NDSU fans fundrasing to hang D2 title banners

[GrizFan5]

The banners ought to be hung. Those championships were great accomplishments. NDSU has a great football tradition.

The joke, here, is on the posters in this thread who tried to make fun of the effort to raise money for this project.

[Sioux]

The banners ought to be hung. Those championships were great accomplishments. NDSU has a great football tradition.

The joke, here, is on the posters in this thread who tried to make fun of the effort to raise money for this project.

If you were around during the transition you would know that a nice majority of Bison fans spent those 5 years ripping apart D2 for its low quality of play, etc. They pointed out constantly how much better D1-AA was and how glad they are to not be associated with that “lower-level” football anymore. Some going as far as calling D2 football a joke.

Yet now they are wanting to hang their big banners from those “lowly D2 days”. Seems ironice they would like to honor their past now that their program hit Rock Bottom last year.

[GraftonBison]

"Seems ironice they would like to honor their past now that their program hit Rock Bottom last year."

If anyone is an expert on rock bottom, it would be you.

(cough)Sioux Falls(cough)

[GrizFan5]

The banners ought to be hung. Those championships were great accomplishments. NDSU has a great football tradition.

The joke, here, is on the posters in this thread who tried to make fun of the effort to raise money for this project.

If you were around during the transition you would know that a nice majority of Bison fans spent those 5 years ripping apart D2 for its low quality of play, etc. They pointed out constantly how much better D1-AA was and how glad they are to not be associated with that “lower-level” football anymore. Some going as far as calling D2 football a joke.

Yet now they are wanting to hang their big banners from those “lowly D2 days”. Seems ironice they would like to honor their past now that their program hit Rock Bottom last year.

I assume the fans ripping on D-II previously were a relatively small minority of unknowledgeable fans, and that the fans supporting the new banners now represent the vast majority of their fans.

I doubt than many fans who ripped on D-II previously are now pushing for the new banners.

If you look at schools like Georgia Southern, Montana and probably App St these days, you will see fans on their message boards ripping FCS or their conferences. They want to move up to FBS, so feel it's necessary to rip FCS and/or their conferences. In my view, most of these are also unknowledgeable fans. They won't recognize or can't see the good aspects of FCS, and seem to refuse to recognize the high accomplishments of their teams at the FCS level. That is not meant to say that all fans who want to move up are unknowledgeable; only a good chunk of those who rip on FCS and their conferences.

[FargoBison]

Some fans ripped what DII had become and where it was going. Most were still proud of the past but a decade of scholarship cuts, weaker schools moving in and stronger schools moving out led to a lot of frustration among some fans.

[catdaddy2402]

If you were around during the transition you would know that a nice majority of Bison fans spent those 5 years ripping apart D2 for its low quality of play, etc. They pointed out constantly how much better D1-AA was and how glad they are to not be associated with that “lower-level” football anymore. Some going as far as calling D2 football a joke.

Yet now they are wanting to hang their big banners from those “lowly D2 days”. Seems ironice they would like to honor their past now that their program hit Rock Bottom last year.

I remember the fans you speak of. They weren't necessarily ripping what D2 was, they ripped it for what it has become.

I think it's great that NDSU wants to honor it's history.