JohnboyND7

Thats great that UND hockey is a major program in the hockey world, a lot of those fans are not from North Dakota. A lot of hockey fans will, just like in FBS football, pick a school that they have no association with. Example, I am a Notre Dame fan. I have never been to Indiana. And I doubt if they played at Boston College or BU that half the arena would be UND fans. I state one more time, NDSU football and UND hockey are very similar in the state of North Dakota.

OK, once again, using Blog views is a ridiculous way of determining 'fandom.' If NDSU was in the B1G, which will never happen, they'd be so much more popular than UND it would be beyond ridiculous. North Dakota is a football/basketball state. Don't try saying it is a hockey state because beyond Grafton and Hazen-Beulah, no class B schools, and some class A schools don't play it. If there was a B1G option in the state, the other school would not matter to anyone. Catters is entitled to think that UND football will catch up with NDSU, it will be tough however, NDSU might be entering a new phase of our history for all we know. Using a game in Colorado eh? Well something tells me a most of those people are UND alums or fans from Colorado. That isn't part of the statistic no? I believe the issue was fans in the state of North Dakota. I honestly do not care how many fans NDSU has in Colorado, because once again, as I said, the population of North Dakota has about an equal GAS (give a S***) Factor when it comes to NDSU and UND.

This. Other programs can't be hurt in funding, now maybe some athletes might not be interested in going there and that might hurt the program, but the funds will be there, besides, Penn State has boatloads of cash in their athletic department one might imagine.

Well known on here that I'm a Bison fan. Don't get cute. And it was two seasons ago.

I'm a Steeler fan. There are quite a few of us. Really helps that the Steelers dominated the 70's when a lot of people who are fans now were being raised. Those fans have kids(me), and those kids grow up wanting to be Jerome Bettis. That doesn't change the fact that the Vikings are the most important team to the state. If they won the Super Bowl, it'd be a riot.

We beat MSU with something like 5 completions. Sometimes you don't need to be able to throw Mr. McGill He is right though, need to have some threat to throw in order to win.

This might be true, with NDSU football possibly finding their place in FCS now, might finally be back to where things are back to where they should, right about even with UND hockey. Either way, much as I dislike UND, they bring good attention from the hockey world. NDSU football, as much as you folks don't like it, bring good attention from the FCS world. It will take some time I think, once Penn State gets on their feet and the rivalries start taking hold, I think they will be happy about B1G hockey. Lots of quality and big name programs.

Exactly, people need a season to catch up.

Didn't the Gophers go through a bit of a rough stretch and last year was their first real good year in awhile? I'd imagine that Mariucci will have more luck putting butts in the seats this year.

That seems realistic I'd say.

Take the good with the bad.

Has a way of stickin with ya.

Well, goodness someone is crabby today. Ease up bro.

Its intentional.

Sanford is based out of Sioux Falls and Fargo I believe.

Altru promises?

Alright, well, the Fargodome is sold out. Over 12,000 season ticket holders. 10,000 made the trip to Texas. Like I said, I wouldn't throw either of them above the other. Both are pretty big deals and debating it is pretty pointless.

probably similar to the reasons my friends say the original red pepper is better than the new one.

Denny Sanford doesn't involve himself in the Sanford stuff other than writing big checks to them. His only big requests are to make some advances in breast cancer research and wants a cure to Type 1 Diabetes I believe.

I imagine there are quite a few posters on here who wouldn't mind being the green guy and me being the yellow one. Nice find.

1. Vikings (no doubt) 2. Twins 3. NDSU football and UND hockey pending on the success of each team at that moment.

Alright, probably a good point. I expect more than 9 points on teh Salukis this year though. 21-28 points.

NDSU was capable of passing though at least. Teh Salukis, eh not so much.

51 points on Missouri State. That is all.

They are losing patience in Carbondale I believe. He has really choked bad down there for whatever reason. Best job against the Bison defensively last year really shutting our guys down until late in the game.