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The Silence You Hear...

LMITOUT

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JIvers Mentor

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With the Bison winning the rubber match against the Gophers, it's time to move onto the next stop of the Big 10 Domination Tour: Kinnick Stadium in 2016.

GO BISON.

I'll be cheering for the Bison that day. I live in Iowa City, and I've already gotten calls from Hawkeye fans who want to rub this Charlie Fox of a game today in...

This was a huge embarassment for the Gophers today, but I give Coach Kill a year's pass on this sort of debacle, as he inherited the mess created by Joel Maturi and that lightweight flim-flam man Tim Brewster. There just better not be any more losses to any schools from the Dakotas...

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For the Gophers, struggling against an FCS foe in front of their own fans is nothing new, though it's not any less humbling and frustrating for a school with an athletics department budget about five times as big as NDSU's.

Minnesota lost to South Dakota last year. The Gophers barely beat South Dakota State in a three-point game the season before that. Two weeks ago, they lost at home to New Mexico State, an FBS team but frequently one of the weakest in the NCAA's top tier.

This was the third time Minnesota had played North Dakota State in the last five years, and this game was every bit as difficult for the Gophers as the meetings in 2006 and 2007. Minnesota needed a blocked field goal as time ran out to preserve a 10-9 victory the first year and lost 27-21 to NDSU the following season.

Bison fans accounted for perhaps one-fourth of the 48,000-plus crowd, and NDSU even brought its full band.

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I predicted over a week ago that this would happen and I don't go out on a limb that often.

It's a "personal" thing when Bison take the field against Minnesota...for obvious reasons. It's been like that since the mid-eighties and the results would have been the same then, too.

The Bison and their fans have alot of PRIDE in their program and who they represent. Minnesota (the state) has alot more football talent than what the Gophers will tell you...they should stay home and recruit these kids who WANT to play for their state's University.

You would think they'd eventually learn their lesson. Nice job Bison...again!!!

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Not a surprise. The Gophers are a bad, bad football program. They need to sit Grey, and go with the freshman.

Go Bison!

They need to make Gray a full-time wideout/occasional wildcat QB. He is like Tim Tebow with an even worse throwing motion, but has too way much talent to be sitting on the bench.

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1st year coach or not, with or without the right guys, there is no excuse for losing to a sub division football team! Not just a loss either...a beat down! I'm kinda' hoping the gophers lose every game and they fire Kill and go after "sweater vest".

Tressel will never coach in the B1G again, and probably not in FBS. Regardless of his on-field results, he is damaged goods.

And if you want to ever get any decent recruits or coaches at the U of M, you do not fire the head coach every year, especially when he was dealt a bad hand like Kill was.

If Kill is still losing to midgets like NDSU in two years, then you think about making a change.

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I'd give coach Kill a little time. He walked into a terrible team and the seizures can't help. He had a bunch more last week and he just checked in the Mayo.

I'm sure beating the worst team in the big ten is like winning the super bowl, christmas and your birthday to an NDSU fan.

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I'm sure beating the worst team in the big ten is like winning the super bowl, christmas and your birthday to an NDSU fan.

I think it use to be their superbowl, but beating a team ranked out of the top 100(CollegeFootballNews) in FBS is not that big of a deal. The Bison expect to win. Maybe that is the difference between the 2 programs.

The Bison should beat every team ranked out of the top 100 9/10 times.

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Honestly, as a transplant to this state (over 15 years ago) the ignorance of fans in Minnesota is still astounding. The system is broken at the UofM. You'll run every Lou Holtz and Jerry Kill out of town and never have a good team until the athletic program is run with vision and purpose. Maturi has run just about every program into the ground.

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I think most Gopher fans saw this coming a mile away. As an alumnus, I will never donate a dime to the athletic program until they start to put a quality team on TCF Bank Stadium and Williams Arena. They can brag up their All Sports Ranking, their hockey Nat'l championships in the last decade, their wrestling Nat'l championships, their success in swimming and diving, track and field, golf, dance, blah blah blah, but everyone knows that all that counts for revenue and interest are the money sports-basketball and football, and they are embarrassing. Gopher fans might as well face the facts, with 1997 thrown out of the record books for basketball, the Gophers are the door mats of the Big Ten, only Northwestern is worse. The U isn't taking as many in state kids for education and their focus seems to be so heavy into making themselves a huge research campus, that athletics and education are afterthoughts.

I wish Coach Kill the best, I think he was fed a line about bragging up Bohl since he didn't really give NDSU enough credit when BTN put a mike in his face at 0:00. I personally don't think he was outcoached but his team was sure as heck outplayed and outhustled. Talk about kids with no pride, the lack of disclipline showed in the penalties and dumb plays like before the half. If all credit goes to the kids and all blame to the coach as the college football cliche goes, then I suppose in that vein Kill was outcoached. Good luck to him. It's going to be 8 straight losses from here out.

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I think most Gopher fans saw this coming a mile away. As an alumnus, I will never donate a dime to the athletic program until they start to put a quality team on TCF Bank Stadium and Williams Arena. They can brag up their All Sports Ranking, their hockey Nat'l championships in the last decade, their wrestling Nat'l championships, their success in swimming and diving, track and field, golf, dance, blah blah blah, but everyone knows that all that counts for revenue and interest are the money sports-basketball and football, and they are embarrassing. Gopher fans might as well face the facts, with 1997 thrown out of the record books for basketball, the Gophers are the door mats of the Big Ten, only Northwestern is worse. The U isn't taking as many in state kids for education and their focus seems to be so heavy into making themselves a huge research campus, that athletics and education are afterthoughts.

I think you hit the nail on the head. I have been waiting for them to pair down some of the small sports that no one cares about and funnel those resources to the schools main marketing programs - Football & Basketball (although they don't seem to realize this). Hopefully the new President will tighten the screws on him and his delusional vision of the athletics program.

They need to cut back on the research funding as well. Its a publicly funded university that is constantly crying for more money. Either they need to pare back the budgets, or the research needs to be self funding patenting/licensing the results.

I wish coach Kill the best and hope he can succeed. I am far more concerned about they systemic problems there than Coach Kill.

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Congrats to the Bison! This team has been on the rise for years and this is another big step for the program.

Looks like a winless season for the Gophers with no where to go but up and no reason to say they won't be a solid team in a few years. A huge school, a beautiful stadium in a great town with lots of good looking girls, there is no reason they can't start recruiting and build a solid Big 10 team.

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A huge school, a beautiful stadium in a great town with lots of good looking girls , there is no reason they can't start recruiting and build a solid Big 10 team.

I think the U has already gotten into trouble for using girls in their recruitment of athletes wink

Sadly, they did not send any "entertainment" my direction when they were recruiting me for graduate school.

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