fightingsioux4life

Went to a game in Brookings in 2002 (the game Klosterman hurt himself and effectively ended our season) and it really was a crap hole. Went to a game in 2010 (the coldest game I have ever been to) and it looked much, much better. Nice to see them investing some serious coin into their program.

Fair enough, but I think we should work on filling up the stadium we have now before we talk about a big-time upgrade to Memorial Stadium.

When we start winning games again, the atmosphere will improve. What part of that do people not understand? Do you really want to go back outside so we can have 2,000 people for a November home game with a game time temp of 28 degrees?

The 2001 Division II National Semifinal game vs. UC-Davis proves that the building is a great home field advantage for our team. And of course there are more fans when you are winning, which I think we will get back to in the next couple of years when we are playing meaningful games again.

Our teams of 2001-2005 would disagree with you. I'll take their word over yours (or mine for that matter) on this topic every day and twice on Sundays.

Agree 100% with all of this.

Haven't you been told, what NDSU does or doesn't do has ZERO impact on UND, so it shouldn't even be discussed . Seriously, I am with you 100%. We have become almost invisible in athletics outside of the college hockey world and that has to change. Bubba and his rebuilding project are a good start, but the athletic department needs to do a better job of marketing our newly-minted Division I sports state and region-wide.

55-13 in the 4th quarter! I don't know if anyone saw this coming.

How do you know that wasn't by design? This staff seems to want to run the ball and stick with short to medium range passing game.

That is funny! I am negative when it is called for, but I also give credit when it is called for and I really think this staff will have this program in the playoffs in a couple of years. This year, the goal should be to win more than we lose.

Man, some of you guys are talking like we LOST today! It's a win and we are 3-1 just two years removed from an absolute train wreck. There will be ups and downs along the way, but don't forget we are playing a lot of freshman (true and redshirt) and we don't have a lot of overall team depth. People need to get off the freaking ledge and stop acting like the program is still a mess because I think we are headed in the right direction.

Well, it was the choice of B.R.I.D.G.E.S. (the anti-Fighting Sioux nickname group) and it is unlikely to "offend" anybody, so that is a reasonable hypothesis. But as a proud progressive, I reject the tendency of my ideological brethren to embrace political correctness. I think it is a slippery-slope that we should not even think of going down.

It should have been dismissed as an option right from the start of the process, even before the committee was appointed.

You have just illustrated why the voting is limited to UND stakeholders and is not open to Bison rubes who will stop at nothing to destroy UND.

I am thinking the initial vote will go something like this: 1) Roughriders (35%) 2) Fighting Hawks (30%) 3) North Stars (15%) 4) Nodaks (15%) 5) Sundogs (5%) In the run-off, I see it going like this: 1) Roughriders (60%) 2) Fighting Hawks (40%) This isn't based on anything scientific, just a shot in the dark based on what I have seen and heard throughout this entire process.

I have never really cared for Wayne Nelson and this makes me wish for his retirement as soon as possible.

This has nothing to do with the BSC. It is because our transition sucked, Faison has given coaches way too much rope to hang their own programs with and our marketing still lags far behind NDSU. Joining the Slummit/MVFC won't change any of that.

Some would argue he lost the team back in 2009 with the loss to a then-NAIA team.

Well, I think it's butt ugly anyway.

Pretty much what I have been saying this year.

THIS x 1,000!!!

So if you can't beat 'em, join 'em? That is one solution to this, but first the MVFC would have to agree to let us join. And I don't know if they would be willing to do that.

They are listening to all the Slummit propaganda being put out by the Imperial Cass-Clay County media conglomerates.