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I agree. I love the recent addition of fans that are suddenly so concerned with UND and how poor we are in everything. They all seem to have the same tone with their concerns but couldn't tell you a thing about what goes on during games cause they never go. Can you imagine how bad things would be if we where actually still their rival and they cared about us

Kelly new Notre Dame Head Coach Not a huge suprise.

Well in that case they may as well let everyone in. Than the NCAA will NEVER, EVER have to improve it again.

They will still travel on a weekday. It will take away some of the prestige of making the tournament when almost all teams from the Big East, ACC, Big Ten get in. It will still be nice for the small teams but now they will just have to play to get into the main part of the tournament. Win the summit, get into a play in game. That sucks.

Would you even consider the first round part of the tournament? Are they going to hand out participation ribbons to everyone as well? The NCAA just cares about the almighty dollar. One of the excuses for no playoff in football is missing class time. So what will we do for basketball, we will have 32 more teams miss class time. Is Gene Taylor the head of the NCAA? This makes no sense to me. Why fix what isn't broken?

What don't you like about Miller? The kid put up great numbers for the best team in North Dakota. You can't argue that he can't play the game. Some guys can just play and get it done. I think there where more than one good back in ND this year. There where two that where almost identical players and we got one. As far as Carr, I'm willing to take a chance on a kid that averaged more than 10 yds per carry. I made a few phone calls to some work associates I have from the western part of the state and heard a lot of good things about this guy. Heard he is a guy with a lot of talent. These are guys that saw him play on more than one occasion and a guy that coached against him was very impressed. Overall I'm very happy. fgoSioux, every post you have is negative in some way so you may as well go back to bisonville. I'm sure in your mind these guys aren't good enough to play for your 3-8 bison. Thats fine, we'll let the coaches at UND who have put together 3 real solid recuiting classes in a row do thier thing. If you where a Sioux fan and been to a game this year you would know that.

I agree. 5 posts and all of them negative towards UND generally raise some eyebrows. Either way welcome to the board.

I have seen Miller play and an arguement could be made for him. Has good speed, not great but has great vision and is a pretty smooth player. Don't know if he'll be a back but he is a very good athlete and there is always room for them. He was probably the 2nd best RB I saw this year in North Dakota and was very close to the young man from Whap. in my mind. Miller just isn't as fast. Don't know much about Carr. I do remember reading an article about him though that about halfway through the year he was averaging over 15 yards a carry. That is impressive. Either way its good to get some local talent. We've had pretty good luck with North Dakota kids in the past and hopefully these guys continue that. Welcome to UND guys.

Actually lakes it says Southern Illinois was taking interest in the forum no offer mentioned. That is directly from his coach. Nothing about any other offers other than NDSU. Thanks for the update though and hopefully we don't hear from you again until 2212. Take care.

Zach Vraa Offer Offer to Minnesota Mr. Football Zach Vraa. We could definately use the help at receiver. We'll see if this award gets him a little more recognition and a few more offers.

What was said that was arrogant? All you ever do on this board is critisize our fan base but still you call us arrogant. I like how you come on another teams board and call fans arrogant for talking about thier team. WTF?? Would it be better if we just talked about the badgers? I don't think it will be any better for you over on bisonville but.....................BYE.

Again, your a bison fan on a sioux board and you are calling us infatuated. Plus all you do is repeat yourself and your quotes and don't respond when someone calls you out on the !@#$ you write.

Nope, game will be every year when its scheduled. As far as your question I don't know what Faison will have to give. Maybe just giving Taylor a little more time is enough. I just think Taylor has too big of an ego to just field the phone call and say "oh, thats what you want and when you want it. Ok, lets do it". If it was up to Faison, the game would have been scheduled yesterday. UND is definately ready to play and this would have been a perfect year to play the bison.

Talyor will have to and here are my thoughts on why: 1) Both will have to give a little bit. Niether will get exactly what they want. 2) Both have put together pretty good schedule's for the next couple of years. I have no doubt Faison can't put together a schedule for 2011 that looks just as nice as 2010(which I really like by the way.) 3) UND obviously has a tougher time filling thier schedule as they have more games to schedule since they are in a smaller conference. This also benifits them as NDSU seems to take the Montana route and try to schedule cupcakes for non-conference the last few years since the Missouri Valley is a very tough conference. Gotta get a few wins. UND definately is not a cupcake. 4) Taylor can no longer use his old excuses. The nickname will soon be resolved, plus the baseball game. The transition is almost over. People don't really care about ndsu's transition and UND not scheduling them, even though at the time it would have hurt playoff chances to do so. Now that time is up on these excuses he can no longer avoid UND. All the advantages, mainly marketing and head to head recruiting will be gone the second the game is scheduled. When UND wins, Taylor and Bohl (if he is still around) can kiss those goodbye and things will be similar to the end of DII days. Taylor knows this and thats why he's avoiding the game but even bison fans are getting restless for the game so his strong stance against UND and ndsu's motto of "anyone, anywhere" will be viewed as bull$%!# if he doesn't schedule it. People want the game and will start to see right through him and his excuses. They already easily could if the media pushed hard enough and he was ever asked the right questions. Every state has their major rivalry games and North Dakotans don't expect theirs to be any different. For this reason, Taylor blinks first but Faison gives a little to help him out.

Awesome breakdown. Nice work. Things look good for next year and it looks like it will again be a very competitive league next year. Impressive that a pretty young Cal Poly team was able to beat SDSU.

Thoughts and prayers for you and your family.

This is fun to hear. I am glad the coaches had patience with these freshmen and knew that even though they would be able to help this year, we are looking long term. And kudos to the freshmen for having to patience to wait it out. I am confident the coahces will have another solid year recruiting this year as we already have what sounds like two very good verbals and I'm sure quite a few offers out there to other players to join the underclassmen as we build for the future.

I'd say that position change worked out pretty well for him.

Good news. Good size and looks like he moves well. Welcome Ekenna.

And there will still be the same amount of D1 playoff games played by both teams during your time frame. You could compare the same time frame with NDSU and your new rival SDSU and well we know that they have proven how a team did 5 years ago really doesn't matter. ndsu has proven that as well. All that matters is right now and right now neither team is very good. Yours is 1-7 though so I don't really know why you think you can try and talk any smack at all. Plus you haven't met your prereq from earlier about having to be competetive in the MVC.

Well if competing in the MVC is a prereq for talking smack I don't think you have any right to talk. I think there is a difference between competing and just showing up, which is all the bison have done so far in the MVC.

He won rookei of the year his first year. Not a bad start to a career.

I forgot how these rules work for bison fans. Smack is only acceptable if it is bison fans making fun of the Sioux. If it goes the other direction than it is lack of class. Thanks for clearing that up for us.

That would be because a lot of our upper classmen where recruited to play DII. The 3-4 is an effective defense. It has its strengths and weaknesses just like all defenses. More pro teams are switching to it so it must be alright. It is a complex defense though and I think we need to give some of our younger guys time to learn it and get comfortable with it. Our health right now isn't helping either but hopefully we continue to develop some depth. I know teams have a hard time in preparation for blocking a 3 man front so I personally like the defense. We do need to improve across the defense though which was made very clear yesterday.

Thats great to see. Looks good, especially the logo on the bottom left.