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If you have Directv in the MSP area you can watch on either Channel 22 or channel 17-2.

Faison should call Maturi and convince him to replace New Hampshire next Sept 8 with UND. Not sure how that would work financially for UND or the Gophers, but it would be fun. NH is not a natural rival at all for UM. This is spot UND probably could have had had we gotten rid of the nickname sooner.

I think your real name is Iman A. Hole

I watched only a portion of the game as I prefer watching major college FB to Big 10 hockey, but the few minutes I watched I saw some horribly bad officiating that really hurt the Badgers. It is a long season folks. Watch out for Tech!!

Badgers beating God's team 2-0 with 12 min left in 2nd and it could be worse.

Amen, the bottom line is the recruiting of quality QB's or lack of AND every other position is on the back of the Head coach.

Yes, we destroyed Winona a couple times in a row. If they are the measuring stick for the NSIC, which has had the National champ the last few years, we, UND are in trouble. I am seriously confused, whether the Sioux are any good or any bad. NDSU is not as good as they think and Minnesota is not as bad as people think. I love college FB, but I think it has become the NFL incognito. To MONEY oriented. I am not a Muss fan, but I think college FB overall is a mess. There are the elite programs in D1 and everybody else. Everybody else is just a mess. The NCAA and MONEY have screwed up what was a great pastime. UND should just continue to get better or as good as they can be. The NSIC is getting better athletes as a result of the Dakota 4 moving up. The difference in quality remains subject to question though. Would the UMD teams of the last few years match up against UND and NDSU?

UCD is beating Poly 21-7! Nearing the half.

Iowa is pretty desperate after losing to the Gophers and are not in the hunt this year in the Big 10. Adding Nebraska did not help Iowa in the Big 10 either.

Didn't the Gophers lose to Winona State or come very close to losing to them a few years ago?

1 Why are you on here? 2 The MAC is a joke, even NDSU beats them and so does lowly Minnesota, UND came close with holdover DII players. 3 Lots of walk ons in the Big 10, most end up as ball boys. 4 What else is there to do in Fargo on game day? I respect the new No. 1 ranking for the Bison and they are a good team, but for everyone's sake, this is not the most important thing going on in the world. Find another thing to occupy your time. Maybe the barn needs a good cleaning.

Agree! Whomever has recruited the last several upperclassmen QB's for UND was hallucinating. Comes and Bradley, time will tell, but with even decent/avg QB play this Sioux team would be 5-1 and routing UNC. Hope for a win today, but man, this is frustrating to watch. Kid from DL may start next year unless Comes or Bradley show something better than they have so far.

Another absolutely brutal series after getting the ball back from UNC. Why the ^&*() can we not find a decent ^&*()ing QB?

I thought that was the game plan every weekend. Sometimes happens, sometimes not.

I guess that Bison game against the powerhouse Gophers this year was not a "big" game then either, huh? They would likely be in the bottom half of the MVFC or the BSC were they playing at the FCS level.

The Huntsville/Decatur area of Alabama is not a small community. In fact it is much larger than the GF and Fargo areas combined and probably approaches the size of Madison, Wi. or Omaha, Ne. It has a very high average income level and has a broad range of industries and technical schools. The NCHA would have been wise to pick up UAH instead of WMU or SCSU for exposure in the South. UAH has a very good engineering program and is supported strongly by NASA, local facilities of Fortune 500 companies, and the local community. It has great recreational opportunities on the Tennessee River and is in close proximity to Atlanta, Birmingham and Nashville. Travel to Huntsville would have been no more difficult than getting to WMU or South Bend. The NCHA really missed the boat in not looking at UAH as a member and an attractive location to visit.

The Repubs keep talking about how this is the greatest country ever. Well, even in Italy the trains run on time. The US is falling way behind, because we are not willing to invest in infrastructure. God help us if the Repubs get their way. We will have limos on the freeway for them and the rest of us will sit home and watch reruns of how it used to be. We need to spend more money on public transport and get away from everyone driving themselves. Europe has its problems, but transportation is not one of them. I can get around Europe less exensively and more quickly than the US without owning a car and trying to find a place to park.

Hey, there is a pattern here. It is not freshman vs freshman. It is style vs style. Hak cannot adjust to the game. He has played BC enough to know what they will bring to the party. It is the same format that we have seen the last 5 games. Positional hockey, crisp passing, situational awareness. Hak just has not got it. He is a good coach, he just cannot adapt to playing this type of team. Did you watch the BC passing? Reminds me of the days the USSR took apart the US and others in the Olympics. BC has talent, UND has talent, but UND continues to rely on intimidation to win the game. Crisp passes and positional play have beaten UND every time against BC. Duh? How long do we not learn to handle this?

Watching this game is like watching the last 4 games against BC. Sioux style is brute force, BC is finesse. BC has out manuevered and out passed the Sioux every time they have met. Sioux will never match up well against this style of passing and position play. Hak has not learned a thing the last 5 years. He is still a good and winning coach, but his style will not bring home a NCAA winner. York has shown him up again. I know I will catch hell about this comment, but you cannot argue with results.

I guess the football fans need to drink a lot more before and during the game, to make it exciting, eh?

Not to mention that nemisis; the NAIA schools. Lindenwood beat UNC in Greeley. LIndenwood and Sioux Falls have been the cream of the NAIA playoffs in recent years. Maybe they are not such bad teams, eh? Let's see how strong UNC is this year before any final judgement, but UND will play them and it could be interesting.

It is called CONFIDENCE! The coach instills it. The fans embrace it. The team executes it. UND has it on the ice and on the VB court and maybe a few other places. Losing to SFU and playing a patsy schedule does NOT bring it back. You must win against perceived inferior competitors. You must pull an upset against a perceived superior opponent, i.e. Minnesota. You must win games you are not expected to win! NDSU has done that, that is why they can swagger. UND must continue to improve. They must continue to play UP. They must continue to play above their perceived ability. The program is getting there. BUT, do not accept beating lesser programs, do not even schedule them. Strive for beating teams that you should not beat. End of sermon. Is Muss the answer, I am very skeptical.

Now way UND wins if the score gets this high. UND must keep the score low with defense and score when opportunities arise. UND offense is not prolific enough. Need to keep it to something like 17-14 etc. and hope for the best by keeping the ball on offense and away from Idaho. Still I predict a loss of 21-16.

I agree, hope Bradley stays healthy. Also agree about upper class WR's that appear to have hands of stone. For xxxxx's sake this is now D1 FB. If you cannot catch a pass when you are wide open then you do not belong on the field and maybe the team. Comment earlier about the FSSN broadcasters, did not realize it until I read it. Sweeney is like taking a sleeping pill. Could not figure out why I kept nodding off. Also, when are they going to get some HD cameras in GF? Watching this stuff on an HD TV is like watching the sun come up in a fog. Overall I was ok with the team play. Boring conservative offense, but maybe a new QB and system dictates that in the first game. I predicted a 14-17 pt margin, but certainly expected the Sioux to score at least 3 TD's. Defense is good, maybe above average for FCS, but the Offense needs to score 21 or more per game at this level. Will miss the next 3 games due to OUS travel. Go Sioux! Hope you are 4-0 when I return.

To be perfectly honest as an academic institution with a large fan following in a mid major metro area with high incomes etc. the inclusion of Alabama Huntsville to the NCHA would be far superior to SCSU and many of the other proposed schools. Huntsville is a tech center, an industrial center and a population boomer. I vote for adding them and Air Force if the F%^&*ing Irish decide not to join!