Originally Posted by
mvfcfan
This Sycamoretuff dude is clearly trolling you guys (coming from another ISUb fan), but you really can't possibly believe that your basketball arena is better than ours. It can't be that hard to have all new stuff in your arena when all you have to do is order some new retractable bleachers, plus your arena is pretty small.
We also have plans in the very near future to spend 50 million dollars upgrading our facility. The yellow and orange seats in the upper level are going to be replaced with blue seats and they are wanting to add luxury boxes and install new lighting etc.
Our football stadium sucks. It's not on campus and just has seats on one side. No one can argue that our football stadium is better than yours because it's not even close.
The biggest thing NDSU has going for them in football is that you don't have Big Ten schools all around you, so recruiting is easier for you guys in a way. Like with us we have IU, Purdue, Ball State, and Illinois all in our general area. Then people in Terre Haute care more about IU and Purdue than they do ISU and both schools are only an hour and a half from Terre Haute. For you guys its a 3.5 hr drive to the U of Minnesota and with them generally being terrible and NDSU being really good it's a pretty easy choice for most people I think. The environment at the Fargodome has to be really fun to be at. Sitting at a half empty stadium in Terre Haute getting beat by everyone isn't that great for most people.
I just wish in football we could consistently win around 5-7 games each year. I'm also tired of us losing our coach every 3 years and then winning 0-1 games in the new coach's first season. I think we'll be better next year, but this year has definitely been frustrating.
As far as NDSU joing the MVC, I think you guys would be a great add (along with SDSU), but with Murray State begging to get in adding NDSU just doesn't make much sense. Murray State has been traditionally pretty good at basketball and with them having football it makes more sense to add someone that is more in our region than to do clear up to the Dakotas. Since the MVC wants to go to 12 though I'm not sure who the best #12 option would be. Oral Roberts makes the most sense to me even if they have struggled the past couple of years. Although I'm sure most of you don't really care about the MVC's issues.