Siouxperfan7

So does this mean you are warming up to the fact that the FCS and the MVFC is the best fit for UND and NOT the FBS route?!!

Absolutely what they should be doing. Encouraging more people to get in the building needs to be the key. Make new fans of people and have them be a part of the whole game day experience from the tailgating to the game is much better than watching it on TV.

When is the last time you could say you tailgated in the parking lot before a hockey game?!! Loving that we get to do it on Saturday!!!

I get it that there will be many fans that are going to be in Vegas this weekend that would typically be at the football game on Saturday. I am going to give our fans in this situation the benefit of the doubt that they will give their tickets to someone else so they can attend the game. So I confident the attendance will be great for the game on Saturday. Also, the football game is at 2pm, the hcokey game is on at 9pm in Grand Forks. No reason why fans can't do both.

I have been saying this for 2 years now!! Brady and JJ can carry thew load in the backfield. Santiago is most dangerous when he is has the ball out on the corner and has to only make one move on a corner to get a big gain.

So where is the watch party in Vegas next Saturday?!!

Lots of shakeup in the top 25 this week!! #3 SDSU Lost to UNI 24-9 #4 JSU Lost to SEMO 37-14 #6 Mcneese Lost to Incarnate Word 45-17 #7 Illinois State Lost to #1 NDSU 28-14 #10 SHSU Lost to Lamar 41-23 #20 Maine Lost to W&M 27-20 #21 ETSU Lost to # 12 Wofford 30-17 #23 URI Lost to #17 Stony Brook 52-14

Bubba sounding like we just lost 41-15. “Gotta play better football”. He has a point. Lots of mistakes tonight.

480 yards rushing. Is that a UND record?!!

I guess that fake FG attempt wasn’t such a bad call after all!!

We haven’t given the ball up on a kickoff yet!

The look on Bubba’s face after that miss says it all. Yikes

No need to pass the rest of the game!! Pound it!!

Pound the rock. They can’t stop the run. Kett doesn’t need to pass it the rest of the night. Time for the D to step up!!

Maag time!!!

Such a bad decision. Take your points there.

The post you quoted me on was referencing UND wearing Sioux jerseys in Vegas. I said it was not going to happen. Which it isn't. I also said "Eventually you may see throwback references to the Sioux name on jerseys" and that it would happen "Some day." That day is now Dec 29th, 2018. So technically I was right in everything I said!

North Dakota to recognize 1958-59 NCAA championship team https://fightinghawks.com/news/2018/10/18/mens-hockey-north-dakota-to-recognize-1958-59-ncaa-championship-team.aspx "North Dakota will wear 1958-59 replica jerseys during its Dec. 29 exhibition game against the United States Under-18 Team at Ralph Engelstad Arena. The jerseys will then be sold via online auction at FightingHawks.com with the proceeds benefiting the Sioux Scholarship Endowment, which provides scholarship assistance to Native American students."

I am just speculating. Heck, they got rid of an entire section that once belonged to students at the Fargodome!!

Maybe I missed it, but has UND released pregame party info/gatherings for fans in Vegas next weekend? If so, can someone post it?

As previously state, students today just don't care as much about attending sporting events. they can get endless amount of live sporting events on their phones. Why take the time and effort to go all the way to the Alerus Center. Fortunately there are people ready and willing to take their place if they don't want to use their prime seats at the Alerus. (Sidenote: Hockey isn't safe either. Students having trouble filling their section as well. I wouldn't be surprised to see sections 108 and 109 turn into Champions Club Season tickets and just move all the students to the upper bowl.) Decreasing and/or moving student sections is something more and more Universities are going to have to decide on moving forward. Kind of hard to loo at a half full student section and not think how many of those seats could be sold to the general public.

I would say they should try to sell as many season tickets in 213 and 214 as they can. Like I said before, there are likely fans that would love to buy season tickets but don't want to sit in the corners. Sell the lower section below the walkway in those sections as season tickets, and the seats above the walkway in 213 and 214 sell as single game tickets to the general public.

Move the Student section to 210, 211, and 212. Put the band in section 212. Open up sections 213 and 214 to new season ticket holders. Look at what happened a few years back when they moved the students over a section and 215 became available. Season tickets sold out in that section. Same thing would happen in 213 and 214. If the students are not going to show up, they don't deserve to have the best seats in the Alerus. Let the students keep the same number of seats, just move them over. I am sure there plenty of people that would love to buy season tickets, but don't want to get them in the corners.

Putting the student section where it is now is not something that you see a lot a colleges. The student section where it is now are prime seats that UND could be making a lot more money on. They already moved them over a section and opened up section 215 a few years ago and UND is definitely benefiting from doing that. It is a tricky situation. On one hand, if students aren't going to show up, they could move the student section again and open those seats up to the public for season tickets that would likely sell and look much better to see those seats full. On the other hand, I don't think a good way to encourage more students to attend games is to take away their seats and move them in the corner. As been said many times, declining student attendance is not unique to just UND. Happening everywhere. I am sure if you looked around the country you would see examples of colleges decreasing student sections or moving them to sell their seats to the public.