nd1sufan

Wow, took longer for the "Imperial Cass County" remark than I thought. My point is if you are expecting people to drive 4 to 6 hours to fill up a stadium for football or basketball games its not a good situation. Also, most serious sports fans in this state already have loyalties to one school or the other, and I don't think which conference either is in will change those loyalties.

Another kid that apparently hasn't heard the UND to the Big Sky announcement. He signed with NDSU yesterday.

I would really rather stay in the Summit/MVFC combo. With all of the movement in D1 conferences these days, there is bound to be an opening or two in the Missouri Valley fro all sports in the next 3 to 7 years. I would rather wait and take a chance on getting in the Missouri Valley than go to the Big Sky. I know Sioux fans are talking about how great it will be in the Big Sky, but really outside of the Montana schools, who will you be excited see to come to the Alerus or Betty to watch them play football or basketball? I would like to hear from Sioux fans which schools in the Big Sky have them so excited.

I don't care if the Montanas leave or not, kind of want to hear the excuses when the Alerus is half full with a wonderful Big Sky schedule. Cal Davis, SUU and Cal Poly draw 6,000 now, not sure why that will change with a 3-8 team in the BIg Sky. You will possibly have one draw a year, and that will be the Montana school that comes in every year. No one else in that conference will excite the average fan.

Apparently the kid from Kansas that just verballed to NDSU hadn't heard UND is in the Big Sky now and is King of the FCS. You can think all you want that recruits in the traditional core recruiting areas for both NDSU and UND(ND, Minn, Wisc, Nebraska, Texas etc.) thing playing N. Ariz, E. Wash, Sac State, UC Davis, Idaho State, Portland St et al. is so much better than playing Illinois State, Youngstown State, UNI, SIU, et al. I don't buy it. I guess time will tell. I'm not buying the statewide support thing either, but there are more people in Cass and Clay counties than in the whole western half of North Dakota.

Which travel partner will be better, SCSU in the Summit with NDSU or U of Mary in the Big Sky with UND after the Big Sky again expands in a panic when U of Montana and Montana State announce they are leaving for an FBS conference?

I guess somebody better tell Bohl he better head east, it doesn't look like he has a chance to get anyone west of Illinois

Did I miss something? Doesn't the NCAA require a school to have minimum capacity for football seating and AVERAGE 15,000 fans per game? UND Better get started on that retractible roof stadium and skip the indoor practice facility.

First of all, I don't buy your premise. But even if it was true, is that really the first thing you are thinking about when you are looking at when thinking about going to watch the Sioux play an opponent in basketball or football, their acedemic programs? Hell, why not join the MIAC. Those schools graduates are very highly regarded by employers in the Twin Cities.I'm not here to argue which school or conferences are better academically or which schools are peer schools and which are not. But I know Oakland, IUPUI and Oral Roberts put teams on the basketball floor every year that would compete for if not win titles in the Big Sky and they are fun to watch. Same can be said for several of the MVFC teams. Both conferences have their pluses and minuses, but I think I would rather not be the lone wolf in the Dakotas in either conference. I do wish the SIoux and their fans good luck in the coming seasons, hopefully the 2 closest schools geographically don't decide to make the jump to the WAC in the near future. That could be a deal breaker for UND. I'm guessing the Summit would welcome UND in if they could afford the Big Sky buyout. Does anyone know what that is?

Who will be UND's travel partner in the Big Sky? Any ideas?

I think it was the only chioce because your football program wasn't going to get an invite to the MVFC in the near future. I'm not sure it is any better than the Summit for basketball or UND's other sports. An awful lot of travel and if you are going to continue to recruit Minnesota and Wisconsin hard, those kids' families would have no road games they could drive to (except USD).

What does that have to do with the stadium they play in? I could be 30 rows up in the Fargodome and be closer to the field than if I were 15 rows up (which is actually pretty much straight out from and not much above the field) in the Alerus. It needed to be built much steeper than it was.

That statement seems kind of odd for a fan of a school that plays football in a quonset. What were they thinking when they built the Alerus? At least the BSA was at one time a decent basketball arena. The Alerus has always been a terrible place to watch a football game.

Maybe if it looks like they may need them to make the playoffs midway through the season, it will be determined that they have paid their debt to the team and will be reinstated. Oh wait, that is what Hakstol does, not Bohl.

My point was score comparisions are pointless. It was a good win but saying they are better than the Bison because of it is wrong. Until they play, we won't know who is the better team. I'm sure that will be soon. By the way, your first D1 win was last year @UMKC wasn't it?

Wow, I guess its a good thing Coach McDermott didn't put the Sioux on the schedule this year. If the Sioux are 13 points better than the Bison and Iowa State onlt beat the Bison by 2, that means UND would have beaten Iowa State by double digits. Oh wait, they did play, and Iowa State won by 30. Oops, my bad. Nice win tonight though. Miles alway said UVSU hired their own refs and they were employees of the school.

I don't think Chicago State is realistic. Maybe NJIT and St. Olaf. I was afraid the Bison may be that bad this year, but they have surprised me. They have their last chance for an embarrassing loss tomorrow(Dickinson State). I'll be glad when thats over. Those games always scare me.

I really did expect the Sioux women to be better than the Bison right out of the gate. But I think both Ruley and Roebuck really didn't think there was much difference between the top level Division 2 teams and athletes and a top 50 Division 1 team and athlete. I think they were both proven wrong. Dehoff came from a Division 1 background (both as a player and assistant coach) and is getting better athletes to come in and is IMO close to turning around the program. Maybe either Roebuck needs to step down or get some assistants that know what a Division 1 player looks like. I don't know anything about the other players the Sioux signed early, but I have seen Fargo South's Burck play and I'm not sure she is a good Division 1 prospect. I'm not trying to start anything, I just think maybe both Roebuck and Ruley were in Division 2 too long adjust to the Division 1 game. The Bison were just as bad(if not worse) their first couple of years in D1.

Not sure about Boise State, but I'm not sure Loyola-Marymount won a game last year. I'm sure they were in the 300's in RPI.

The quarterback that signed with NDSU commented on how he liked the NDSU coaches honesty with him. They told him he wasn't their first choice and kept him informed where he stood during the whole recruiting process. Sounds like honesty to me. Apparently it is UND's coaches policy to offer recruits and tell them how they want them to come to UND until they actually accept the offer and the coaches realize maybe they don't want them or they are over extended and have no scholies left. Perhaps an honest coaching staff would call a recruit and let them know the offer has been pulled BEFORE they accept it. By the way, how many incoming recruits are expecting that trip to Hawaii? I heard that was a pretty major selling point for the Sioux coaches. Has the contract been signed yet?

I'm not saying Sioux fans will, but the first three UND posters on this thread seemed to agree that NDSU fans would be hammering on this if it were a UND player. I just don't think that would be the case.

I don't remember a lot of piling on by Bison fans about the recent arrests of UND players. Maybe I missed it. I don't believe Mr. Jackson will be back with the team next year. I'm not sure you can compare a possession of marajuana charge with aggregative assault charges, but go ahead and have fun with it.

They won't start out alternating sites from the start. At least the first two games will be played in Fargo or they won't be played at all. That is unless UND gets into the MVFC, which I don't see happening anytime soon.