Category: North Dakota State Bison
Missouri Valley Football Conference Recognizes "Silver Anniversary Team"
Founded in 1985 as the Gateway Football Conference, the Missouri Valley Football Conference is celebrating its 25th season of FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) football during the 2009 season. As part of a season-long celebration, the conference is paying tribute to its all-time greats by selecting a Silver Anniversary Team. Also selected was an NFL Greats and Institutional Greats team.
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Perhaps the Division I Football Championship Subdivision needs a mascot. How about an underdog?
It’s still commonly known as Division I-AA, especially this week when the following mantra is shouted nationwide: Let the upsets begin.
North Dakota State’s chance comes Thursday when the Bison open their season at Iowa State. For administrators, it’s a buy game and in this case, the Bison are receiving a $300,000 pay day for playing the Big 12 Conference program.
Bison enter with ‘unproven’ tag
North Dakota State lost eight NFL prospects off a team that went just 6-5 last year.
What is known about this year’s edition of the Bison? Not a lot.
It’s a rare August for NDSU, which in the last several years has had more known commodities returning than not. If last season was supposed to be “The Year” for the Bison, well, it wasn’t.
North Dakota State Concludes Sprited Fall Camp With Closed Practice
The North Dakota State University football team concluded its fall camp schedule Saturday, Aug. 22, with a closed practice at Dacotah Field. The defense came up big plays to hold a slight edge in the controlled practice that featured different situations on offense, defense and special teams.
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The offense held the edge during the first North Dakota State University football scrimmage played on an overcast and windy Saturday, Aug. 15, on historic Dacotah Field.
During the 70-play scrimmage, the offense rolled up 345 yards, scored a pair of touchdowns and made 3-of-4 field goal attempts.
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North Dakota State’s season opener was exactly three weeks away on Thursday. It appears the Bison passing game will need all 21 days to get ready.
After one week of fall football camp, Nick Mertens is the starter but two other quarterbacks are taking turns with the first-team offense. On the other end, the receiving corps looks disjointed with the two junior college hopefuls still sidelined with academic transcript issues and another just getting eligible this week.
Personnel-wise, it’s the most muddled the passing game has been at this stage in head coach Craig Bohl’s seven years at NDSU. Looming on the horizon is Iowa State, which hosts the Bison on Thursday, Sept. 3.
NDSU football: Bison return means focus
Garrett Johnson couldn’t help but get into a scuffle during the first practice for North Dakota State’s football team.
“I’m one of those guys who likes to mix it up a little bit,” Johnson said. “First day of practice, I want to show the incoming freshmen that I’m not scared. You’ve got to take them down a little bit.”
Johnson was sending a message last Wednesday – less than four hours after Bison head coach Craig Bohl delivered even stronger messages to Johnson, Jose Mohler and Shamen Washington.
All three Bison players were arrested last spring for driving under the influence. All three sat out of spring practices.
NDSU football: Training camp update
North Dakota State head football coach Craig Bohl and his impressions after the fourth day of fall practice:
Bohl said it looks like true freshman linebacker Brandon Jemison, from Fargo South, won’t redshirt in his first season. Jemison is currently listed as second string at Will linebacker.
“I think there is probably a great likelihood that we will play him and not redshirt him this year,” Bohl said. “He’s exceeded my expectations.”
Bison born and bred: Fuchs never took his eyes off returning to North Dakota State
He’s not the 305-pound All-American offensive lineman he was in 1990. But a fit-and-trim, 230-pound Scott Fuchs is ecstatic to be back at North Dakota State.
“From the day I left NDSU and from the start of my first job at Valley City State, it was pretty much the goal to get back to NDSU,” Fuchs said.
Fuchs was a member of the last Bison football team to win a national championship – the 1990 NCAA Division II title in Florence, Ala.
“That was a long time ago,” Fuchs said.
After coaching stints at Valley City State, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Minnesota-Crookston, Nebraska-Omaha, Grand Valley State and Southern Illinois, Fuchs was named NDSU’s offensive line coach last January – replacing Pat Perles, now an NFL assistant with the Kansas City Chiefs.
NDSU football training camp update: Evans sits out again
North Dakota State head football coach Craig Bohl and his impressions after the third day of fall practice:
Sophomore linebacker Preston Evans sat out for a third consecutive day with a groin injury.
“Preston has got that groin. He’s getting better, but I think within the next several days he’ll be back,” Bohl said.
NDSU football faces early tests
Iowa State is not Austin Peay. Central Connecticut State is not Sam Houston State.
And this year’s North Dakota State football team is not as experienced as last year’s team which opened its season with convincing 41-6 and
50-14 home wins over Austin Peay and Central Connecticut.
Those games weren’t a gauge of things to come as the Bison – once the top-ranked team of the Football Championship Subdivision – lost four of their next five games and finished with a disappointing 6-5 season.
NDSU football: Season-ticke+ sales are strong
Season ticke+ sales for North Dakota State’s football season are ahead of last year’s pace, according to Josh Hemingway, director of ticke+s, event and family operations.
As of Thursday, Hemingway said NDSU has sold about 9,000 season ticke+s – about 100 more than last year at this time.
NDSU team happy to leave offseason behind
“It’s super to get back started with football.”
That was one of the first lines uttered by North Dakota State head football coach Craig Bohl during the team’s annual media day Thursday at the Fargodome.
When the number of players arrested for DUI equals the number of Applebee’s in Fargo, you know it’s been a tough offseason.
Four of each is way too much to stomach.
That’s why training camp couldn’t have come soon enough.
NDSU quarterback competition could last through the month
The quarterback competition at North Dakota State will likely go deep into training camp.
Bison head coach Craig Bohl said, ideally, the team will choose a starting quarterback the week leading up to the team’s season opener at Iowa State on Sept. 3.
Bison look to improve on last year's mistakes
Fargo, ND (WDAY Sports) - Media day is usually a time for photos, interviews, and high hopes, but this year as NDSU hosted its annual football open house, there was also talk of accountability among teammates and surprises among opponents.
There is a lot to remember, the formations, the plays, the assignments, but this year there is also a lot to forget. Bad memories of a six and five season that ended with a home field loss to the archrival; but hope springs eternal for the guys in green.
“We can be real good if we eliminate a lot of mistakes we had last year a lot of big penalties that hurt us and set us back.”
Last year’s team had star power like few others in recent memory, but there weren’t many photo quality moments. It also taught the guys, or at least reminded them, that a team with something to prove can often be the most dangerous.
North Dakota State's QB battle begins
When North Dakota State’s football team opened fall practice Wednesday afternoon, Nick Mertens returned as the team’s starting quarterback.
Dante Perez, who flew in from California only 10 days ago, showed up as the new guy who would like to be the starting quarterback.
Let the competition begin.
Iowa State's first-game hopes soar after 3 NDSU players suspended
Heading into the season, I thought that North Dakota State might have a chance to spring an upset and ruin Paul Rhoads’ first game as a head coach at Iowa State on Sept. 3.
But recent news has tempered those upset plans.
North Dakota State coach Craig Bohl announced Tuesday that three more key players will be suspended for his team’s opener, the Fargo Forum reported. All were arrested last spring for driving under the influence.
Starting wide receiver Shamen Washington, defensive end Garrett Johnson and backup quarterback Jose Mohler all will be missing for the Iowa State game. And backup linebacker Blake Sczepanski, the fourth Bison cited for DUI in the past six months, remains indefinitely suspended.
NDSU football: Three Bison players given suspensions
Craig Bohl has been working this summer on obtaining his instrument rating to add to his pilot’s license.
“I want to make myself a safer pilot,” said Bohl, who with an instrument rating will be able to avoid certain weather restrictions.
As the head football coach entering his seventh season at North Dakota State, Bohl has been unable to avoid the off-the-field storm that has hit his team the past six months.
As the Bison begin preseason practices this afternoon, Bohl announced Tuesday that three players will be suspended from early-season games after being arrested last spring for driving under the influence.
NDSU Coach Bohl pops the question
Fiancee is Mojo 104.7’s Ryan Kelly
Their love story started with a bungled radio interview and a crash course in football tactics featuring sugar packets as players. More recently, there was a moonlit marriage proposal featuring lawn chairs and four gift boxes.
North Dakota State University head football coach Craig Bohl and Mojo 104.7 morning host Ryan Kelly are engaged. And though Kelly says she was caught off guard by Bohl’s recent proposal, the step felt natural.
“There’s an unbelievable friendship; there’s a chemistry,” Kelly said, adding, “He’s the most incredible man I’ve ever met.”
Three North Dakota State Football Players To Be Reinstated After Suspensions
FARGO, N.D. – North Dakota State head football coach Craig Bohl on Tuesday announced the reinstatement of three previously suspended players.
Senior wide receiver and kick returner Shamen Washington, sophomore defensive end Garrett Johnson and redshirt freshman quarterback Jose Mohler will be suspended for the Sept. 3 season opener at Iowa State.
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