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Congrats to Bubba and his entire staff!!!! Two Big Sky coach of the year honors for UND fall sports this year so far.

Saint Francis at Villanova Weber State at ChattanoogaLehigh at New HampshireNorth Carolina A&T at RichmondCharleston Southern at WoffordIllinois State at Central ArkansasSamford at Youngstown StateSan Diego at Cal Poly I will go all home teams except Lehigh over NH.

It's confusing when you say things like "us" and "our".

It may increase the market for NDSU but it may also decrease the price of the next contract. If UND does move into the MVFC there will be years when 1/3 of NDSU home games will be picked up by Midco. And they have a better production by far than KVLY.

I think we will be ok. With the game being a couple weeks out and the lack of a need for urgency when purchasing tickets for past games, I didn't expect things to fly off the shelf. I do think after the holiday weekend things will pick up and there will be a great turnout. I am just hoping things pick up where they left off in the 4th quarter of NAU. That was fun and is the type of fan engagement we need to rebuild the atmosphere and home field advantage of the Alerus.

My favorite quote from B'ville on this game. From the poster NDSUstudent. While I think this win is more than impressive and would love to capture one of these, the Summit is not a mid-major conference. I know the rebuttal will be #buttrpi but it will be a one bid conference for the foreseeable future. At least until they can start beating Big Sky teams non conference.

Alienating other schools in your conference isn't the best idea either. It all comes back around eventually. I'm sure USD will not forget this. Im sure Midco won't either. Those advertising $$$ might take a hit when the Bison host two schools that Midco has contracts with. Last I checked Midco has a much better production than KVLY and is on a lot of TVs in statewide ND.

I'm guessing there was not a need for someone to purchase one additional season ticket in order for it to be sold. There are often not many times someone is looking for one season ticket by itself. Before the season started we were called to see if we'd be willing to slide down a seat as we're our neighbors to make a pair available.

They will always be a power in that conference. They will always have one of the largest football budgets in that conference and will not lose negotiating strength.

I don't think this team will easily roll anyone. It's the playoffs.

Glad Alex Reed got recognized for his play. Really becoming a fan of him. Hope Stockwell feels slighted. He is an all conference talent. Can he get healthy and take his level of play to a higher level in the playoffs?

I'd like to think so but Richmond will be a tough out if they make the trip to Grand Forks.

That is a good listen. I'm glad Klieman caught himself in the opening about how last year it wasn't the Valley teams that kept winning. Also Tom's comment about the flip flopping in Fargo was great.

Half the teams in the MVFC finished below .500. Based on your logic I think SDSU would have finished about where Cal Poly finished in the Big Sky?

With only 3 non conference games it is very hard to get a good comparison of varying schedules. What I don't know about Saragin is how the original rankings are calculated? Who put UNI #2 to start the year and than let the computers take over?

It's the playoffs, there are a lot of tough outs in the field. I watched SDSU play Cal Poly this year Is was a few weeks before our game against them

You mean the league that was better than the MVFC head to head?

Is this like last season when the MVFC teams were going to eliminate each other since they were in one half of the bracket? How many did you face again? If SDSU wanted to be seeded higher than 8, they should have won another game. They are seeded where they should be and FUnis likely seeded where they should be.

Will the Alerus pick up where it left off in the 4th quarter vs NAU? Hopefully fans understand now that noise makes a difference and it is ok to yell on 1st and 2nd down.

Highest seeded team will always be at home. If two non seeded teams meet, it goes to a bid.

Most on this board have been saying all season the Big Sky is a better conference than the MVFC this year. Apparently the committee agreed. I will never say for certainty I know what a committee I am not on will do. Especially when the Big Sky rep has proved to be a pussy in the past.

Half the MVFC is below .500

Why?

I am kind of surprised that Sam Houston did not climb into the top 4 with a 30+ point win yesterday. How you are #1 three weeks ago and drop to #5 without losing surprises me.

I'm guessing conference titles have helped with fan interest. Tom Miller had a recent article regarding travel costs. The best thing UND could have done to save money was cut programs. It impressive to have this success with 21 programs and supporting women's teams as well