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Great win tonight by the team. Our offense has a lot of weapons on a night our O-line play was average. Marcus was the man tonight. His play was great and our WR shook the early jitters and just made plays. I was glad to see Golloday play tonight as much as he did. On defense, we have some work to do. I haven't heard was D. Brown's injury was. Hopefully nothing serious. We need our front seven to get pressure to help out our dbacks. PSU's qb had some time back there. Still, the D made plays when they had to and man they can be physical. The bogus personal foul call on the hit to the qb was about as loud of a hit as I have heard. Special teams- Coach Kotelnicki has these guys rolling. 3 blocked kicks tonight and none against us vs. about as good of a special teams unit we'll see in the conference. We were so close to breaking a huge kickoff return as well. Minus the missed FG, these guys all get an A+. Another great turnout by the students and they were loud in the first half. Thanks to all of you who read this board and who showed up and set the tone. Hopefully the players let everyone know how much they appreciate it and it continues when the team returns in a few weeks. This team has a ton of potential. Didn't play great tonight and beat an above average Big Sky team. I agree with the earlier poster who said we'll see more running backs like this in the future and that is a concern.

Funniest part of the night was when I was driving back from Grand Forks after the game listening to a national college football radio show. They are announcing some scores and they announce Sac. St over Colorado and mention Sac. St is an FCS program. Next they announce NDSU over CSU and follow the score up with "North Dakota St. playing this game using 9 players who were charged in a voter fraud case in North Dakota earlier this week." I about spit Mountain Dew all over my windshield. This is going to follow that program nationally for a long time.

Must be tough when you need to be told what to do when your job is to get signitures on petitions.

Well, going off the article todayl, either Bohl didn't have that same conversation with these guys or more than likely he just overlooked it to have them elgible for this week. Article today made it pretty clear that all of them admitted the two stars of the team forged more or the same amount of signitures that they went out and got. I bet the punishment will be harsh- next week when the team is playing Pravie View A&M junior high.

I wanted to post a picture but the Bison are getting more national attention. Front page of ESPN.com- http://espn.go.com/c...tion-signatures

This was my thought. All we heard all week was that Bohl had to have known about the case that is why he was holding off. Well, doesn't sound like guilt is a question.

And also why Bohl wants to wait to let the legal process play out fo find out for sure if his players are truely "guilty".

Well said. Set the tone for the rest of the stadium.

Depends on how many yards he rushes for tomorrow.

Well, while your beating you chest about supposedly being right, 9 of your current players and 12 players with ties to the Bison team have charges against them 13 if you include Jemison. Nice work.

I wonder if Best Buy took the time to explain that stealing TV's was illegal or if one is just supposed to know better?

Thanks for the update Bambino. Good news on Hanson. Possible return next week?? Also, I'm still surprised by Galloday. I know he has talent but with McGill and Hardin just both being consistent. The return of Ivery this week and Jackson bringing as physical style of play as there is at WR, were does Galloday fit in. I am looking forward to seeing him play cause he has to be something pretty special to be getting his shirt pulled.

It was more an answer to your question. Why is there complete threads on your team fan board about everything UND? This item though actually has an affect on the state of ND. Two items won't be put to vote due to the actions of a group of people who were hired to do a job, 8 of those people were NDSU football players. I also answered your question as to what got me riled up. When fans of your team tried to drag UND into this or actually placed blame on them. If there was sarcasm involved with their comments I didn't see it. Also, Bison fans still drag Kristo into every conversation they have when a NDSU athlete gets in trouble. Trying to use an incident from 2 years ago to justify your players making the paper, which by the way has happened 3 times already in the last 3 months. Thats a pretty good average.

Your right, I'm guessing there would be absolutely zero posts on this on Bisonville if the schools were reversed. I got angry when some posters on your board drug UND into it-either by saying it was a conspiracy or bringing up incidents at UND from 2-3 years back to try and justify this. Hell even Johnnyboy tried to drag Ralph into it to try to make a comparison. I know what to expect if I posted anything on Bville but the above opened the door for me to post about it here.

I'm gonna put my glasses on and say we win by 4. UND-24 Portland St.-20 This will be a great measuring stick for our team and there is nothing wrong with facing a little bit of adversity already in the season with an injured QB and down one O-lineman. The D has to play big. Portland St. is going to try and establish the run and we have to limit that. We may have to leave our corners out on an island again like we did last year against Cal Poly, they have to be up to the challenge. The offense also has to move the ball. Three and out after three and out like last year is not going to cut it. I've been looking forward to this game to see how much we have improved from last year. Its going to be fun.

Don't pretend he would be easily replaceable. He's a proven 1000 yard back with a ton of talent. There is a reason he is still around after hitting his limit in strikes. Even though his troubles have been kept pretty quiet, I live in Fargo and they are not big of a secret.

Have charges been filed vs. Jimison??

The thing you are overlooking is your head coach just released a backup player coming off of hip surgery a couple weeks ago before he was ever charged with anything, much less convicted. Do you understand how it looks to someone who isn't blinded by green and gold glasses? Backup who will see the field in special teams and has no prior incidents- don't let the process play out. Starters (which includes possibly 2 All-Americans one of which is on strike 5)- we better let the process play out before reacting. I understand that they are two different situations but Jemison may not even go to court or have to have a plea deal, more than likely these 8 are going to face something.

They like to take the wait and see for starting players. Backups coming off of hip surgery its ok to take the guilty until proven innocent approach.

And you are assuming a punishment is going to happen. Bohl has set his precedent in the past that a DUI for a contributing player is only a one game suspension (removal from the team if its a backup who will never see the field but according to Bison06 he has always been very consistent with his punishments). By your own admission a DUI is much worse than this so why are you so sure a punishment is going to happen? I wouldn't be so quick to call anyone an idiot right now cause I don't see anything happening during this season and if you feel a punishment during spring ball is sending a strong enough message to 4 players who are already starting this year than I question who is the idiot.

Have you spent any time on your own fan board or have you been too busy here to read the posts by some about this being UND fault or those dragging UND past into the conversation? Regarding suspensions, I'll wait unil they actually happen before I gve you a high five and tell you that you were right. If I were a betting man it either won't be this year or in a game that matters.

Please do. And we'll be sure to save all the posts of finger pointing at UND, not putting any of this responsibility on the players, going back 2+ years to find examples of something happening at UND similar to this and the comments by your coach and AD that this isn't that big of a deal. Instead of worrying about how UND would handle this, if I was a former ndsu player such as yourself, I would worry about my program and the players on my team. Also, when a UND player gets in trouble again, and we all know it will happen. You don't have to worry about saving anything because there will be 15 threads started about it on Bisonville. Just like this story, it always has something to do with UND. Edit: Also Shamen was still a starter, Johnson was still a stud and this was prior to Best Buy and the details on the others are accurate but maybe this was the one time Bohl wasn't consistent with his punishments.

The situation and the players I described did not happen at UND. It was how Bohl handled his DUI incidents. Starting WR Shamen Washington suspended 1 game. DE with a ton of potential Garret Johnson suspended 1 game. The qb everyone wanted to name starter at the time who also had a couple previous minors Jose Mohler suspended 2 games. Backup QB Troy Jackson who everyone knew wasn't going to see the field, released from the team. I am basing my opinion on how Bohl is handling this to how he has handled past occurances.

I'm happy that the UND coaching staff has always been consistent with their punishments to players regardless if they are a starter, a backup, just coming off hip surgery, etc. Based on Mussman's past it wouldn't matter if lets say the starting qb, starting wr, backup de with potential or backup qb all committed the same offense, they would all be treated and punished the same.

I'm hoping the fact that it is a short week and everything being shut down on Monday has a lot to do with the student ticket situation this week. Hopefully things pick up today and tomorrow. Its going to be an entertaining game.