A new and better FBS thread

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Originally Posted by All4One

If Conference USA truly cared about market and location, then we would not have added Sam Houston or Jacksonville State or even New Mexico State or Liberty. You can't deliver a market if your brand isn't appealing. It took losing FoxSports as our primary media rights carrier to realize that, and we've spent the last decade in college football purgatory because our leaders added, who FoxSports wanted instead of who the stronger brands were.

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Welcome to the board. You say 'we' when referring to CUSA. Who's your team?

Edit: Nevermind. Just figured it out. You're the commissioner of CUSA who came her to issue a formal invitation. Well played.

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Originally Posted by KSBisonFan

Welcome to the board. You say 'we' when referring to CUSA. Who's your team?

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Welcome, I'm seeing many cusa/mwc/aac fans becoming more interested in NDSU and our plans. .

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Originally Posted by 56BISON73

You missed the point. Not to mention WTF are you talking about. JFC

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He's talking about the fact that even with the 40,000 students and millions of people within a 30 minute drive of their stadium on Saturday, only 4,000 found themselves inside their stadium. Hell their stadium holds 8,000 and they couldn't even sell out their home opener. Looking at those numbers, MSUM honestly isn't a terrible comparison.

I'm somewhat of a contrarian, I'm not an expert, and I'm undoubtedly biased. But if I'm looking into markets and marketing that tells me that the product STINKS and that no one cares about it. There is zero brand loyalty to Kennesaw State. I would guess there are more people that drive an hour-plus to Fargo for NDSU games than were at the last Kennesaw game. THAT is brand loyalty. Those are the eyeballs you are after.

You have to remember that their commish was all big on conference regionalization. That’s all she cares about. Not at all surprised by who she's going with

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Originally Posted by BigHorns

Part of this is our football team is seen as far more successful.
Sagarin has basketball at #152, NET has us at #162.
Meanwhile Sagarin has football at #77 in a down year so far.

If we were in the Sagarin/NET top 50-80 I think people would notice.
We would be having some impressive wins.

I do think we should all support the team. Basketball has more upside than FCS football.
Even sweet 16 would be huge and garner national attention.

Its hard to compare the two sports, but I think a sweet 16 might be like a FCS championship to me.

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Or people just find football more entertaining. This isn't really a trend unique to NDSU.

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Originally Posted by MWC

What should FBS conferences care about?

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Money. Should, and do.

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Originally Posted by B.Schlossman Fan Club

More people might care about Kenesaw if they were FBS! FCS doesn’t register in the SEC foot print!

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It doesn't work for UAB as noted on this page with highlights showing a nearly empty stadium. https://www.tidefans.com/forums/thre...ndance.306508/

Plus, I can't see very many kids in Georgia deciding to become a Kennesaw State fan over Georgia because they are both FBS and therefore equal. NDSU in any FBS conference will draw more viewers because they aren't competing with the SEC in their backyard.

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Originally Posted by KSBisonFan

Welcome to the board. You say 'we' when referring to CUSA. Who's your team?

Edit: Nevermind. Just figured it out. You're the commissioner of CUSA who came her to issue a formal invitation. Well played.

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LOL, 99.9% sure this is a Louisiana Tech fan, and not Judy.

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Originally Posted by JMB

Or people just find football more entertaining. This isn't really a trend unique to NDSU.

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It tends to be the old "football first" vs "basketball first" thing.
Not many schools outside the P5 are really great at both.

Possibly Cincinnati and Houston are exceptions, but they are both P5 soon.
Boise St, Colorado St, and Wyoming have good NET score also.

Basically a few AAC and MWC teams from the G5

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Originally Posted by BigHorns

LOL, 99.9% sure this is a Louisiana Tech fan, and not Judy.

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Not Commissioner MacLeod? 100% correct.

Louisiana Tech fan? 10% correct (The other 90% being dispersed evenly with FIU, Jacksonville State, Liberty, Middle Tennessee, New Mexico State, Sam Houston, UTEP, Western Kentucky, and Kennesaw). 😊