fightingsioux4life

Yes it is. It's always a bit of a let down when one of the teams is bad and the game doesn't have much meaning to it. Kind of like the 2002 game vs. the Bison in the Dome. Both teams sucked that year and so did the game itself.

I was on SCSU's campus a couple of times, once for a football playoff game in 2004. I was not all that impressed with it. I have no idea what kind of academics they have there, but it looked a little run down.

The point is, it is very unlikely that top recruits won't choose a certain school because of the negativity of the fan base on message boards. But you are right, gfhockey is one of the most negative posters here.

You are pretty confident considering that the Vikings D held the Packer offense in check for most of the game in Green Bay. If Ponder had played even an average game, the outcome could have been much different. AP had an awesome game vs. the Packer defense (which is up and down depending on which week it is) and next week's game is in the Dome, so Lombardi's ghost won't help the Packers this time. It will be a great game and tickets will probably cost a small fortune. Go Vikings!!!

Rodney Harrison of Football Night in America would disagree with that. He ripped the Texans for not doing better against the Viking defense because "it's a decent defense.......but not that good." What a load of crap. This team would not have anything close to a winning record without the defense doing what it has been doing most of the season. What's next, Jared Allen is overrated? Harrison can stick his opinion where the sun don't shine.

A solid, all-around performance by the Purple today, on the road against one of the top teams in the AFC. Everyone is focused on AP's quest for 2K (yards) and the single-season rushing record, but the defense is much improved from last year and has some young, talented guys starting for them. A couple of more drafts like 2012 and this will be a tough team to beat week in and week out.

Okay, then let's just give the coaches lifetime contract extensions because nothing they do matters, one way or the other. Then we can put the on-field captains in charge of calling plays and deciding who plays and who sits, because they are the ones out on the field. And if you believe any of that crap, I have a Minnesota Gopher BCS Championship Trophy to sell you. Do I think Mussman should be canned right now? No. Should he get a couple of more recruiting classes in the Big Sky to improve our depth and talent levels? Yes. But the next couple of years will be critical for Mussman and his staff to prove they can get it done at this level, which is much different than the old Division II North Central Conference was. These are paid professionals and the idea that you simply cannot criticize them (unless you are a crusty old sports fan that played football with leather helmets) is just plain Ducky and Bunny, Polyannish BS. The difference between UND and FU right now is that Bohl made the changes that had to be made after that 3-8 season a couple of years ago, while Mussman has basically stayed the course despite some pretty pathetic results. We've all heard the mulligans used to explain it all away (transition, "Clueless Al's" nickname folly, conference uncertainty, blah, blah, blah) and they definitely have some truth to them. But in 3-5 years, if we still are struggling, and I keep hearing the same tired old excuses being used to explain it all away and how we should just keep waiting for something to change, we will find ourselves back in the same situation as the mid 1980's, with a program in ruins and facing a rebuilding job with a national power just 80 miles away. I don't want that to happen. Do you?

I wonder if any of these changes might help college hockey stop the bleeding of talent to the CHL. Giving coaches more of a chance to explain the advantages of the college route to Canadian kids might make a difference.

Be careful, you'll be told (in a preachy tone) that the coaches have nothing to do with winning and losing.

You should know that I (and others here) are going to remember all the arrogant and pompus comments made by NDSU and their media mouthpiece (KFGO). And when the shoe is on the other foot in the future (it's only a matter of time), we will not hesitate to use it against you and the rest of Bison Nation. And don't think I won't remember all this crap......I have a very good long-term memory, as do a lot of other people on ss.com. Now, please go back to Bisonville and talk about that hypothetical match-up with Alabama and how you all "believe in miracles".

That forecast picture was all over Facebook this week! At least SOME people still have a sense of humor. Here's another one:

You were saying?

Who cares as long as both teams have had to do it? Nobody would have an edge. And these are 18-22 year olds we are talking about; I think they can handle it without keeling over.

I fully expect that to happen and, to be honest, I don't care if they do or not. I don't think calling it as you see it is the same as being a "bad fan" or a "negative nelly" and whatever else I've been called over the years. I bleed Green and White. I have season tickets, hit the road for regular season and playoff games and will always be a fan of this team. But that doesn't mean I won't point out things that I think should be fixed. The bottom line is, nobody remembers who finished second or third or whatever. All they remember is who finished King of the Mountain. And it's high time we get back there.

AMEN! It is coming up on 12 years since our last NCAA title. While Boston College collects trophies, we collect bridesmaid dresses and I am sick and tired of it. Like it or not (and I sure as heck don't like it), we have become "Runner-Up U" in NCAA Division I Hockey. That is not a position befitting a program with the tradition and prestige of University of North Dakota hockey. The quote in my sig says it all: "Greatness at North Dakota is measured in national championships" by former player and coach Cary Eades. We can send all the players we want to the NHL, we can win all the conference regular season and post-season titles we want, but the longer we go without winning "the big one", the more prestige and leverage we will lose as a program. With our newly-minted Division I programs struggling to gain traction, it is important that men's hockey regain the initiative right now. And I do think this year's team has the potential to pull it off. Cross your fingers everyone.

Well, Roebuck never had a warm, outgoing personality, but it never hurt his recruiting or his ability to get the most out of his talent. And no one seemed to have a problem with him. The program Idalski took over was below the level of most club programs. He is starting to get great talent on an annual basis now. Just like football and women's basketball in the early 1990's, it takes time to build a winning tradition and an expectation of sustained excellence in a program. It will come. People just need to be patient.

Just like the whole program.

Our receivers are awesome. Our QBs were very good. Our special teams were special. Everything else needs work.

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.