nd1sufan

I work with a huge Sioux hockey fan who said he was listening to the Sioux/Gopher post games this year and he said Henessey was stalling and taking extra breaks waiting for Hakstol to come up for an interview until finally saying it must be too much of a hike for him to get up to the press box and going off the air without talking to him. He said it happens often. Maybe not after every loss, but quite often. I have no reason to doubt him.

Can someone tell me the last time a media personality in GF (Sweeney, Nelson, Miller, Schlossman, et al) have said a bad word or questioned anything a UND team or caoch has done? Your hockey coach won't do an interview after a loss and nobody says a thing about it. I can guarantee you Bohl or Phillips would be taken to the woodshed if they did that.

Don't confuse The Sic with facts.

Just wondering if your sources are coaches, athletic directors, administrators, or someone else? Why should everything that comes out of your mouth through your posts be taken as gospel? Why are you more reliable than a newspaper reporter? My guess is you are somewhat more biased than than a reporter. People on this site always talk about Bison fans saying that if a kid signs with UND that NDSU never offered or didn't want him. I don't agree as I know they offered Molberg and he is going to UND (congrats on that get). Now it sounds like you, who appears to know all about UND, seems to think UND can't lose a kid to NDSU.

Saul Phillips was on the radio in the last week and he said it will be continuing as an every year game alternating between Fargo and Grand Forks. I'm sure the date for next year won't come out until late summer or early fall. He was asked about a home and home every year like UND and SDSU did this year and he didn't think that would happen unless they were in the same conference in the future.

So do UND coaches tell you about every offer they extend to a recruit? Was the Woods kid lying when he told the Forum in Saturday's paper that UND coaches visited him and said they would match any offer that NDSU had given him?

What did Hardee state in an interview?

Yes, recruiting is going great. When is the last time a ND kid that both schools recruited went to UND? Even this year with the playing field supposedly leveled with the Big Sky coming next year and the transition over, the top two ND kids have verbaled to NDSU. For being the "Flagship" school in ND, UND sure seems to have trouble getting the best ND kids in their program.

D1 schools losing to D2 schools in basketball exhibitions every year, at the low-major, mid-major and even high major levels. Guess which school is going to be more excited to play the game and which one it means more to? I guess we will find out more in January when the 2 teams play each other.

NDSU just got a verbal tonight from a back from Milwaukee (Marcus Horne). He had offers from all but 2 of the MAC teams and was starting to get strong interest from several Big Ten schools. Had 3 Preferred walk on offers from the Big Ten. He was apparently at the UNI game this weekend and verballed right after the game. I saw several recruits on the field before the game. If a recruit visits the Fargodome on a game day and the Alerus on a game day, which do you suppose he will be more impressed with?

Does Boise State have other sports other than football?

I don't see a change coming soon if the sentiments of UND's Associate AD and radio announcer Sean Johnson is any indication. I was in the car and heard his post game interviews with some players and listening to him and the players, it sounded like they played a great game and were pretty pleased with their play. I was surprised to hear the final score. I figured it had to be a Sioux win or at least a close game. I didn't hear Mussman inteviewed after the game, so I don't know how he sounded.

This match was UND's "match of the year". Even Hardee said after the match that they have been waiting a year for this match. It meant MUCH more to UND than it did to NDSU. It was horrible scheduling on NDSU's part to play this match right before a weekend series at home against a top 20 team. UND has nothing to play for except the NDSU game and the reaction of the Sioux players abnd coaches afterward showed it. It looked like they had just won the Super Bowl. They have no NCAA tournament to play for. If you asked UND players and Coach Hardee what their biggest match of the season would be this year, they would have said to a man NDSU. The same could not be said about the importance of the match to NDSU. NDSU would tell you the Summit League and the conference tournament is by far more important than the UND match.

If you are talking hostile environments, I don't think Idaho or Northern Illinois were any more hostile than a MVFC road game.

I would disagree with that. NDSU played a lot of road games in their transition as part of home and home series. They played at Georgia Southern, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston State, Northwestern State, Nichols State, Weber State, Montana State, etc. along with the FBS schools (which they are 4 and 3 against, 2 and 2 against BSC schools). Some of those schools backed out of their end of the home and home, but NDSU played at all of them. It just appears that in their last year of the transition, UND would rather schedule 3 NAIA schools than try for some home and homes against some FCS schools. Look at NDSU's schedule in their final year of transition and then look at UND's this year, then tell me which is tougher.

You won't get a much better shot at an FBS win than this one. They just lost to a very bad MAC team. Idaho would be 14 point dogs to any top 10 FCS team. Or at least should be.

Actually, Sioux Falls can't beat an average (Washburn) Div 2 team.

Maybe you should get a muzzle for your hockey coach and take his computer away. He is as much responsible for the new law as anybody. I don't think a challenge to the law by the SBoHE is going to make the the controversy go away very soon, as there will still be a question as to how it will end up. And don't expect a special session to be called just to address the nickname issue. That would be seen as a major waste of taxpayers money.

If USD had come in with UND, I don't believe the Big Sky presidents would be threatening the deny UND's membership. It's not necessarily that they didn't want UND, but they wanted a package deal of USD/UND. When that didn't happen, they would prefer to have neither. Just my opinion, just like most on this site seem to think UND is a dream fit for the Big Sky. The truth may lie somewhere in between, but if you took another vote of the presidents today knowing it is just UND with no USD, I don't think they get in.

I say this is less about the nickname and more about the other Big Sky presidents not happy about UND coming into the Big Sky alone. In a time when schools across the country are trying to cut expenses, they are not happy traveling to the Eastern Dakotas for one school. If USD had gone with UND, I don't think they would be threatening to deny UND's acceptance to the conference. There are an awful lot of Presidents in the Big Sky that don't want UND in, and this is the perfect opportunity to get them out.

Northern Illinois was not better than the Gophers in 06 when the Bison lost by one. They went to a bowl game that year and almost beat Texas Tech. And Idaho is basically a Big Sky team in a bad dome. If you don't stay close to them this year there is something wrong. Iowa St, K-State and Kansas are BCS schools, Wyoming and Northen Illinois are not. That is the difference.

That's kind of ironic, since most schools in the Big Sky would cut off their noses to get UND out of their conference. That is sad but true. UND needs the "Fat Chick" form 75 miles south of them to join their league to keep the other schools from revolting. Even the school that rules the Big Sky (U of Mont) and is supposedly a supporter of UND (perhaps their only one) apparently didn't want to make UND one of its rivals in football. Truth be told, when NDSU was seeking membership in the Big Sky, there wasn't a MVFC or Gateway/Summit or Mid Con option. If there were that option they may very well have picked the Mid Con/Gateway. If UND had the choice between the Big Sky or MVFC/Summit, I think they would have chosen the MVFC/Summit. So in fact, they settled for what was their only option and probably thier second choice.

The difference is getting paid barely enough to cover expenses ($150,000) to play Idaho and Wyoming or getting a $350 to $400 thousand payday to bus to Minneasota or Wisconsin and pocketing a bunch of money. Also, much more exposure playing a Big Ten team, and even more if you can beat one of the Big Ten teams.

Well, considering the total growth of the Bismarck/Mandan metropolitan area was not as much as West Fargo alone grew, the Bismarck Metro area has a lot of ground to make up in 15 to 20 years. I don't think you could get the President of the Bis/Man Chamber of Commerce to make a statement that they will be larger than Fargo in 2030. Statements like that one make YOU look like the fool. But I think most that have read your posts have come the expect some foolish statements.

Just curious what happened to your prediction earlier this year that the western part of ND was growing much faster than the East and Bismarck was soon going to be the largest city and metropolitan area in North Dakota? It appears Fargo grew by more people (15,000 to 6,000) and by a larger percentage (15% to 10%) than Bismarck did in the last 10 years. Close to a quarter of the population in ND lives in Cass County. I'm going to say western ND is a 50/50 split between UND and NSDU backers at best. UND fans are always saying that NDSU is the Ag College or Moo U. What industry do you think most of Western ND residents identify themselves with? I'm going to say that agriculture would be at the top of the list. And yes, I'm sure Western ND would suffer greatly if UND were in the Summit League. One of their most glaring needs is a Universitiy's athletics programs to follow. Road and infrastructure improvements, more law inforcement officers and expanded housing is distant second. You could probably ask 90% of the residents of western ND and they would say what is the Summit League or Big Sky Conference. They are most likely more concerned with the NSIC(Mary and Minot) or the conference Dickinson is in than either of the Eastern schools. Debating what conference is better for the fans of each school is one thing, but impling that being in one conference or the other is for the betterment of the people of the State of ND or a portion of the state is ridiculous. Is UND going to stop producing doctors for rural areas or stop researching energy atlernatives if it would join the Summit?