Siouxperfan7

Thanks Dan....wasn't aware of that!!

You've always wanted to be a Roughrider fan...maybe now you can get your chance!!!

I totally agree with you that the Alerus staff can get carried away with their enforcement of their rules. But here's an easy fix. If you can't drink a beer in the student section, don't bring one in there. If they get anal about you putting your feat on the seats, don't put your feat on the seats. If they don't want you hanging on the railing, running up the steps, or throwing things on the field...Don't do it!!! While I do realize that they have rules, that doesn't mean that you can't still have fun at the games and cheer on the team. There are event staff at every arena in the country and they all probably have similar rules to the Alerus. They have similar rules at the Engelstad and I yet students still go to hockey games? Heck, you can even stand the whole game at the Alerus!! My advice, don't let the Alerus staff be the reason you don't go to the game. There is so much more positive from going to a football game that it greatly outweighs the negative caused by the staff that work there.

Hey now....that's not fair. You backed up your argument with facts!!

Captains and Alternates for 2012-2013 C - Andrew MacWilliam A - Corban Knight A - Danny Kristo A - Carter Rowney

So free tickets, free shuttle to the game, free food at tailgating....sound like there should be no excuse for students not to be there

Aren't student tickets free??

Sept 14 http://www.undsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13500&ATCLID=204950853

How bout we all just wait until next year when all this goes down to freak out. A lot can change in a year. So right now we all need to just RELAX!!

I think that is a cop out. As a UND student do you really not know that UND has a football team? Of course they do. Students know when the games are, they know where they are at. Recently they have just been lazy. Not sure if that s because they are too hung over from Friday night to make it to a 1 pm game or waht. I realize that we have had a lack luster team recently, but going to football games is part of college life. No excuse for students not to go to these games. Especially when it is free to go and they give away free food at tailgating!! Hopefully these later starts will help get the word out the day of the game. But the students really need to step up their support. Its been embarrassing!

You sound like a Bison fan!!

South Dakota is in the Valley for football. That is why they are playing them.

Can't use that stuff...Green and white are not available colors

Given the choice of the Alerus Center logos or no logo at all, 99.9 percent of most humans would prefer non at all Now what about the Big Sky logos? I wonder if those are going on the filed anywhere?

This has probably been said on this post and many other discussions about this topic before.....UND was not going to play NDSU when they had a leg up on them in the number of scholarship players they had compared to UND. Not an even playing field. Also, D1 wins did not count as wins in regards to playoff implications, so it actually hurt UND to play NDSU or any D1 team. That is why UND chose not to play them. Now that UND is full D1 and the playing field is leveled, NDSU is the one that does not want to play UND. So while UND may have been the guilty party in ending the rivalry, NDSU is guilty of officially killing it for good.

http://afboe.at/uplo...s-2011-2012.pdf On page FR-16 Under Section 2,h,3 "If a commercial entity has purchased naming rights to the facility, that name is allowed to be painted on the field; however, the commercial logo is not allowed to be in the field of play." I would assume that since the "Alerus Center" is a commercial logo, it is not allowed to be on the field. Not sure why this was overlooked when the initial design came out.

In this clip it said that they were getting ready to put the rubber pellets down on the field. If that was the case, wouldn't make that very unlikely that they would be painting anything on the turf (say Alerus logo's)? Not to beat a dead horse....but it seems like there is a chance that there won't be any logos at midfield.

Anyone got any recent pics?

And there is your "Dagger"!!! Well said!!

Faison wants a home and home with NDSU every other year. Just 2 games initially...hopefully play every other year on a regular basis. So NDSU can still keep their scheduling formula the majority of the time. Only "wrinkle" in it would be that they would come to Grans Forks every 4 years. That is really not giving up to much. Expecially against a team that is your biggest rival that you have played over 100 games with. Its not sacrificing that much. Heck, you are rewarding the Bison fans with an away game that is a very easy to travel to.

Riping on UND for playing Robert Morris.....hmmmm....might want to rethink that statement!!

NDSU can say they are doing what is best for their football team and their athletic department, which may be the right thing to do. But whether it is fair or not, as long as UND keeps wanting to play the game and makes offers to play NDSU and Gene Taylor keeps rejecting them.....It will be perceived that NDSU does not want to play UND because they do not want to lose to them. Maybe NDSU has everything to lose in this game and UND has everything to gain in playing this game....but that is what it looks like. Probably not fair to NDSU because I doubt NDSU is scared of any team after winning it all last year. But look at it how a unbiased person would perceive the whole situation. They may wonder why a school that has consistently said they are better than another school over the years and especially the last decade would not want to schedule a game and prove it!! NDSU officials/fans/coaches/etc can give all the reasons why scheduling a game with UND is not ?in their best interest." But as long as they keep rejecting any offers from UND to play the game, they will be viewed by many as cowards!!

Minnesota doesn't want to schedule NDSU because they don't want to lose to a team they feel they should beat. It would hurt them big time in recruiting. This is the same reason NDSU does not want to schedule UND!!! I don't blame GT. I wouldn't want to schedule a team that I was afraid to lose to either!!

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/243144/ "The team also plans to alternate black and white pants with the black jerseys." I guess I have to wait and see how that would look, but green helmet, black jersey, and white pants....seems like a bad look if you ask me. Thoughts?

Well that didn't take long!!! I like em!! Anyone else notice the green stripes on the pants too? I really like the green numbers with the white outline. They look sharp!!!