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Well, I guess they count as a ranked team. But, I'd probably have just not responded if all I had was that we had beaten a team that was ranked in the top twenty-five for all of two weeks during the middle of the season.

Wow, you beat what was ultimately a 6-5 team on the road four years ago. Quite an accomplishment. Do you consider that your best FCS win, or would it be the time you beat a 5-6 Montana team?

You know, given this rant, you might think that I had actually said that UND wasn't improving, or that they wouldn't be better next year. The problem is that I never said that. I did say that UND has a long way to go, that they hadn't proven anything yet, and that most people would agree with me. I don't see how you can say that that's not reasonable. In fact, in light of an up-and-down 5-7 2014 season, it seems far more reasonable that your assertion that Bubba is a top-notch coach, and that UND will have a winning season next year. Those things may be true, but there just isn't enough evidence that they are true...yet.

So, that's what you've got, a two win improvement, and an "everybody knows" argument? OK, that's pretty weak, but whatever makes you feel better.

Well, if you see "visible" improvement in a 5-7 season with, maybe, one significant win...well more power to you. Most people would say that, despite the great Bubba's presence, UND hasn't proven a thing on the field yet.

I guess I shouldn't have expected you to get it. It's about self-delusion...seeing something other than reality. Sometimes hope does that to us.

You know, sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel you think you see is really a freight train bearing down on you.

OK, if you say so. You certainly are in a better position to know than I am. Still, you have had more losing seasons in the last 5 years than NDSU has had in the last 50. So, as I said, you still have a long way to go. Edit - I should also remind you that last year, in a 5-7 season, you beat a terrible Robert Morris team by all of 3 points at home, and you got blown out by a team that won just a single game in the MVFC.

I'd say that you're counting a few un-hatched chickens. The reality is that you've had losing seasons three out of the last four years (or is it 4 out of 5?). You've got a long way to go before you even see the hump.

C'mon, you misspoke, no need for threats. Besides, what I said was pretty mild compared to "tarded up by tards". BTW - I suggest you look up the meaning of the idiom: "mince words."

Again, don't throw stones, you live in a glass house.

Are you really saying that NDSU's 2012 comeback win over SIU (4-7 in 2011) helped the Bison (14-1 and National Champs in 2011) establish a presence in the MVFC? Well, you know what they say about people who live in glass houses.

It's very likely that this year's football game will follow that same script.

Of course, some Bison fans wanted this game and will be excited about the game. I have never contended otherwise. What I have said is that there are a significant number of Bison fans who did not want this game and have mixed feelings about the game itself. They certainly want NDSU to win, but they always want that no matter who NDSU might play. Likewise, they certainly will attend the game, but they would also have attended whatever other game might have been on the schedule. And I do still contend that any increase in interest in this game, or at least most of it, will be due to the proximity of a large number of UND fans to the Fargo area, and not to any great surge in interest in NDSU football on the part of Bison fans. As I've Said before, NDSU didn't need this game to create interest in their football program. That interest was there, and would still be there, with or without UND on the schedule. You're free to disagree.

I have no idea whether I represent the majority, or not. And I don't think that you really do either. I do know that those Bison fans I talk to are very divided on whether this game should have been scheduled in the first place and whether it should be continued.