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No matter what the announced opening time I have never seen them block off the tailgating lot - go for it.

Do the other schools get to blame their hockey fans?

They got one. Had to be rough to be in Dayton for Thanksgiving - thanks guys! Keep getting better.

I think the point has been made..less than 10,000 disappointing, less than 9,000 gnashing of teeth and tearing of clothes, less than 8,000 pit hforks and torches. Personally all i can do is show up and make noise.

But why should we be called out for biased posts within our own fan site...contribute to the conversation as a guest and stop monitoring and questioning every biased post we are allowed to be biased hete.

I was at the games - the score does not indicate the dominance and UND is coming off 3 weeks of rest. I'm not concerned. Compared to what I saw yesterday there will be a crowd noise advantage and Richmond has not faced a defense scheme like ours.

Gag I hate feeding the trolls but how come when a MVFC team loses it's because they "were off their game" or "got bad bounces or "it was a one in a million loss" or my favorite "it was a quality loss"., But when other teams lose none of these excuses apply? Now that UND is much closer in the rear view mirror, winning conference champions, coaching and player awards the only thing trolls have left is to try and transfer their poison by dissing other teams that they probably can't even name the city they are from. However it is nice that most of them have been shut up for the season. Weber was a last in seed - not a real surprise they lost. Cal Poly hurt but they have a history of fading. The reality is the Big Sky had a better OOC record against the MVFC this year - oh I forgot all of the above excuses apply when that happens on the field.

A lot of hand sitting today.

free throws they can't miss we can't make...sigh

Not really interested in feeding you -

You are using extremes a majority of "Quality losses" are in the eye of the beholder.

A loss is a loss - oh I forgot in the MVFC it's about quality losses.

Very dangerous - some have been said during interviews that they are prepared to die for the cause, they are the ones making bombs and starting vehicle fires. The locals have no control over the out of state eco-terrorists.

So a 7-4 Albany gets left out for a 6-5 Illinois State (which just lost) and it was obvious by the OOC that the MCVC was down this year. The seeding needs to get cleaned up - teams should not be included based on past history.

You do realize that most fans planned this trips months in advanced including vacation time, airlines tickets, hotel. Geez lighten up.

Pretty good chance they will be able to move over to student seating - it may be a little higher up but those area still good seats. Once you get into your seating area it's easy to just walk over toward the center.

Archambeau's biggest concern is how this will impact business at his gas station/convenience store.It's never been about the water.

Early in the season but dang that was a winnable game - missed free throws, unforced turnovers those are on the individuals.

Shanks is likeable but dang that old agage about why 7 footers are available rings true just about every game.

Do other school's fans wring their hands about attendance too? We will probably end the year in the top 30 schools in FCS attendance with an upward trend. It will be what it is, doesn't mean we can't provide a loud home field advantage no matter what the turnout. After supporting the team through the transition this is a reward and it came sooner than many would have guessed.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/und-football/4165475-unds-bubba-schweigert-named-big-sky-conference-coach-year Okay now they're just piling on Right when we are thinking about breaking up with them they come knocking with flowers and candy.

Dang - no more complaining about west of the Missouri bias I think they like us (well at least a majority).

You're joking right - look at the past 5 years and how easy it has been for SU to make the NCAA tourny in a variety of sports because of weak competition within the conference. Also there were several teams the football team played this year that were ranked when we played them - we beat them and they moved down out of the rankings - cause/effect.

Let's not make this a discussion filled with threats and negatives - attendance is up double digits this year - there are many things that can affect attendance positive or negative - whether if it turns out to be 8,000 or 10,000 fans inside the Alerus they can still make plenty of noise.

I'd say this is a make-up call on the part of the NCAA committee except that this is exactly where UND belongs based on their season - unlike last year. (Just because you're not paranoid about the NCAA doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. )