Spiders v. Bison In-game thread

[72Spider]

Disappointed yes, but very proud of this team. Represented us well and had a great year. Sometimes you just face a team that is better than you and that's what happened last night. Biggest surprise was how their defensive line controlled the line of scrimmage. But we're fine. Just remember where we were four years ago (and the year prior). DR has us moving in the right direction and we are building something here!

 

[spider fan]

David Jones showed a lot of heart while being carted off the field with his outstretched right arm pointing upward and the smile on his face. What a great representative for our school.

 

[3genspider]

David Jones showed a lot of heart while being carted off the field with his outstretched right arm pointing upward and the smile on his face. What a great representative for our school.

Very classy response by the Bison fans as well.

 

[64Spider]

With their home field advantage and unless the format is changed, the path to the championship will always go through Fargo. There is no way to prepare for that experience. At least a lot of our players have now played there and can provide leadership when we play them again.

 

[WebSpinner]

hats off to the bison, a great team, a great program. love our guys and what they did this season and hope that those returning want to do this again next year, conf champs, playoffs, deep run and hope that another valley team who knows how to play them can knock those big animals off. we have seen this before where a school seems to dominate and they always drop off at some point or go to fbs at some point. thank you coaches and thank you players for a wonderful season and ride, take some time off and then get going for 2016

 

[BillyWayne]

We were beat by a superior team...one that may very well win another national championship. Our guys never gave up, even when the outcome was pretty well determined. It was a great season. Our coaches and players are a class act and we should rightfully be very proud of them.

 

[MolivaManiac]

With their home field advantage and unless the format is changed, the path to the championship will always go through Fargo. There is no way to prepare for that experience. At least a lot of our players have now played there and can provide leadership when we play them again.

Agree and disagree. The thing you can do is win the game against the mediocre Villanova team in November and get on the opposite side of the bracket.

 

[SpiderGuy]

Agree and disagree. The thing you can do is win the game against the mediocre Villanova team in November and get on the opposite side of the bracket.

Don't disagree with your statement, Too add to it, I thought we should have had the JMU seed regardless of loss at Villanova. The JMU seeding still pi$$es me off, and they showed what they were worth - couldn't win one game 2 years in a row. JMU had a great draw, but once again couldn't make it out of the purple stadium.

I came on this site at the time of the draw announcement & said undefeated Mac State was overrated & would go down - they played no FBS schools, played a D2 school, and played in a weak conference. The southern part of the draw was certainly better looking on the face of things than the Ill. St. & NDSU upper part of draw.

However, if we'd have gotten the JMU 5 seed, in the end we'd have gotten Jack. St. - who looks impressive...maybe not as much as NDSU - to be determined. Bottom line - we have to win out, and go through the best. In that regard, it's on us to control our destiny in the playoffs regardless of the draw.

 

[32counter]

With their home field advantage and unless the format is changed, the path to the championship will always go through Fargo. There is no way to prepare for that experience. At least a lot of our players have now played there and can provide leadership when we play them again.

Seeding is so important in any tourney especially the FCS tourney.1-8,4-5 ||| 3-6,7-2.

NDSU plays Iowa and at UNI next season.They host ILL State at Homecoming.The remaining MVC schedule ain't much.Worst I see Bizon is 9-2,best at 10-1 with only a BCS loss.

Looks like a #1 seed for them in 2016.Get them on a neutral site(Frisco) we have a shot.Otherwise,forget about it.

 

[Stonewall D]

Now let's talk basketball.

 

[Hanca]

I don't want anyone to think that I don't appreciate the efforts of our players, but after a pat on the back to all of them, all I can focus on is how we get to be good enough to become a better team so as to move up to the level of NDSU.
I also wonder whether we can ever accomplish that given our particular circumstances, including, without limitation, our size, fan base, facilities and academic requirements, 2008 notwithstanding.
NDSU pretty much dominated us in every category. They have FBS talent at many positions. Someone please tell me how we get there.

 

[Hanca]

We get to that level by having a president who played football, not cello, and we let Admissions accept athletes. For fan base, accept more students who know or played football, not cricket or badminton.

 

[32counter]

Most of the NDSU players major in Sports Management.A few in Criminal Justice.King Fisher majors in University Studies.Come on.

Their academics and academic requirements are on the other side of the spectrum.

I'll go with the cello guy with a bow tie and would much rather be thought of a school of higher academic learning with better paying postgraduate jobs rather than a school that invariably produces gym teachers and personal trainers in North Dakota.

 

[ur2K]

Let's hope the guy with the cello and bow tie realizes how good a representative Danny Rocco is of our school and treats him accordingly.

 

[SpiderK]

Look at their fan base. They are rabid for the bison. If that game were At robins it wouldn't even have been a sellout. The student section would have been empty and few would have cared. It's amazing the university puts a product on the field with so little support and yet achieved such lofty goals.
Let's be real.

Father Spider hit the nail on the head right there!!!!! Bison football is all North Dakota has other than Fracking, and we can't get 8000 to a playoff game against an archrival 60 miles away.

 

[wr70beh]

Most of the NDSU players major in Sports Management.A few in Criminal Justice.King Fisher majors in University Studies.Come on.

Their academics and academic requirements are on the other side of the spectrum.

I'll go with the cello guy with a bow tie and would much rather be thought of a school of higher academic learning with better paying postgraduate jobs rather than a school that invariably produces gym teachers and personal trainers in North Dakota.

One of their players majored in some sort of wildlife management degree. When I heard that, I said he would be either a Park Ranger or a Game Warden when he got out of school.

EDIT: Both admirable professions, I might add.

 

[tjbison]

Anyway fun game, your players were classy good luck next year..

 

[spiderjpo]

Our fan base tends to alienate many with the academic excuse that is thrown around when we lose. I am proud of my UR degree but would never think it makes me a better person than somone else. I like how our coaches use the academic side as an asset in recruiting and find kids that can excel in their sport and get their degree. We should always want to be the best and have shown we can be. Good grief we just were in the National Semi-finals!

 

[SpiderK]

Sam Houston getting killed worse than we did. 41-7 at half.

 

[SpiderK]

Anyway fun game, your players were classy good luck next year..

Go Jacksonville State!!!

 

[Wood Hall]

Most of the NDSU players major in Sports Management.A few in Criminal Justice.King Fisher majors in University Studies.Come on.

Their academics and academic requirements are on the other side of the spectrum.

I'll go with the cello guy with a bow tie and would much rather be thought of a school of higher academic learning with better paying postgraduate jobs rather than a school that invariably produces gym teachers and personal trainers in North Dakota.

NDSU is a large (for its state), public, land-grant university. It's mission is totally different than UR's, and diminishing NDSU just diminishes us. And I am sure plenty of NDSU grads go on to grad school or other (so-called) prestigous professions.

 

[MolivaManiac]

Our fan base tends to alienate many with the academic excuse that is thrown around when we lose. I am proud of my UR degree but would never think it makes me a better person than somone else. I like how our coaches use the academic side as an asset in recruiting and find kids that can excel in their sport and get their degree. We should always want to be the best and have shown we can be. Good grief we just were in the National Semi-finals!

Completely agree. We really need to bury that crap.

 

[urfan1]

+1 do you think Stanford fans would cry about their academics? Embrace who we are, and be the best we can be.

 

[SpiderRick]

Look at their fan base. They are rabid for the bison. If that game were At robins it wouldn't even have been a sellout. The student section would have been empty and few would have cared. It's amazing the university puts a product on the field with so little support and yet achieved such lofty goals.
Let's be real.

Yeah let's be real. They live in frekkin Fargo, North frekkin (I'm freezing my balls off) Dakota. What else are those people going to do when it's 11 degrees outside and only 6 hours of daylight? Other than being home, their choices are the mall or the Fargodome.