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it was herbstreet and he is a columbus follower.

they've been on the record that the SEC likely wont see gameday until October for Mississipi/Alabama.

i laughed at that as well. They can hardly contain their contempt when discussing NDSU.

there is not 10 years of press of gene not willing to schedule UND, but there is a long line of the UND administration continuously being too arrogant to accept a deal. Please stop listening to Siouxvolley. He's is UND's Lakesbison..

after week one, the contenders appear to be ndsu, uni, ewu, nova and sela NDSU would handle Jacksonville State pretty easily, but MSU would be a hell of a test.

somehow I doubt a guy with 11,000 posts is here just to troll. He has an opinion about the state of the team that appears to have been pretty accurate. Having an honest accurate opinion is not trolling. This board has been infested with delusional optimism for years now, and anyone who takes a grounded opinion gets attacked. Your post was much closer to a violation of the terms of service than his. It's gonna be a long season, but in three years we're going to have a pretty experienced team with some good talent.

won't happen. The gap isn't even being closed.

Fargo is indeed the best part of ND, at least as places to live go. Still haven't been to all the parks so I can't comment on the overall picture, but turtle river has been calling my name. pretty slick looking building, good for watford city.

as Columbia continues to demonstrate, you can have both.

People of Grand Forks: what you are currently seeing is something other places call reasonable growth. What you saw before was stagnancy. I'm sure you have stacks of evidence for that.

SDSU is a perennial top-20 team with elite talent and will soon have arguably the best facilities in the country. Players know they can go to SDSU and be reliably competitive at a nationally level, if not quite elite. UND has been a mess for half a decade and has a new coach with a modest track record since leaving here. I'm just happy to not be losing out to Glenn at this point. This is going to take a few years to get turned around. Being competent this year will be a great start.

and you are invited to make that information public, just like they are.

please lakes makes up way less crap and is far far saner. I increasingly think SiouxVolley is an elaborate ruse.

never been to the moon, never thought about it, never heard anyone talk about going there. What is that place, exactly? I take it that they serve some sort of Italian fare?

You mean like that time that one school sat on multiple contracts for several sports which they publicly and privately promised to sign only to publicly and with great fanfare cancel the whole thing at the last second, leaving the other school to find out from the media? You know, publicly lying to and misleading the other for the sole purpose of causing damage to their department? Yeah GT is totally in the wrong here and his position is without merit.

I was bullied pretty viciously for several years (lets say 6th through 9th grade), standard stuff about how I should kill myself (yeah, I know many of you feel the same way about me), my family was terrible, my family should all die, how I was poor and had crappy clothes, I got in a few fights, and was on the receiving end of vandalism, theft etc. I never got any harassment for being a nerd because most of my tormentors were also very smart kids, so I actually got a weird respect in that angle. On a couple occasions even teachers went out of their way to humiliate me. In most ways it made me a better person, on the other hand I can't emotionally bond with anyone because I've learned by habit to keep *everything* to myself, because anything that was personal was a weapon to be used against me. It's a tradeoff that I feel was worth it. Also 15 years later I still spend alot of time stewing on it. I saw at least two teachers deck a student while I was in 9th grade in Fargo. Neither got in trouble, circa 2001.

oil industry won't last forever; the nickname will hopefully last much longer. I have to think Rough Riders is the runaway favorite. Classic, historical and dignified. It can't come soon enough, whatever it is.

No, it's that Redskins is a racial slur used obnoxiously in a trashy manner.* The Blackhawks are named after a military unit named after a native, and the logo is the only native imagery they use. No dancing indians on the ice before the game, no warpaint, mascots, etc. The difference is night and day. *edit: and based in a city that is home to a government systematically conquered, deported and exterminated natives. It's like a team in Munich calling themselves the Shylocks.

I can understand why Gene would not find UND to be a trustworthy business partner. It's been ugly since before he got there, got uglier immediately, and showed little sign of change. TBH if Faison was interested in renewing the rivalry he wouldn't whine to the media about it ever year. If anything is counterproductive, it's that. In fact, I'm pretty sure its the reason that the round of negotiations outlined in the article were cancelled.

What exactly have you been right about so far? Anything? Maybe you'll get bailed out by unforeseen events, but right now you are grasping at straws that don't even exist. Why weave this little narrative of your's together, that's what I don't understand.

By Fargo, I meant to entire metro. Fargo the incorporated entity might be hemmed in at some point in the future, but that's a long way off.

this thread is drowning in irony. All of these could just as easily be coming from the other direction. NDSU doesn't want to play and they don't seem to care. Move on already.

Fargo is growing proportionally with the state (about 2.4% annually vs 2.5% for the state) and it's growth isn't based on a commodity that will eventually run out and facing a rapidly rising competitor. Agree with your main point though. Dickinson might fall a little short.

they were moving equiptment in last week.

you're an idiot. Sorry that my loyalty to my university is less than my loyalty to sense and reason. You have yet to provide any evidence and all the involved parties view this as absurd. Remember when you got laughed off the sunbelt board after you brought this little scheme to their attention? Your deranged ramblings are detrimental to the university, please have some self respect and stop this nonsense. Idaho may very well end up back in the big sky for football, but it won't be because of some crazy scheme to take UNC, NAU and Weber State to the highest level of football. In fact I don't think anyone would be surprised if they eventually were forced back down, even if it's fairly unlikely in the near term. Montana is in the middle of an existential crisis and you think they are imminently reclassifying. Ridiculous.