Siouxperfan7

Sorry bud. But The NCAA trophy that they give out says "Division 1 Football National Champion" on it. You can deny it all you want but it is legit. You do realize how dumb you sound right?

Actually, there is only 1 Division 1 Championship trophy awarded by the NCAA, and that goes to the winner of the FCS National Championship. Will you see LSU or Alabama hoisting the familiar NCAA Championship trophy this year? No. They will be getting the Coaches Trophy that the FBS gives out. The FBS National Championship game was determined by polls, opinions, and a computer. The FCS National Championship game was determined by a month long playoff. So really, one could argue that the winner of the Sam Houston/NDSU game is the true D1 Champion!!

I didn't think the Gophers played in post season tournaments anymore!!

Having the Tourney at the X will gaurantee that attendance will be high given the fact that UND, UMD, and St Cloud are all within 5 hours of St Paul. And high attendance means more revenue shared between all schools.

I'm sorry, but you cannot say "I am a huge Sioux fan" and "I for one will be pulling for the Bison" and be cosidered a huge Sioux fan. Please clear out your desk and leave your Sioux fan ID badge at the door. You cannot be a true Sioux fan and cheer for the Bison. I don't want to hear all this "cheer for your state" and "state pride" BS. Even though we haven't played them in FB for 8 years (hopefully that will change in the future) they are still our rivals. In state rivals in fact. So while you may consider yourself a "Huge Sioux fan", if you cheer for the bison in the National Championship game, you deffinitely are not. don't believe me? Just wait and see how many people agree with me when you get blasted on this board!!

Hate to break it to you, but it is one of our logos. The interlocking ND has been on the football helmet for years. Even when we adobted the blackhawk, the geometric , and the current sioux logo, the football team used the interlocking ND. It will always be a logo for Sioux football.

As we begin this transition away from the official Fighting Sioux era, I was thinking of starting a thread where everyone can go back and remember their most memorable Fighting Sioux game they either attended or saw on TV, for any sport I think that we could really dig up some great momories of what a great program we have. I will get it started by telling my greatest Fighting Sioux sports memory. The 2001 football National Championship game in Florence, Alabama against Grand Valley State. We loaded up a car with 5 of us and drove through the night both ways to get there. The morning was dreary and rainy in Florence that day, but that didn't stop everyone that made the trek fom North Dakota to have a huge tailgate party before the game. The game itself was rainy and sloppy. It wasn't looking good for the Sioux late in that game. But that all changed with the final drive where we converted 2 4th downs, the second one being maybe the most famous play in Fighting Sioux history. The 58 yard pass from Klosterman to Schleusner that will go down in the history books as simply "the play." I went from the biggest low to maybe the biggest high I have experienced at any sporting event!! Could not believe my eyes. I actually thought we scorred on the play. When I saw us lining up for a play I was wondering why we were going for 2. By the time I realized that we hadn't scored yet, Perkerewicz was running the ball in the Endzone for a touchdown!! So after the celebration of scoring that touchdown with under a minute to go, most Sioux fans were making their way to the bottom of the stands to rush the field ofter the game. the last play of the game seemed to last forever as Grand Valley State was lateraling the ball around. When they finally made that final tackle, everybody went crazy!! Fans rushed the filed, players were jumping around, I was waving my flag around. It was a victory over a century in the making. The North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team were the National Champions!!! I know that I have probably picked one of the most momorable game, but I know that there are other games out there that you all remember that will live on forever. Lets have fun and relive them!!

Best blocking TE in the NFL. Has been for many years now. The Vikings were lucky to have a guy like Jim on their team. I remember watching him play in High School because I had relatives in Carrington and we would catch most of the football game when we were in town. He played offence and defense and was their kicker and punter so he was out there the entire game. It was great to see him play in college and even better that he got drafted by the Vikings and spent his entire career there so we could watch him every Sunday. We will always remember Jim as the guy who made "that play" against the Bison at the Fargodome. That will be engraved in my memory forever!! He was a great player but more importantly a great guy off the field as well. Carrington Cardinal, North Dakota Fighting Sioux, and Minnesota Viking fans should all be proud they had a guy like Jim Kleinsasser to cheer for on their teams.

BOX!!!!!!

Wait...you were cheering at a sporting event? Is that allowed? Don't they prosecute you for doing that??? If the guy would have just waitied, I am guessing you would have probably sat down once the puck dropped!!

Let's try something. Read what someone responds to you by putting words together to make a sentence. Its a great concept in trying to understand what a person is saying. Did you read when Darell said "When NDSU says the Sioux suck you know they mean the team." NDSU fans will continue to chant this at games. Even through the name will be long gone, everyone knows who they are talking about. So basically saying "Sioux suck" means "UND sucks." And guess what, that pisses people off.

There was talk somewhere on SS about starting a preposterous statement contest. This thread my be the front runner!!

Unless you are physically unable to stand up or have a hard time doing so, I will continue to stand for scoring plays and exciting moments in the game. You are at a sporting event. If you want to relax in your recliner at home and watch the game with your feet up and a drink in your hand, that's fine. But when you are at the sporting event, get involved in the game and cheer and get excited. Its OK, they allow that. If you do not want to cheer and get excited, why did you come to the game?! There are two type of people that attent sporting events...spectators and fans. I am a fan so I will act like one at a game. For all you spectators out there, try being a fan once. It is much more fun than telling people not to be one.

That is the problem with our athletic department. We are eligible for the playoffs from 2012 and on. There is no reason that there should ever be a non D1 team on our football schedule from now on. Other schools can schedule 4 D1 OAC games every year. Why should UND be any different. While the Mines game is unfortunate to have on our schedule, there is no reason to be playing any D2 or NAIA school from here on out.

This game should never have been on the 2012 schedule. Probably too late to find a replacement. Of course we did get the Portland State last minute...so maybe we can reel in another FCS team. I just hope Faison is trying to find a replacement, becasue if he isn't even trying, that would be really unfortunate.

We don't need reasons to hate Wisconsin, but thanks for giving us one more!!!

Not all democrats are morons. But if you are a moron, you're probably a democrat!!! Wait.....let me rephrase that...... All democrats are morons. Period.

Games in HD, no more Pat Sweeny calling games, and a penalty time clock.....this is starting to sound pretty good!!!

Without a doubt beating NDSU. I would rather beat our instate rival than win a league with bad teams in it that we aren't even going to be playing in next year.

I do give him credit for coaching our young guys up especially when we had injuries where those younger guys had to come in and play more. He did a great job keeping the team focused in all those games where we had to come from behind in the second half. He did a good job coaching this year. But is it going to be good enough to compete with the big boys in the Big Sky? Yes we won the Great West. But the Great West conference doesn't really have any great teams. The level of competition next year conpared to the last 2 years is going to be obviosuly better next year. We will have to wait and see how Muss and this team does against good football teams, not just cupcakes.

I am a Sioux football fan just like mostly everyone that posts on this site. But you have to look at all the games we played and really evaluate how the team looked. Sure we were 8-3. That is a respectable record. But we were a last second field goal against an NAIA/D2 team, a 45 yard field goal late in the 4th quarter against a winless No Colorado team, and a miraculous 3 TD 4th quarter comeback from being 5-6. Now I realize that we were good enough and our team played well enough to get us into the position to win those games, but if you really look at this season can you really say that you can brag about this season? There is much more to look at when evaluating a team then just wins and loses. I agree we are moving in the right direction and I would much rather be 8-3 going into the Big Sky that 3-8. But unless we inprove our play, next year is going to be more like 2010 than 2011.

As much as I want to give Muss and the team a ton of credit, lets put things in perspective. Yes they did go 8-3 after a season where they were 3-8. But, lets look at those 8 wins. 3 of them were against NAIA or D2 teams, and the other one is against a D1 non-scholarship team. So really, they had 4 legitimate wins against D1 FCS teams. Last year they had 3 wins, one of them against a D2 team. So looking at the numbers, in the past two years, UND and coach Mussman have won 6 games in two hears that are legit. Not really that impressive. I do think they are moving in the right direction, but they have a long way to go to be considered a contender in FCS.

I guess it is all you can do when you you don't have a comeback!!

So if NDSU had a better recruiting class, wouldn't they have better players, and a better team, and better success against a team that apparently doesn't recruit as well as them like UND?? Well maybe in your mind they have had better recruiting classes, but the results on the field in 8 of the last 11 meetings prove otherwise!

Hiyo!!!! Hmmm, I wonder how he will talk his way out of that box!!! Can't wait to here!!