JohnboyND7

NDSU owns a lot of land in North Fargo. Lots of room to go still. A lot of the houses on University are now property of NDSU, word is that once they buy up a few more of them they will be tearing them down for new builds. Also if you go west of the Fargodome there is a lot of room. Both schools have a lot of area to build in. NDSU put the business school downtown because of how cheap it was to remodel rather than build.

I hang around the back loading area, the athletes sneak me new games and what not.

I'd say Minnesota is capable of beating Fresno St. this year, would they beat them? Maybe, maybe not. They did just beat the MAC champs and generally MAC champs aren't bad. I'd say Minnesota losing to USC by 2 would at least be comparable to getting rocked in the 4th quarter by Nebraska. That same Nebraska team had a relatively competitive game with Washington, a Pac-12 team who is going to be pretty bad season. Not that any of it matters, a win over Minnesota still gets more legitimacy because even if they are bad, which they definitely were against NMSU(hopefully Saturday night as well), they are still a Big Ten team.

Don't see why you got neg repped here. I got the same mentality (vice versa)

I was thinking saw Hiroshima or Nagasaki

That does sound like a cool program.

Under no circumstance would I ever cheer for UND. So I cannot blame anyone for not cheering for the Herd. It is a big deal exclusively because it is a game against B1G team who is closeby. I personally hold no animosity towards the U of M, I always cheer for them to do well in sports. And the fact none of our guys got scholarship offers to play there I'm guessing serves as good motivation for the players.

I was confused too... I was reading page 1 and all I saw was how the Bison gave UMN a scare last year. Rarely in my life have I been so confused.

That'd be pretty cool. I'd definitely watch it on the tube. Assuming they'd be playing the Gophers eh? It'd be tough to get 25,000 UND fans in there if Minnesota is supposed to be any good. It only holds 40-45 thousand I believe.

This is the only site where I have noticed a thread about the power of jerseys...

Hilarious is an adjective that means extremely amusing. If he is extremely amused, as a professional journalist shouldn't he then use the word hilarious? You don't have to agree with him.

The only reason to feel embarassed for WYO is the fact that he now resides in Wyoming. He's just doing a little good natured smack, the fact that you care might be the weird part. Yes, BV has our own little place for Dave, he is known in those parts as being Preposterous. Sort of like the JohnboyND7 of UND fans so to speak. On topic, I don't think any jerseys for any team really have any power. Although everytime Notre Dame loses and I don't have my jersey on I blame it on that....and if I do have it on I assume I should not have worn it. Same goes for my Steelers jersey. My favorite soccer team however, Barcelona, is 1-0 when I wear my Brasil jersey, I find that to be a coincidence, but meritting further investigation.

Lakes is a man of mystery. He works alone.

It could go one of two ways, people who last week gave votes to NDSU this week gave them to UND. Or people would have given NDSU more votes for a close game at Fresno. I don't think you guys are seeing both ways it could work. Until NDSU or UND does something like make it to a National Title game and win it there is going to be some confusion. With any luck that is this year Right now, people see North Dakota and North Dakota St. as pretty much the same thing unless they are from the MVFC/Summit or Big Sky. And like I said, polls are going to be a bit goofy at times until one of them gets it done.

You mean an FBS team.

Hey bro, I think your Caps Lock function is turned on. To turn it off, hit the Caps Lock button, and it will do lower case letters like everyone else.

Can you cancel it and renew it at will throughout the year? Can you just say screw it til November and then get it til the end of the season or do they make you commit to the entire year?

forum brings up a compelling argument. It appears that you may be trying to have a conversation with yourself about your belief that some folks are obsessed with you. You remind me of a more well-behaved Lakesbison.

My cable one doesn't have it. I'd dish out the cash for it though if it had NDSU games on.

You have to go out of your way to get it correct? As in it costs more? Its great for UND, makes it easier for outta state alum to watch the games. While you want sports to generate as much money as possible, I'd rather NDSU just stick with what they do. In Fargo, if you want to go watch hockey, you go to Force games. If you want to watch basketball, you go to the BSA. It is pretty simple as far as I'm concerned. If NDSU had proof that they could pack the Scheels Arena every weekend, and make a lot of money(not affect the football/basketball programs) which could in turn go to all the athletics teams, that'd be nice. I'd also want proof that NDSU would be a consistently good team. I don't anticipate NDSU getting a hockey team anytime soon. I'd like NDSU to make a lot of money but if your hockey program doesn't work out, as in it doesn't turn a good profit, it is an extremely expensive sport to have. Nebraska-Omaha decided to ditch football and wrestling. Btw, shame on them for getting rid of wrestling. Tons of D-2 Titles of late, and they decide to tell the coach moments after he clinches a National Championship again? I don't care if you lose money on that, if your good, you keep the sport. Especially if hockey is such a cash cow for them, it should be able to support their best team. Beer sales make it pretty easy for the Force to sell a lot of seats. It doesn't hurt the Force that they are pretty good yes? NDSU was mediocre last year in conference play. You need to get hype around the team if you want people to go watch. Why would NDSU get a team, would that not hurt the Force or would the Force hurt the Bison hockey team? I mean, I'm guessing Force fans aren't going to go to all the Bison games. I just don't have optomism about NDSU and hockey.

The Alerus is ten years old. UND will be playing in there for the next 20 years I would bet. The Betty is supposed to be pretty nice, I haven't been there since my sisters volleyball tournement years ago. When you say national tv contract, it sounds like what Notre Dame has. UND doesn't have that, they get shoved on a channel which fortunately for UND fans, they can access if they have sattelite tv, I wish NDSU had that, but we don't. Oh well. You are trying to tell me that UND wants attendence rather than wins? Believe it or not, attendence doesn't lead to wins.....it can help sometimes however. UND's vastly superior wisdom? I would hope you are willing to acknowledge that UND dropped the ball not going D1 when NDSU did. What is wrong with wrestling? Does it make money? No, but its a sport and NDSU has always been pretty good at it. Is there anything wrong with having that? Not at all. NDSU could add hockey if they wanted. I believe it has been looked into in fact. I don't care one way or the other if they have it. They have decided up until now that it isn't worth our time and trouble. Football and basketball are what NDSU has elected to pump the money into and it has worked out pretty good over the last decade.

New Mexico St. outplayed the gophers for 4 quarters. The Gophers lost to USD last year and we rocked USD. University of Minnesota isn't very good anymore, Kill is going to need a few years to fix Brewster's mess. Gopher fans have proclaimed New Mexico St. as their most winnable game. NDSU has every right to go into that game expecting nothing less than a great shot at a win. Hopefully we will all get to see you blow that gasket.

Too lazy to go back and look, Wilbur randomly brings up the Herd from time to time as well. I apologize for believing it was you in that case. You do realize NDSU is probably going to be favored....you shouldn't blow a gasket if a favored team wins a game. You are in my league bro, just cause I am willing to come throw my two cents into the discussion doesn't make me a bad person. I don't think your a dirty fan by any means...I wear yellow colored glasses but I believe you are worse. You have every right to be. We all love our teams. We don't get riled up. We are on an internet message board, this is stuff we do in our free time( my job gives me quite a bit of that). You post anti-NDSU stuff on here, Bison fans see that. If you check out our preposterous statements thread on BV you will see that you, Star, and Irishsiouxfan are the three most popular preposterous statement leaders. Darell apprently posted today that NDSU is afraid to play UND in football because NDSU knows UND would beat NDSU in football. UND may have won 9 of the last 12 games in the Nickel series, 10 of the last 14 I believe counting playoffs...but this aint the 90's, this in a new decade. Right nwo if they played, most would admit the Bison would probably beat UND convincingly. You are a UND fan who hates the Bison, your history of posts suggest that. And no, you do not find it flattering that people don't like you. When people claim to be flattered people don't like them that means they really are not overly happy that they are not liked. It is in the human nature to want peers to like them. Hell UND fans don't even like you, they know you are as delusional as any UND or NDSU fan.

You are completely right. But for bookies who don't know anything about UND who is 1-1 and Fresno being 0-2, they make some mistakes. As long as the UND looks like they are improving, you guys can be happy. FBS games are awesome to win but if your team looks like they are heading in the right direction you cant complain TOO much( a little bit is perfectly fine).

You started the NDSU vs. UM discussion in the Fresno Vs. UND thread bro, talked about blowing a gasket. A problem will be everywhere, we don't like one another, yet some of the more bold gentlemen feel the need(myself included) to go on the other board so we can discuss problems we have with one another and throw our opinions into random things(my big thing is checking out the facilities thread). I think it was Darell who thought we could not use the nickel if the Bison and UND(nickname pending) played again. Turns out he is wrong. SFA and Sam Houston play for this trophy. I'd say the nickel is more politically correct considering the government still has to honor a coin that was minted by them. The NCAA cant possibly get mad at the nickel if they are cool with this. Your move Darell(or whoever brought up we can't play for it anymore.) If you don't want to play for the Nickel.....then you must be as liberal as the guys who made the rule you can't be the Sioux, and if you don't support the Sioux nickname, you are not welcome at SIOUXsports