Bill would require NDSU and UND to play an annual football game
Kevin Fee Grand Forks Herald
The state is trying to get involved in the UND vs. North Dakota State rivalry.
Rep. Weezie Potter, D-Grand Forks, has introduced a bill in the North Dakota House that mandates that UND and NDSU play an annual football game.
The schools haven’t met since Oct. 18, 2003, when the Sioux defeated the Bison 28-21 in overtime in the Alerus Center in Grand Forks.
The stoppage of the rivalry, which began in 1894, was mostly due to NDSU moving its sports programs to NCAA Division I to start the 2004-05 school year. But UND joined the Bison in Division I this school year.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Legislated football games.
Now we have the state legislature in North Dakota attempting to write bills that NDSU and UND play each year in football. Don't these people have something better to do, you're waisting our tax dollars arguing petty bills. Get back to work doing the people of North Dakota business. I believe this is an issue for the two schools to work on without interference from the state legislature. Leave it to a democrats to come up with this type of a bill. In the end I believe this bill will fail.
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Much like religion and politics, sports and politics generally should not mix.
ReplyDeleteI don't know exactly how the scholarship situation breaks down in the interim phase of going Division 1-AA, FCS or whatever they're calling it these days, but I'd rather play the Bison on an even playing field. The series is going to renew eventually, so I don't know why people are still freakin' out like we're never going to play each other again. Patience, grasshoppers. We'll be defending the Nickle soon enough. Let's try and keep it! :)
ReplyDeleteI think for a few more years there is going to be some disparity in the numbers. I would rather see them play when the scholies are equal.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing to prohibit it now. Only the NCAA game limits, which it would now affect for both teams. In the end, although I would LOVE to see the Nickle Trophy resurrected, I think our "farmer legislators" should stay out of it.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see UND and NDSU renew the rivalry but I think UND gets killed until they are more even in the number of scholarships.
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