TC_transplant Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Why does North Dakota currently average 146 fans under the Ralph's listed capacity? Why did North Dakota draw 4,918 fans for its deciding game vs. Minnesota-Duluth in the first round of the WCHA playoffs in 2001? That team had a great season...Karl Goehring's last home game as a Sioux and only 4,918 show up?
skateshattrick Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Siouxrock--there used to be a regular caller on Sid Hartman called Mike the Vikings Fan. I used to cringe every time that he called, because he was from North Dakota and lowered everyone's IQ just by talking. You are not him, are you? Paint chips cannot be the only reason for some of these posts. Did your dad drop you as well?
7>4 Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Unlike Grand Forks, Minneapolis has other things to do besides going to a hockey game. Like spend your valuable time posting on the SiouxSports.com message board? Shouldn't you be over at berts with WPoS' and Hammy getting ready to watch the Saturday afternoon movie on WE?
flatspin7 Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Why did North Dakota draw 4,918 fans for its deciding game vs. Minnesota-Duluth in the first round of the WCHA playoffs in 2001? That team had a great season...Karl Goehring's last home game as a Sioux and only 4,918 show up? The first round of the playoff always seem to occur durning UNDs spring break, all of the studends are gone, hence the lower attendance numbers.
Siouxrock Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 gopher fans wanna be like us they wanna have 7 titles they wanna live up here
flatspin7 Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 gopher fans wanna be like us they wanna have 7 titles they wanna live up here Is that a Haiku?
Slap Shot Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Like spend your valuable time posting on the SiouxSports.com message board? Shouldn't you be over at berts with WPoS' and Hammy getting ready to watch the Saturday afternoon movie on WE? So his time is wasted when posting here but your's is not?
MinnesotaNorthStar Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 The first round of the playoff always seem to occur durning UNDs spring break, all of the studends are gone, hence the lower attendance numbers. Not only that...Englestad only seated around 5 or 6 thousand if I remember correctly
teamsioux Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 I think the old Ralph was around 66-6700, I am sure someone will coreect me though.
jimdahl Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Without even leaving the web site (shameless plug), I found the number 6070. However, I seem to remember that sellouts were actually reported as 6067.
teamsioux Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 I think you are right on the 6067, I think that is why I had the 6600 or 6700, dyslexic I was. I remember that sellout figure too.
DLW4GOPHERS Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 I think the announced attendance for the game was 9,4??. A sell out is just over 10K. Since some tickets were sold to fans from ND and Mercyhurst, I think they had a pretty good crowd. In two years when ND gets beat in the first round, we will see how many ND fans show up to watch Minnesota beat CC.
teamsioux Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Minnesota's gonna make it that far, keep dreaming!!
melde Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Siouxrock, I can honestly say I don't think there is any Gopher fan that WANTS to live in Grand Forks!! I've been there and it's a hole. So flat you can see the earth curve. GF is one of the ugliest cities I've been to. I lived in Bismarck for 2.5 years and that is a much better city than Grand Forks.
MinnesotaNorthStar Posted April 5, 2003 Posted April 5, 2003 Siouxrock, I can honestly say I don't think there is any Gopher fan that WANTS to live in Grand Forks!! I've been there and it's a hole. So flat you can see the earth curve. GF is one of the ugliest cities I've been to. I lived in Bismarck for 2.5 years and that is a much better city than Grand Forks. To be honest I know a lot of Sioux fans that don't want to live in Grand Forks. As for myself...unless I get hired by the university, I'm headed south to St. Louis...try to get hired down there, after I graduate
MinnesotaNorthStar Posted April 6, 2003 Posted April 6, 2003 Why St. Louis? Are from that area? No I am from the Minneapolis area...There is a Part 141 school down there that I would like to instruct at if UND doesn't hire me. Being from a metropolitain area, I would much rather live near a big city than where other 141 schools are (Spokane, West Lafayette, Prescott).
KBG Posted April 6, 2003 Posted April 6, 2003 Not sure if you're a baseball fan but St. Louis is the best baseball city in the USA. I hate the Cardinals, but I went down there two years ago for a Twins game and that city LOVES their baseball and especially their Cardinals. And they have professional sports teams in the only three sports that matter, all of those teams being perennial playoff competitors. And the Arch is just plain awesome!
schmidtdoggydog Posted April 6, 2003 Posted April 6, 2003 If you move to St. Louis you will now be able to watch Peter Sejna play; rumor has it he signed with the Blues today and will be in their lineup tomorrow!!!
yellowdog Posted April 6, 2003 Posted April 6, 2003 How many Gopher fans claimed they were at the Frozen Four last year when they were not? How many will this year? I know who's fans are not going to be at this or last year's frozen four. psst--it's the sioux's. You know why, because their teams stunk and didn't make it. There were plenty of gopher fans at the game last week. As for the regional at the ralph. I was wondering why it would be full of sioux fans. You are all closet gopher fans aren't you. The gophers are the host school at Mariucci west that year, not the sioux. The sioux won't even be in the tournament, they will lose both games to Canisius that year and be out of it by November.
jimdahl Posted April 6, 2003 Posted April 6, 2003 What a puzzling claim, I specifically remember being at last year's Frozen Four and I remember seeing a lot of Sioux fans. I also know quite a few who are going this year -- look for Sioux jerseys while you're there, I promise you'll see some. As for predictions about how our teams will do in 2006, predictions are cheap, particularly since you're likely to be long gone before the results come in. If you really had an ability to predict sporting event outcomes, you should be a very rich man instead of hanging out on message boards
NorthDakotaHockey Posted April 6, 2003 Author Posted April 6, 2003 Yellowdog . . . . Take your yellow and brown gravy-stained "M" jersey and move across town to the Pride on Ice board. Sadly, there you can ruminate as you wish. However, there you may not be able to learn the elementary rules of capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and etiquette. All of which you are sadly in need. There are many decent Gopher fans with both focus and purpose. Where did you go wrong my friend?
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