mg2009

At this point, I'm expecting the worst as far as transfers go. This could very well be a 3-4 year rebuild just to get a team into playoff contention. It's really amazing that football was one of the things that drew me here originally, and over the course of two stints at this school and three degrees, the program has regressed almost every year. It's been tremendously disappointing.

yes the socon is going to start looking alot worse after this year. Probably the 5th of even 6th best conference if scholarships lift the level of play of the patriot. But we were talking about past playoff records, weren't we.

the point was that every league looks like crap when you take out its best team. the MVFC looks as crappy without ndsu as the big sky does without montana or ewu ODU was a top 5 team and semi finalist last year

both the sky and the valley are basically cupcake leagues compared to the socon or caa if you ignore NDSU (and montana)

he played with some of the current staff iirc.

in which part of your story was the beating necessary? was the truck going to run off in the five minutes it would take to get the cops there? The beating was unnecessary and unjust, and absolutely illegal. Hopefully he serves a long term, much longer than the thief. If you want to be a part of civilized society, you don't take justice into your own hands. This isn't the third world or some ghetto.

2-7 UND hosting NOCO

darrell, all you do is post about NDSU. I'd like to retract the earlier statement about UND having small-man syndrome. I think it's actually just you, hayduke and siouxvolley.

this board has small man syndrome so bad sometimes. what's the excuse going to be in two weeks when kstate is 6-4, and their loses are to ranked texas, oklahoma, and baylor? That game played out like you would expect an upset bid to play out. Big team comes out and scores. Later big team drops a pass in the endzone, then misses the field goal, then gives up a long TD on blown coverage, than another, then a redzone turnover. But the big team powered back in the third and fourth, just like you would expect, say, Miami to do against wake last week. Only the big team in this case was NDSU, and they looked the part all game and all year. yeah the difference is that their teammates don't bust them out of the back of said squadcars and then everyone gets a free pass.

28-20 UND

where are they?

that its bad wont surprise anyone, but i think how bad it is will. I think 5k is optimistic

also have had 4 marque opponents at home

I love that pointing out objective reality makes me some sort of NDSU hack. Get your numbers right the first time/panties out of a bunch. This is probably the best pair of MBB teams the state has ever produced. Both schools might have their best team ever, or very close.

i don't know how that's any more embarrassing than the pats on the back around here after a 21 point loss at home. also, UND went 0-4 against the summit, including losses to bottom feeders UNO and UMKC.

the money that went into the REA would have made a pretty good athletics endowment

That makes alot more sense. I thought it was the TSN poll where they lost a #1 vote.

how did i go from the pessimist to the optimist around here? also geaux_sioux: NDSU got 157 1st place votes which is 3925 points, the entirety of their points. Whoever voted Towson first did not rank NDSU, and I think we can safely assume voted UND 6th.

you are pretty naive if you think the worst a school can do is the bolded. I think hardly think that would be the issue at hand.

high school coaches have a responsibility to keep kids out of bad situations. Sometimes that involves taking a partial instead of a full ride, for instance.

my expectation is that EWU is a much better team than either UM or MSU, and is the only credible title contender in the big sky. 70-20, UND scores two garbage TD's against their backups in the fourth

are you suggesting they should allow smoking in the ralph?

then stay home or get a better parking spot.

i can't even speculate. I expect ISU to score alot, hopefully we can score more. After the last 2 games I'm not even sure if thats reasonable.

wow you have to walk 3 blocks and it might be cold.