Bison06

I’m not a professional blogger, I don’t have an obligation to post my opinions on every FCS team publicly. I adopted the level of optimism that UND’s fanbase had heading into the year and given your QB was a four year starter and I had been told by many people I trust to know UND’s program that the offensive line would be improved, I understood the optimism so I bought it. Not saying I expected UND to compete for a national championship, but I honestly thought they would be a playoff team this year. Believe me or don’t, doesn’t matter to me. As far as my 2018 prediction when I say it’ll be Bubba’s last year, is that really even that outlandish? Others have said that if you don’t make the playoffs next year he’ll be gone, I just happen to agree. Given UND’s schedule, I believe you’ll start 0-2 and will be battling uphill the rest of the year and miss the playoffs.

Why wouldn’t I be back? I’m fact, when UND and NDSU are playing yearly I’ll post here more often, not less. My honest prediction for UNDs foreseeable future isn’t optimistic. I thought this year(2017) was a year that UND had a chance to make some noise. I think there are some rough years ahead if I’m being honest. Real prediction: UND will have a new head coach the next time they play NDSU.

Really out on a limb with that prediction, “it’s coming”. So at any future date when UND beats NDSU, your prediction will be correct. Got it. Since they’ll be playing at least once a year for the foreseeable future, I feel pretty confident in saying UND will win a game vs NDSU in the future.

I understand that you said that. But at least acknowledge you also said that this years Utah team is FAR better than last year’s Iowa team. And now that both seasons have played out, all objective measures would point to the opposite.

I’m just giving you a little grief. So I’m not coming at you directly, but you did say “utah is far better than the Iowa team that NDSU beat last year”, in addition to saying that they had better players. Btw, that QB that Iowa had that isn’t as good as the QB that Utah had is starting in the NFL as a rookie.

So number of NFL players is the criterion for a better college team? Not wins and losses or some other measure that shows how well a team plays together? Its ok to just admit that all of the “this Utah team is incredible” talk was premature.

You are the one who brought up the comparison, but you are now saying they are meaningless. Which one are you going to go with?

But as I said, they lost by three, on the road to your likely champion. If anything all it shows is how up and down UNI has been this year, not how comparable the two conferences are. This same UNI team got beaten handily by NDSU and essentially dominates SDSU. They are very inconsistent. Good enough to beat anyone when they are on, bad enough to lose to anyone when they aren’t.

...1 win and 1 loss That loss was a three point loss on the road to your conference’s likely champion. Odd choice for an example when trying to show the Big Sky is equal to the MVFC.

I agree with you saying next year will be the make or break year for this UND staff, but if you are going to compare this situation to the NDSU 2009 situation, I think some very important differences should be pointed out between the two situations. 1st, Bohl had already built a TON of equity with the fanbase and the boosters by having two back to back 10-1 seasons, the historic 2003 win at Montana, NDSU’s first FBS win in 2006 over Ball state, a win over the MAC champion Central Michigan in 2007 and the program shifting win in 2007 over Minnesota. One could argue Bubba has equity with the fanbase as well, but as a coordinator moreso than the head coach. 2nd, I’m not one for moral victories, a loss is a loss, but being blown out in multiple games is a much different scenario to me than losing 4 games by less than 7 points. I’ll post the links below, if anyone cares to peruse each season to compare. Again, I agree that the prudent thing for the UND fanbase is to give it one more year before calling for Bubba to be removed, but using NDSUs ‘09 season as analogous to UND’s 2017 season is being unfair to the portion of your fanbase that is genuinely disgusted with the manner in which UND played this year in those losses. http://www.gobison.com/mobile/schedule.aspx?schedule=46 http://www.undsports.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPID=6399&SPSID=58644

Are you consciously aware of how non-sensical your arguments are? You are arguing both sides of this and the sad part is, I don’t think you know it.

What exactly am I not getting? That there is a difference between playoffs and regular season?...smh There is a common theme among about three posters on this board that I find pretty funny. You continue to subtly state that NDSU’s dominant run would’ve been different if they had to play on the road for those playoff games. The complete idiocy of your logic revolves around the fact that it is 100% due to NDSU’s dominance in the regular season(you say doesn’t mean anything) that they’ve earned every single Home playoff game in the last 7 years. As I said, you want NDSU to travel in December? You know what to do.

Considering the outcomes of those regular season games dictate where playoff games get played, I think it’s fair to say they actually do mean $&@3$@7. You all act like NDSU is simply gifted home playoff games. You want them to play on the road in the playoffs? The rest of the FCS knows exactly how to make that happen. Easier said than done, I’m afraid.

I believe all three of their losses have been road games, so there may be something to that. But, getting physically manhandled on the line and having your star run for his life will take the “mojo” out of nearly everyone.

I realize Streveler is everything to them, but banged up? What does that mean? He’s clearly healthy enough to play...I mean is anybody 100% at this time in the year? We have played the last 3 games without our best running back. That’s sort of part of the game come November and December. USD has looked great against inferior opponents and has struggled mightily against even above average teams. I think the team we are seeing now is exactly who they’ve been all along. They are just playing better teams the past 4 weeks.

I haven’t followed their injury situation super close. What makes you say they aren’t the same team?

The 2015 Bison would have won that championship in January 2016 over Jacksonville state whether Wentz played that day or not. Stick has played poorly, no arguments from me. He also has the ability to play incredibly well at times. We’ll see how it all plays out.

Smh, I’m embarrassed for you.

Is this the picture you were looking for? I'll expect a picture of the Nickel to follow, which will be justified.

What year did the great west teams join the Big Sky? Seems they must have known it was coming since they had so much play back and forth between the two leagues in 2009 and 2010. NAU v. EWU also fits the criteria Also, I believe App state was transitioning by then, so technically is an FBS away game for Montana. Edit: 2012 they were still FCS, I’m not sure what they were in 2013 since they were awful it’s hard to tell if they were eligible for playoffs that year or if they had already increased scholarships.

I’m talking easier in the sense of the relationship that AD’s already have with conference mates. I’ll fully admit I have no knowledge of how these games get scheduled, but it has to be an easier conversation to start when you are calling someone that you’ve known for years personally and are on conference calls and go to conference meetings with every year.

As was said above, apparently FBS games don’t count the same as FCS OOC games.

I hate to split hairs, because I realize technically they are OOC games. But isn’t it fair to put some sort of qualifier on those Big Sky Non-conference/conference mate games? I mean, those games have to be incredibly easy to line up right?