why UND fits the Big Sky. The actual board that is most insightful IMHO is this one - NCAAbbs - Lounge - Conference Realignments: http://ncaabbs.com/f...lay.php?fid=637 Perhaps I'm biased because I have a good reputation there, but a number of insiders, bloggers, TV and media types post regularly there. Since that board contains a whole family of conference and individual school forums, it receives a lot of traffic from all over.

Since UND didn't publicly apologize (but publicly accused), UND's actions are still far from being vindicated.

So in Kelley's mind, an 85 year old woman drinking beer encourages binge drinking as much as an 85 year old women wearing a Fighting Sioux logo causes poverty on Indian reservations. That's the type of logic that Kelley seemingly believes in, and acts on. It wasn't the political right that brought about prohibition, but the political left. A huge opportunity is being missed here: why not sponsor a short ad with Mrs Delano speaking for responsible drinking and against binge drinking? She is someone the students actually respect and admire and respond to, not Kelley. Strange that a man as "open minded" as Kelley is so quick to label and stereotype. Based on his Berkeley pedigree, guess if she was drinking wine, eating cheese, and wearing an interlocking ND lapel, her sophistication would get a pass. But since she's a beer drinker and wears a Sioux logo, she's encouraging others to be a low class lush, too.

Star Tribune: North Dakota’s great oil rush http://www.startribune.com/local/131923403.html Minnesotans drawn to North Dakota’s siren song of prosperity http://www.startribune.com/local/131956973.html

If NDSU was granted more funding, it would be used for a massive statue of Chapman honoring Chapman's misdeeds. That's how ingrained corruption is at that institution.

A long Denver Post expose' on Jesse Martin's life threatening injury reveals a huge amount of tension between Gwozdecky and Martin's father, which seems practically visible in the above photo. One hit launched DU's Jesse Martin on an extraordinary course http://www.denverpost.com/colleges/ci_19123727

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/32698997 FCS scholarships may drop from 63 to 60, FBS from 85 to 80, women's basketball from 15 to 13, and men's basketball from 13 to 12. The changes could really free up talent in the women's basketball ranks. The full cost-of-attendance scholarships would make the total cost even higher. USA Today estimates the increased cost of the new type scholarships to be $716,000 annually for UND. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2011-07-29-athletic-departments-cost-of-attendance_n.htm

UND at #68. http://masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cvol

New York Post: Bickering Big East http://www.nypost.co...#ixzz​1afhXr2jx Villanova fit to be tied over a possible Temple invite Choice words thrown Notre Dame's way: Opposition to Boise State:

Exactly. Just imagine, schools like Miami (formerly Redskins, has small fan base that still insists on that name - to the horror of its administration), Denver (banned Daniel Boone as its mascot because it is sexist), Duluth (President who absolutely hates the Sioux nickname) joined a conference with a team named Fighting Sioux. Then, St Cloud St, that St Cloud St - the school with all the protests and all the hate, and the school whose president said it never ever would join the greedy NCHC - joins the NCHC - even with UND in it. Fighting Sioux was never ever an issue in any press report. Can't imagine a more stupendously stupid statement by Shaft.