Sioux>Bison

He also fails to realize that hockey has triple the amount of home games to fill the Ralph with 11k fans each night. That means we should spend triple the amount on hockey as we do football. Football at best will only sell 72,000 ish tickets per year for 6 home games

NDSU has strong programs in almost every sport. Not the best at all of them but many of them near the top of the standings. I think it’s possible to have a top 10 FB team and a top 5 hockey program , but for football to get to the elite level of NDSU it’s going to be really tough even with more donor money. Nothing wrong with a UND football program that on an average season makes the playoffs. I want titles but I know that’s going to be really tough to repeat year after year

Man I’m going to need some time to take this loss in. What great memories from that place. All the friendships made that have lasted til today. Texted many of them today and my shock is not alone. From meeting that hot blonde from Squires that blossomed into…….nothing. To getting the cops called on us for being too loud. To my weird roommate deciding to sleep in and never go to class and eventually failing out. To listening to the cake eater goal tender brag about how good he was at hockey then subsequently scoring 3 goals on him in the first intramural game. Details are still really fuzzy for most of my time there!

Of course UND needs to get better at recruiting, that’s all of our points. Can you explain to me how him come on this forum is going to get us better recruits? Talk is cheap, I can talk all day long and get nothing done for UND football. I want to beat out AG U for recruits, I want to recruit bigger and better talent, I want the next Trey Lance or Billy Turner. Just because I say I want it on this forum won’t get UND anywhere. If we pony up cash for NIL or facilities, volunteer my time to fundraise , buy season tickets, etc, for the betterment of the program is the only way change things.

Big Donors, Bubba, Prez Andy, Alumni Assc, Champions Club, hell anyone with a brain comes on this forum to figure out ideas to improve UND athletics. AND if they did they would read a couple threads and never come back on this forum! This B*^*#€+= is not going to fix anything. all this does is make UND look bad to the actual people who might come on this forum to gauge what’s going on like prospective recruits and their parents. UND Football Fan makes us look BAD! I really hope UND football kicks arse this fall so that UND Football Fan chokes on some CROW!

I don’t disagree that UND has to be better at many things. UND is behind and maybe falling even further behind. My point is pitching on this forum what needs to be changed DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

I sure as hell not going to blabber on this forum how UND football needs to be better and expect it to actually happen. If you have such good ideas make it happen. Seriously how many time do you have to post the same thing on this forum before you get it? if it was that easy then my idea is to do everything exactly the same way as NDSU, copy everything, done ….. solved

How is his blabbering on this forum supposed to get UND better recruits?

I am surprised you don’t agree with this solution…

No one cares about all this talk, do something about it and quit tainting this forum!

Still wondering why you keep complaining on this forum instead of actually doing something productive? coming on here will never fix the problem. Donate your time, money , ideas to people who actually have a say. Otherwise you are being just as complacent as the rest of us on this forum!

UND should just demolish the Ralph when it takes over and end the hockey program. Then it will be out of the way for the football program to take its rightful place at the top of the athletic department! Hell even build a new football stadium over the ruins! we all know there is not enough room in grand forks for both programs! Just take a looks at NDSU, football at the top, all other programs very far behind dragging the whole department down like a gimp leg.

All you have been blabbing about are things you are just speculating on. You keep complaining on this board about things that should be done but have very little first hand knowledge of what you are talking about. You keep talking about what UND needs to do to get better but ZERO things about what YOU are actually going to do except for B@;&($; anonymously on a public forum

The arena didn’t need to be 100 million to sell it out at 11k tickets. Ralph chose for it to be the nicest arena in the country. it takes more than money to make a program successful. UND football has slowly turned into a winning program and the new facilities will only help. Honestly the salaries are the only thing left to bring us to the top level. It takes time and can’t happen overnight unless we can find the next Football Ralph. you are doing no one a favor by tearing down a UND athletic program, actually embarrassing for many of us to read this on a public forum.

It’s not your money they are spending. Donors have specified what they want their money to fund and most of that money is going to hockey. UND is not going to divert the money to some other program. To say they are not soliciting money to fund the football program is an easy thing to criticize from the outside. If you were a big enough donor they would listen to you but you need to bring $$$$ and solutions to the table. like many people said before no one likes a complainer, and you don’t get a say unless you have some $$$$$ brought to the table

No it says UND football fan need to donate some of his time if he wants UND to be successful. Quit complaining and do something productive out of it. We need to catch up to teammakers. Put Up $$$$ or Shut Up!

Got to beat them. Simple as that. We need a connection to get the top talent over a Ag U offer.

So these 6 guys are holding back the program because they haven’t fully funded it to its full potential? Why haven’t they donated the money we need?

Is this how it worked down at the SU schools?

I probably wasn’t born yet old balls…..

Are those top guys even football fans? Those bottom 3 football legends I’m sure would donate but they are not bank rolling the entire thing. Honestly we need to sell out the alerus before thinking we will have a big collective

Does UND even have enough football donors to fund a NIL collective? One that’s could actually raise enough funds to pay players?

They are not going to give up their superior basketball conference for FCS football….

Exactly why give up a coveted NCHC spot for nothing. We need the leverage to fill the summit. Mankato can have a spot too if they go D1 in all sports.

Only if they start sponsoring summit football. We need another men’s sport. Don’t give them a NCHC invite for nothing!