NDSU vs Sundogs

[ZHerd]

This story reminds me of Rocky III. They are full of hate and desire and we are treating it like any other game.

Except replace Mr. T with Gary Coleman.

And this will be more like the 2nd fight

[ByeSonBusiness]

Found this in an article on the ncaa.com website.
(Thomas, Lennon, Schweigert were football coaches at UND).

But Thomas and his staff, which by then included eventual coaching successors Dale Lennon and Bubba Schweigert, along with then-assistant coach Rob Bollinger, designed a plan to recruit and develop players to counter the Bison's vaunted, run-oriented veer offense, as well as to develop a passing attack of their own. "We worked hard at recruiting," Thomas said.

A reason why the UND game should be just another game. In the early 1990s UND started recruiting and developing players so it could beat the Bison. In other words, to be best in ND. As some of us have argued ... wrong perspective for NDSU. The goal of NDSU is to be strong at a national level, to be able to compete against a variety of offensive & defensive schemes. If NDSU starts making it a priority to defeat UND, rather than a priority to be strong nationally, it will harm NDSU's competitiveness. Part of the reason I don't like this so-called rivalry. I think the numbers speak for themselves - NDSU 12, UND 1.

If you want to be strong nationally, you gotta be strong at home first. Feel free to inform us of any titles NDSU won in a year where they lost to UND.

UND needed to recruit to beat the Bison, not only to be best in ND, but to be best on the National level. Obviously the game was big, but they knew if they couldn't beat the Bison, they weren't going anywhere on the big stage as well. Kind of like SDSU now. They want to beat the Bison not only for the rivalry, but they know they will get them in the first round of playoffs every year, so they have to be able to beat them to be nationally relevant.

This.

[BISONBRI53]

I think we (Bison) may be in trouble this weekend... Story on WDAY sports last night said the Pioux have been practicing inside AND outside in preparation for this game! Cranking the noise up in the shed to prepare for the noise in the dome Saturday! F it! I'm stayin home now!

[gumby013]

I don't know what I am going to do with myself tomorrow...no flight to track.

[bisonboone11]

http://www.grandforksherald.com/spor...d-ndsu-rivalry

I think it's funny that one of the JuCo transfers said they told him on his visit that they had NDSU on their schedule... They are trying to use having NDSU on the schedule to help with recruiting?

[siouxfan512]

I think we (Bison) may be in trouble this weekend... Story on WDAY sports last night said the Pioux have been practicing inside AND outside in preparation for this game! Cranking the noise up in the shed to prepare for the noise in the dome Saturday! F it! I'm stayin home now!

Might as well narrow that spread right now. In lieu of this new information I promise not to make any jabs if the Bison would prefer to just forfeit. OR maybe the instead of being really loud, the dome should just go silent when UND is on the field ... you know, just to throw our guys off.

[Vet70]

I don't know what I am going to do with myself tomorrow...no flight to track.

Track the helmet car.

[siouxfan512]

I think it's funny that one of the JuCo transfers said they told him on his visit that they had NDSU on their schedule... They are trying to use having NDSU on the schedule to help with recruiting?

Is that so bad? If you were a recruit wouldn't you want to know a team is scheduling competition? Rivalry and History aside, what looks better on UND's schedule ... NDSU or Stony Brook?

Now I'm sure when they pitched it, they probably did make a point of it having been an in-state rival, but I don't see anything wrong with pointing that kind of stuff out to a recruit. Especially when you have a new coach, who is rebuilding a program. Bubba can hardly point at the trophy case and say, "look at those 4 championships we just won". Most schools don't have that luxury, so you play other cards; scheduling, play style, IPF, education, etc.

[EightyfourBison]

Listened to part of Kleinsasser interview with Jack Michaels. Wow, didn't realize how much we have been missing out on as Bison fans by not playing und. Talk about living in the past.

[bisonhp330]

Is that so bad? If you were a recruit wouldn't you want to know a team is scheduling competition? Rivalry and History aside, what looks better on UND's schedule ... NDSU or Stony Brook?

Now I'm sure when they pitched it, they probably did make a point of it having been an in-state rival, but I don't see anything wrong with pointing that kind of stuff out to a recruit. Especially when you have a new coach, who is rebuilding a program. Bubba can hardly point at the trophy case and say, "look at those 4 championships we just won". Most schools don't have that luxury, so you play other cards; scheduling, play style, IPF, education, etc.

Bubba to recruit: 'why would you want to win championships when you can come here and have a chance to play against a championship team'. much more appealing.
Makes sense to me.
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