In all of this verbal banter back and forth between fans of both schools a bit of irony may have taken place with the hiring of Coach Schweigert. Striking similarities and connections to Coach Hager!
1. Both are fine family men and basic decent people.
2. Both come from small town humble Class B backgrounds.
3. Both attended college somewhere other than UND or NDSU.
4. Bubba attended Jamestown College.
5. Rocky attended Minot State College.
6. Both have rugged nicknames but fairly innocuous given names Rocky(Ralph) and Bubba(Kyle)
7. Both developed intense passion about the schools they coached at but never attended as varsity athletes.
8. Both are relatively soft spoken believers in their respective schools, but yet both viewed the rivalry
as almost akin to a Holy War.
9. Both of their alma maters went from colleges to universities after they left.
10. Both were defensive coordinators before they became Head Coaches.
11. Rocky was born in 1951 and Bubba was 51 when he was hired.
12. Both coached at their respective schools two different times.
13. Both coached at other schools with dogs for nicknames SIU Salukis and Northeastern Huskies.
14. Both had a deep affection for their home State of North Dakota.
15. Both had to leave the State in order to come back and coach at UND and NDSU.
16. Both came from communities with predominately German origin, Coach Schweigert Zeeland and Coach Hager Harvey.
17. Two different eras two very similar men.
18. I thought this would make more sense, showing how the schools probably have much more in common, than the pissing contest that is currently going on in this thread.
Can anyone find anymore? Anything would be better than the mindless and repetitive tail chasing taking place.
