fightingsioux4life

Really? And why did you choose today of all days to bring that up? I think we both know the answer to that question.

While I hate NDSU as much as anyone else on this forum, this is classless and tasteless. The kid just had his season ruined and that is nothing to celebrate. Cheer against his team all you want (I sure will), but don't cheer against the player. Please don't stoop to Bisonville's low standards of decency.

Everyone on this forum understands this.

Yes, they will make the playoffs, the field is, what, 24 teams? What they are in danger of is losing that home field advantage, which is a much bigger deal in football than it is in a lot of other sports.

What's wrong with that? The rest of the world is too unpredictable as it is.

Scott Hennen has an ego bigger than those two combined.

Actually, Mike is one guy who will not kiss NDSU's posterior. That is something Kolpack couldn't claim on his best day.

Obviously, something must have happened behind the scenes to cause this to happen.

.....or "The Artist Formerly Known As The Fighting Sioux".

Good luck Mike. You'll need it going head to head with News and Views.

Well, I guess he can't screw things up there because everything there has been screwed up for years anyway.

I am not sure what happened to him. All I know is that he was a total disaster for UND athletics.

AMEN. This is exactly the motivation behind the Nodaks campaign.

I guess I didn't specify who the culprits were; thank you for filling in those blanks for me.

Hey, if you have predictions of your own, feel free to share them. But savaging my predictions doesn't mean they WON'T come true.

Based on what I have seen and heard and read during this whole fiasco, this is what I think. Maybe I am right and maybe I am wrong. If you have any ideas of your own, please share them.

There will be exceptions to the rule.

Looking ahead to the run-off (which I think we will need), I think the two names that will survive the initial round of voting are Roughriders and Nodaks (Fighting Hawks has fallen out of contention). My thinking is that the Fighting Hawk and North Star voters will swing over to Roughriders and the Sundog voters will swing over to Nodaks. That should give Roughriders the edge in the run-off, as I believe there will be more voters in the Hawks/North Star camp than in the Sundog camp. Prediction: 60% Roughriders 40% Nodaks

It's called trying to stir the pot some more to get more sales out of this story before it dies out.

They should look in the mirror instead.

UND won a national title in FB in 2001. And was a national power until around 2005. And they still got treated like a red-headed stepchild.

+1000

For the record, I voted Roughriders. That was rather funny though!

I think we are talking about the chicken and the egg here. Which comes first? You cannot win without the resources for coaching salaries, recruiting budgets, etc. So the sure-fire way to ignore a program and justify that approach is to not give them enough resources and then complain they don't win enough so you can justify continuing to ignore them. It is hard to believe, but our FB program was once consistently ranked in the top 10 nationally (about 10 years ago). And they got very little in return. Poor marketing. Poor attendance. I believe this was one of the reasons Dale Lennon up and left for SIU when he did. They made a real commitment to their FB program and we wouldn't. That stuck us with Chris Mussman and we both know where that took us. Again, if we wanted to continue ignoring all sports except Men's Hockey, we should have stayed in Division II. Sometimes, I wonder if we moved up because NDSU and SDSU moved up. That is never a good reason to make a huge jump like the jump from Division II to Division I.

One VB victory does not prove my point wrong. Anyone who thinks NDSU hasn't owned us over the past 10 years in terms of winning, media coverage, marketing and whatever else is important to intercollegiate athletics is living in fantasy land.