nd1sufan

Actually when an NDSU coach got a DWI a year ago, there was a front page story in the newspaper and he was suspended without pay. Nobody knew about the UND coaches DWI until he was in a hit and run with his athletes in the vehicle while he was driving drunk and without a license. Someone in administration should be unemployed for that fiasco. If someone had been injured or killed, the University would have been on a very big hook.

In fairness to Brian Faison, he spent last summer until this spring trying to make sure one of his coaches DWI's didn't make the newspaper or radio or TV news. That one kind of backfired on him.

I thing Gene Taylor and Chris Kleiman have seen enough of Bubba's defense's the past 6 years to not be afraid. I know he was recruiting to Carbondale, Ill (in close proximity to St. Louis, Chicago and Indianapolis and not to the football hotbed of Grand Forks, which one of your current, possibly former players by now, tweeted was the worse place on earth. I think we have all seen enough of Bubba in recent years to know not to fear him.

When is the last time UND hockey has agreed to a home and home series with Holy Cross, Alabama Huntsville, Merrimack, etc? They haven't because while the label of Division 1 hockey may be the same they are not at the same level. The same reasoning goes with NDSU's scheduling of UND in football. While they may both be labeled FCS, they are not on the same level. If you want to play them, you agree to it on NDSU's terms. Just like UND's OOC hockey opponents.

Check out your new volleyball coaches comments after he was hired.

Last year they were advertising on the radio $40 season tickets. Wait until August when you have 2000 season tickets sold. The ads will come again.

But you are having MAJOR problems filling your stadium.

NDSU will be charging $40 a game this year for every game anyway. I know that is hard to believe when you can buy a season ticket to UND football for $40. Why make an extra $5 or $10 per ticket for one game and let your bitter rival double their football ticket revenue 2 years later in one game? I don't see any reason to help a school that has coaches that claim they are the only Division 1 school in the state.

Ferris was probably are better opponent than UND would have been last year. Not sure Weber won't be better than UND next year.

Apparently those farm owners didn't learn much at UND when the NDSU farm workers are $120,000 further ahead after 20 years.

Why not take it? UND doesn't generate $190k in gate revenue for a home game and probably doesn't make 50k after having to pay an OOC opponent to come to the Alerus. Plus, it is pretty much an easy road win for UND if you listen to people on this site. It sounds like a no lose situation for UND.

Fixed it for you.

FBS teams aren't real excited about scheduling NDSU and getting beat, that is why they don't have an FBS game for 2015 yet. But they will get one scheduled if the UND thing doesn't work out.

Actually, the $190k was for a single guarantee game, not 2 games.

Yeah, UND doesn't need the game. They can play Drake and get 6000 paying fans (8000 total with 2000 students) at $20/ticket for a gate of $120,000. They will pay Drake at least that much so at best it is a break even game, or they can play NDSU with 10,000 paying fans at $50/ticket for a gate of $500,000 with nothing to pay NDSU. NDSU could play Drake and sell 15,000 tickets (19,000 total with 4000 students) at $40/ticket, or they could play UND and get the same gate. Sounds to me like one school needs it worse than the other, and the negotiations show it.

So Faison will travel to Idaho and lose money but won't take 200 grand to go to Fargo? Maybe he has some credibility problems.

If Faison really wanted to play the game he would take the $190,000, which would be all profit, and play it. They have traveled to Idaho to play a game and have lost money, as he said the contract wasn't even enough to cover expenses for the trip. He didn't demand a return trip from Idaho.

What's the big deal. The first 2 games should be in Fargo. UND hosted the last game so the next game to fulfill UND's obligation to to return that game that they backed out of would be the 2015 game. The next game in 2017 would be the start of a new rotation of games, which NDSU should get to host also. Why wouldn't UND take a guarantee of $190,000 for a game in 2015? They have traveled to Idaho, Fresno, etc. on a charter plane and stayed in hotels for the same amount. Seems kind of hypocritical of Mr Faison to me.

I can think of a couple of JUCO's that have made significant contributions to NDSU over the past 6 or 7 years (Pike and Gatlin), and neither were starters. I can't think of any FBS transfers that have contributed at all. It seems that FBS transfers are generally either trouble makers or not as good as advertised. I am not sold on King Frazier making much of a contribution at NDSU. Is going to transfers (JUCO or FBS) to go from a 4 win team to maybe a 5 or 6 win team worth it if it disrupts the locker room with bad attitudes?

NDSU has shown you can jump up from D2 and be a back up safety on a very good FCS Missouri Valley FC team and get a shot at the NFL. I wonder how many back ups at the FCS level get a FA contract on an NFL team?

If gfNDfan picked up on it, I doubt it went over anybody's head.

I have been busy bailing UND hockey players out of jail.

NDSU did want Hooker. Recruiting is an inexact science. I for one am glad they didn't get him. I have seen Tyler play in person several times. If you leave him wide open he can hit a shot, but he can't create for himself or others. I will take Alexander and Brown over those 2 any day. We will have to see about Dupree, they didn't need him last year with the guards they had. Athletically, he is better than either of UND's guards.

McFarlane obviously heard about the arrests on the UND hockey team last week and thought it fitting that the UND Sioux mascot would be drunk.

If I was a fan of a team that will be counting heavily on a VERY overated Hooker and a UMKC castoff in Tyler as their starting backcourt, I would be worried about my own team. Neither of them has any ability to create offense for themselves, and I would be surprised if they get any better with that coaching staff. As far as players with only D2 offers, I think NDSU has done fairly well with Woodside, Winkleman, Braun, etc. Some coaching staff develop talent, while others let their players regress.