2023 Football Season

[fightingsioux4life]

59 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

The status quo isn’t nearly good enough for UND athletics. In fact, 2022-2023 was a very disappointing year. “Grand Forks is a big hockey town” is the status quo. Also perhaps a fact, but doesn’t mean it’s unchangeable. 

UND athletics as a whole is stuck in the mud. And the longer it goes like that, the harder it will be to change it.

[Nodak78]

I hope we can put to bed about Sather as a coach.  He could recruit but the good ones left.  He couldn't coach because of record.  Made a huge run the end of the season.  Buckle up next year will be fun.  If you sturdier his career he developed his team.  A late hire and covid delayed the development.  UND has a winner.   

[SuhakiYeahYeah]

4 minutes ago, Nodak78 said:

I hope we can put to bed about Sather as a coach.  He could recruit but the good ones left.  He couldn't coach because of record.  Made a huge run the end of the season.  Buckle up next year will be fun.  If you sturdier his career he developed his team.  A late hire and covid delayed the development.  UND has a winner.   

Does this mean Bubba is the basketball coach now???

[Nodak78]

24 minutes ago, SuhakiYeahYeah said:

Does this mean Bubba is the basketball coach now???

Thank you very much.  I will move to basketball

[shep]

3 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:

UND athletics as a whole is stuck in the mud. And the longer it goes like that, the harder it will be to change it.

I suspect you do not wish to hear from the optimist around here, but I think both BB teams, the hockey team and yes, this FB team will all be better next year.

[MoSiouxFan]

3 minutes ago, shep said:

I suspect you do not wish to hear from the optimist around here, but I think both BB teams, the hockey team and yes, this FB team will all be better next year.

Not to mention the volleyball team........

[andtheHomeoftheSIOUX!!]

I like the double headers.  And being from out of town, it is so nice to get back at a decent time after the 6:00 o'clock Saturday hockey games.

[fightingsioux4life]

11 hours ago, shep said:

I suspect you do not wish to hear from the optimist around here, but I think both BB teams, the hockey team and yes, this FB team will all be better next year.

The potential is there for all that to happen. But we won't know until they start playing games.

[UND-FB-FAN]

21 hours ago, nodak651 said:

Double headers are literally the only way I can get my buddies up to UND for a FB game.  And I'm guessing that's what get's many out of towners up there for games as well. @UND-FB-FAN you sound just as bad as hockey-only fans.  The school, and we as fans, need to work on developing a better synergy between FB and Hockey.   Would a noon kick really that big of a deal when the game is going to be sold out anyway? 

Hockey-only fans are literally the red-headed country bumpkin stepchildren of sports fans. I’m not that. I fall in line with the mainstream.

[The Sicatoka]

11 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Hockey-only fans are literally the red-headed country bumpkin stepchildren of sports fans.

Wow, that Dale Carnegie class is really paying off. 

[90siouxfan]

32 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Wow, that Dale Carnegie class is really paying off. 

You made the list buddy!

[The Sicatoka]

2 minutes ago, 90siouxfan said:

You made the list buddy!

Been there; done that. Won the t-shirt. 

[siouxfan512]

17 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

The status quo isn’t nearly good enough for UND athletics. In fact, 2022-2023 was a very disappointing year. “Grand Forks is a big hockey town” is the status quo. Also perhaps a fact, but doesn’t mean it’s unchangeable. 

Why are you so butt hurt over GF being a hockey town? Football can still be huge in a hockey town. Minnesota is the "State of Hockey" and I think the Vikings are doing just fine. Different situations, I know!

Hockey may get more funding, but they also generate more income. Maybe I'm in the minority, but football's biggest holdback is football, not hockey. If football becomes dominant and still can't get some more traction, you may have a point, but I doubt that will be the case. You want more fans and more support from the community, Win! Its that simple. 

[N of GF]

1 hour ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Hockey-only fans are literally the red-headed country bumpkin stepchildren of sports fans. I’m not that. I fall in line with the mainstream.

It's been my experience that "hockey-only fans" are more like unicorns or pink elephants.

Oh, and there are a lot of strawmen name "hockey-only."

[The Sicatoka]

8 minutes ago, siouxfan512 said:

Football can still be huge in a hockey town. 

Winnipeg, clearly full of "red-headed country bumpkin stepchildren," nods along in agreement. 

[The Sicatoka]

3 minutes ago, N of GF said:

It's been my experience that "hockey-only fans" are more like unicorns or pink elephants.

Oh, and there are a lot of strawmen name "hockey-only."

It has come to my attention recently that there may be UND fans that are "football only" or "basketball only" as well.

But they too are rare. 

[N of GF]

2 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

It has come to my attention recently that there may be UND fans that are "football only" or "basketball only" as well.

But they too are rare. 

The funny part is that UND-FB-FAN (I apologize if it wasn't actually U-F-B, but it was one of the people here that has the same list of comments they copy/paste to the boards) has actually proclaimed "FOOTBALL ONLY" on these boards. By my count it's;

Hockey only fans= 0

Football only fans= 1 (probably more like two or three judging by comments here)

[shep]

1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:

Wow, that Dale Carnegie class is really paying off. 

I normally do NOT LOL, but this made me LOL.

 

[Kab]

Should have went to Wharton then

[ND-fan]

To get more casual fan of UND and people of North Dakota to take notice of the football program is for UND to beat NDSU when that happens the perception of UND football will change across the region. I have lived my life in North Dakota when UND can compete and win against NDSU it changes the public mindset and is not looked like inferior program. Und had achieved that before NDSU jumped to Division I leaving UND behind to play Division II football which they had pretty much dominated NDSU in late 90's and early 2000's. Like everyone knows we have hard time catching up again at division I level for number of reasons like nickname problem which hurt in funding from donors to support UND. Not to mention dropping of sports and financial support needed to maintain quality programs and big changes happening in college sports like portal and NIL money. I think maybe were finally starting to turn the corner, but we have long way to go but here were needing improvement at administration level to achieve the goals of better funding programs and improving whole of the athletic department.

[Kab]

Does ndsu have a large enough fan base to go fbs with the thought of having weekday games too because of tv 

[JohnboyND7]

4 minutes ago, Kab said:

Does ndsu have a large enough fan base to go fbs with the thought of having weekday games too because of tv 

It doesn't take much of a fanbase to be FBS. MAC teams routinely get smaller crowds than the Dakota schools. It takes funding/money. The way I see it, weekday evening crowds would be largely Fargo locals. Probably not filling up the dome for a Tuesday night game against Akron.

[The Sicatoka]

4 minutes ago, JohnboyND7 said:

It doesn't take much of a fanbase to be FBS. MAC teams routinely get smaller crowds than the Dakota schools. It takes funding/money. The way I see it, weekday evening crowds would be largely Fargo locals. Probably not filling up the dome for a Tuesday night game against Akron.

And a significant portion of their crowd is the "I'm here for the tailgate! ... There's a game too?" crowd. 
That doesn't work well on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. 

[The Sicatoka]

New rules for 2023: No clock stoppage after first downs. Some expect it will take seven plays out of the game. 

 

[JohnboyND7]

14 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

And a significant portion of their crowd is the "I'm here for the tailgate! ... There's a game too?" crowd. 
That doesn't work well on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. 

I think it *could* work on a Thursday, if it couldn't happen more than maybe once a year. But yeah, it would not be a great deal. 

Wouldn't be the end of the world but there would be large chunks of empty seats for that game.