Siouxperfan7

The thread is titled "What's needed at the Alerus." Many of these ideas are nitpicking!!

I don't mind it when he has a run for 20+ yards or scored a TD. But when he has a run of a yard or loses yardage, then it is cheesy.

I realize that it takes time. Just can't figure out why it takes so long these days. Being a fan of sports teams is important to me. Unfortunate that maybe the passion that I had as a student isn't there for students these days. At least for the majority of them. I am willing to be patient. Just feel like this team deserves a full crowd cheering them on this weekend given where they were 3 years ago and all that they have accomplished this season.

"We just need to get above .500 and the fans will show up......" "We just need to win a conference championship and the fans will show up......" "We just need to make the playoffs and host a playoff game and the fans will show up......." Unfortunate that we have to keep moving the goalposts in regards to attendance for football. Not sure what more this team could do to get people excited and to fill the Alerus for a playoff game!!! I guess we could have gone 11-0 and been a top 4 seed, but that might not have changed anything!! I am beginning to believe that the "Winning solves everything" solution to attendance may not be enough.

Attendance numbers for 2016 FCS Playoffs - First Round This was Thanksgiving weekend so that played a big factor, but still, the numbers are pretty unimpressive. Attendance Capacity % Filled St Francis @ Villanova 2059 12500 17% Lehigh @ New Hampshire 2240 11015 20% Illinois St @ C. Arkansas 3165 9000 35% NC A&T @ Richmond 3281 8700 38% Charleston S. @ Wofford 2605 13000 20% Samford @ Youngstown St 5322 20630 26% San Diego @ Cal Poly 3356 11075 30% Weber St @ Chattanooga 5238 20668 25%

I always thought that we have one of the most unique setups for College football. I mean, how many sports stadiums at any level have a hotel, waterpark, multiple restaurant/bars attached to the arena. Say what you want about the Alerus Center, but for visiting fans, it doesn't really get much better than that!! Taking all the amenities the attached Canad Inn provides, Probably the Best FCS venue in the country!!

Can't you get tickets at the Chester Fritz as well?

The "We don't go to games because the team isn't good" excuse by students doesn't really apply here. We are the Big Sky co-Champs and are the 7th ranked team in the country hosting a second round playoff game. Absolutely Zero excuse for the students not to be there. Want to watch a non conference hockey game in a cool venue? Record it. This is so much bigger. Students need to be there and be loud. They are huge part of this fanbase and can make a huge difference in the game if they are there with enthusiasm and are loud. Come on Students. This is a Huge game. This is your team!!

So just for fun, I decided to use the above map and count the number of seats that were sold/available. The numbers are a little skewed because the number of fans in the visitors and the student section are unknown. But as of right now (give or take a few if some were sold as I was counting) there are 2938 available seats left for the game on Saturday. For fun, lets just assume that the student section and the visitor section is going to be full. That would put the current attendance total for the game at 9345. And that is with 5 days left to go. There are a lot of great seats that opened up that season ticked holders did not claim. Now that Thanksgiving weekend is over and it is game week, I expect there to be a significant increase in ticket sales. Especially walk up crowd. Given the numbers of tickets sold already, I don't think that its unrealistic to see a crowd over 10,000.

Maybe Cam realized how meaningless 3 on 3 was and just let in the first shot he saw. Smart move!! Saves us all 5 minutes of more meaningless hockey and a meaningless shootout!!

Basketball tournament at Orleans arena in Vegas airing on FS1 for anyone interested in checking out the arena.

So much season left. They have also played 2 more games than us.

You guys are burying the lead!! http://thebiglead.com/2016/11/23/bleach-boy-clorox-indiana-fort-wayne/ #bleachboy

Or maybe just change it to "Garbage Plate"

Given the QB situation in Richmond, that game may be closer that predicted.

The rest of the MVFC hates the Bison. Obviously the Bison don't care because the reason is they are so good and they have had nothing but success since joining the league. It's just nice to know that so many other schools hate the Bison!!

So sounds like their only options for QB this week are Clise (who went 0-2, 0 yds) who has a bad shoulder or their Freshman, Chenault (who went 1-3, 11 yds, and an INT). Yikes!!!

Seriously? Where did you see that? So what do they do, pull a redshirt off one of their 2 Freshman QB's?

From SNL this weekend. Another Hollywood liberal idiot who doesn't know the facts!!

What budget constraints gave Muss a disadvantage? Muss was an average coach at best. Bubba has shown he is great coach. Making excuses for Muss is just sad.

If NDSU gets by Cal Poly that is!!

Looking at the Nodak Nation twitter account, it looks like after they first bought 500 tickets to give away, anonymous donors have purchases a total of 170 tickets to be given away to students. I hope that these students can see how big of game this is for UND football that they are willing to pay for students tickets so they can go. These donors are awesome!!! That is what UND football is all about!!

Biggest UND home game (any sport) since the 2006 West Regional Finals game. That's what I said!! I

MVFC has a one really good team (NDSU), 2 good teams (SDSU, Youngstown St), one OK team that was just good enough to make the playoffs (Illinois St), and a whole bunch of average to crappy teams. Big Sky has one really good team (Eastern Washington), 2 good teams (UND, Cal Poly), one Ok team that was good enough to make the playoffs (Weber St), and a whole bunch of average to crappy teams.

Hockey fans, record the game. It will be ok to not watch one game live this year. This is the biggest UND home game (any sport) since the 2003 Semi final game. This team has earned the right to have a bye and get a home playoff game. Fans need to recognize that and show that by showing up!