Ndsu v ewu 2016/2017

[roadwarrior]

After the trip to Cheney 4 years ago and the trip to Spokane this spring, I will most definitely be staying in Spokane for this game.

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Really? What do they average for attendance at football games........5 or 6 thousand? EWU is essentially a commuter college. They get away with all the DIII stuff like allowing cowbells for games that are disallowed everywhere else in FCS. And that fugly red field. Ugh.

We've been averaging about 9k the last couple seasons, which is over the official seating capacity of 8600. And not much is worse than UCA's purple and gray striped fields, or NDSU's yellow helmets.

[Bison_Pride]

Cheney is sandwiched in between beautiful and expensive Gonzaga, and an hour south is Washington State University which has a 30k enrollment and is a member of the Pac10. It's hard to compete with those.

[BadlandsGrizFan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYJgUQZ3k4

ENOUGH SAID

[HerdBoy]

The streets are alphabetical. I lasted about a minute thirty and I couldn't take it anymore.

[BadlandsGrizFan]

The streets are alphabetical. I lasted about a minute thirty and I couldn't take it anymore.

Just like real life Cheney

[Christopher Moen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYJgUQZ3k4

ENOUGH SAID

[Wally]

After the trip to Cheney 4 years ago and the trip to Spokane this spring, I will most definitely be staying in Spokane for this game.

I will be staying here

http://www.cdaresort.com/discover

I will be golfing here as well

http://www.cdaresort.com/discover/golf

[BlueKeyAlum]

Cheney is about 15 miles from Spokane. There is nightlife there.

25 years ago I toured the EWU campus while I was in the area. I remember the facilities being a downgrade from NDSU. Cheney definitely seemed like a sleepy bedroom community for Spokane, and EWU almost more of a commuter college. The buzz at the time was that the football team was so bad that they were thinking about shutting it down because it needed upgrades to the facilities and there was no support. They had a pep rally the night before to drum up support, and a star member of the football team said "who knows, one day maybe we could be playing against U Dub".

Seems like they have come a long way since those days.

Cheney actually has two campuses if you count the Spokane center downtown jointly shared with WSU. There's a large population of EWU students at that location that never ever come out to Cheney for classes. And you're right Cheney doesn't have a lot of nightlife options. That's what Spokane is for. And having to travel to get to nightlife options keeps the drugs and riffraff out of the Cheney community. The biggest complaint is the occasional house party. When I worked there I definitely wouldn't consider the school a party school. Lots of the community including faculty staff and students were really involved in outdoor year 'round. When I was there mike Kramer started the football team on the road to postseason success but I remember the biggest sports accolades coming from Ray giacoletti (sp?) and the basketball team when they made the NCAA's 2002ish. Former Bison center Greg Smith was a senior on the team.

[ZHerd]

Cheney is sandwiched in between beautiful and expensive Gonzaga, and an hour south is Washington State University which has a 30k enrollment and is a member of the Pac10. It's hard to compete with those.

And yet if they played WA st. this year I would pick EW to win. I respect FCS programs like EW and the Bison that can hang tough with and take down schools that have big advantages over them. Oh, and I would pick them to beat the Zags in football too