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It’ll all work out beating the #12 team on the road and then the #1 and #2 teams at our place next month will justify it all…

wouldn’t put it past corrupt ag school boosters to be paying off mvfc refs

Agree. Getting to be quite pathetic there is no overall improvement. Ultimately it comes back to just 1-2 folks who are in charge of this and they apparently don’t care. Either they randomly start caring (unlikely) or someone else gets put in charge of this; best solution would be opening up an entirely new position for this (Alerus Center Football Experience Director or something of this sort…).

Another HUGE game/test for the 2025 University of North Dakota (UND) football team on Saturday, October 18, 2025! UND (4-2) - currently ranked #9/#11 in the country -will go on the road to play #12 Southern Illinois (SIU), which is also 4-2 on the season. This top 15 matchup will kickoff at 2 pm, and will be viewable on ESPN+, or you can listen via radio on the Fighting Hawks Radio Network. Great time for that 5th victory of the season, 3rd conference victory, and 2nd road victory! LETS GO HAWKS!

Good clarification. There are workarounds on both sides, as it seems like when something doesn’t go well, one side is just seen pointing fingers at the other. Ultimately, both need to do better, but there’s no question UND continues to be put in a position of needing to step up and rise to the occasion (and/or raise expectations).

That’s pathetic justification and furthermore is not a factual statement. Stop spreading propaganda.

Agreed

Agree. Need to work around this though, it’s not a hard stop. There are ways to incentivize the Alerus to do better; in fact, a better atmosphere equals better attendance which generates more revenue. The city and the Alerus Center need to work with UND better and just strive to raise expectations and grow the product … it could be so much better and potential is a good thing here.

Again, it’s a football game, not a concert. And this is not purely binary thinking; there should be a partnership between both. I’m certainly not proposing that the band shouldn’t play- they offer a tremendous atmosphere boost and tradition- but it is just that the football team should be allowed to warm up on their home-field appropriately and keep the home-field advantage going. Don’t try to implement some pointless band orchestrated restriction on the *football* team during *football* games that could jeopardize the already great home-field advantage that the Alerus Center offers UND football. I mean, what’s the trade off? Most people are out at the concessions and not in their seat at halftime anyways ….

Bingo

Disagree. It’s a *football* game, not a band show/concert. Go to a concert if the focus is the music. Players can use the playing surface to warm up appropriately whenever they want, so long as the game isn’t actively being played; and on that note, the band still needs to improve their timing, in terms of game action. They should be quiet when UND offense has the ball, and play only to celebrate first downs and touchdowns.

There are definitely opportunities to improve the Alerus Center and the entertainment within it. The atmosphere would be better with these things, ranging from relatively small things including more end-zone seating to improved pre-game entrance videos, etc., to much larger, more expensive upgrades/renovations to allow for natural lighting or expand the end-zone space for additional seating. But the most important thing is the product on the field, which is certainly improving. Also, when the crowd is actually engaged and not sleeping, the noise level is very, very good in the Alerus Center; it gives UND an FCS championship-level home field advantage. See 2001 and 2003 in Divison II … or UND-NDSU games as recently as 2021 and 2023… Ultimately, need to keep winning, but the UND game day staff and the Alerus Center staff can also do their job to keep marketing and promoting the amenities and entertainment production also …get people engaged and keep them engaged.

Wait, you were trying to be realistic? So was I… 12 K per game 2 to 3 games in the Alerus Center per December maybe not this weekend, but very soon… Book it.

Thanks for your wonderful comment. Now scurry back to your beloved ag college and let me know how “hockey1” is going down there? Is NDSU hockey quite good this year?

Yep, hence “some” …