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You have obviously never participated in college athletics. Those movies are terrible exaggerations and actually pretty piss poor all around movies. Those movies are as representative of college athletics as the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" is about sea travel.

This is a poll put together by fans who post often enough of the anygivensaturday.com website. Most haven't probably heard too much about us since we're new to Division I. I'd say give us one or two seasons and we should start appearing regularly in these things.

I really wonder who fans that say they will stay home and not support the teams during the transition think they are punishing. Is it the players? the coaches? the Administration? You're only really hurting our teams with that attitude.

Seriously this a great use of revisionist history. Chapman has always been the president who couldn't work with the other university presidents. He was singled out as a cancer by both Dunn and Potts and there aren't a lot of kind words to be said about him in certain circles. Chapman's idea of cooperation is subordination to his agenda and I hope Kelley tells him where to stick it at the next legislative session. The political pressure to renew the rivalry will be too strong for Chapman to stand in a few years anyway so it's only a matter of time before the rivalry is renewed. In the meantime UND should just focus on doing what's best for UND and let the arrogant leaders at NDSU commit career suicide by standing in the way of future Sioux-Bison games.

Since we're into making bold predictions based on little or no actual knowledge I predict the Bi-son will finish the season 5-6 and will get their ass handed to them by both Southern Illinois and Northern Iowa.

Yeah the transition does suck, but I'd hope our program would have a little more pride than buying phony rings and pretending we won a make believe championship.

Taylor called a press conference and slandered the academic records of thousands of UND student-athletes. To my knowledge there has never been a comparable statement made by anyone in the UND administration. Even during the Hager years when a Bi-son football player with a diploma was harder to find than a needle in a haystack. Say what you will about UND's administration, but when you call in to question a group's academic performance as a piss-poor excuse for your own lack of courage then you've reached a whole new level of douschebaggery.

That's a bold move considering they weren't even conference champions. Were they made of paper for the "paper champions"?

And so continues the endless excuses from the Bi-Son. Taylor's lack of courage and character will be his downfall regarding this. UND needs to continue to do things the right way and focus on the transition. Let the classless losers at the cow college continue their pissing and moaning until their no longer relevant.

Limiting the search to applicants who have experience with NCAA hockey would limit the field to candidates from only about 50 some schools, the majority of which would come from University's that have nothing in common with UND or Division I institutions.

Well I guess they did have Lamar Gordon who went on to a professional career after getting doped up and arrested for kicking in windows at Moorhead State BEFORE one of the most important games of his Bi-son career. A game the mighty Bi-son went on to lose effectively putting an end to the playoff hopes of probably one of their best teams ever.

In all seriousness if NDSU was truly for competition between the two universities Chapman would never have thrown the temper tantrum he did over the UND Fargo campus and he wouldn't constantly piss and moan about UND's advertising in Fargo. He doesn't want competition, he wants UND supporters to roll over so NDSU can get everything they want. What exactly was Kupchella supposed to do when NDSU was trying to take money from UND? Why should UND have had to sacrifice money that could be used to maintain some of the strongest programs academic programs in the Midwest so NDSU can start up mediocre duplications of those programs? The animosity won't end until that scumbag Chapman and his lackey's finally get kicked to the curb by a governor or state board that won't tolerate his unethical and illegal behavior.

The sad part is that NDSU shouldn't even be competing with us for students in the areas of business and nursing. Our programs are far superior here at UND, but we're so poor at advertising and selling the strength of these programs that NDSU just says they're better or just as good and a lot kids who don't do the research believe it. I for one am looking forward to our change of leadership and wish Kelley would start tomorrow instead of July 1st. Kupchella has more or less been retired for two years now and our school has suffered because of it. We need to start marketing ourselves and fighting for the institution of UND, because the likes of Chapman and Paulsen view the competition between the schools as a zero sum game and will go out of their way to harm UND even if it means hurting the state of ND as a whole.

UND students are affected by the decisions of local leaders almost every day. It's more than just property and sales taxes. It wasn't too long ago that a large number of UND students were excluded from available housing due to a zoning decision by the Grand Forks City council. Many live in GF year round and determining their residence based upon their driver's license is pretty arbitrary. Regarding this issue and others, there needs to be a change in attitude by many GF residents. GF should be looking for ways to make their community more attractive to the students who attend UND in the hopes that some may choose to stay there after graduation. In order to do this GF leaders and citizens need to reconsider how they treat students. Local leaders and citizens always talk about how they want young people to move to the city to build families and start careers, yet when they have thousands of young people living in GF they treat them like second class citizens. It shouldn't take much to figure out that every student you screw over when it comes to housing, wages, party fines, towing, etc. will be another student who jumps at the first ticket to Fargo or Minneapolis when they finish their degree.

If it's any consolation this schedule was almost finished a few months ago. Two schools backed out of games with us (Butler, San Diego) both of which were going to be in the Alerus center and the Cal-Poly game was voided by the Commissioner.

Honestly, it really would not be the end of the world if we were only able to schedule 4 or 5 home games next season. It's the toughest year of scheduling and hopefully we can arrange some home and homes for the following year. Plus having only a few home games would stir up demand for tickets as fans would only have a few times to come out and see the team play. As a fan you have to understand that the schedule will only get better, if we have few lackluster opponents this season then that is the price we will have to pay to have better schedules in the future. If we're still scheduling crap at the end of our transition (see NDSU's non- conference opponents) then we should be concerned.

Would you care to enlighten us as to how UND needs the cash from a Sioux- bison game more than NDAC does? A lot of bi-son fans keep saying this but none can ever seem to state any facts that back this statement up. It would appear NDAC needs some cash of their own unless they hope to continue having the citizens of Fargo finance their facilities for them.

Looks like Lennon could have some difficulties if he ever hopes to leave SIU in the same manner as he left UND. Over on SalukiTalk, the SIU message board, their is a long discussion on how the SIU athletic department is suing Jerry Kill, their recently departed coach, for a $58,000 signing bonus they had paid him. Pretty bush league move on SIU's part since $58,000 isn't enough to make a lawsuit worthwhile as the attorneys' fees will exceed that much pretty quickly. Maybe it isn't such greener pastures after all.

Hey that's fine if you're scheduling turds. Just don't come here and tell us their not when it's game time. Add those two along with your game against Indiana State and that means you have three games and possibly a fourth yet to be named against some of the worst teams in FCS football. "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime" (Disclaimer: except against UND and in the Alerus Center or the Fargodome for that matter) is your advertising slogan so I guess you'll play any turd you can find so your win-loss record looks decent after you get through your other 5 games against real teams.

He only flipped off an official, it's not like he knocked up a cheerleader or anything like that.

Hey sorry, we can't help with that. Lennon chose to burn a lot of bridges when he left here and ProudSioux's harassment of your fan board is a repercussion of that. Most of us have constrained our criticism of him to this board and for the most part have maintained our sobriety. That being said SIU has definitely moved into the number two spot on my least favorite FCS football teams list. Here's hoping you go 1-10 next year with your 1 win coming in the Fargodome against Bi-Son.

Any word on a number we can expect on Tuesday. Are they still thinking a 15-20 recruit class?

Tell that to the hockey people. There are those within the athletic department and who will do whatever it takes to keep hockey in it's number one spot, even if that means going out of their way to hold down other sports. Promised money and other resources gets diverted from other sports to hockey all of the time. The idea that O'Keefe would work behind the scenes to squash a Bruce Smith presidency isn't all that unrealistic.

You'll get no disagreements from me regarding those thoughts. My point is more along the line that we should hold a grown man who has been known for espousing the values of integrity and honesty to a higher standard than an 18 year old kid.

I don't think many people on here are that disappointed in the recruit backing out on the verbal. Myself and probably many others are more disappointed in Lennon continuing the recruiting process after Cavil had committed to UND. It's a really a knife in the back to Mussman and the UND staff and Lennon deserves a lot of criticism for it.