fightingsioux4life

When the Alerus first opened, we had about a month of evening home games and the place was packed. But Lennon kept bitching about not liking night games and that was the end of it. We need to go back to evening games when it doesn't conflict with hockey.

Now maybe the Notre Dame playoff talk can be shelved until next year.

That would be a huge step forward for them.

The gold standard for attendance was either the NCAA D-2 Quarterfinal vs GVSU in 2004 or the D-2 Semifinal vs UC-Davis in 2001. We have some work to do before we get back to that level of enthusiasm.

Potato Bowl usually draws better than this year. A little surprising.

I've seen worse.

Need to practice staying in bounds.

While UNI is far from being a bad team, I agree with you.

Nine years and we are still seeing the same old slop.

Too early to bring this out.

Who needs him, we have "culture".

You mean this play?

Ignore this buffoon and he'll crawl back to Bisonville.

I would never call for games against Alabama. And anyone in our fan base that did would get called out by me. This thread has nothing to do with NDAC, so yes you are by definition trolling.

When your fan base holds up signs saying "Bring on Bama" and writes letters to Sports Illustrated demanding NDSU be on the cover instead of Alabama, you are basically asking for those types of comments. Especially when you troll on a rival's message board in a thread that has nothing to do with your team. Go back to Bisonville.

Look around buddy, we are already irrelevant in a lot of respects. The focus should be to fix it. But Chaves just wants to wait and see on everything.

The funding model obviously has to change. Even if the REA contract was more favorable to UND, we still would need a Division l caliber funding model to fund scholarships, facilities, coaching salaries, FCOA, NIL and whatever else comes up as college athletics continues to change and evolve.

The point is, it has been done before and it can be done again. You are basically throwing in the towel. I just cannot get excited about perpetual 5-6 seasons.

That is a big problem for sure. And I am a Coaches Club member, you are welcome, btw. We should have had a plan to fully fund a Division l athletic department before we moved up. We are using a Division ll funding model and it simply does not work anymore. Either we do this the right way or we move back down. Or we could drop FB and focus on less expensive sports like MBB and WBB. But I just cannot embrace the status quo.

How did Roger Thomas ever build a national contender down the road from NDSU? The more things change.....

In that case, we should just move down to D-ll and join the NSIC. I am not interested in being an average FCS program forever.

You just made an argument that Mussman should not have been fired in 2013 because he isn't the one on the field not making plays. I think the special teams struggles were more about playing an FBS team than anything else.

You can say that about almost any of these big time prospects, with Major Junior and NHL teams always sniffing around.