Taking a step backwards this year

[FMPanther]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

JJ played well last night, especially considering he is still hurting.

UNI fans are fickle, that is for sure.

[Blue42]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

Bison fans are like roaches on this board. They come out in the light and you can't get rid of them.

There really must be nothing to do in ND. I honestly can't imagine hanging out on another team's board all week before a game...let alone after.

Maybe there's lots of down time when you're not driving a rig for $50/hr on the Bakken. But for goodness sake fellas, get another hobby.

[Bison06]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

Pretty ironic coming from a guy who has 1400 posts.

It is so much work for me and really far out of my way to type in a different web address on my browser.

[heisman6183]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

Enough with the "we're a young team" crap. NDSU started exactly 2 seniors. They have 5 seniors total on their two deep. Our entire secondary is made up of seniors, we have seniors on the o-line. They're good, we're not, and it's not changing any time soon. Get used to the ass whippings.

[Blue42]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

Pretty ironic coming from a guy who has 1400 posts.

It is so much work for me and really far out of my way to type in a different web address on my browser.

I don't think you're getting it.

I have 1400 posts on a board dedicated to the team I follow and have for 20 years.

You are continuously trolling on a board for a team that you play once a year.

Do you get it? Do you need me to dumb it down more?

[Mudrafan]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

Pretty ironic coming from a guy who has 1400 posts.

It is so much work for me and really far out of my way to type in a different web address on my browser.

The difference is that he has 1400 on his alma mater's browser. I have never been on NDSU's website nor have any desire to & likely never will. Fans who do this are some of lowest in the gene pool.

[Blue42]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

Enough with the "we're a young team" crap. NDSU started exactly 2 seniors. They have 5 seniors total on their two deep. Our entire secondary is made up of seniors, we have seniors on the o-line. They're good, we're not, and it's not changing any time soon. Get used to the ass whippings.

Do they have a freshman QB, 3 LBs and 2 or 3 DL who'd never started a game before this season.

A simple count of seniors probably doesn't tell the story.

And thanks for your optimistic outlook on the future, genius.

[Mudrafan]

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The difference is many, but one of the first is that NDSU is the state's school. They are their pro team. We are 3rd on the totem pole in our state. Also, NDSU allows all comers into their school. Their standards are much lower. To attract a kid from the south to North Dakota...there has to be shortcuts taken & they are. Third, they have much more support from their state than we do. We have to cut every corner possible & continually fight city hall.

[Bison06]

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The difference is that he has 1400 on his alma mater's browser. I have never been on NDSU's website nor have any desire to & likely never will. Fans who do this are some of lowest in the gene pool.

Alma Mater or not, I find it ironic that he mentioned Bison fans have no lives and need a new hobby when the only difference between him and I is that I typed in panthernation.com in my browser and not bisonville.com. I am sitting in the same chair and it required no extra work on my part. Isn't the internet beautiful. Also, there are plenty of UNI fans who do visit our site regularly. I welcome many viewpoints when having discussions.

[Bison06]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

I don't think you're getting it.

I have 1400 posts on a board dedicated to the team I follow and have for 20 years.

You are continuously trolling on a board for a team that you play once a year.

Do you get it? Do you need me to dumb it down more?

Continually, haha. What do I have like 50 posts now?

[DomeIsHome]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

Seriously it's amazing how every thread on this forum degrades into 4 or 5 of the same topics.

[Pantherwoman]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

What does the BOR have to do with your analysis? Not following where you are going with this comment. Board members attend our games.

[Trapped in California]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

What does the BOR have to do with your analysis? Not following where you are going with this comment. Board members attend our games.

I think he is referring to the general pressure being applied by the BOR to make the athletic department much more self sufficient, asap. The follow-on is that we "have to" play two FBS money games every year, or at least this year.

[Khan4Cats]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

What does the BOR have to do with your analysis? Not following where you are going with this comment. Board members attend our games.

Um, in case you haven't been following the news recently, let me catch you up to speed. The BOR decided that since the University of Iowa has the benefit of a multi-million dollar slush fund from the Big Ten Network every year (more than our entire athletic budget) and Iowa State University is also about to cash in a very large check from its association in a conference where people want to watch the other schools in the conference, and that both of those big checks allow those programs to operate without any tax-payer assistance from the state, that UNI, despite not having the same sort of revenue possibilities, should be operated free and clear of the tax-payer assistance. Never mind that prior to these agreements, both Iowa and Iowa State required state assistance as well.

Anyways, to shorten the story, in order to get the BOR off our freaking backs about this completely untenable position they think we ought to be able to make (despite the fcat they don't even fund us on an even level with the other two state schools to begin with anyways), we agreed to play an extra money game (Wisconsin) this year and forfeit the chance at scheduling another FCS level team that we would have a more reasonable chance at beating.

Add in the whole Savannah State bailing on us too late in the scheduling game to get anyone else and there you have it.

[Khan4Cats]

Re: Taking a step backwards this year

What does the BOR have to do with your analysis? Not following where you are going with this comment. Board members attend our games.

BTW, it's nice BOR members attend our games. Hopefully they buy tickets and help us with our financial situation and don't simply come because they get comp tickets due to the wonderful job they do for the two main state universities. I would ask if they are members of the alumni association, but since none of them are alums of UNI, I doubt that they would belong.