JohnboyND7

Thank goodness that my team has no issues with serious matters such as hazing. I must now question the UND hockey program. Dave is just mad that NDSU is doing well right now. NDSU could have every football player volunteering at Big Brother, being squeeky clean, and he'd find something to complain about.

I was simple building on what geaux_sioux said and some things a few of my friends from UND have said. I wasn't looking for an argument, and I doubt many people here would disagree with what I said regarding students especially. If I was looking for an argument I'd have said something along the lines of, "UND students will never care about non-hockey sports." I don't believe that though, so I didn't say that.

dont agree with geaux_sioux on much, but there is one thing we definitely agree on, the attitude that many UND hockey fans have toward the other sports is pretty bad. In Fargo, we got plenty of football fans who don't tend to pay much attention to the basketball team and other sports. But they certainly don't trash the other sports the way I see SOME of the hockey fans on here do. When I talk to UND buddies of mine who don't care about the football team they mention that they are playing "small schools". I ask what makes the hockey games against Denver and Colorado College so great then, they say they are big-time schools. While they are big in the hockey world, Montana, Montana State, and EWU are big in the FCS world and are definitely worth going to the game for. What is the point in going D-I for all sports in these people's eyes if they still have the same attitude towards the teams on the schedule? Oofda. UND student(and by the looks of it, some alumni) attitude needs to change. Other than that, UND needs to string together some winning seasons.

Oh dear. Confidence! I reserve the right to quote this post if UND gets shelled. I don't think it will be as bad as the EWU game but I expect UND to lose by 10-21 points.

Why would the Alerus want to let people leave and then come back in? That would cut their concessions sales.

What your coworkers were complaining about was that there were empty student seats. We did not fill up the entire section. Probably about 2800-3000 of the 3800 seats were occupied. No obvious difference until Jensen's last interception which led the dome to empty itself. The second half will always be less full than the first half, even if ever so slightly. The USD game was my freshman year. We have done a pretty good job since that season. Not so much that it was always packed, but we haven't had a modern rendition of the book of Exodus like UND fans have been describing on here as well as friends of mine who are students in Grand Forks. Our redshirts sit in the student section. They are mediocre as far as being loud.

Not disputing some of that. Some of the Aggie girls....yuck. Some of the cheerleaders, yuck. Barnyard animals....cute when they are little, ugly when they are fully grown.

He got a minor. Big deal. I really don't see a need for any school to suspend a kid cause he got a minor(unless he has a history of being a knucklehead). Not like he can play anyway. Maybe we should just suspend him for spring ball Torn ACL and what not....probably won't play anyways. Leaving soon? Heagle gets two more years if he gets a medical redshirt.

If UND's ratio is 55-45 and NDSU's is 57-43, and NDSU has a larger on-campus population of students rather than online....does NDSU possibly have more chicas then? I also won't get into "which school has better looking girls" cause as far as I'm concerned, with such a large sample size they should have relatively similar numbers of nice looking young ladies. We do have Concordia and Moorhead girls down here, but honestly, whoever said they were weird was spot on. Some of them make for nice eye candy at least. One of my buddies is dating a girl from across the river, anytime I ever go visit, hipsters everywhere. I don't like it.

the traditional powers seem to have good attendance.

NDSU was able to run a very safe and casual offense in the second half of the CSU game. CSU looked good offensively for literally three plays. It became clear as the first half went on that NDSU was going to run a safe offense after building a nice lead. People complaining about NDSU's offense remind me of the people who year after year say that the Steeler offense isn't any good because they don't always explode offensively. Yet Roethlisberger puts up great numbers on third down and the Steelers tend to score when they need to. When you have a great defense, you can play safe football.

I would feel bad for them too. One has to wonder if the attitude could begin affecting recruiting at some point. Kids probably base some of the decision at some point on the atmospheres.

That won't be necessary. I have a Stats class this spring so I suppose I could conduct a legitimate study regarding the attractiveness of women at the two institutions of higher education.

NDSU pecker > UND pecker.

Depends. If it is a blowout, then people start to head out either at halftime or throughout the third quarter. If the game is good, you don't see a huge dropoff from where I am(first few rows). What you guys have been describing on here seems outlandish and we haven't had that issue before in my time in Fargo. Leaving a game at halftime when it is close en masse? Sad.

I don't know how easy it'd be to get Northern Iowa to come up to Grand Forks for basketball.

team intros are cool. They don't get students to stay for a whole game though.

We beat SIU last year 9-3. We beat Georgia Southern 35-7. SIU would have beat Georgia Southern then?

Does the average Joe do that? Does the average Joe even know what an HDMI cable is? Probably not. I enjoy internet viewing as well, most people just don't understand it.

The only way to get student attendance up that I can think of is winning. Doing some dumb "hockey ticket incentive" would be embarrassing as far as I'm concerned.

And how many people do you HONESTLY think sit at their computer desk on a Saturday afternoon/evening and watch? People on messageboards probably would but keep in mind the average fan probably wont. All I know is all NDSU games are on tv right now so I am happy with that, as well as some on ESPN3 if I am really bored.

so is UND's defense. There is a difference between a 5 team conference being favored and a 10 team conference. I don't know what people are getting so bent out of shape over anyway. Both conferences appear to be pretty good this year.

Now thats the spirit!

Matchups. Until UND wins an FBS game, I wouldn't say it is unfair to put FBS games down as losses for them for the time being. I don't think UND would beat Colorado State based 100% on the fact UND couldn't stop the offenses in the Shrine Game.

I assume you don't know much about anything. The Valley is a lot of things but mediocre-poor? MVFC, Big Sky, CAA, and SoCon are the big respected conferences.