JohnboyND7

I don't know what your problem is CM. WYO is the least trollish out of the Herd fans. All he wanted to know was what about bringing Lennon back if an opportunity to get him again presented itself. Do you think fans of schools don't keep tabs on other schools? Especially ones near the school they support? I'd give Muss a year at least in the Sky. If Faison was going to fire him, after last season would have been the time to do it. Unless they completely tank the last couple of games. Then he should be gone.

Recruiting in North Dakota and Minnesota is different than recruiting in Southern Illinois, a lot more schools for them to compete with down there, probably a little different in the approach to getting kids to come. It just seems rather odd that once Kill's guys were gone...this SIU team quit winning.

Kill's players graduated.

Arden Beachy's knee didn't work out.

All the breaking news from the nickname debacle has turned Forum Communications Finances completely around. Millions of UND alumni and fans worldwide check on it every day.

NDSU won some games between 93 and 03, UND didn't even belong on the same field as NDSU for almost every game in the 80's, but...the past is the past. So....what you are saying DaveK is that UND could have run up the score yesterday but decided to instead have to have a 4th quarter rally against Sioux Falls? I don't think it is classless of NDSU to run the ball and still score in the 4th quarter, nor would it be classless if UND did it to someone. What do you want the winning team to do? Take 3 knees every 2nd half possession? I hope not. And you shouldn't give credit to Sioux Falls. This isn't the Sioux Falls team from a couple years ago that was actually a good team, this was a team who had no business leaving Grand Forks remembering nothing but how many light fixtures are on the ceiling of the Alerus.

That is a really good idea. Would only cost the school around...$25,000 for the year? And increase attendence...well worth a try.

UND won their conference tournement right? Would make sense that someone would consider that fact alone.

This. It kinda comes across, whether it is true or not, as a wealthy white kid sport. I don't think that any schools in the area have it. Might be something to look into for UND (or NDSU, USD, SDSU)...I know driving by campus here in Fargo I see a lot of people playing around with it. At the very least, look into it.

Been to one, don't remember it being anything special, can't imagine it being anything great considering the season they are having.

Ok, lets be honest, that quote is pretty funny. Ethnically charged jokes and statements are always good for a laugh. Especially when the man saying it is dead serious.....oh and has his face on Mount Rushmore....and has a musical in Medora that is kinda about him..and a National Park.

Bison agenda? Bison agenda...? I didn't see any bison agenda. Simply predicted a score, Pointed out that a big win against a winless team doesn't make sense. dakotadan I think it was pointed out that the intention of big win was big on the scoreboard, such as a blowout. Perhaps when you see my name, you assume bison agenda, but...I fail to see it. Only time I mentioned the Herd was after.....they were brought up. In conclusion, you Sir, appear to be the idiot in this case. I will take my leave.

And I just like that a lot of Sioux hockey fans are not UND fans.

Ah, if that was what was the intended meaning, then absolutely. You sir, are correct. The Gophers had won a game, and honestly, yeah they are not good. But a game against a Big Ten team at their house is going to be a big game. They'd likely be middle of the road in the two conferences mentioned. I seriously doubt any semi-intelligent fan thought St. Francis was a big game, and Missouri St. was a big game just so that we could forget about the embarassment last year. I do find it a little funny, that you guys say NDSU fans take over the threads and talk about NDSU too much, but I would have to say you guys started it this time. Closet Bison fans?

A big win against a team who hasn't won a game?

Recruiting MN and WI becomes an issue when your closest road game is 800 miles away and they don't know anything about those schools.

Tell me, when you go walking around Colorado, do you see tons of Northern Colorado geer? Do you see license plate references? The Denver market is not some Big Sky-loving area. And the Fargo market has a school that wins. UNC is now 0-8 on the year. This isn't going to get the folks in Denver jacked up for them.

Star, I don't think playing Montana and Montana St. is going to get the people of Western ND to be UND fans. I don't think it is overly important to grab a few fans from that area either. They have a long drive to Grand Forks or Fargo and road games are even further. People in North Dakota that aren't big into NDSU or UND now aren't going to spontaneously become HUGE fans, that is not how it works bro. Best thing you can do, is just try to get your teams on tv or on the radio often enough so that the fans you do have can watch/hear the team play.

I said their football program is awful year-in and year-out. I find it really funny that you seem to think that you know what the Big Sky's intentions were at the time. No one in Denver watches Big Sky athletics unless they are an alumni and you know that.

They'd take NDSU. NDSU has been successful in all of their sports since the move....volleyball, softball, soccer, football (Big Sky priority), basketball. UNC's football program completely fell apart. They were a really good team and seriously, wow, they are awful year-in and year-out. Ask Montana and Montana St. who they'd rather play against. If it comes down to two teams who are both good and one brings in some more tv exposure, obviously you take the one with exposure. But when one is awful and brings some exposure and one brings good athletics, you take the athletics. At the time, the Big Sky made a good decision, in retrospect, no, they really didn't.

If the team is good, students will stay, or at least the loud ones will. Can't blame a kid for leaving when the score is 35-7 in the 3rd quarter, I certainly wouldn't leave, but I can see why some would.

I think that the Big East is going to survive. It is just going to be a bit different, ESPN says that Big East, Conference USA, and MWC are considering some weird Super-League. I thought it sounded weird, but the set-up they used as an example kinda sorta maybe could possibly have a chance of working pretty well and end a lot of shifting around. If this went through, it could stop the shift of conferences in its tracks. I seriously doubt that the MVC would take USD or SDSU before NDSU. NDSU has pretty good facilities, especially once the indoor track and basketball arena are ready to go, which conveniently enough, would probably be a little before or around the time the Summit explosion scenario would start up. In a perfect scenario, I would want SDSU to come with NDSU, we are kinda partners in crime so to speak. If the Summit is exploding and the Missouri Valley says no, then thats when NDSU would have to look to the Big Sky and I could kiss goodbye traveling to pretty much all road games. I won't rag on the Big Sky as a conference, I just don't want NDSU to be a part of that, 7-8 years ago, I'd have been singing a different tune, but I like the current set-up NDSU has as long as it doesn't blow up.

Don't your students have a hard time traveling to the Alerus? NDSU would give it's left nut to be in the Missouri Valley fulltime, Missouri Valley is hands-down better than the Big Sky. I'm sure if the Big Sky could go back in time they probably would have let NDSU in rather than accepting Northern Colorado based on both schools performances since DI. Stay in the Summit until Missouri Valley comes knocking, otherwise, stand pat.

And invite them to a game when UND plays the Bison so he can see the lack of respect given to the Fighting Sioux

If I remember right, wasn't UND having some difficulty getting the invite because of the name situation? If UND was somehow "better" than the other 3 Dakota schools, wouldn't they want to be in the same conference as the other 3 so that they could prove it? USD did what was right for them, Joining the Summit/MVFC is a solid option. The Summit will more than likely be just fine, perhaps an even better destination without a team like ORU to win all the tournements. Though I would feel a lot better about the future if NDSU snuck into the MVC in the next 5 years. I would like NDSU to do that over get involved with the Big Sky at all. I would like to be able to attend some road conference games. In the Summit/MVFC, I can drive to Brookings, Vermillion, or Cedar Rapids(I think thats where UNI is) without too many problems. UND fans will be flying a lot to games which isn't a huge deal but still, I like playing some relatively regional schools. If NDSU has no options and the Summit is falling apart, Big Sky it is! But I pray that doesn't happen. I would be very sad.