#1 NDSU @ NORTHERN IOWA Game Thread

[95UNIGRAD]

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Your Avatar picture is of a 20 year old celebrating a basketball shot made 4 years ago.

Point taken. However, your jealousy for our athletic program having an event your program could only dream about is appreciated.

[Logicfan]

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Point taken. However, your jealousy for our athletic program having an event your program could only dream about is appreciated.

Will NDSU ever have a #9 seed in the tournament. Doubtful

Can NDSU win 2 games in the NCAA tournament. Yes.

Can UNI ever advance as far as NDSU did in the CWS tourney last year. No

[Luther_Heggs]

Re: #1 NDSU @ NORTHERN IOWA Game Thread

Living in the past, lol, thats rich.

Bizon fans, to this day, get off with each other about their epic DII battles.

You wont be leaving anybody in the dust son. Regardless of what happens Saturday, we will go on living our lives like normal people do, and you'll still be left in that barren dusty wasteland that you call home getting your posters autographed by 20 year old kids and reminiscing about the DII glory days with your fat manager at walmart who was a long-snapper on that awesome Bizon team that took down Roast Beef Tech in the 1989 playoffs.

Good luck on saturday though.

North Dakota does have a national park and some scenery. Every time I visit Iowa, it takes me about a full day to get over the total lack of pretty much everything. It's almost like a seasickness type of thing. Kind of unsettling...like being on the ocean...only bleaker (I tend to visit in late fall/early winter). So, I'm not sure an Iowan should mock any other states appearance. Oklahoma, maybe.

[Purrrrrfect]

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International Peace Garden is nice...it helped me feel better from my massive hangover

[Cap'n Cat]

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Wherever you are in North Dakota or Iowa, there are wonderful, scenic places. Fill your tank and go see them.

Other than that, we need an outdoor stadium.

[panther-state]

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North Dakota does have a national park and some scenery. Every time I visit Iowa, it takes me about a full day to get over the total lack of pretty much everything. It's almost like a seasickness type of thing. Kind of unsettling...like being on the ocean...only bleaker (I tend to visit in late fall/early winter). So, I'm not sure an Iowan should mock any other states appearance. Oklahoma, maybe.

I'm not bothering to reread the shots that were fired but to mock the scenery in ND, that's just silly. There's nothing to the place, just like Montana. It's a gorgeous state full of wilderness and untouched landscape.

However, to mock the existence of modern civilization outside of a couple "cities", totally fair. At least as someone who lives in Des Moines, I think it is. Lakes can say what he wants about Fargo but it's hardly "happening" compared to some of the metro areas in Iowa.

The state's existence is based completely on a non-renewable source of energy that will hopefully be obsolete in the near future, or at least in the capacity that it currently holds. I can only hope the same can't be said for the agriculture, business and renewable energy industries.

So what's this trash talk all about anyways? Is there like some sort of nature competition coming up between UNI and NDSU?

[vbfan19]

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Wherever you are in North Dakota or Iowa, there are wonderful, scenic places. Fill your tank and go see them..

Amen to that. I can't testify to anything about North Dakota (I've only been to Fargo once, and that was just for the football game. only saw the stadium, the hotel, and BWW. none of which overly impressed me, but none of which have anything to do with the scenery of the state).

However, there are many beautiful places to visit around Iowa. Admittedly, it is somewhat bleak in the late fall/winter, but it is much better in the spring/summer/early fall.

[Dexter58]

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One thing I know for sure is, every year during the last full week in July we have thousands of people from ALL OVER THE WORLD, tell us how beautiful the Iowa countryside is. For a little over 40 years running.

[95UNIGRAD]

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Will NDSU ever have a #9 seed in the tournament. Doubtful

Can NDSU win 2 games in the NCAA tournament. Yes.

Can UNI ever advance as far as NDSU did in the CWS tourney last year. No

NDSU will never win two games in the tourney. That would most likely require beating two top 5 seeds in a region. Nope. You're lucky you play in such a crap league in basketball or you'd never sniff the tourney.

Did you honestly just bring up college baseball? You know our program was cut for budget reasons several years ago, right? If you want to get into non-revenue sports (which I don't), UNI is far superior. (volleyball, women's b-ball, wrestling, etc.)

[ban basketball]

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Theodore Roosevelt National Park's North Unit in North Dakota is truly one of my wife's and my favorite places to vacation. It's ND's badlands, with not many people who go there, rugged, beautiful scenery, lots of wildlife, and a much more lush, greener version of the South Dakota Badlands.

[Logicfan]

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NDSU will never win two games in the tourney. That would most likely require beating two top 5 seeds in a region. Nope. You're lucky you play in such a crap league in basketball or you'd never sniff the tourney.

Did you honestly just bring up college baseball? You know our program was cut for budget reasons several years ago, right? If you want to get into non-revenue sports (which I don't), UNI is far superior. (volleyball, women's b-ball, wrestling, etc.)

If we took a time machine to 2008 when UNI was King of the Gateway/MVFC you would have said NDSU will never win 3 straight FCS titles, win 33 straight games, host College Gameday twice.

UNI could very well win the game on Saturday, however they no longer dominate the conference and I don't see that happening again. The XDSU schools are the best/worst thing to happen to the Gateway/MVFC schools.

[06panther10]

If we took a time machine to 2008 when UNI was King of the Gateway/MVFC you would have said NDSU will never win 3 straight FCS titles, win 33 straight games, host College Gameday twice.



UNI could very well win the game on Saturday, however they no longer dominate the conference and I don't see that happening again. The XDSU schools are the best/worst thing to happen to the Gateway/MVFC schools.

Nobody will ever dominate the conference like UNI did. Its unheard of.

And that is a good thing for the conference.

[TravelingPanther]

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Nobody will ever dominate the conference like UNI did. Its unheard of.

And that is a good thing for the conference.

I would say NDSU is in that process.

[panther-state]

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If we took a time machine to 2008 when UNI was King of the Gateway/MVFC you would have said NDSU will never win 3 straight FCS titles, win 33 straight games, host College Gameday twice.

UNI could very well win the game on Saturday, however they no longer dominate the conference and I don't see that happening again. The XDSU schools are the best/worst thing to happen to the Gateway/MVFC schools.

No one will ever dominate the conference like that again. Honestly the teams in the conference right now will never get to the same talent level as some of those MVFC teams of the 80's, 90's and early 2000's.

That's not a pat on the back to UNI so much as it is a realistic statement about how much college football has changed since those days. The MVFC received a much higher level of talent back then than they do today. Give me an old school SIU or UNI over even some of the uber-dominant NDSU teams of today. Just look at who they sent to the NFL during that time and the impact those players had. Some of the recent MVFC players haven't really had the opportunity to make some of the same impacts but I'm very hesitant to say Marcus Williams, Billy Turner or even DJ will ever hold a candle to the careers of Paup, Meester or Warner.

It's going to be tough for UNI to ever get back to that level of dominance when, as you correctly stated, the Dakota schools are being successful and recruiting the same kids, and Iowa State and Iowa continue to get PWO's that normally would've taken a scholly to UNI. Not to be an excuse machine but that's a pretty steep hill to climb, recruiting against 4-5 very talented and respected D-I football programs. I'm sure NDSU also runs into Montana and some of those great plains schools east of the Rockies but still. Montana is no Iowa or even Iowa State (you'd think kids would understand what a W/L column is but apparently its all about the XII on your uniform...even if it means being in the basement)

[06panther10]

I would say NDSU is in that process.

UNI won 16 conference championships between 1985 and 2011, including 7 in a row during the 90's.

Nobody is doing that again. Not possible.