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Unbelievable great news for our new conference, The Big Sky. They will follow in football in the near future too I bet - maybe 2 years.

I always get confused by this and I know it has been discussed numerous times. Is the official Alerus Center capacity for football 12,283 or 13,500? 13,500 seems to get thrown around a lot.

Wow, very educational back-and-forth and discussion. I can see both sides to this mess.

Agree. Redshirt Golladay unless he's a bona fide starter. I hope we've learned that lesson with Jer Garman. The chemistry that the 3 freshman wrs will gain working together with the 2 freshman qbs for 5 years will be amazing and fun to watch. Oliver has serious tools as well, but he's just not as ready mentally right now.

Yeah I suppose. Since the Fargodome had their name and some snowflakes on their turf since 1991, we shouldn't have 'UND' or 'ND' on ours. Honestly, who cares who had what and when? We are The University of North Dakota and we are installing turf NOW in 2012 as a FCS 1st year school in the Big Sky and it should have had a UND presence at mid-field, especially considering around 4 million will be spent on it. It doesn't and I'm disappointed. I feel like we missed an opportunity with it. But it was in the contract and 3 parties were responsible for the negotiations, etc....I get it now. I understand that a few of you on here don't care, but myself and others do. (sorry, my last post on this)

The negotiated contract and decisions were made by whomever (Alerus Financial, UND, City of Grand Forks). The ultimate design ended up being what it is. Regardless of what contract was agreed upon by whom, it still kinda stinks that the design is so bland and unoriginal. If you are gonna spend the money to do it, just do it right. Just because it was agreed upon and in the contract doesn't mean we have to like the end result. Just a complete lack of vision on many parties here. This is the UND home field turf. It should be illustrated as such. No doubt we are very fortunate that this is our chief complaint at this time. Things are very good right now. Some of us just want the best for the program and I think that's a good thing. Not gonna make or break the program by any means, but... Can the season start already?

What a great looking design.

I certainly can understand and respect that some on here don't care about a UND logo at midfield, but I tend to believe the majority thinks otherwise. I also tend to think recruits might think otherwise. It might be a small thing in the big scheme, but the little things count and add up. The coaching staff has adopted a "one percent better" mantra for the program because they all add up to making a difference and the program better overall. This could be a "one percent better" type of thing, maybe even more.

All of these details are fine and dandy - and I appreciate those of you that have contributed them to try help understand the situation. However, while I understand that Alerus Financial is no doubt a business in the end and has to do what's best for them, what better way to "connect" with the local community and their client base than to unite with the local University that everyone loves and appreciates? Would it really hurt their imaging and branding to have an ND logo at mid-field? Regardless of what our nickname is in 2015, won't we still be the University of North Dakota (ND)? UND and Alerus Financial - together for the same cause. (corny, I know, but effective) Wouldn't that help with their overall image locally, rather than have people wondering why the hell the UND logo isn't on there? I can guarantee you nobody would be complaining on the other side had the ND logo been on centerfield. It just seems too easy to do and I'm very disappointed that something couldn't have been worked out between Alerus Financial, the City of Grand Forks and UND to make it happen. Gate City found a way to make it work and I'm sure the people of Fargo are grateful to them for putting out such an aesthetically nice-looking product on the Fargodome floor. I'm just sayin'....

Our WR depth is the best it has ever been. Unless our hand is forced by injuries, we absolutely need to redshirt this kid.

We also need the season to get here so we can start getting poll votes from the people who confuse ndsu and UND with each other. Then we will for sure be in the top 25 every week.

I agree. Portland State and Cal-Poly should be on that list. Somewhere in the top 30 range. Guess UND needs to go out and earn it. I'm fine with that. Yes boys, it should piss you off. Use it.

Amazing. Phenomenal. Kudos to the people responsible for this production in the athletic department. What a great job. Might not hurt for us to all email Brian Faison and let him know our thoughts on this. I'm sure he'd love to hear something by email on the positive side of things.

Teeder........

Teeder, you the man! Thanks for the extensive update of practice #1!

I'm just basing it on what I have seen from both QB's live and on TV. I'm not going to trash anybody, and I think we just disagree on this. It's just my arm-chair opinion. Marcus is the better athlete and has the better arm, no doubt. I'm just wondering why Marcus couldn't pass up Joey on the depth chart in the past 1.5 years if he was the better QB who had been in the system longer? Have the coaches been missing the boat? One thing I will say is that I respect Hendrickson a ton. He has been moved around a couple of times from different positions and has done whatever has been asked of him. Team player for sure. Plus he's a northern Minnesota kid that I like. We also need him to step up now more than ever and I hope he succeeds in whatever capacity is asked of him. We might end up needing him if Hanson gets hurt. Again, I'm not saying Bradley was the savior or anything, but he was certainly an extra lifeline for the offense this year in case of injuries.

Sure. In my opinion, Bradley is a better QB than Hendrickson. And this hurts us. Now and in the future. Better?

Honestly, more than Hendrickson IMO. I don't think we can act like this doesn't hurt, because it does. I think the coaches would say the same thing. But we will all move on and hopefully never look back.

Respectfully, I would not be.

I'm sorry.....what's FTA?

Another Luke Schleusner recruit. I believe Mannausau has taken over Wisconsin now though.

Unless he can play safety and contribute immediately, I hope they redshirt him.

Thanks for all your years, Pat! Welcome, Dan!

Based on talent alone, I can think of probably 10-12 UND teams off the top of my head that are more talented than this team right now. Like Homer said, they haven't even practiced yet.

But wait.... How do we REALLY know that someone hasn't hacked Travis's siouxsports.com account or that he didn't leave himself logged in at the public library? Huh?....Huh?....Huh?....