Forum: Bison Football or UND Hockey

[aces1180]

Uh, the Forum and Herald are essentially the same paper since they are run by the same company.

Right, but they both have their own local content. King troll, however, doesn't understand that both writers collaborated on this subject.

[SDbison]

Right, but they both have their own local content. King troll, however, doesn't understand that both writers collaborated on this subject.

You can hardly tell in the sports section. At least on the Forum side of things there seems to be plenty of UND crap.

[aces1180]

You can hardly tell in the sports section. At least on the Forum side of things there seems to be plenty of UND crap.

Agreed...The Herald barely ever mentions the Bison, unless UND is involved. The damn Forum covers UND way too much, but makes sense because all of that school's grads move away from stink town, GF.

[MNLonghorn10]

Uh, the Fargo (town of NDSU) newspaper made the comparsion.

Ask them why they needed to compare to UND's Hockey program.

the article should be about how many players on und's hockey roster need a passport to play for them, no?

[4mcruenomore]

The_Sicatoka = DaveK

abc123 = Darell1976

'nuff said

AG1 laughed at their hockey program, it's a niche sport, football rules the roost so to speak. Coming from a Griz fan, that seals it for me.

[runtheoption]

AG1 laughed at their hockey program, it's a niche sport, football rules the roost so to speak. Coming from a Griz fan, that seals it for me.

You had to hear it from a Griz fan to seal it for you?

[TheBisonator]

Agreed...The Herald barely ever mentions the Bison, unless UND is involved. The damn Forum covers UND way too much, but makes sense because all of that school's grads move away from stink town, GF.

Yeah, well do you think you could be able to find a halfway-decent job in Grand Forks, even after graduating from UND??

I once had a boss in Fargo who was born and raised in GF. He told me that most normal people can't find any better job than stocking shelves at a grocery store in GF. He said he moved to FM because there was at least more options and variety of work, that not everything was service-based unlike GF.

That's why you see all the people with Fighting Pioux flags hanging in their garages in the SW suburbs.

[KC Bison]

Some comparison numbers 2010 SeasonDivision I Attendance

Football 43.7 million averaging 5-6 home games per year (NCAA numbers)
hockey 3.8 million averaging 17.5 home games per year (USCHO numbers)

2010 Per Game attendance
Average attendance DI hockey 3,985 fans
Average attendance DII football 3,630 fans

To be on equal footing, if a hockey season was 5.5 games per year would mean 1.2 million attendees
or if football had a 17.5 home game season per year would equal 139 million attendees per year.

FOOTBALL >>> hockey

DII football = DI hockey

[bisonmike2]

Are we sure those attendance numbers are accurate? Check out who's number #10 and #131 on this list.

http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2011/Intern...ATTENDANCE.pdf

[Hammerhead]

Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota are the only teams that consistently average over 10,000 fans per home game. Michigan has been up there once in a while, but there are usually several teams in the 6K-7K range and 3,000 would get you close to the top 25 in attendance.