Sioux94

Boy aren't you full of yourself thinking we actually like you and some of the others coming here. Oh wait....you are a Bison fan.....being full of yourself is the norm. In my opinion I wish most of you would go away. We don't even get to talk about the game or have real conversations because you guys are here sticking out your chest on how good you are and how we have never beat anybody. If none of you guys were here, we would have more honest conversations with ourselves. We know we hit bottom at the end of the Muss era and are rebuilding. Some UND fans are overly optimistic in some of their predictions for this season, trust me some of us UND fans are realists and would counter some of those over optimistic expectations. However we never have to do that internally because you guys are here EVERY.....SINGLE.......DAY.....to tell us how bad we are and have never done anything. You guys try to make it sound like we have the football tradition of Augustana or something. We do like a little bit of banter, but sorry to burst your bubble......but I think most of us....wish most of you would go away.

Hmmmm let's look at last year. After a coaching change and things being up in the air after the 2013 season, some kids transferring etc., we could barely hold a spring game for 2014. New coaching staff, new style, not a lot of depth going into the fall. Then we got a ton of injuries, and yes I can hear you say injuries are just an excuse. Yes every team has injuries, but we had a lot of injuries on a team that was already a little thin due to transfers etc. We were starting a red shirt freshman for half of the season. If you take the WR's that transferred out and then injuries, the second half of the season our #1 WR would have been 5th on the depth chart if not for transfers and injuries. We laid some eggs last year for sure, and we played well at times. If you guys were starting your 3rd string QB for half the season I'm sure your season would have panned out a little differently. You still would have had a good team though as you have better depth at this point. But anyway, my point is that we improved our record with all of that transfers and injuries. We are still going to take a few lumps at times this year, but we should be more consistent. Anything is possible and things could go downhill 3-4 years later with Bubba, but after seeing what he did with a decimated team last year we UND fans are optimistic. So although regression is statistically possibly, we think it is true overall improvement in our program that will lead to good things to come. Feel free on your end though to think of it as just regression however.

You know what I think is funny, NDSU fans come here and tell us how great they are, and how bad UND is. But....then they openly admit they did not want to play us because they were afraid the game might be close or that UND might win somehow. I mean why be so afraid it might be a close game if you keep saying we've never beat anybody, and you guys are holier than thou. For as good as NDSU has been in football the past five years, you guys as a fan base are the biggest group of sissies there is. I've never seen a group so afraid to lose their perch. And I've never seen a group of sissies as cocky as you guys either. I would have inserted a P word instead of sissies, but didn't want to get banned.

Wow this thread has gotten so lame I had to fast forward through the last page or so. I see we have another what seems to be new Bison troll has joined now to come spout off how great NDSU is. Well hopefully keep all their bragging to this thread so I can just not even check this thread anymore and read the other ones.

When I see his name.....I can just hear how the announcer use to say his name after he tackled somebody....tackled by......Travis.... O'Neel, I can quite explain it but it was almost in a monster truck announcers type voice the way he'd say his name, or at least that's the way it is in my mind when I recall it. I loved it. I didn't know him but sounds like he was as good of a guy as he was a football player, very sad.....and makes you think about life.

I'd have to respectfully disagree with you there. Yes it is a total team game, but because the overall team was better does not mean the individual player is better when you are looking at something like that. With that mentality Trent Dilfer should be thought of as being a better QB than Dan Marino because Dilfer has a ring. Dressler's teams were pretty good, I still remember when they knocked off Northern Iowa on their home turf. And supposedly the NI players were kind of laughing at him a little or whatever in warm ups because of his size. Well.....he showed em

I can't believe how many people like Nodaks as a nickname, I think that is the worst one on the list. Sure I think Nodak Nation is cool as a saying or whatever, but not that as an actual mascot name. I can't even imagine the next time we make the Frozen Four and the ESPN commentator has to say......"and here come the North Dakota Nodaks". I will be completely embarrassed. Don't some of you realize how flipping dumb that sounds??? Sounds like lots of Sundog haters....but I would take that any day over Nodaks.

Well it's good to know NDSU couldn't win big at the DII level when they didn't have an advantage (more money/scholarships). To me it's interesting that Rocky and NDSU fans would want to defend the reduction in scholarships as the reason they declined. To me this is like saying, yep.....we had an advantage over other schools since they didn't have as much money to spend, but when that went away our dominance went away.

Fun watching that video........Dressler = Class Act It was fun watching our defense shut the run down last year, but it will be nice when our offense is actually fun to watch again and can make some big plays.

I think that is being pretty optimistic!! Going from 99 in the pass to 25 is quite the leap. I'd be happy if we moved up to 50 in pass, that would be a big improvement. Also, I think we will be a top 10 rush defense and certainly could be in the top 5 again. However like people have mentioned, our run defense was tough and we were weak in pass defense so people gave up running the ball. So yes we were top 5 in run last year, but we were number 5 not number 1. So given the amount of teams getting in the top 5 is pretty impressive so I wouldn't bank on top 5 again this year as a guarantee. Especially if our pass defense is a little better people will run the ball more it would be easy to slip down to 6 or 7, but that is still pretty good! And top 5 in total defense....wow to me that is super optimistic in my opinion. It was awesome watching the run defense shut people down last year though, I'm looking forward to more of that. Teams might be a little more prepared for our defense next year as it's the second time around.

My early prediction for the game is 31-13 NDSU. Hopefully after the first two games our offense will show something and give me some confidence that it will be closer.

I would agree, pretty much everything that could have gone wrong last year did. We started the year with a number of holes already and many things that needed to be worked on. Then on top of that we got nailed with tons of injuries during . By the end of the season our starting QB was a redshirt freshman that was on the scout team a week before he had his first start. I wonder how NDSU, or any team for that matter had to finish up the second half of their season with their true freshman scout team QB. Anyway, is it possible to just ignore a users posts. This would be such a better thread without no clue nosidel. Let's just ignore every comment he makes and maybe he'll go away. Let's stop trying to convince him of anything, I honestly don't care what he says or thinks. Wait....who am I talking about again.....I don't remember, nor do I care to. Now for me, I'm definitely not going to sit here and try to argue to anybody about how good we'll be next year. Our defense will be good, but our offense has a lot to prove.

Nosidel it's unofficially summer time now.....you should get out and broaden your horizons a bit more instead of multiple posting on another teams fan site on a Saturday. Live a little.

Since I've lived down in AZ for about 3 years now I haven't been to any of the recent UND-NDSU basketball games or anything, so I can't comment if the games were boring or how the atmosphere was. I think the football teams playing will help the rivalry in the other sports, there is just something about the football game.....that is a different animal. I agree though that not being in the same conference and playing every year takes away a little of the urgency or importance of the games. Although since fewer games in a football season, one loss can make a difference. Since they won't be playing until 2019 again, some of the rivalry part may wear off a little until the next time again. Hopefully there will be a playoff matchup before 2019.

I don't think we have to jump on Bison73, I do remember him previously saying that he felt there were many Bison fans who wanted the game and thought it would be a big, exciting game on the schedule. He actually has rational thoughts from what I recall. Now Nosidel, he is blind. Although he did just say that people he talk to are divided, so that means some don't want it, but some definitely do. Previously he seemed to always say NO NDSU fans want the game, the students done care.....etc. etc. etc. Sounds like he is contrasting himself, now saying people are divided. By the various facts that we've already seen, it is obvious there is interest on the NDSU side. Yes probably more interest on the UND side, I would agree. I'd agree some NDSU students may not care about playing UND, but once the game comes around....that whole week people will be jacked up for the game. It will be WAY different than the week before the UNI or SDSU game. Nosidel will still never admit it even when it happens, it is a complete lost cause trying to talk rationally with him.

If we end up getting a new nickname, then what? I suppose they can still just have North Dakota on them and the interlocking ND on the helmet if we have a new nickname.

In looking at the RB stats yesterday.....looks like in total they averaged about 1 yard/rush. We still have lots of improvement needed there, if that is suppose to be our bread and butter....running the ball, 1 yard per rush won't get it done. At least they are going up against one of the best rush defenses so they probably won't face one tougher on the rush. I realize some guys were out etc., and I think we will be better than last year but it still concerns me about not being able to get the push needed up front if we are going to primarily be a rushing team.

Isn't the LB position already our strength right now? Seems like it might make sense to keep a scholarship open for a position that we are in more need of help? I realize you need depth, but if he isn't going to start maybe another transfer player at another position could have pushed to start. I'm sure they know what they are doing though and felt he would be a good fit for what the team needs.

I use to live about 5 minutes from that one, I moved but am still not too far. I'm guessing I will probably go there for the game Saturday night!

We will have a tough time scoring, unless our offense is vastly improved. I think our offense will be improved (wouldn't be too hard) but I'm just not sure how much. Since we have so many unknowns and don't even know who will be our starting QB in that game as of now, my early thought is 30-10 NDSU. Hoping by game day I'll have reason to think it will be closer than that.

We better find some offense if we want a chance of winning that one. My gut tells me our offense will only be average at best at the beginning of the season. Heck we don't even know who our QB is going to be to start that game, could be one of 3 guys. As the old saying goes.....if you have two QB's......well that means you really don't have 'a' QB. Well we have three, I hope that position gets figured out this spring and fall as we need strong QB play to beat good teams.

I do know how I feel about green pants......honestly I don't like the thought of them and can't see myself liking them at all. I could be proven wrong and may like them and/or get use to them....but that is the last thing I wanted. Other than that....looks like a great day for Sioux Football so far today!

I don't think I'm going to like Kelly green pants at all.....with Kelly green tops, hope they keep with the white pants!

Did you seriously just say that? Pretty sure you are considered the biggest idiot that comes to this site......even amongst Bison people that come here. And I like how you say you are not going to argue.....after you just made about 7 posts in a row on a site that is not even your teams site. Do you not recall your 12 page rant on our site a couple months ago? Can you please do us a favor and leave this site forever, we get it....you have the smallest package in the world and have to keep coming here to brag about NDSU to compensate. You no longer have to prove it. And by the way......it's people like you that make us despise NDSU. If schmucks like you would stay off this site we'd probably give you guys your congrats and move on. It's so funny.....I was wondering how long it would take NDSU people to come here after the game...win or lose and spout off. Go hope on the SDSU site since you and your SDSU buddies like to hold hands during the game.

Wow you have a 20% completion percentage in the first half and then your first play in the second half is throw the ball up and hope you receiver makes a play.