Bison06

Yeah, that’s when it got inappropriate, lol.

Go ahead and post pictures of yourself so we can marvel in the physique of a the man who is calling other people out for being out of shape.

Haha, yeah I realize that, but you’d be surprised at the amount of fans that go that have no affiliation to either team and just want to experience the whole thing. Thought maybe you’d been to the game since you were talking about the stadium.

The stadium and setup in the city are almost perfect for this type of game. im not sure if you’ve ever been down for one of the games, but if If you’ve ever experienced it my guess is you’d be more than fine with the game staying in Frisco indefinitely. I’ve been twice and can’t imagine a different venue or town being able to match the game day experience that Frisco can offer the FCS championship.

Read a few of his quotes, he seems to have the competitive spirit you look for out of your QB. I didn't get a chance to see your young QB play this year that had you all pretty excited(Schuster?), but I wouldn't be surprised if this new guy is your starter day 1 next fall.

All of that being said, if I was a UND fan, I would be very excited about your QB recruit. He looks like the real deal, big body, looks to have a hell of an arm. Nice pick up pulling him from an FBS program.

I don't think it's necessarily better or worse I suppose. I guess I always look at recruiting classes the same way. Fun to get excited about the potential, but until they prove it at the college level, I don't put too much stock in it. Some of the recruits in the past I was the most excited about ended up hardly seeing the field and some of the biggest contributors have been guys I didn't even know were on campus because they were walk-ons. Signing days are mostly PR, nobody is going to do a press conference and say "We were really disappointed with a few guys we missed on, but I guess these guys will have to do". You have to give it 2-3 years before you decide if the recruiting class is a good class in my book.

I don't follow recruiting as close as I used to, but just out of curiosity, what makes you say that?

Sad that people like this exist. This kid is making incredibly difficult decisions about where to move, which adult males(coaches) he would like to be mentored by and where to get his degree from for the next 4/5 years. This decision will literally inform the rest of his life and idiots like this think it's JUST about winning football games. Comments like this only make a kid say, "Thank God I didn't go there, their fans are a-holes". I know he isn't representative of the majority of alums from my alma mater, but it's still embarrassing when they are associated with the school I love.

That money won’t feel like a demotion.

His body is in front, but working really hard to take an objective view I’d say the ball is directly over the yard line.(hard to say for sure as we don’t have the angle directly down the line). Receiver catches/drops the ball also what looks like to be directly over that same yard marker or very slightly behind. My take is they got it wrong. But, it’s one of those calls that due to the limitations of the views was likely going to stay with whatever they called on the field. Refs should have just let it play out and reviewed it, there wouldn’t have been anything concrete to overturn it and the Redbirds would have 6/7 on the board. Hate to see the stripes miss these big ones, but it does happen. As others have said, just because this play got messed up, doesn’t mean it cost ISU the game. Certainly makes the game a lot closer, but doesn’t change the fact that they still would have been down. Impossible to know how the rest of the game plays out. Clearly I’m a homer so can’t be completely objective, I also have to say that, however unlikely due to the fact that the runner had a blocker, Trey did have an angle and is quite fast. He may have been able to tackle the guy if the whistle hadn’t blown. Maaaaybe.

Fair enough, there are equal numbers of NDSU alumni in ND and Minnesota. Given that, wouldn't it be fair to assume that an equal amount of ND and Minnesota people are following and watching NDSU football? So in regards to watching them on TV, why wouldn't you consider those fans who live in Minnesota, who happen to live outside of the Fargo/Moorhead metro as part of NDSU's following?

Much isn't exactly an absolute term. Much means much, many, a lot, an abundance. I never claimed it was all or even a majority. Much of Minnesota follows NDSU football, not sure where the controversy lies here.

You do realize that NDSU's student population is made of exactly the same amount of Minnesota students as North Dakota students right? http://www.ndsualumnicenter.com/alumniassociation/maps/national/webmap.htm

Many people follow both programs and would continue to do so if NDSU was FBS. Count me as someone who is both a Gopher and a Bison fan. As long as they aren't in the same conference, being a Gopher fan and a Bison fan aren't mutually exclusive.

Laugh if you want, there are far more NDSU fans in Minnesota than there are in ND.

That's exactly my point. In NC, App State is an after thought, your average rube likely assumes they are still "D2", aka FCS. NDSU's location, as I've read you say on this board time and time again, is a massive disadvantage as they don't fall within the footprint of any FBS conference. But, also because of their location, they wouldn't compete for fans with any other FBS program like Georgia Southern, App State, Liberty, Coastal Carolina or any other recent FCS to FBS move.

I also said that app state and Georgia southern have to share those markets, whereas NDSU would be the sole FBS team in the scenario I laid out.

I agree that Fargo isn’t a “must have” media market for a conference seeking growth, but I think NDSU’s biggest downfall is location. Boone, NC and Statesboro, GA are far worse markets and the media markets they are in are splitting their loyalties between many schools. NDSU’s TV market as the sole FBS school(assuming UND doesn’t also make the move) would be the entire state and much of Minnesota. So, yes, it’s not a great market, but I think location is more of a factor in conferences not clamoring to add them. All speculation on my part though.

At the risk of sounding really annoying, people are somehow bored with winning. I’ve talked with dozens of friends in the last two years who are lifelong diehards who have simply stopped going to games because there are very few opponents who are interesting at this point. They attempt to sell their tickets every weekend and sometimes can’t even give them away. Attendance might be a problem moving forward unfortunately.

After seeing Lance and then watching the Gophers all year, you do have to wonder how he would look in that offense with two nfl receivers. That was a miss by PJ if you ask me, I think Trey is better than Annexstad and Morgan, but I’m a bit biased.

It’s a good question, not sure he does at this point, but he is still very young. I’d be very interested to see what he would be capable of as a passer if he had more opportunities to just drop back and sling it. NDSU seems to rely too much on his legs at times so it’s hard to see for sure how good he is as a pure passer.

So you agree that the Fargodome gives a 35 point advantage in a football game then?

I should have known he was referring to you. Didn’t realize you were a celebrity on this board. I’ve never once said I didn’t check discussions on this board often, not sure why it’s funny to say something that I freely admit is absolutely true. The guy made a ridiculous comment so I commented with a rebuttal, welcome to the internet everyone.

Who’s he?