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Are you serious??

Normally I'd say act like you've been there before but.........well, you've never been there before. When I saw this title I thought it was going to read As a BISON FAN, whats it going to be like on Saturday having a home playoff game? I've never been to one before and I'm really excited for the JV team coming to Fargo.

Congrats to the ladies and the coaches. This team has been solid the last couple of years and continues to get better.

In my mind it all boils down to QB play. The good teams at this level have consistent QB play that play within a system and don't hurt a team. Teams that have turned around this year started it with an improvement at the QB spot. I think we can get all the talent we want at other positions but if the QB play continues to hurt us a dramatic improvement next year is unlikely.

They really need to stay out of it. These guys have to come to some sort of agreement. How about 2 consecutive years with no guarantee after that. See how it goes and than decide how to continue after that. There is a standing offer by both schools that neither is willing to accept and it doesn't sound like there will be any budging.

Hey I'll give props to the Bison but I think its hilarious that you come on here and also on your board their fans talk trash about us not getting into the playoffs. I know that our record sucks but here is another news flash they may not understand, we aren't even playoff elgible. I love the fact that you get a home playoff game for the first time ever and the first thing some of their fans do is compare their program to a team in transition. Even on a day that should be all about the Bison for their fans the Sioux are still in their minds. Thats right though, they moved on. Good luck on Saturday.

Yes, they are all looking to make cuts. That is why some of them would like to cut football and advance talks with the NCC I mean Summit league

Just saw this on BV. Thoughts and prayers with you and your family Marlin. May God give all the strength you need to beat this.

OC and o-line coach

You could be right Matt. I didn't mean to come off as I knew for sure. I was just going off of what I thought it looked like on TV. Either way I think we both agree that he's a tough kid and he'll definately give it a shot.

Minett was injured on his TD run in the second half. You could see when it looked like he pulled something. He never returned and SDSU completely went away from the running game. I think its a pulled muscle and depending on how severe will determine if he'll be back. He's a tough runner so it wouldn't suprise me if he played but I don't know how effective he will be.

No. I wouldn't have a problem with that.

If the Dutch farmer is who I think it is I'd rather keep Mussman around.

Lets see, this year we have had poor QB play, average DB play at best, only have one big play WR and coaching has been questionable. Seems pretty similar to the bison last year. Things can turn around pretty quickly in FCS football, look at your own conference for that. The difference between that haves and have nots in this league is usually qb play. I love the fact that your team is in the middle of a playoff run but you still have to come on a Sioux board and use a team you don't play anymore as a measuring stick for where your team is at right now. It sure is nice when a 3 win team gets as much coverage as a 7 win team thats in the hunt for a playoff spot. Was hunting out west this weekend and the Sioux vs. Montana game got more coverage than your win over your "rival"

He verballed to you a while back, I'm guessing you knew this. I'm also guessing you understand the importance of being in an AQ conference your comment was out of jealousy that UND is now in one. Just like most other ndsu fans are feeling a little threatened by UND to the Big Sky you had to come here and try to downplay it. Thanks for your interest in UND athletics though.

Well, I guess its a bad thing than that Kelly, Faison and the rest of the UND athletic dept. can see beyond one time zone. If flying over a time zone is what makes an ndsu athlete too tired to complete their homework than I really don't know what to tell you. UND has been flying all over the country for the last few years and continues to put all kinds of kids on All-academic teams and has athletes winning academic scholorships after graduation. I really don't know the key to thier success about this time zone travel that is such a drag on Fargo athletes. What you need to get into your head is that we really are excited about the Big Sky. I know you are trying to find any negative you can but in my mind the positives out weigh the negatives. You can take comments made by newspaper columns but we have yet to see anything from any school in the Big Sky who is disappointed by the admission of UND. Montana actually came out and talked about the positive of adding UND and since the rest of the Big Sky bows to Montana I'm sure they will tolerate it. As far as who schooled who I guess it just depends on what side of the fence you are on. We don't really know how everything went down and some of us may not want to know the discussions that went on after UND signed with the Big Sky.

Sounds like a quote from a president who is as pissed to have UND in the conference as bison and jacks fans want to believe.

Some of those schools may not have a choice pretty soon. Idaho has an athletic budget smaller than UND's. They are also paying for another 20 scholorships for football. If the WAC spreads itself out from Lousiana to Idaho with most schools being south the budget gets pretty tight. If Montana does not join the WAC than for every reason UND does not fit in the Big Sky, Idaho won't fit in the WAC. The Big Sky is providing a footprint for some of these schools to keep costs down and for them there are no other conference options. Since most conferences require a school to sponsor certain sports a school may hit a crossroads of do they bite the bullet and drop down a level for football or continue loosing money on athletics. I will say UND may eventually hit this point as well as all of this is purely speculation. UND has proven though that it can send its athletic teams all over the country in the Great West and still turn a profit. I'm not in the Idaho, SJSU or USt. athletic depts. but I'm guessing a lot more is hinging on Montana's decision than one thinks.

Aren't the over 100 pages of speculation of this topic on b'ville enough for you Danno. You have to come here to share your wisdom of what you think is going to happen. Thats right, I forgot you guys have moved on.

Kill filled a lot of his roster with JUCO and transfer players. We know Coach Lennon likes to have players for 5 years and has never been a real big in the JUCO or transfer route. SIU is kind of at the same point as UND right now where Lennon's first full recruiting class was redshirt freshmen this year. Next year as they get 3 classes into his system we will see what happens. I think the biggest cause of SIU's stuggles have been injuries. NDSU's wr coach who was at SIU last year even acknowledged that pregame saying that SIU is down 5 db's right now and its taking its toll. I can't imagine what most schools at the FCS level would look like minus 5 db's.

And throw UND into that mix and you just listed 5+ teams all fighting for exposure in an area of the country that is not that heavily populated. If UND can play this right and can offer something different we can seperate ourselves from just being one of the "Dakota schools" from the MVFC. I'm up for the challenge.

Your wrong. We are in another conference that supplies us a lot of exposure in those states. Granted its for a different sport but its not like UND is going to fall of the map all of a sudden and be completely forgotten. How did we have any coverage there before playing in a Great West conference? Now if no AQ was available and come postseason play we had no opportunity to be still playing than yes, exposure would be limited. I see having that opportunity as a good thing and if the Montana's stick around along with UNC and SUU a very good thing.

I keep forgetting Bison logic. The smack can only take place on one board. If its anything against the Bison program than its just drinking the Kool-Aid.

See SDSU in 2012? Also Central Arkansas is a good program coming to the Al. Also I'm guessing USD will get in a schedule rotation if we want to pursue it. The SD schools are on tight budgets and a bus non conference game are very appealing to them. NDSU we will have to wait on that.

You can have the Summit/Independent. I'll take the Big Sky for all sports. Sitting and waiting for the Summit offer and than being an independent in football is a lack of vision. That was the only given in this whole process. It has yet to be seen how the current set up will play out. Maybe it will be terrible but I still think we are better off being in the Big Sky. Others can laugh all they want, I won't lose any sleep over it. Bottom line is there are a lot of good things going on at UND right now, some that have not even been announced yet and a decision by USD is not going to change that.