fightingsioux4life

Hey, it's all about "Team Rules, Team Rules, Team Rules, LA, LA, LA, LA, LA, LA!".

So throwing two pick-6's in one game, leading directly to a loss, is "leadership" and "knowing how to win"? Okay, whatever you want to tell yourself. Being 2nd team all-conference in a crappy offensive league like the MVFC is nothing to jump up and down about. The next thing you'll tell us is that Terry Bradshaw was the key to the Steelers winning 4 titles in 6 years in the 1970's. And my comment had nothing to do with my own team, which needs a lot of changes to be competitive. It has to do with my dislike for media hyperbole. I cannot picture Wayne Nelson of the Heraldo making the type of comment that Kolpack did on Saturday.

I don't know who these people are (friends of Shantel Rivard?), but they are clueless and probably care about the men's team only. Idalski is doing what Gene Roebuck did for women's BB back in the early 1990's. Lock him up and keep him as long as you can.

Any talk that UND fans should jump on the FU bandwagon should stop right now. When we won the 2001 D-II title, how many NDSU fans jumped on the bandwagon? I say very few; their favorite teams in the playoffs were Winona State, Pittsburg State, UC-Davis and Grand Valley State. You still have some Bison boosters saying we won that title "by accident" and "it shouldn't have even happened" and all this other garbage. So FU will not get one ounce of support from me.....ever! I grew up with the I-29 wars in multiple sports and my feelings about FU will never change. Especially with the crap that comes out of the media down there whenever they have a team worth talking about. One of the Kolpack boys wrote an article on Saturday comparing Brock Jensen to Joe Montana. That's like saying that Adam Houser is just like Patrick Roy because he started on Minnesota's 2002 national title team. The truth is, Minnesota won that title despite having Hauser in goal. The Bison are winning despite having Jensen at QB. Jensen is basically responsible for the Bison having one loss instead of zero. If he lays another egg in the title game, he'll be responsible for the Bison having two losses. Of course, if SHSU just runs the QB up the middle 95% of the time like they did last year, it won't matter.

Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen.

I don't blame them for being upset. However, I do blame them for shooting at UND. This is not UND's fault.

Goon wrote a blog post about this article. http://ndgoon.blogsp...on's World) What a piece of work this guy is. We didn't ask for all of this realignment crap, but we have to do what we can to protect ourselves from the fallout. Don't shoot at us, shoot at Barry Alverez, Penn State and the Big Ten Network. They are the most responsible for all this happening.

This would be so awesome! Imagine how jacked up The Ralph would be for this! The sooner we stop having regionals in non-hockey cities, the better.

Bad idea. This would water down the playoff field with mediocre teams. The playoffs don't need more 31-10 games.

Awesome!

I am holding out on getting a "North Dakota" jersey until they have the authentic versions available. I was told that they aren't ordering those yet because "they aren't that popular". I have a personal rule that I won't spend $95 for one of those cheap replica jerseys. I will only purchase the authentic $250 versions. Those will last forever if you take care of them (which I do). Anyone else have an opinion on replicas vs. authentics?

But didn't you hear? It's all about being able to keep more of the gate!

Yeah, but that won't lift any program to the level of Gonzaga. Gonzaga became the mid-major no one wanted to play and that takes more than being in a weaker auto-bid conference and getting in more often.

Yeah, except our fans don't preach the delusion that we are on pace to be "the next Gonzaga" of Division I Men's Basketball.

If you want to get mad at somebody for this, get mad at Barry Alverez. He was a big proponent of the BTHC and is gleeful about it.

I have been sitting in the lower bowl for years. Section 125, near the top in the corner. Great seats, great view of everything. Mostly good fans in my section; a few morons, but they are outnumbered. I am really going to miss the Final Five next year; I don't know how the NCHC tournament will stack up.

Overall, it's a pretty good budget. Too bad Carlson and Company will slice and dice it.

I was talking about the Legislature as an institution, not about any one political party or politician. The ND Legislature has a lot of built-in, institutional, cultural biases against funding even the most common-sense stuff.

Then why do the NDSU boosters like to rip hockey and claim it isn't a "real" sport? That is something you need to "learn to deal with", not us.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But you are opening the door to the wonderful world of politics. And that topic is not allowed on this forum. And I for one am supportive of that policy.

You might have more luck if some of your fellow Bison followers would acknowledge that UND hockey is a big deal......and not just within the Grand Forks city limits. The "butt football" crowd needs to learn that respect is a two-way street.

And here we go.............

The officials in this league are so bad I don't think it matters who the games.

Okay, I'll take one more shot at this. Getting swept on the road would have been a big morale killer, and with a much better team coming to Grand Forks the following weekend, it was totally conceivable that we might get swept at home. This team has been up and down all season and you need consistency to sweep teams (even at home). The OT win on Saturday changes the whole dynamic. Now we have some confidence as we face Denver at home, in front of all our fans (including the students, who will want to blow off some steam before finals next week). Every season, you can point to one or more crucial turning points (good and bad) that affected a team's season. Last Saturday's OT win might end up being one of those for this team. Having said that, it's going to be a tough weekend to watch if we come out and give up 35-40 shots per game like we had been doing before last weekend. Denver will make us pay for it, unlike some of the teams we have been playing. Saunders can't do everything himself. I think this weekend will determine what kind of team we have.

Probably in the toilet of the WCHA.