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Yeah, you.
The people who said the move to division I was a mistake.
The people who said we couldn't compete.
The people who said the NCC was just as good.
The people who said that it would be the start of the end, and our schools would struggle in mediocrity for decades to come.
(PS. Most of these people live in Vermillion and Sioux Falls, and graduated from Augie and the U, although....there were also some very loud SDSU fans who were also opposed to the move.)
Well, lets see how your predictions have turned out?
1. The SDSU football team won it's conference for the first time in @ 40 years, and this year JUST missed making the playoffs and winning possibly the toughest conference in the FCS.
2. The SDSU women's volleyball team qualified for the NCAA tournament in it's first year of eligibility.
3. The SDSU women's Soccer team also qualified for the tournament and won their first round game.
4. The NDSU men's team won their conference in their first year of eligibility and played Kansas(yes, that Kansas) to a 10 point game in the NCAA Tournament. (The SDSU men played that same Bison team to OT in Frost Arena earlier this year)
5. The Lady Jackrabbits turned in possibly the MOST dominating performance of any team in the Women's NCCAA tournament in the first round. Humiliating a team that has qualified for the tournament 8 of the past 9 years.
Now, I know, I know.... there are very few, if any, posters here who opposed the move to D-I...and if they are here....they probably don't go bragging about it. But, forgive me for a moment.
You see, I remember spending the better part of two years( the last year of D-II, and the first year of D-I transition) getting attacked by people. Being told it was "stupid", that USD was "right" and SDSU was "wrong". All Dr. Oien and the University were doing was hurting our Schools, and our State. "We'd Never Compete" on the big stage, and that "they should just leave it alone".
Well, I plan on ordering a big box of lemons. I'm sending them out to everyone who ever doubted SDSU (and NDSU for that matter) and telling them to go ahead and suck on them.
The delicious irony of USD declaring 4 years later that D-II was becoming watered-down, and they too would move up to D-I(as Dr. Oien predicted) is just dessert. The "Princeton of the Praries" line keeps getting funnier and funnier as the years go on.
So please enjoy watching the Lady Rabbits play on espn2 tomorrow night, and also remember that many people, I repeat many people....just a few years ago wanted to deny our young ladies the opportunity to do this, and thought there was no way we could play with the "big schools".
The people who said the move to division I was a mistake.
The people who said we couldn't compete.
The people who said the NCC was just as good.
The people who said that it would be the start of the end, and our schools would struggle in mediocrity for decades to come.
(PS. Most of these people live in Vermillion and Sioux Falls, and graduated from Augie and the U, although....there were also some very loud SDSU fans who were also opposed to the move.)
Well, lets see how your predictions have turned out?
1. The SDSU football team won it's conference for the first time in @ 40 years, and this year JUST missed making the playoffs and winning possibly the toughest conference in the FCS.
2. The SDSU women's volleyball team qualified for the NCAA tournament in it's first year of eligibility.
3. The SDSU women's Soccer team also qualified for the tournament and won their first round game.
4. The NDSU men's team won their conference in their first year of eligibility and played Kansas(yes, that Kansas) to a 10 point game in the NCAA Tournament. (The SDSU men played that same Bison team to OT in Frost Arena earlier this year)
5. The Lady Jackrabbits turned in possibly the MOST dominating performance of any team in the Women's NCCAA tournament in the first round. Humiliating a team that has qualified for the tournament 8 of the past 9 years.
Now, I know, I know.... there are very few, if any, posters here who opposed the move to D-I...and if they are here....they probably don't go bragging about it. But, forgive me for a moment.
You see, I remember spending the better part of two years( the last year of D-II, and the first year of D-I transition) getting attacked by people. Being told it was "stupid", that USD was "right" and SDSU was "wrong". All Dr. Oien and the University were doing was hurting our Schools, and our State. "We'd Never Compete" on the big stage, and that "they should just leave it alone".
Well, I plan on ordering a big box of lemons. I'm sending them out to everyone who ever doubted SDSU (and NDSU for that matter) and telling them to go ahead and suck on them.
The delicious irony of USD declaring 4 years later that D-II was becoming watered-down, and they too would move up to D-I(as Dr. Oien predicted) is just dessert. The "Princeton of the Praries" line keeps getting funnier and funnier as the years go on.
So please enjoy watching the Lady Rabbits play on espn2 tomorrow night, and also remember that many people, I repeat many people....just a few years ago wanted to deny our young ladies the opportunity to do this, and thought there was no way we could play with the "big schools".
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