A new and better FBS thread

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Originally Posted by Professor Chaos

Well, I'd choose to spin it that it was leaked to solidify NDSU's candidacy as a MWC expansion target not to torpedo it.

Of course there's also the possibility that, as it moves closer to being a reality and more people find out about it, that it gets out organically to reporters with connections.

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I’d say yes and yes, both are not only likely but would happen in the event an invite was coming.

I'm hopeful. If NDSU goes FBS I will attend a few games a season.

A lot of us were around for the Big Sky build up and subsequent letdown. I'm tempering my enthusiasm.

On the flip side, the Big Sky fiasco showed a clear difference between FCS and FBS: In the FBS, every conference wants to get better, but in the FCS, getting better is not a consideration.

I think two things can be true at once. The MW wants 2 CST schools for football only. For awhile it looked like NIU and Toledo. It may still be. McMurphy reported that NIU interest was "waning." Not sure what that means other than 'make a better offer' If they don't come Toledo won't either.

The MW wants them to crap or get off the pot. I think NDSU has alway been under consideration but probably not the first, second or even third choice. It may come down to NIU and NDSU. It may come down to NDSU and Tareleton. It may come down to NDSU and somebody else. Maybe Western Kentucky. The leak was not a threat to NIU and Toledo as much as it was to get them to decide one way or the other. I do believe the MW will circle back to Texas State as they have always been their 1st choice. A lot depends on what the Pac will do.

I think the odds are in your favor but everything is ...Fluid..at the moment.

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Originally Posted by MWC

I think two things can be true at once. The MW wants 2 CST schools for football only. For awhile it looked like NIU and Toledo. It may still be. McMurphy reported that NIU interest was "waning." Not sure what that means other than 'make a better offer' If they don't come Toledo won't either.

The MW wants them to crap or get off the pot. I think NDSU has alway been under consideration but probably not the first, second or even third choice. It may come down to NIU and NDSU. It may come down to NDSU and Tareleton. It may come down to NDSU and somebody else. Maybe Western Kentucky. The leak was not a threat to NIU and Toledo as much as it was to get them to decide one way or the other. I do believe the MW will circle back to Texas State as they have always been their 1st choice. A lot depends on what the Pac will do.

I think the odds are in your favor but everything is ...Fluid..at the moment.

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I find this a bit interesting...MWC explored adding both NIU/Toledo for football-only invites; however, when McMurphy was on Hot Mic with Izzo last week, his seemed adamant that the MWC now was only looking to add ONE football-only school, to get the conference up to nine football members, thus giving them an even eight game conference schedule each year.

I want MWC All Sports, but Ill take what we can get.

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Originally Posted by MWC

I think two things can be true at once. The MW wants 2 CST schools for football only. For awhile it looked like NIU and Toledo. It may still be. McMurphy reported that NIU interest was "waning." Not sure what that means other than 'make a better offer' If they don't come Toledo won't either.

The MW wants them to crap or get off the pot. I think NDSU has alway been under consideration but probably not the first, second or even third choice. It may come down to NIU and NDSU. It may come down to NDSU and Tareleton. It may come down to NDSU and somebody else. Maybe Western Kentucky. The leak was not a threat to NIU and Toledo as much as it was to get them to decide one way or the other. I do believe the MW will circle back to Texas State as they have always been their 1st choice. A lot depends on what the Pac will do.

I think the odds are in your favor but everything is ...Fluid..at the moment.

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Take us both. Someone close by in the central time zone that isnt another Dakota School. Win win.

The tv people requested 2 schools in a different time zone. They wanted extra inventory so they would have multiple time slots all day. With just one school added for football, there would not be a conference game played in the CST every other week. Two means at least one MW conference game in the CST every week. Sometimes two.

In the words of Mick Jagger: You can't always get what you want.

Will the MW go with one in the midwest or one in Texas, or one all sports school in Sacramento or Davis.?

But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need..

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Originally Posted by heffray

Lol well-played…

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I don't like to try too hard, but I think the tweet was better:

"Anybody else notice any hints during the press conference? https://t.co/cSyLHh56Pi" / Twitter

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Originally Posted by ndsubison1

Take us both. Someone close by in the central time zone that isnt another Dakota School. Win win.

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There are a couple of reasons Gloria said not to believe everything you read. It is possible that she is clapping back on the 1 football only school blurb from McMurphy.