North Dakota State Bison

It was absolutely amazing! Awsome !!! Best pep rally ever

What a way to kickoff our successful Drive for 5 national FCS football championship. Great venue, wonderful entertainment. Emcee was a personal favorite.

We had a great time at the Pep Rally. We loved the whole program and would do it again. I think they should have a way to recognize the fans who have been to all the National Championship games. It was GREAT! Go Bison!

I'm not sure why the band was literally smashed up against the stage?? And the floor was 50% filled and the other 50% wide open?? Poorly arranged layout. The band is a key ingredient and weren't featured well.

very nice job, well put together, kept crowd entertained till it started, nice event center

Inside of course was preferable to outside because of weather. The show moved along at a faster - better - pace! The prior players and the band did a great job. The biggest improvement came with the President - he was fired up and connected very well with the crowd. The movie is always a big hit! With the majority of the crowd older then student age the cheers show little response. How about - "Here we go Bison Here we go" and "lets go Bison" and leave it at that. The talk that Bohl would give on the Graig Bohl show about needing the 12th man at game time and how important that home town crowd is would be a good talk to give at that event in some form. Much improved - thanks!

No complaints, parking was great, all of your employees were super friendly and we had so much fun!

Great speakers to get you pumped up and excited for the big game!

I have been to Frisco/Dallas/Allen for all four NDSU Bison NCAA national championship football games and contributing events. The Celebration at the Allen Event Center was first class...simply the best pepfest of all four. Randy Holmes and crew should be proud. Should the Bison be fortunate enough to make it back to Texas for a fifth time, I will certainly urge the NDSU Alumni Association to strongly consider the Allen Event Center. Thank you!!

Better than previous year's Pepfest. Announcer was very interactive. Great to see old players. Great way to rally the fans before the big game. Fun for the fans and the whole Bison family. Food and drinks were readily available. Drinks a little expensive in my mind but big events draw those prices sometimes. Overall great experience.

I have been to all four pep fests. This was the best so far! Great facility. Lots of space to move around. No lines in the concessions and refreshment counters. The event staff was fabulous!! Someone must have given Allen a heads up, because they shined! Go Allen TX and Go Bison!

Much better than last year! It was great to be inside this year.

Great location for event. Program moved quickly and was well organized.

Amazing!!! It was so much fun. Highly recommend to others.

awesome pepfest! 3 hours of pure fun! everyone was having fun!

It could have been more about getting us pumped up instead of all the interviews

VERY NICE LAYOUT, BETTER THAN OUTSIDE, GOOD SEATING. COST FOR FOOD AND ALCOHOL WAS OUTRAGEOUS BUT OH WELL.....SO I GUESS I WILL DRINK PRIOR

Great venue, concessions were good, would have liked a few premium beers instead of the same old run of the mill Bud and Coors. Add a few of the craft brewery beers from TX.

Good video Really fired up crowd Could have shown the portable camera shots on center screen rather than just two side screens

Good program. Lots of fun! Bookstore could expand space and selection of items as it appeared they just brought left over inventory and nothing new! Also needed many more check out lanes!

MC really do didn't have a clue about the Bison. Where was the coach?

Ndsu Bison win their 4th straight FCS national championship in front of 17000 Bison fans who traveled over 1000 miles. Great game by 2competitors it was all you could ask for

Overall I thought the event was great. I didn't sit in the GA seats, rather had a friend with suite access and was on that level. I was wonderful up there. Being out the cold was a big plus also. Great job on putting it together.

the event was very nice. Interviews with older players were extremely nice. Well run event.

This is my fifth year to attend the pepfest. Definitely like the indoor venues! The event itself was fun. However, I wish the NDSU Bookstore would have had more room to set up their merchandise. Definitely too crowded to shop and I am not certain they had all their merchandise available.

How nice of Dr. Pepper Arena to host the NDSU Drive for Five Pep rally. It was a great venue for the event, and very well produced. So much fun and the fact that we went on to win the game the next day was even better!!! Go Bison!

This event is always so enjoyable to go to. The atmosphere is electric and is a fun time had by all!!

Bison took control early and their offense controlled the ball most of the time resting the defence and Carson Wentz did an outstanding job at QB with effective passes and a good ground game.

thank you NCCA ticketing, very easy and no problems going through gate

As always, NDSU did a great job entertaining their fans!

Although the Dr. Pepper Arena is a great place to enjoy, the parking leaves much to be desired. For the last two years, it takes about an hour (60 minutes) for traffic to leave.

Fun event. Well done. Hope to attend next year too.

The Pep Rally was a very well planned event for the Bison Fans/Family to mill around, visit with each other, relax, and enjoy each others company; to discuss the team and accomplishments, discuss the players and how they truly play as a team/herd, to support each other; how amazing that every week it seems that any one of the team players stands out, but never just one or two week after week. It was such a relaxing event, and then to get all fired up when the program started, and all the fans meld together in support of our Bison.

The Pep Rally was amazing!!! The program was well organized and spirit raising. Go Bison!

Great fun. Great get together with old friends, some have not seen in years. To players and coaches, congrats to another great year. It is fun to watch and cheer for your success.

The atmosphere for the event was great. A lot better indoor than the previous outdoor events. Great family event, didn't have to wait in line for food/drinks, event was non-stop.

It would have been nice to have a band. It was a full house and it was hard to get around. It would also have been nice to have a place to sit other than just in the stadium part. It was nice they had enough booze for us!

Hats off to the organizers. They finally got it right. Nice, intimate, indoor setting. Great snack options and plenty of beverage vendors! I appreciated the option of something other than beer and wine coolers. The Bison Green was very tasty. DJ did a good job warming up the crowd. Might be fun to have a comedian next year. Could do some local ND humor, roast the other team's fans, etc. I know it's a Pepfest, but the cheers are a little lame IMO. We need to save our voices for gameday. Could easily have watched more video hightlights. Day in the life, etc. Really appreciate the indoor arena in light of the cold temp this year. Made for a more intimate setting too. While Dr. Pepper field allowed for fireworks, the smaller, in-the-round setting of the Allen Event Center was a better experience IMO. Best one of the 3 I've attended. The drive for five is alive!

Event was organized, inspiring speeches, food and beverages available along with merchandise to purchase. The only down side was I found the web site to purchase tickets not that easy to navigate

The emails sent out stated doors open at 5:00 with the event starting at 5:30. We got there at 5:50, and the actual program never started until about 8:00pm. The drag in time, the high price of drinks, the low temperature in the building, and the poor structure of the event lead to not having much of what could be called a good time. I was very disappointed.

NDSU pep rally was excellent great place to hold it.

We had lots of fun at the event! Thank you NDSU!!!

It was like no one talked to each other. We were told it was all general admission, as a matter of fact when I went to order the tickets I was only given the choice of general admission, there were no other seats. So we were told we would have to stand from 5:30 pm until the show was over which was about 9:00 p.m. Second, after standing in line at an entrance for over an hour, 2minutes before they opened the door they told us we could not use that entrance even though we had asked the event staff and they said all doors would be opened. While it was indoors, it was only 45 degrees which really didn't keep us that much warmer. The pre show was weird. All they did was have a DJ who played a lot of loud music, but really didn't talk about the Bison. The yell team was there but they never got to do a cheer. The marching band was there but they didn't have them standing together so the sound was different. All in all after 4 straight years, this was the worst pep rally they ever had even being inside. Oh yeah, I forgot the $16.00 mixed drink and $8.00 beer. I believe that to be the only reason they did not run out of alcohol because it was so expensive.

Allen Event Center and excellent choice. Nice to be indoors vs. in the open field like the past three years. Liked the tempo of the evenings schedule and the MC keeping us pumped up. prior to the main event. I would vote for the same location for next year.

the event was great very fun the cowboy got old but everything else was great

Great event again! Great atmosphere and it's always great to involve former players.

Event was great. Unclear tickets were for floor or for general seating. Parking ramp was okay, but exiting took a long time. Police guided vehicles out of the ramp, but exercised no control over stoplights. So only 3 cars (about) could exit with each green light.

Our fourth trip and fourth pep fest. By far the best. It was warm upbeat and fairly well orchestrated We love our Bison!!!

We had a great time. This was our first trip to Frisco and we will recommend it to others.

Great program. Inability to utilize tickets to enter the floor area was disappointing. Suites were difficult to access and amount of passes were less than promised.The councourse was crowded but provided opportunity to meet others.

It was a great time. Loved the pre-entertainment. the MC was great!

This event was electrifying! It was very cool to bring in the past Bison players and listen to them speak of their Bison football experiences.

The NDSU Bison pep rally held January 9, 2015 alone was good. The pre warm-up was totally unnecessary. Bison Nation doesn't need any extra stimulation for us to get motivated. You didn't need that DJ and his side kick playing songs. I feel the reason the 2 hour chatter was just to sell more beer. The temperature could have been a lot warmer. If we wanted to be cold we could have had it held outside.

Event was great. Only downside was the parking. It took over an hour to get out of the parking ramp. No one was directing traffic after the event.