NDSU @ The UND 10/14/2023

[petey23]

2 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

Get special line item $5M bail out from Legislature for saving staff and programs. 
Turn around and spend $5M on move to FBS football.

I'd need popcorn to watch the NDSU faculty and Legislative reactions. 

The Chapman Doctrine.

[UND-FB-FAN]

1 hour ago, iramurphy said:

This is still a work on progress to bring our program back to a championship caliber team. More to come. 

The challenge is to replicate the energy and belief from last Saturday to every Saturday. Figure out how to do that, and then championships become a real possibility.

[fightingsioux4life]

12 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

The challenge is to replicate the energy and belief from last Saturday to every Saturday. Figure out how to do that, and then championships become a real possibility.

We really need to grab this opportunity by the neck and continue building on the NDSU butt-kicking. It would be great to get a playoff seed again (and this time take advantage of it).

[Sioux>Bison]

1 hour ago, jdub27 said:

Trevor Gebhart, former ndsu WR. 

They held back a fair amount by not using Ross Uglem's commentary. Selling live look-ins at him watching the game probably would pay a good chunk of Entz's buyout...

Ross sure spent a lot of time in Grand Forks for being a NDSU student, I wish I could find a photo of him with a Sioux jersey on…….

[Nodak78]

[Siouxperfan7]

I’ve listened to more Bison podcasts and radio shows this past week leading up to and following the game than i ever had before. It’s been fun. The post game discussion with these hosts, former players, coaches, etc all seems to be saying the same thing. That the Bison beat themselves. That something is wrong with their offense, defense, special teams, etc. that the reason they lost and by so bad is because of something they did, or didn’t do.  
 

Maybe, just maybe UND out played, out worked, and just wanted it more than NDSU. Maybe UND is a far better team than NDSU this year. Maybe this is less about how the Bison failed to execute on the field and more about how UND is just a better team than them and proved it in the field by absolutely dominating them at every aspect of the game for every quarter of the game. 

Give credit where credit is due. 
 

 

[jdub27]

24 minutes ago, Sioux>Bison said:

Ross sure spent a lot of time in Grand Forks for being a NDSU student, I wish I could find a photo of him with a Sioux jersey on…….

Someone must have stole his girlfriend for how bitter he is. 

[Going48]

4 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

When this inevitably happens, UND is going to be forced to match and go up too or else risk repeating what happened from 2003-2023. 
 

With that, I find it hilarious that a school with as many financial and enrollment issues right now as NDSU can still have their sights on paying out millions to go up a division in football. Then again, many will tell you, NDSU is more a football institution than an institution of higher education. Pathetic.

Will that $5M entry really be that easy when they're also trying to buy out Entz's contract ?  I don't see either happening.

[gfhockey]

I ain’t going to lie there is a big money in Fargo a lot bigger money in fargo and therw is up here if they wanted to raise 5 million I’m sure they could if they wanted to buy insult. I’m sure they could much like if we wanted to buy Berry old. I’m sure we could.

[gfhockey]

They got offut Burgum thoraldson 

 

we got gisi and that’s about it

[fightingsioux4life]

3 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

I ain’t going to lie there is a big money in Fargo a lot bigger money in fargo and therw is up here if they wanted to raise 5 million I’m sure they could if they wanted to buy insult. I’m sure they could much like if we wanted to buy Berry old. I’m sure we could.

 

1 minute ago, gfhockey said:

They got offut Burgum thoraldson 

 

we got gisi and that’s about it

I've heard this narrative before. However, if Fargo really is The Center Of The Known Universe:

Why did it take them years to raise $$$$$ to renovate the old BSA?

Why aren't they FBS already?

Why haven't they built a newer, larger stadium?

The answer is that they aren't as big and powerful as they think they are. If people in Minneapolis-St. Paul were told what people in Imperial Cass County thought of themselves, they would laugh until they cried. Fargo is just another place in flyover country to people in larger cities and/or states. And to be honest, that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[iramurphy]

9 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

They got offut Burgum thoraldson 

 

we got gisi and that’s about it

Offut is a Concordia guy and Tharaldson is a Valley City State guy. Offut played FB at Concordia.  They are philanthropic but neither came across as an NDSU guy. I wouldn’t know for sure but having visited with both of them a few times at lunch/dinner or social functions I doubt they would waste money to move NDSU FB to FBS. They have donated to colleges for scholarships/buildings/academic programs. 

[Mama Sue]

3 hours ago, SiouxBoys said:

Do we know who that was?

Whoever did that video…do more please!!

[Big A HG]

1 hour ago, fightingsioux4life said:

 

I've heard this narrative before. However, if Fargo really is The Center Of The Known Universe:

Why did it take them years to raise $$$$$ to renovate the old BSA?

Why aren't they FBS already?

Why haven't they built a newer, larger stadium?

The answer is that they aren't as big and powerful as they think they are. If people in Minneapolis-St. Paul were told what people in Imperial Cass County thought of themselves, they would laugh until they cried. Fargo is just another place in flyover country to people in larger cities and/or states. And to be honest, that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

 

This may be a bit of bias, but having lived in GF/Bis/Fargo, Fargo really is the epicenter of the state IMO.  With that said, so much money is being poured into growth that there isn't much left over for NDSU football outside of what the fleas (aka the bandwagon fans) spend.  The thing is, the fleas have been jumping off for a couple of years now and no one gives a flying F about NDSU football except a select few.  NDSU was a fun social thing in town for some because it was new and exciting, but the novelty has worn off and no one cares...even the last couple of years when they won their last JV FBS titles.  You used to see every single-brain-celled individual wearing NDSU shi...l mean stuff...at one point, and no one wears anything anymore.  NDSU is like the Yeti Cooler of no name football....overpriced and a waste of time and money when you find out you're getting scammed.  That's why FBS hasn't happened and won't happen.

[Dustin]

Has anybody ever heard of Hack City?

I stumbled upon their show on YouTube.  Obviously I was searching and clicking on so much UND stuff that this popped up.  They do a rundown of the FCS, presumably every week, but this is the first time for me.  They talk about our game at the top of the show.

 

[Blackheart]

2 hours ago, Dustin said:

Has anybody ever heard of Hack City?

I stumbled upon their show on YouTube.  Obviously I was searching and clicking on so much UND stuff that this popped up.  They do a rundown of the FCS, presumably every week, but this is the first time for me.  They talk about our game at the top of the show.

 

Thanks for posting this; very interesting.

[UND-FB-FAN]

10 hours ago, Big A HG said:

 

This may be a bit of bias, but having lived in GF/Bis/Fargo, Fargo really is the epicenter of the state IMO.  With that said, so much money is being poured into growth that there isn't much left over for NDSU football outside of what the fleas (aka the bandwagon fans) spend.  The thing is, the fleas have been jumping off for a couple of years now and no one gives a flying F about NDSU football except a select few.  NDSU was a fun social thing in town for some because it was new and exciting, but the novelty has worn off and no one cares...even the last couple of years when they won their last JV FBS titles.  You used to see every single-brain-celled individual wearing NDSU shi...l mean stuff...at one point, and no one wears anything anymore.  NDSU is like the Yeti Cooler of no name football....overpriced and a waste of time and money when you find out you're getting scammed.  That's why FBS hasn't happened and won't happen.

Fargo being the epicenter of ND does not mean NDSU is the standard of higher education or collegiate athletics in the state; certainly doesn’t mean it is the flagship. There are countless examples around the country where the largest metropolitan center of the state is not home to the most thriving university and/or collegiate athletic department in the state. 

[Dustin]

8 hours ago, Blackheart said:

Thanks for posting this; very interesting.

One thing they touched on about NDSU is that they haven't fully recovered from the COVID year, which is something I touched on in whatever thread it was back when Trey Lance declared for the draft.  I said that Trey's decision would help bring parity to the FCS, which it seems to have done.

[Mama Sue]

Well I am still basking in the win AND smiling every time I think of it!!   This will last naybe 12 to 24 months. 

[Mama Sue]

It doesn’t quit…. Came up on my cell phone feed from KVRR (?) “Bison fall out of the top 10 first time since 2011. entered on what needs to be fixed.”

[petey23]

15 hours ago, Sioux>Bison said:

Ross sure spent a lot of time in Grand Forks for being a NDSU student, I wish I could find a photo of him with a Sioux jersey on…….

I think he was actually a Cobber?

[Siouxperfan7]

When is the last time an NDSU has had a "Players only" meeting?!!  Got to admit watching all this go down in Fargo right now is very entertaining!! 

[nodakvindy]

55 minutes ago, Siouxperfan7 said:

When is the last time an NDSU has had a "Players only" meeting?!!  Got to admit watching all this go down in Fargo right now is very entertaining!! 

Maybe our new nickname should be the Tennants, since we seem to be living rent free in NDSU's head now.

[Mama Sue]

Moving forward mid-season? I guess they did not have their Juice with this weekend….

[geaux_sioux]

I just realized that NDSU ends their season at SDSU, vs SIU, and at UNI. That’s 3 potential slug fests to end things after two cupcakes. I expect them to bounce back strong but we shall see what SDSU does to them.