nd1sufan

That will never happen. If UND ever plays those schools, it is a road game in the opposing teams stadium.

How is UND playing at a neutral site going to help them? If you only get 6,000 fans to travel 5 miles to see a game, how are you going to get more at a larger stadium 350 miles away? Any FBS school that plays you will be at their stadium (an away game). There isn't a big draw for a UND/Southern Illinois game at TCF Bank Stadium or Soldier Field. Can you give us an example of a neutral site game you have in mind?

At least someone is smart enough to figure that out.

Considering the Big Sky has 2 schools (the Montana Schools) that qualify for FBS by attendance and stadium size, IT"S NOT HAPPENING.

And UND is the talk of the NCAA Hockey.......... Oh wait, there is no talk of the NCAA hockey tourney.

Sounds kind of funny coming from someone that claims UND has a secret and imminent invite to go FBS. A school with a much smaller stadium in an area with less than half the population as Fargo. Most teams have to fly into Fargo that play at UND because it is so inconvenient to fly into GFK. UND even flies out of Fargo most of the time. You can spin it however you want, bur NDSU is much more attractive to FBS conferences than UND.

Agreed that geography is not that important. The MW is not a bus league, they fly on most of their trips. How many schools in the Big Sky bus to Grand Forks? FBS schools have more media revenue and higher budgets. If they think a school will add to their conference, geography will not be the make or break deciding factor. Right now, NDSU is looking pretty good in the eyes of conferences. It may be the time to consider pursuing a jump.

Actually the MAC doesn't excite me at all. I think a more exciting and more likely home would be the Mountain West. Much better in both football and men's basketball.

Or that don't have to bother to go to school. Heard Grimaldi on the radio with Bernie Bergrath on Saturday. Bernie said Rocco asked him for directions to the library last year and Grimaldi said he must not have listened, because he still hasn't found it after a couple of years.

What years did Parise and Toews graduate?

Do you suppose Duke fans are happy they beat UNC and don't care they lost yesterday? Get a clue.

Yeah Darell, Why harp on a game in March? Jones won the only game that matters back in November. Haven't you heard all of the national analysts commenting about how NDSU is only the 2nd best team in North Dakota?

Well when you have a 23-62 non-conference record against D1 teams and play the #25 strength of schedule like the Big Sly did, your RPI is going to be much lower.

And the #10 Big Sky football team (UND) would have beaten the eventual 3-time National Champs (NDSU) but NDSU was afraid to play the game. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah............

And the #2 Big Sky team was beaten at home by the #3 Summit team. A team that was run out of the gym by the Bison twice.

Fact is Southern Utah got in the BSC in 2010. That means they would have taken ANYBODY.

I know. UND fans love their new rivals in the Big Sky. UM, MSU, EW, Weber, etc. Did you get 2000 fans to any of those games this year?

This I agree with. The regular season champ should get to host the tournament.

I'm sorry, I didn't see the comments of Jones and the players after the game. I'm assuming they said this game didn't really matter to them, because the beat the Bison back in November.

Because they were playing a team that doesn't play defense.

Actually, they won many National Championships at their previous level. UND has a below 500 record at their current level and hasn't come close to making the playoffs . Just a bit of a difference.

I think maybe they are just saying maybe you should be somewhat competitive in the division you are in before talking about moving up.

Yeah. Huff would have scored because he would have taken 12 shots in those 12 minutes.

That's right, UND didn't want him. Rivals has him with offers from Illinois State, USD and UND also.

UND hockey was playing last night. Any hockey fan in North Dakota would be watching UND hockey and not a meaningless NHL game.