nd1sufan

I'm not blaming UND for accepting an invite to the Big Sky, but I'll bet you if you asked each Big Sky president the vast majority would privately say that would not have voted them in if they had known USD would not be coming with them. So in that case, it was somewhat of a forced marriage to the other Big Sky schools.

If the Big Sky honors their acceptance of UND into the league, the Big Sky Conference will look much different when UND plays their first conference game than it looks today. Some of the western schools will either defect or at the least drop some of the non-revenue sports. I can't see those schools sending a volleyball or soccer team to Grand Forks for one game for very long. I think Northern Colorado's Director of Development said what a lot of other BSC schools are thinking when he said "What was the conference thinking" when asked about UND joining the league alone.

Actually, One of the years when NDSU was still in their transition, which was the first or second year of the CBI, Scotty Miller asked Miles if they were asked, would they play in the CBI, and they said they most likely would not pay the fee to get into the tournament.

Agreed that the BIson need a point guard. That is the only position NDSU could have pulled off the Sioux roster this year and put in the starting line-up. The ONLY one. And the Bison have an athletic point guard transfer that had to sit out this year that is a good ball handler, can score and has a 42" vertical. They will be fine next year. The Sioux got an automatic invite to a 4th tier tournament by winning a horrible conference's tournament. Don't get too excited. If you are beating a 5-26 team in the semi-finals on a questionable foul call if the final second, maybe you want to hold off on declaring their recruiting classes great.

I think everyone would know if it were his second. The Fargo media will not let any legal trouble a Bison athlete gets into go unreported. Perhaps if Hakstols punishment had been harsher, it would have taught Kristo a bigger lesson and he wouldn't be in the situation he is in now.

Why are you critical of Bohl for not suspending Jensen for a first MIP, when Hakstol didn't suspend Kristo for his first? And Kristo's second got him a suspension for an exhibition game, That will teach him

I would assume Hammer will be tied up a handful of Saturday's in the fall doing NDSU football games on The ND NBC Networks, so I don't think he will be doing any UND games this fall. What about Pat Sweeney on non televised games and Hennesey on the others? I guarantee Hennesey knows as much about football as Ralston.

I'm not saying one conference is better than the other, and I actually think both UND & NDSU will be in the same conference (not sure which one) in the near future, but what are Sioux Fans going to be saying in 4 or 5 years when UND isn't beating the Bison by 4 touchdowns in football or 30 point in basketball every year. Listening to Sioux fans UND getting into the BSC is the end for NDSU and a springboard to the Big 10 or Big 12 for UND. The current conference situation may level the playing field for UND, nothing more.

Yes, that is way they gave 6 times as much to NDSU than it did to the UP Center, they definitely know who drives their bottom line . And yes, unfortunately there are many Grand Forks transplants and Sioux fans in the Fargo-Moorhead metro market, so there is a demand for Sioux merchandise in Fargo. And there are also a lot of Grand Forks people that come to Fargo to shop at a major mall. And no, there isn't a demand for Bison merchadise in Grand Forks because there is no reason for someone from the Fargo area or an NDSU grad to move to Grand Forks, or for that matter to shop in Grand Forks.

Like the ones that have banners all over the Fargodome and will have in Scheels Arena, and the ones that are buying the suites in the Fargodome and will assuredly buy the ones in the new Scheels Arena ( Renovated BSA)? Like the ones that are currently driving season ticket sales up year after year at the Fargodome? I think NDSU knows about corporate sponsors. By the way, how many of those corporate sponsors that ring the REA boards or the Betty or the Alerus are from companies from Bismarck and West? Just curious.

Have you seen these people making all of the money on ND Oil being interviewed in news stories on TV? I'm pretty sure these people don't know what a hockey puck or football are, and if they did, they aren't spending any of their money on much of anything, much less a college athletic program.

UCLA is a good win, but Oregon State is a horrible Pac 10 team. Also, Nevada's only win is a 15 point victory over Montana. I'm not sold on the Big Sky if Montana is their best team. I'm not saying the Summit is better every year, I just think they are better this year.

Shouldn't UND be looking to Altru and Gerrells to be giving them donations? Scheels is a Fargo based company and Sanford has a major presence in Fargo, not Grand Forks.

To be quite honest, I think currently the Summit is a better mens basketball conference than the Big Sky. Oakland, who just beat #7 Tennessee and lost by one to #8 Michigan State. I don't think there is a team in the Big Sky can compare to Oakland and their athleticism. After this year when the Summit loses their 2 worst mens BB teams in Centenary and Southern Utah, it will only get better.

I believe a person with class should be treated with class. However, Mr. Foss has not earned that treatment. He has always been a basher of NDSU athletics and its fans, and doesn't deserve to be treated like a person with class. Any "journalist" that allows his allegiance to one school and hatred for another to accuse it of steroid use and cheating without any proof, just because his beloved school couldn't compete with its rival, doesn't qualify as classy in my book. Fans in an internet forum making comments is one thing, journalist publishing in newspapers is a completely different story.

I agree with the guard comment. Anybody that pressures the Bison point guards this year will have success. I do believe Webb and Anderson would get some playing time if they were at NDSU this year. They may be an improvement handling the ball over the NDSU's point guards. But, I'm not sure anyone else on the Sioux mens team would get much if any playing time at NDSU this year.

The Asst Comish of the BIg Sky Conference was just on WDAY and he said they weren't too upset that USD didn't accept their invite to the BSC. He said the distance between Vermillion and Grand Forks made them less than ideal travel partners for UND. He said in the next 6 months, they may be looking to add another school. It sounds like they would still like a travel partner for UND. Any ideas on who that would be?

Yeah, like it has put Northern Colorado, Portland State, UNA, etc. in the spotlight. I'm not saying the MVFC/Summit would put UND any more in the spotlight, but some UND fans thinking that the Big Sky equivalent to the Big Ten or Big 12 in the eyes of the rest of the country is just naive. Making the Big Dance or FCS playoffs will put you in the spotlight, and it doesn't matter which conference you went through to get there.

Perhaps the one statement on this site no one will (or can) dispute.

Yes, you would have your rival back. After all of the comments on this site about the manufactured rivalry between NDSU and SDSU, I don't think you will be able to convince too many people about how your rivalry with Montana will be any better. There is a continued multiple decade association with NDSU and SDSU and both schools claimed (believable or not) that each other was now their biggest rival. I don't imagine you will get much talk from U of Mont that UND is their biggest rival. It would be a one sided rivalry. I'm not saying NDSU replaced UND with SDSU, UND will always be NDSU's biggest rival, and I'm not saying the Summit/MVFC is better or worse than the BSC, I actually think both are fairly equal competitively, I'm just saying UND would have their biggest rival and 2 other opponents they have recent history with in the Summit/MVFC that they won't have in the BSC. Not to mention they would resume an old rivalry with UNI in football. and they are rather easy to hate with thier current group of coaches and players. I hope this isn't taken as smack, it certainly is not meant to be, just my honest opinion.

Agreed that quality quartback play is lacking at UND and NDSU. Don't know enough about UND's QB's returning to know if they are the answer, but I'm pretty sure Mohler and Jensen are not the answer at NDSU. UND's back are good enough and receivers are better than anything NDSU has playing this year. Who do the Sioux have coming back at QB other than Goska or Hendrickson?

NDSU is a year away from being a good team. Their guard play is not good. Next year with Lindberg coming in from Superior, WI and Hale. a transfer point guard from Minneapolis (Via Texas State), they will be much better even without Tveidt. I say it won't be more than a ten point game.

Don't think I was gloating, I'm just glad the Bison won and live to play another week or more. It will be interesting when UND makes the playoffs for the first time and declines the invitation because the opposing team doesn't have the full allotment of scholarships. I'm pretty sure NDSU didn't tell the NCAA who they were going to play.

I would prefer the Big Sky version. I think the top seeds should only have to win two games to get to the NCAA tournament. It just may take longer for an expansion team to make it to the conference tournament if only half of the teams make it.

It all depends on which NDSU team shows up. If the one from the Green Bay game shows up, it will be a toss up, if the one that beat UC Santa Barbara or the one that was within 50-44 midway through the 2nd half at the U of Minn shows up it could be a 20 point blow out. NDSU actually has a preety young team. Tveidt and Coleman are the only seniors and Coleman has not played much at all in his career. Carlson is the only other player on their rsoter with much experience. The atmosphere could get to NDSU as much as UND, not to mention their will be much more pressure on the Bison, which I don't think they handle very well.