NDSU/SDSU to the GFC

[JCPanthers]

Hello Panther Nation,
Looking forward to renewing old rivalries and great games in the Gateway. Lots to look forward to and talk about but we have to finish up our last year in another great conference the Great West. After that it's game on with all Gateway teams and fans
Stop by and say hello at www.bisonsports.net and talk it up with some of our regulars if you want. I'll be over here keeping an eye on you guys just to keep you in line
BB

Welcome to the Gateway!!

We may get a sneak preview of what's to come on September 22nd in the DOME....the UNI Dome that is.

[Purple1]

Exciting to hear the SDSU and NDSU will be joining the Gateway. Easier to not have to worry about scheduling non-conference games with one more conference team. And keeps the competition tough.
As for YSU, I heard from a good source that they were completely on board at the Gateway meetings with the new teams coming. Heard SIU and MSU were grumbling...don't know why with the $$ they have!
By the way, spring football game....April 21. Go Panthers!

[pantherclaw]

Awesome news, I think the additions of the xdsu's will definetly help increase the league's toughness, and also since the Gateway could be incredibly tough it may boost the playoff hopes of teams that end up going 7-4. Just a thought.

[BCPanther]

The new Gateway will be the first league to get 5 bids in the same year...

[NorthernIowaBacker]

My sister told me a funny story how her sophomore year the SDSU coach had gotten arrested for beating his wife and the entire student section at USD had t-shirts made up and wore them to the game the shirts read:

Front- "BEAT STATE"
Back- "NOT YOUR WIFE"

So chanting Bull Sh*t is completly unacceptable, but this is okay? Now the logic has been thrown completely down the poop shoot.

*Side note, if he really did beat his wife, he deserved that treatment.

[oldcat]

I don' think anyone said it was acceptable..................

[89rabbit]

Up until now I have resisted commenting on the tacky actions of the students at the University of South Dakota. However, I feel perhaps it is time to set the record straight.

It was our Athletic Director, not our coach, who was involved in a messy divorce that was played out in the public eye. He however, was never arrested for beating his wife and printing such things on a T-shirt about a man whom I am sure was going through a very painful stage of his personal life is not funny it is sad.

Many Jackrabbit fans point to this incident as a final straw in a long line of poor behavior that has lead us to a point were many of us could care less if we ever play USD again.

[UNI MadCat]

Yeah, its stupid. But they're 18-22 year olds. I'm sure not a single SDSU student has done anything remotely similar. I had a shirt that said "TC did your Mom" in college. Sam Weaver saw it and decided to suck so bad that he'd get fired so that he didnt have to associate himself with a school that would produce that kind of student. Sorry, but, again, its a bunch of 18-22 year olds. I'd say the SDSU folks need to lighten up. But that's just my opinion.

[VistaPanther]

That's because the population of North Dakota is only about 636,000 with a density of 9.25 people per square mile.
Compare that to Iowa with a population about 2.97 million with a density of 53 people per square mile.
Thats 5 times as many people no matter how you slice it. (even with SUI and ISU student draws figured in)
Basically Norh Dakota has a hard time filling desks at any school let alone putting a team together.

NDSU is gonna be tough. Last year they lost to Minnesota by 1 and beat Ball State. They have already arrived.

I don't understand the specifics.....but when UNI recruits a kid from out of state.......the scholly is an out of state cost. NDSU has an exception rule for a certain number of regional states so its is an IN-State Scholly.

The sooner UND and SDU go DI for Dakota Schools pairity....the better.

[rabidrabbit]

It's going to be a delightfully tough road to win the Gateway with the 2 Dakota St. U.'s added.

I believe that SDSU will be very much like WKU or WIU and be cyclical in our conference success. NDSU will be more like UNI, and in the top half, competing for a play-off spot EVERY YEAR.

In 4 or 5 years, if InSU and YSU change out, USD & UND would be good additions, assuming that the GWFC doesn't get their act together and form that Auto-bid eligible conference.

[Marc Wigim]

I believe that SDSU will be very much like WKU or WIU and be cyclical in our conference success. NDSU will be more like UNI, and in the top half, competing for a play-off spot EVERY YEAR.

This is exactly what I was thinking, except for one thing: you don't want to be like WIU. TRUST me.

[Newsbreaker]

It's so cute when kids compare themselves to others...like comparing someone to WIU.

Why, just yesterday I compared myself to that crack head sitting at the bus stop along my route to work.

[JCPanthers]

The NDSU and SDSU logos are now up in the UNI dome....a year early, but they had to take Western Kentucky's down so I guess it was easier to do it now.