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It's happening.......I just figured it out.

The money for phase II of the IPF has been whispered to be committed. The reason it hasn't been announced is they are going to announce it in conjuction with NDSU accepting a fb only invite to the Mountain West.

Guaranteed to happen or your money back!

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Originally Posted by Gully

It's happening.......I just figured it out.

The money for phase II of the IPF has been whispered to be committed. The reason it hasn't been announced is they are going to announce it in conjuction with NDSU accepting a fb only invite to the Mountain West.

Guaranteed to happen or your money back!

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That's a pretty cool scoop. You should let Brett McMurphy or Matt Brown know. Or better yet, Matt Larsen.

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Originally Posted by Gully

It's happening.......I just figured it out.

The money for phase II of the IPF has been whispered to be committed. The reason it hasn't been announced is they are going to announce it in conjuction with NDSU accepting a fb only invite to the Mountain West.

Guaranteed to happen or your money back!

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This guy from the Athletic got the memo!!!

https://twitter.com/ChrisVannini/sta...128131072?s=20

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Originally Posted by Gully

It's happening.......I just figured it out.

The money for phase II of the IPF has been whispered to be committed. The reason it hasn't been announced is they are going to announce it in conjuction with NDSU accepting a fb only invite to the Mountain West.

Guaranteed to happen or your money back!

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You couldnt have figured it out. You must have gotten the text.

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Originally Posted by Gully

It's happening.......I just figured it out.

The money for phase II of the IPF has been whispered to be committed. The reason it hasn't been announced is they are going to announce it in conjuction with NDSU accepting a fb only invite to the Mountain West.

Guaranteed to happen or your money back!

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yes sir, let's get creative

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Originally Posted by el_chapo

yes sir, let's get creative

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Originally Posted by bison dan

i think that people are not factoring in is there are some big money alumni that will step up to the plate.

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we have a biiingo

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Originally Posted by HerdBot

That would be easy. Our endowment funds for athletic scholarships would cover the difference. It's grown to the point where Teammakers is funding capital projects.

But having more scholarships would off set some laughable idea that mom and dad want to drive to vermillion every 2 years

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I wouldn't cite our endowment as being capable of much. It is laughably small.

But yes, we can make things work i would think.

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Originally Posted by NDSU1980

If UND were to "someday" go FBS, would you be willing to bring back womens hockey to keep in compliance? Asking for a friend from UND.

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Last time I looked, and admittedly it was four years ago, not all of UND's women's sports have all the scholarships filled. I believe only WBB and WVB are max'd. They could add balancing scholarships (grants-in-aid in NCAA-speak) to soccer, tennis, softball, ITF, OTF, CC, golf. Is that enough to balance 22 add'l for FBS? I don't know that right now either.

Update: Joining the Summit UND had to fund women's sports at 85% scholarships allowed minimum per the league I believe.

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Originally Posted by Hammersmith

I think NDSU has been fully funded* in women's sports for a decade or more. No room to grow there. Only way to add more women's scholarships at NDSU is to add more sports. Tennis is cheap. S&D is fairly cheap now that West Fargo built a big swimming facility. I think it would have everything a DI program needs except for platform diving. Major issue now is that it's already shared by three high school programs(WF, Sheyenne, Horace). Those two sports are likely preferred because they have ready-made homes(Summit). The other choices of rugby, wrestling, lacrosse, etc. all have the problems of extremely few other programs around us. And equestrian is f--ing expensive to run. It would be our own version of UND women's hockey.



*there have been years where some women's sports like basketball didn't use all the scholarships(coughdumbcough), but the money was always there

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Tennis isn't cheap because you largely recruit internationally. Would much rather see us add Women's Wrestling, Womens Rugby, Women's Lacrosse, or Women's Gymnastics. We would have an instant home in the Big 12 for Gymnastics and likely wrestling when it is added. Plus, let's be honest...we have a pretty good recruiting base in the upper Midwest for tough corn fed women. We would be a force in Rugby.

Well JMU got it done. https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-mad...153100360.html

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Originally Posted by NDSU1980

Well JMU got it done. https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-mad...153100360.html

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and Sam & Jax St lol NDSU is pud now.

NMSU has a presser at 3 their time to announce move to C-USA.

Expect similar from Liberty, SHSU, and J-State soon.

And it's official ...
https://conferenceusa.com/news/2021/...r-members.aspx

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Originally Posted by The_Sicatoka

And it's official ...
https://conferenceusa.com/news/2021/...r-members.aspx

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Hopefully Illinois State, Mo State and NDSU join in a second wave.

found a NDSU sugar mama for a new stadium/fbs push

Dorothy Henke. Dots Pretzels. just sold for $1.2 BILLION!!

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Originally Posted by El_Chapo

found a NDSU sugar mama for a new stadium/fbs push

Dorothy Henke. Dots Pretzels. just sold for $1.2 BILLION!!

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ANNNNNND there he is!!! I was getting worried about you! Haven't seen much of you so far this week! Good to see you are back at it! Does she have a grandma you can snuggle up with?

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Originally Posted by El_Chapo

found a NDSU sugar mama for a new stadium/fbs push

Dorothy Henke. Dots Pretzels. just sold for $1.2 BILLION!!

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I thought Michael Chambers was gonna hook y'all up already.

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Originally Posted by AKBison

Hopefully Illinois State, Mo State and NDSU join in a second wave.

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CUSA is going to stay south I think. Otherwise why would MTSU stay and not go to the MAC?

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Originally Posted by NDSU92

CUSA is going to stay south I think. Otherwise why would MTSU stay and not go to the MAC?

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That would certainly be consistent with the vision and MO of their commissioner

mo fooooooo

yea I been laying low

https://twitter.com/NdsuToFBS/status...20193279856652

Fuller quote: "There is an expectation from within this industry that come January/March when these new division 1 rules are finalized that it's going to become much more difficult to reclassify from FCS to FBS ... potentially closing that door completely for a period of time..."

So 'Now or never' does not appear to be hyperbole. Too bad DB doesn't really care

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Originally Posted by WhoRepsTheLurker

https://twitter.com/NdsuToFBS/status...20193279856652

Fuller quote: "There is an expectation from within this industry that come January/March when these new division 1 rules are finalized that it's going to become much more difficult to reclassify from FCS to FBS ... potentially closing that door completely for a period of time..."

So 'Now or never' does not appear to be hyperbole. Too bad DB doesn't really care

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The argument to stay where we were and wait and see what happens was foolish thinking. I was pro-FCS at the time where that statement got rolled out every other week, but I still didn't like it then and I hate it now. We put ourselves in a house with too low of a ceiling because we were afraid of a little rain. We should've been doing everything we could to advance our athletics department and university as a whole* to be ready when opportunities present themselves.

Don't even get me started with the "we think we belong at the second level". What a stupid, arbitrary line to draw.

*Which at the end of the day is the directive of the leaders of a university.

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Originally Posted by WhoRepsTheLurker

https://twitter.com/NdsuToFBS/status...20193279856652

Fuller quote: "There is an expectation from within this industry that come January/March when these new division 1 rules are finalized that it's going to become much more difficult to reclassify from FCS to FBS ... potentially closing that door completely for a period of time..."

So 'Now or never' does not appear to be hyperbole. Too bad DB doesn't really care

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Yep, remember the five year moratorium the NCAA had about moving up to FCS back about the time un_ moved up.

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Originally Posted by NDSU1980

Yep, remember the five year moratorium the NCAA had about moving up to FCS back about the time un_ moved up.

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Change is coming. DB should have good insights as he's on the change committee. As I said in another thread ...

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For those of you saying "Matt Larson should be on the phone with ..." ... you're right, sort of.

ML should be on the phone with his boss: DB. Mon Nov 15 will be a big day in NCAA history. The shortened, new NCAA constitution must be rolled by that day by self-imposed deadline. DB is on that significant committee. He must know what's coming. With that tunnel into information, ML should be working ahead of the curve.

And ML should be on the phone with Sell at SDSU, Chaves at UND, Herbster at USD, Haslam at Montana, Costello at Montana State, Esten at St. Thomas, and a handful of others in the region, collaborating about what they can do when changes comes, and it's coming.

If ML is waiting by the phone for "the call", it won't come (especially now that C-USA can stay in its southern comfort zone with WKU and MTSU).

Make the change.

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https://www.si.com/college/2021/11/1...ormat-proposed

12 team format discussions!!

Gameday hinted theyre going to Missoula next week

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Originally Posted by ndsubison1

Gameday hinted theyre going to Missoula next week

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Great place to have it.

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Originally Posted by ndsubison1

Gameday hinted theyre going to Missoula next week

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Awesome!

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Damn, theyre going to Ohio St

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Originally Posted by ndsubison1

Damn, theyre going to Ohio St

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Not surprised

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Dome expansion plans are drawn up, interesting concept but would work and be really cool and unique

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Originally Posted by Honeybooboo

Dome expansion plans are drawn up, interesting concept but would work and be really cool and unique

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What is the interesting concept? What really can they even do?

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Originally Posted by Honeybooboo

Dome expansion plans are drawn up, interesting concept but would work and be really cool and unique

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Need a linky please.

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Originally Posted by marenlee

Need a linky please.

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Need the bar napkin blueprints

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Originally Posted by Professorbum

What is the interesting concept? What really can they even do?

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Originally Posted by marenlee

Need a linky please.

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Its not a joke, no link, feasibility is the issue if you ask me. Not sure i should share details on here but just telling people its not off the radar

Flame away if you want but its not BS

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Originally Posted by Honeybooboo

Dome expansion plans are drawn up, interesting concept but would work and be really cool and unique

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Same plans from 4-5 years ago?

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Originally Posted by 56BISON73

Same plans from 4-5 years ago?

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Similar, but easier to accomplish

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Originally Posted by Honeybooboo

Its not a joke, no link, feasibility is the issue if you ask me. Not sure i should share details on here but just telling people its not off the radar

Flame away if you want but its not BS

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The Forum did mention some kind of expansion in a recent article regarding the mayor so it is kind of already out there.

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Originally Posted by NDSUstudent

The Forum did mention some kind of expansion in a recent article regarding the mayor so it is kind of already out there.

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Yes it is, but I'll let the other info come out if they need, things are being looked at unlike many think was my main reason for posting