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Dumb question: where was Ryan Salmonson? Didn't see him in the box score.

Beside the horrible PI call, they held TWICE on the that screen for TD. These Big Sky refs are bad.

The previous year he was 6-5. His first two years in MVFC were avg to bad.

It was the first home games of the year, relax. I liked Hammer and his excitement he brought, especially in the overtime session. Give him some time to get used to the players and the way they play, etc.

Mr. NDSU comes in and says its cause all the football-loving students went there. Sheer genius! I cannot believe UND's enrollment has gone up every year with that going on.

Colorado State doesn't have an offense. Have you watched them?

Colorado State is total crap, they are bad. We need Gene Taylor to help us with our FBS scheduling. The guy is a master of picking doormat programs with first year coaching staffs (not that he would know that but it's uncanny how many times its happened). I think they have played 6 FBS games against first year staffs. Idaho was our chance to beat a doormat and we blew it.

They maybe had 150 students at the Illinois State game. That is more fuzzy math by athletic departments that don't count actual tickets taken, like UND does. From what I saw on the Midco broadcast of that Iliinois State game, there were not 9k people there. And NDSU does not get 4000-5000 at EVERY single road game. Maybe USD and SDSU but they do not get 5000 people in Carbondale, or Macomb, or Normal, or Terre Haute or Springfield or Youngstown. Sorry Lakes.

Update: San Diego State beat previous MWC leader Nevada (6-2) in Reno last night to move to 5-3 on the year. They are looking like a pretty solid team.

Nothing special. Looking for updates on FCS football, who is good, who is bad, why UND stinks, how we can get better.... the usual.

Where are all the Bison fans this week? They were everywhere on here the last couple weeks. What changed?

Northern Iowa still gets 50 pts. All those moral victories are really impressing some voters.

To be fair, it was by far the best FCS team they have ever played. Plus, the games mean something now. The worst loss was Sioux Falls.

The reason why the discussion was still raging all week on the radio was because NDSU did nothing to the players, other than Ojuri (who should not even be on the team anymore but somehow still is). What did NDSU do to address the breach of student conduct or whatever its called? The school itself has done nothing and that is what is pissing people off.

UND is not holding EWU to 24. No way in hell. I would say your score prediction is about right, should be a shootout.

How are we counting attendance? Because there was way more people at his game than he Portland State game. Like at least a 1000. The last two sections on each end had way more people than vs. Portland. Yet they said the attendance was nearly the same, just a few hundred more. However, the student section was less than vs Portland. Yesterday they only filled the bottom two sections and about half of a top section. (We shouldn't feel that bad about getting roughly 1000-1500 students, I tuned into the USD game and there was maybe 200 there). Did anyone else think there was more there yesterday?

Oh boy.....I will leave that one alone.

Coaching.

Did you also notice how bad Iowa and Wisconsin are this year? Not saying they are terrible but they are WAY DOWN from where they have been in previous years. A woeful Central Michigan team just beat Iowa in Iowa City. Since you base your opinion on watching games, I thought you would factor that in.

I wouldn't say a 7-4 team "sucked" but thats up for debate.

Great point. If anything negative happens Kevin Shnepf needs to write the article because Big Jeff couldn't bring himself to do it. All the rah-rah positive stuff is left up to Big Jeff. Why do I get the feeling he drives a really big truck?

The reason we can officially shut down this thread is because the Bison are now doing such great things in the community: http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/375753/ Leave it up to Kolpack to come to NDSU's rescue and try to win back the court of public opinion for them. The team all signed a "card" for a guy with leukemia and he wrote an article about it. Its great the guy got an uplifting momento from the team but did it need to have a full article written about it in the FORUM? Not on NDSU's website...but the FORUM. Newsflash: UND, like most teams, sign footballs, posters, and cards EVERY WEEK for charitable purposes. But Kolpack had to defend his beloved Bison. This happens every week, every season Jeff, why did you wait until now to write it?

Can you please stop saying "we". You are not a UND fan whatsoever and its getting very old. Just say that you like NDSU more and get it over with.

I second that, this is awesome. This weekend's game is going to be a very fun game, as the previous 4 have.

Find one of the 3,000 people who didn't show up last week and ask them.