LDopaPDX said:
NoDakBisman said:
Get'emGriz said:
ewueagle2010 said:
Get'emGriz said:
MLEagle said:
I don't disagree on the color a bit; about the ugliest shades at green and yellow combo out there. But, I like the design on the stadium where the seating is very steep, on all sides and close to the field. I'm sure it looks and sounds like a lot more then 19,000 folks.
You guys play at WA-Grizzly Stadium every other year and seem to handle the environment better than most. EWU will be able to handle the noise in the dome just fine. I went to the UM/NDSU playoff game last year in Fargo and while it is loud, Washington-Grizzly Stadium is louder. The Fargodome is just more of an annoying loud.
Never been to the Fargo Dump, but it's a dome and it looks pretty unappealing on television. You're right about EWU handling noise however, they play at WA-Griz, Bobcat stadium, and have played @ Oregon, Washington x's 2, Wazzu, and Oregon State within the last 5 years. Noise won't be the issue, it will just be the match up.
Although noise aside, EWU has laid some real eggs while playing indoors in recent memory. I really hate indoor football!
When we were there, it sucked. It felt more like an indoor football arena game than it did a college football game. Football shouldn't be played in a dome. The only good thing about the trip was the tailgating. They do a fantastic job with it.
Well paybacks are a Bitch right? I do say a RED football field? Really? That's my thought. I think Griz stadium has the best setting in FCS football, and it gives a look like a mini Husker stadium in my opinion. I enjoyed watching the game last August with Brent Musberger calling it, and even though we lost, it was a fun game to watch from a independent college football fan for sure. Down to the wire. Griz QB played the game of his life.
As far as our Dome, to me it makes the environment seem so BIG TIME in the lights once you walk out from the concourses to the stadium seats. Your close, not far from the field, and theres not a bad seat in the house.
For many traveling 200 to 300 miles to watch a game its nice knowing the temp inside will be perfect in the Fargo Dome.
No excuses then for the Eagles. Well actually from what I have read your oline is very new and if that's the case our D front 7 are going to bring the house to your QB and he won't have time to throw to your All American Coop much. That will be the key, and if your Dfense is fair, then we will pound the ball all game until we get stopped, then start to mix it up.....we don't have a weak spot on the team other then DCorners young but talented. That's it. We are loaded this year with senior leadership and All-Americans on both sides of the ball.
Its nuts. Hard to believe we just reload with the next man up.... its so true.... but we do owe the EWU some payback and who took away our 1st FCS title and would have been 6 in a row by now! Oh us fans are a bit silly, but we haven't forgotten. But if you come enjoy the tailgaiting, wear your god awful red, and have a beer with us and take it all in.... Fargo Title Town FCS.
Be Herd, race to Frisco goes through Fargo once again,
NoDakBisman
While you have every right to be bullish on your defense given how extraordinary they've been over the last few years- best in the FCS by a country mile- I'd see your scenario as unlikely. Eastern has proven time and time again that the offense can compete with just about anyone. We scored 52 on a Washington team that featured 4 players drafted in the first two rounds that year.
I'd see your offense as salivating for this game. Big Sky defenses have been really poor over the last few years and our D has consistently been at or near the bottom of that bad bunch. The D has given up 50 or more points in a game no less than 8 times in the last two seasons... and some of those teams that score at will against us aren't even all that great.
Defense wins Championships at any level of football. We have proven that, Alabama has proven that, NFL has proven that year after year. You can score 50 points a game in your conference, but that won't get you to Frisco when you play a team with a talented Defense who will shut you down. But the secret is a TIME KILLING OFFENSE WHO CHEWS UP THE CLOCK AND STAYS ON THE FIELD! That's our best defense is a suffocating offense that teams can't stop, 6 - 8 minute drives just suck the life out of opposing teams and then our DFense is fresh.
Example: Griz/Bison last August, we couldn't stop the Griz on the last drive of the game, 4 4th down conversions and our Dfense was running out of gas. They won.
So your theory of 50 points will get you far is a farce, maybe in the Big Sky, but not in the MVFC.
Your guys have a brutal nonconference schedule, FBS Washington State, NDSU, then Northern Iowa, All on the road. Holy crap. Your team will either be 0-3 and beat up, or if they get one win out of that they will be doing OK. Northern Iowa and the Bison are clearly the best 2 teams in the nation this year. We will both make the playoffs and I hope are in opposite brackets, we will probably play each other in Frisco is my guess.
Its like Bama and FSU or Bama and LSU its that type of tough football, they have speed, size to match us so they will be tough for you to beat as well let me tell you. I hate those guys, and we hate them. Especially their coach!
Hope you can make it out to Fargo some of you Eagle Fans and see what we have created since 2010, its amazing what winning does.....
Oh by the way we would have beaten U of Washington, and we will knock off Iowa Haweyes on Sept.17th in Iowa City so be watching live 9am ESPN from Washington MST or PAC time. I have that much confidence in this years team and focus. We are loaded with boys who are inspired to succeed at the highest level!
Be Herd,
NoDakBisman
