2023 Football Season

[SIOUXFAN97]

i guess the question is did moving to summit/mvfc/midcon/gateway conference increase demand for tickets for new/returning siouxfans or did the increase come from visiting fans of closer fan bases....brookings, fargo, vermillin?

[SIOUXFAN97]

4 minutes ago, HoopsFan03 said:

Message Captain @iramurphy or Lieutenant @jdub27 and they'll get you a meeting set up with Chaves. Should get all your questions answered for you.

i think i know the answer......i remember going to the first summit league men's bball game thinking i might see some younger blood at the betty...nope...same cottontops

i think we are just seeing bump from have those 3 towns within driving range of gf (verm not so much but still closer than cedar city utah)

[Sioux94]

42 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

i guess the question is did moving to summit/mvfc/midcon/gateway conference increase demand for tickets for new/returning siouxfans or did the increase come from visiting fans of closer fan bases....brookings, fargo, vermillin?

My guess it's a mixture of both. It helps playing Teams you feel like you know....and or dislike. When we played Montana State or Montana at home a few years ago I believe the attendance was always higher for those and it wasn't all due to their fans traveling. The Montana game next year I'm sure will have pretty good attendance.  I hate and want to beat Montana as bad or maybe even more as I do NDSU. Team performance and having a strong and fun team to watch is the most important thing I think though. Need to build momentum this year and continue it going forward. 

[CMSioux]

2 hours ago, UND08 said:

No agenda here...but 54-45 since 2014 isn't good enough for me.  I believe that we are doing the right things to right the ship...and 8-3 is the expectation this year.  It's not a bad thing to have expectations.  If they aren't met...there will be empty seats in the Alerus for non-SU games...that's a fact!

 

Also...you don't think having 3-4 conference opponents within driving distance has led to increased ticket sales?  That and having NDSU/SDSU on the schedule every year?  I'm not so sure that ticket sales have gone up because there are more diehard UND fans.  It's more so that opponent interest is higher.  

Every school has empty seats even the one to the south, SDSU might be the exception this year. 

[CMSioux]

50 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

i guess the question is did moving to summit/mvfc/midcon/gateway conference increase demand for tickets for new/returning siouxfans or did the increase come from visiting fans of closer fan bases....brookings, fargo, vermillin?

As a tailgater it's pretty easy to notice visiting fans. SU was noticeable (plus many were noticeable by the chips on their shoulders, SDSU and USD were a blip). 

[UND-FB-FAN]

2 hours ago, HoopsFan03 said:

Message Captain @iramurphy or Lieutenant @jdub27 and they'll get you a meeting set up with Chaves. Should get all your questions answered for you.

Ha ha ha !

[Kab]

2 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

i think i know the answer......i remember going to the first summit league men's bball game thinking i might see some younger blood at the betty...nope...same cottontops

i think we are just seeing bump from have those 3 towns within driving range of gf (verm not so much but still closer than cedar city utah)

Would hate to see the attendance without us cotton tops 

 

[fightingsioux4life]

35 minutes ago, Kab said:

Would hate to see the attendance without us cotton tops 

The problem is that the "cotton tops" won't be around forever. We need to build the next generation fan base.

[Kab]

So appreciate them while you still can

tv games, iPads, electronic games , prices of tickets and eats

many reasons for lower attendance 

[90siouxfan]

16 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

All you gentle, fragile souls will be okay. May I perhaps suggest competitive ballroom dance as an alternative sport for ya’ll? @90siouxfan @Teeder11 @UND1983 - Best wishes to you all.

Now, back to football. Go Hawks! 

Meh, thanks for the suggestion,  I'll file it alongside the link to your mom's Only Fans page, but likely will never be that bored.

[SiouxFan100]

I am jealous of cotton tops - what about us that are cotton challenged

[Nodak78]

 

 

[Sioux94]

It will be interesting to see how well Quincy does at TE. Definitely a big change going from QB and trying to avoid contact to now having to be a physical blocker on the line. Not sure if he ever played WR or how his hands are. He certainly has the size for the position....will be interesting to watch. 

[Sioux95]

On 8/29/2023 at 5:52 PM, 90siouxfan said:

I hope we win them all...

I also hope forum tech evolves so that when use the ignore feature it also ignore the responses.  Two clowns make this board repulsive, but what else would people discuss.

It's pretty obvious that a few posters have taken the angle of pretending to be UND fans so that there posts to undermine the team are taken more seriously.  If everyone ignored these posts we wouldn't need to worry about getting a feature to ignore responses to moronic posters

[jdub27]

8 hours ago, HoopsFan03 said:

Message Captain @iramurphy or Lieutenant @jdub27 and they'll get you a meeting set up with Chaves. Should get all your questions answered for you.

Don't think you need to go that high to get your answer but the answer is both. 

UND moved back to the MVCF for, among other reasons, regularly have regional rivals on the schedule as it clearly drives attendance. Plus, the team has been performing better. Both are helping attendance trend in the right direction. More than one thing can be true. 

Kind of like someone who can have valid points and continously also spend their time trolling and trying to detract from others trying to have actual discussions. Hypothetically of course. 

[SIOUXFAN97]

5 hours ago, Kab said:

So appreciate them while you still can

tv games, iPads, electronic games , prices of tickets and eats

many reasons for lower attendance 

i've said this for years.........get rid of the no fun police aka ralph natzi's and al natzi's and the students and even those soccer moms will show up again......

remember when ralph had "circus girls" in the luxury box and every dead puck it was boobs galore.....place loved it.....now you can't even show a cotton top swiging a beer during a commercial break.

[sioux24/7]

https://x.com/e_martinson1/status/1697043884533068018?s=46&t=pSkEb_uzco-kdaPo_-o3BA this doesn’t excite me that much. The south endzone was always the better one but at least open the entire north end zone and not just the ends. 

Side note: no idea why I can’t embed tweets right now. 

[nodak651]

2 hours ago, sioux24/7 said:

https://x.com/e_martinson1/status/1697043884533068018?s=46&t=pSkEb_uzco-kdaPo_-o3BA this doesn’t excite me that much. The south endzone was always the better one but at least open the entire north end zone and not just the ends. 

Side note: no idea why I can’t embed tweets right now. 

Fyi, Alerus has rights to the corners - up to them.

[The Sicatoka]

Q with the shout-out to The Beach in the interview.
Nice.

  

[Siouxperman8]

15 hours ago, SiouxFan100 said:

I am jealous of cotton tops - what about us that are cotton challenged

I was gonna add the same.  Wish I could be a cotton top. Would need transplants

[The Sicatoka]

God made some perfect heads.

The rest He covered with hair. 

[nodak651]

With Leupke's performance in Dallas, I'm starting to think that NDSU has the potential to surprise and actually miss the playoffs.  I think losing him will make a way bigger difference than people think.  Realize how important he was to their offense, and their QB was still pretty bad for having the benefit of playing against teams that had to sell out as much as they did to stop the run.  Teams may not have to do that as often this year.  TaMerick Williams is good, but they also lost Kobe Johnson and the depth isn't the same.

[GoodGood]

Just now, nodak651 said:

With Leupke's performance in Dallas, I'm starting to think that NDSU has the potential to surprise and actually miss the playoffs.  I think losing him will make a way bigger difference than people think.  Realize how important he was to their offense, and their QB was still pretty bad for having the benefit of playing against teams that had to sell out as much as they did to stop the run.  Teams may not have to do that as often this year.  

Leupke didn’t play in the playoffs. Mattress Cam completed 1 pass in a semi final game and they won. I think they’ll be ok

[nodak651]

Just now, GoodGood said:

Leupke didn’t play in the playoffs. Mattress Cam completed 1 pass in a semi final game and they won. I think they’ll be ok

True, but they also lost Kobe Johnson and Dom Gonnella so the depth isn't the same.  TaMerick Williams is good, but didn't they also lose two NFL lineman?  

[The Sicatoka]

4 minutes ago, GoodGood said:

Mattress Cam ... 

< shamelessly stealing for future use > 

NDSU has a propensity to be able to replace offensive linemen seamlessly.
Until that changes any of us could average 3.5 yards per behind their line. 

Do I believe NDSU has shown weakness and vulnerability? Yes.
Enough to take them from a dominant FCS role? TBD. Likely not.