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I felt the dome was in good forum. It could have been louder but then again you have milk drinkers there. I love how people complain about blowouts but people were leaving after the interception on the 2 yard line. We were only up 3 with six minutes to play. The game was far from over. We will see UCD later in the year back in Fargo.
"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong" E. O. Wilson
"I'm not crazy my mother had me tested". Sheldon Cooper
My boss hates it when I shorten his name to Dick, mainly because his name is Steven.
Good to hear, as it didn't sound loud on TV, or at least loud at the right time..... (If you are playing a no-huddle team, you need to be loud all the time). In any case, McFeely's article really noted that people were heading for the doors early, and he basically aske the question, "What do you fans want?"
The weather in Fargo keeps the undesirables out.....
...Which is why I live near the Twin Cities.
It's not a very good excuse at all but there was some pretty nasty red stuff on the radar headed straight for north Fargo mid-4th quarter. We took our tailgate tents down before we went in but I would imagine if anyone left them up (or had any other gear out that they didn't want to blow away or get soaked) they may have been a little anxious to get out there before it hit. I did see a few destroyed tents when we headed out after the final horn.
Exactly we headed out to take down tents and batten down the hatches. We were just about finished when it hit. We were putting down the flag poles and the sky and wind opened up. I could have not been wetter if I was standing in a shower but nothing was broken but there were some others that were piecing together tailgating gear after it passed.
"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong" E. O. Wilson
"I'm not crazy my mother had me tested". Sheldon Cooper
My boss hates it when I shorten his name to Dick, mainly because his name is Steven.
The atmosphere was okay. Then again I was way the heck up row EE in the endzone so Definitely wasnt the best location to gauge crowd volume as it gets exponentially louder as you get closer to the field. There were empty seats in the Student section from the outset.
As usual, the non student seats were packed from whistle to whistle from what I could see. Students ditched at half for God knows why. Thought the crowd volume was 10% better than average. Nothing spectacular- but not bad. (again, I was way up there so someone closer to the field tell us how it measured up)
1. The FCS was the Best option for NDSU for a very long time.
2. As a general rule- the FCS sucks at football and has proven that is not committed to football at all.
3. It's time to go FBS
We prefer to leave stuff like tents and tables up during the game. That way we can relax longer before the game and then after the game we can tear it down at a leisurely pace, have a postgame (hopefully) celebratory beer, and let the lots clear out a bit. We tore everything down for this last game just in case the chance of thunderstorms hit and we were glad we did.