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Good Man apparently to some.Quote:
Originally Posted by NI4NI
Incorrect lakes bison isQuote:
Originally Posted by NI4NI
From the NFL Combine. Now here is a man doing some of his own thinking...
https://www.iheart.com/content/2024-03-01-nfl-draft-prospect-says-he-doesnt-believe-in-space-or-other-planets/
https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2024...ley-conference
More click bait for everyone
I just can't see NDSU jumping without SDSU but I won't complain if they do. Seems pretty obvious reading the tea leaves that the XDSUs were positioning for the MWC. I wouldn't write that off just yet myself, even though some on here are eager to do so
https://twitter.com/CFBHeather/statu...7Ctwgr%5Etweet
https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...-equity-firms/
Will be interesting to see if this gains any traction
Seems like it makes more financial sense to drop 22 scholarships and stop pretending you aren't FCS quality.
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Originally Posted by WhoRepsTheLurker
I’ve heard it directly from up high in the athletic department that multiple times (SDSU’s failed leaving for the PAC being the latest) that we were on the cusp of being admitted to the MW (probably football only). This latest time being the closest but there was another time 3ish years ago where it almost went through.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhoRepsTheLurker
They’re working on it, and it’s not much of a secret if they were willing to tell me lol
Imagine that.Quote:
Originally Posted by NDSU92
If true, if NDSU didn't do what was necessary then head's need to roll unless there is a very good reason given. I'm not suggesting the school failed but if they did, this can't stand.Quote:
Originally Posted by 56BISON73
If the school thinks the G5 is gonna fall apart, then I also think heads should roll. The new playoff deal will probably keep them invested.
A man who dyes his hair. It never ends well. Which Trumpers have died their hair - Mike Lindell and Rudy Guiliani. Ish. Let it go boys. I think Trump has had some serious highlighting done. A strange combover. Joe Biden had hair plugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by NI4NI
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/oth...-5/ar-AA1nthB5
Pac-12 aka Pac-2 aka 2Pac has officially lost their autonomy status. Their only realistic option is joining the MWC, possibly with some rebranding. If you'd paid any attention to this saga, holy cow the PAC is a disaster. Seriously, how does this kind of incompetence exist at this level?
The professional administrative class is corrupt and incompetent at every level. Some just have a larger range of permissible failure.Quote:
Originally Posted by taper
Interesting take from FCS AGS via 'caribeanhen' re UD FBS move. Props to 'Mr Chicken' … awk
"The president of UD is telling everyone a big part of this move has to do with the coming battle between all of these colleges trying to get a dwindling number of potential students into their classrooms and the population is moving south…. Mr Chicken was all over it"
I know some UD faculty and they are not at all pleased with the move, but this is probably par for the course with academics. I’ll be curious to see how it shakes out for UD., but I think it’s a good move for them
https://www.newsweek.com/population-...inking-1893641
If he's right, stay away from the MAC for sure. SE and Mountain West are the place to be, particularly TX
The "battle to get a dwindling number of potential students" will be an issue for ND (more so than SD, imo ... see Canada) and I fear that some difficult decisions loom, although I doubt anyone in Bismarck wants to touch it
MW is obviously where we fit best. Still TBD how everything shakes out with the PAC-2. There's a lot of rumblings they are still trying to rebuild and break off with a group of the "top" G5 schools from MW and possibly elsewhere. Good to hear more directly we are working that angle.Quote:
Originally Posted by NDSU92
MW is the best fit IF we can make the move with the Montana schools and SDSU. I'm not sure the Jacks would ever give up their prescious Sioux Falls tournament though.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigHorns
ESPN is debuting a G5 Top 25 coaches poll in 2024. The separation is happening between G5 and P4, and quickly. First ranking is August 1. It will be interesting to follow.
https://footballscoop.com/news/group...all-new-top-25
MO State going CUSA. Cool, Cool, Cool. Everything is fine here.
THAT will rile up some folks here! LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by BisonJD
More proof that the quality of your football program means less and less when it comes to moving up. Missouri St provides a better area for recruiting prospective athletes and students, more eyeballs for TV, and a significantly higher enrollment than NDSU does.
Let's face it - NDSU just doesn't offer much to attract an FBS conference but I don't think NDSU has much interest in CUSA right now anyway.
This has to be the final straw for NDSU doesn't it? Illinois State will be next.
Yep, for most FBS conferences its all about markets and location. We've never been on CUSA's shortlist. They will add Tarleton and SFA before looking our way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Professor Chaos
MWC is really a much better fit for us, and it sounds like there have been some active discussions. Just need the dominos to fall in a way that creates an opening.
https://www.news-leader.com/story/sp...t/73640094007/
More details in this article.
https://media1.tenor.com/m/FDI1O7Be2...everything.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by BisonJD
Not a team on that schedule that would excite me as a fan. Zero chance this is cost neutral for that department.Quote:
Originally Posted by KSBisonFan
Misery State has always positioned itself as a basketball school and the MVC has been pretty decent. Wichita State leaving hurt a bit, but they're in the running for more than 1 NCAA bid some years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grizzled
Is Larson on the phone asking about the basketball opening in the MVC?
Not a direct reply to your post, BTW.
A league that is obsessed with bus trips and small private schools, good luck with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by KSBisonFan
They will probably add UST now and the Summit will add the homeless dregs from the WAC since that league is now dead.
I agree with both your points. My point is MVC > Summit for stability and funding basketball. I'll take any upward movement at this point, no matter how small.Quote:
Originally Posted by NDSUstudent
Okay NDSU administration, the the f are you going to do? The house is on fire; REPEAT THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE. Do something or at least say something!
Can somebody do a welfare check on lakes please.
Kolpack making a plea for NDSU to finally move up to the FBS:
https://www.inforum.com/sports/bison...is-now-for-fbs
Too little, too late in my opinion. This push from the local media should have happened 5 years ago.Quote:
FCS is hanging in there with just a few football-serious programs capable of winning a national championship this coming fall: South Dakota State, NDSU, Montana and Montana State. By and large, the FCS is dominated by basketball schools playing football.
Yes, there's talk out there that the top FCS programs could join the Group of Five schools to form another D-I subdivision, but how long can you wait? It’s time for NDSU to take the plunge, anyway it can do it.
Wyatt Wheeler
@WyattWheeler_NL
·1h
Missouri is no longer the second-largest state in the country with only one FBS program.
Read ML's comments today ... at least publicly the dumbass is content running NDSU football into the ground by saying they need to wait and see how things play out and "when" (big if imo) another tier is created that's where we need to be. What a fuckin dumbass.
If NDSU misses the FBS boat I can tell you that I and my group will have a hard time supporting at the level we currently do. Not happy.
It is kind of ironic all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about how awful the FCS is when it's Missouri St that's leaving. The FCS will be about 99.98% of its former self without da Bears. If anything it makes things harder for NDSU and SDSU to win FCS titles because it takes away a team that has been a perennial cellar dweller in the MVFC outside of the few years Bobby P caught lightning in a bottle with a load of transfers.
It took him until now to figure out FCS football has been dying? It's been dying since I was in school.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strommer10
FCS football is dead. Such is life.
Well they did ask ML about the summit adding hockey and he said everything is on the table... guess that is where our FBS money is going lol.
If we aren't going to FBS and we are going to continue to not give a shit about basketball, we may as well start hockey.Quote:
Originally Posted by heckler
What a waste of money lol. No one cares about it, it will hurt the brand as we won’t be competitive, and the last thing we need is another Olympic sport that we half-ass.Quote:
Originally Posted by NDSUstudent
There are 0 people who are asking that we add hockey. Let the average Joe be a NDSU football/UND hockey fan. That school can waste their time and money on a sport that no one cares about. We start hockey I’m never giving another dollar to NDSU athletics at least until dumbass Larsen is gone. If he’s looking for something to do, start campaigning to get NDSU to get NDSU athletics equivalent state/institutional funding to put us amongst our peers. We’re about $10-$15M short in that perspective and if we had that we would’ve been Mountain West long ago.
The tone deafness of hearing people complaining about the lack of FBS and then giving them hockey instead would be 100% on-brand tho.
try to make an SMU-deal with the MWC
Assuming ML knows more than us mere peons, the number he threw out there for the 'premier league' was 40 teams, which would seem to suggest 20/20 SEC/B1G
IF this is real, that leaves many teams still left in FBS, vying for CFP spot and (hypothetically) 2nd tier playoff. I just don’t see the creation of a new FBS league as remotely viable in this situation. It will be a small and select few, if anyone, and if you believe Herder, UM/MSU/SDSU aren’t interested
I can't imagine NDSU ever seriously considering adding teh hockies but if that day were to come at the expense of being in the appropriate level of football combined with the lack of support for basketball(both men's and women's) I would easily be able to find a lot of other activities to spend my time and resources on outside of NDSU athletics.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhoRepsTheLurker