Prediction: SDSU vs. NDSU in Fargo

[SDbison]

NDSU women win by 8 or more
NDSU men win by 16 or more
Too bad there isn't a traveling trophy for the basketball rivalry. I think the rabbits would have it less often now that we are in DI. Bison will improve quickly and have the funding to do so.
As for football......the rabbits need to make love to the border trophy cause they are going to be kissing it goodbye for a long time. Last year was a fluke and there is no way the Jacks will keep up with the Bison rise to success in DI-AA football.

[Bison_Dan]

NDSU women win by 8 or more
NDSU men win by 16 or more
Too bad there isn't a traveling trophy for the basketball rivalry. *I think the rabbits would have it less often now that we are in DI. *Bison will improve quickly and have the funding to do so.
As for football......the rabbits need to make love to the border trophy cause they are going to be kissing it goodbye for a long time. *Last year was a fluke and there is no way the Jacks will keep up with the Bison rise to success in DI-AA football. * *

I couldn't agree more!! ;D ;D

[jackrabbit1979]

NDSU women win by 8 or more
NDSU men win by 16 or more
Too bad there isn't a traveling trophy for the basketball rivalry. *I think the rabbits would have it less often now that we are in DI. *Bison will improve quickly and have the funding to do so.
As for football......the rabbits need to make love to the border trophy cause they are going to be kissing it goodbye for a long time. *Last year was a fluke and there is no way the Jacks will keep up with the Bison rise to success in DI-AA football. * *

My prediction, Jackrabbits get a win in the women's game sandwiched between wins for the bison in the wrestling match and the men's game.

Funding may be a viable reason for your sucess in football, but in bball there is only so much to fund. Where would the bison get ahead of the jacks, we already have a better facility and the same amount of schollies i believe.

[RABBIT]

NDSU women win by 8 or more
NDSU men win by 16 or more
Too bad there isn't a traveling trophy for the basketball rivalry. *I think the rabbits would have it less often now that we are in DI. *Bison will improve quickly and have the funding to do so.
As for football......the rabbits need to make love to the border trophy cause they are going to be kissing it goodbye for a long time. *Last year was a fluke and there is no way the Jacks will keep up with the Bison rise to success in DI-AA football. * *

Women- I think you'll be surprised by this one. NDSU is coming off a tough game with TCU this week, while SDSU is going to be fully rested this time around. Jacks also have thier last college game for the seniors. The crowd won't be a factor as SDSU has been playing in tough venues most of the season, and has probably played in a worse enviroment. Jacks also have a starter out that they lost last time we played. I'm going to predict a 10 point womens victory for the Jacks.

Men- The jacks men don't have the talent at guard, using their 3 walk-on's to stop the bison. On the inside the jacks will dominate the bison again, but from the outside the bison will destroy us. I want to predict a Jacks victory, but I know it won't happen, even being a homer. NDSU will win by 30-40 at home. Not harsh, just the truth.

Too bad there isn't a traveling trophy for the basketball rivalry. I think the rabbits would have it less often now that we are in DI. Bison will improve quickly and have the funding to do so.

What does that mean? What isn't going to be funded for the jacks next year? Full basketball scholarships, Another 1-2 million in improvements to frost every year from now for three years, (next year getting new scoreboards for Frost). So where is your "Better Funding"? How are those improvements to the BSA going? Oh, you don't have the money? I remember now. How about that 1 million dollar deficit that was predicted this summer. Sounds like your totally outclassing SDSU in funding to me.

I think your seriously underestimating how important basketball is to SDSU. The bison aren't going to keep up with SDSU in basketball, especially with your upper NCC level recruits your bringing in. Last years recruiting classes may be on the same level in Rivals or something, but trust me, after this years recruiting class comes in it'll will be another 4 or 5 years before the bison can get a win. You can't compete with the BSA in Fargo. South Dakota at least produces a few high level recruits for bball every year, North Dakota has nothing. Those guys you brought in are not going to be able to compete until they are seniors, and then they'll be a .500 team in D-I.

When I worry about the transistion for basketball at SDSU I am always comforted by the fact that guys nagy is bringing in are attracted scholarship offers from schools like UNI, Wisconsin Greenbay etc. I know that he is bringing in the talent to be competitive. Do you think NDSU will be competitive with NCC talent? I don't.

[NDSUstudent]

The crowd won't be a factor as SDSU has been playing in tough venues most of the season, and has probably played in a worse enviroment. *.

The crowd will be a factor, the BSA will be packed and loud. It will beat the environment at any venue the Jacks have played at this year.

Rabbit you don't know how good these redshirts will be, Tim Miles must of saw something in these guys to make him think they were D1 players. They could turn out to be NCC caliber they could be D1 caliber it's really hard to tell before they even played in a game.

[Bison_Dan]

Do you think NDSU will be competitive with NCC talent? *I don't.

Why don't you ask your fb coach? :

[RABBIT]

The crowd will be a factor, the BSA will be packed and loud. It will beat the environment at any venue the Jacks have played at this year.

I'm sure USC, Purdue and the SEC schools we played won't hold a candle to the BSA. My point was that the Jacks have been a road team this year, and have played pretty well against tough competition in hostile enviroments. I don't think that the crowd will bother the girls that much.

Rabbit you don't know how good these redshirts will be, Tim Miles must of saw something in these guys to make him think they were D1 players. They could turn out to be NCC caliber they could be D1 caliber it's really hard to tell before they even played in a game.

Who do you think will be better, a recruit that plays in metro minneapolis or Illinois for highschool, or one that plays class A ball in North Dakota? You can get pretty good indications from things like this. Why do you think that the Jacks haven't tried for any of your recruits lately? Do you think that A. Miles is beating Nagy to every decent player in the area. or B. Nagy has better talent and has passed on these guys that NDSU is getting. The only player that NDSU has that the Jacks showed interest in was Sussenguth, and the jacks passed on him when they could get two players that were taller with better stats. Think about it. Why would the jacks not show any interest in Pennick for next season? Why would they not try to get Lucas Moorman. Do you think they don't know what kind of local talent there is? Draw your own conclusions.

[RABBIT]

Why don't you ask your fb coach? * *

D-Iaa football vs. D-I basketball. Think about it. *What a brilliant reply, a bison fan some how bringing up football for no reason, when its not even a pertinent comparison.

[NDSUstudent]

I'm sure USC, Purdue and the SEC schools we played won't hold a candle to the BSA. *My point was that the Jacks have been a road team this year, and have played pretty well against tough competition in hostile enviroments. *I don't think that the crowd will bother the girls that much. *

I'm sure all 500 fans that showed up to watch USC play SDSU was an amazing environment or playing in front of 10,000 empty seats in Purdue was really grueling. You have played tough against D1 competion on the road but SDSU has yet to face a hostile crowd. The home crowd will give NDSU an advantage.

[NDSUstudent]

Rabbit NDSU gets maybe one ND basketball recruit every year. Mooreman could be a D1 player, who knows. I don't care who Nagy and the Jacks go after there are plenty of good recruits in the area to go around and just because Nagy doesn't recruit them doesn't make them a sub par player. Nelson, Woodside, Vaughan, Lunde, and Winkleman all seem like good players to me and all could be solid D1 players. You are the one drawing conclusions saying that they are just NCC caliber even though you've never seen most of them play. And most of these players played AAU ball and held there own against other D1 recruits and for the most part played quite well from what I've heard.