Great for them. Bet you don’t give a shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by HerdBot
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Great for them. Bet you don’t give a shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by HerdBot
Dohkay then. You watched just as much G5 football as most, barely any or on for background noise.Quote:
Originally Posted by El_Chapo
You did bring up a good point though…. Most people don’t really care that much. And if they do…SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS
I'm jealous they draw better than us, are FBS ranked, get a bowl game and get to host non conference games vs teams like Army. Getting annual P5 games helps tooQuote:
Originally Posted by daddy daycare
I dont care about them anymore than I care about Alabama or LSU
I enjoy the FCS playoffs, so Im not discrediting us either. The Natty will be on ABC
The ol’ Birmingham bowl v ECU. Should be an instant classic. At least 2 fan bases will be treated to excellence.Quote:
Originally Posted by HerdBot
In the grand scale of college football, G5 is the worst of the best and the best of the worse. That’s all I’m saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by TAILG8R
Why not an instant classic? The world is larger than North Dakota. That game is much more intruiging to the masses than Incarnate Word. Quiz without looking it up, how many know what state Incarnate Word hails from? Even if Incarnate Word is the greatest team in FCS history, nobody will tune in because of themQuote:
Originally Posted by daddy daycare
Who mentioned incarnate word?Quote:
Originally Posted by HerdBot
Breaking news…FCS can be dead and G5 can be less than exciting to the general population it doesn’t have to be one or the other. As stated a billion times, go FBS. to think that’s gonna send NDSU into the stratosphere is like hoping the Vikings win the Super Bowl.
enjoy hoople...
I don't think it it will send us to the stratosphere but it will re-invigorate the fan base that has seen the same thing for 11 years in a row. The only reason I brought up Incarnate Word is because you made a cheap jab at a G5 Bowl Game for a program that draws more fans than we do. Although when we played Arizona, Minnesota, etc, we totally outdraw them. It's all about competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by daddy daycare
Here's the future of FCS. The top teams in the CAA move up. Teams like Youngstown move to a different conference, like has already been discussed. Mankato, Augustana and Duluth move up. We accept St Thomas. The FCS decides to cut scholarships, in the name of parity. That's what happened in D2. History could repeat itself. Maybe they combine FCS and G5? Heck maybe they combine D2 and FCS.
We can't go any higher. Reality is when we are fully funded (whether it's at the D2 level or FCS) we are dominant. There is a reason we were competitive from day 1 moving up.
If we ten peat. Fans will get bored. If we drop down to earth, fans will get bored because we're still going to dominate the same mediocre teams like Indiana State and Western Illinois and in the regular season and play cup cakes like Drake or Butler in the non conference. We're still going to play teams like San Diego in the 1st or 2nd round. Worst case scenario, a team who cares about football like Montana, Montana State or SDSU overtake us but we are still considered a powerhouse (kind of like they call SDSU a powerhouse, even though they haven't won shit) and make the playoffs every year.
At this point, all we can do is try to get better, which will widen the gap even more or keep it the same. Maybe we can figure out a way to pay our head coach a million bucks and quadruple the assistant coaches salaries. We can do some sort of NIL deal, that only a handful of FCS schools will match. Maybe one of the Montana schools or SDSU have the will or resources to do that.
We can improve the Fargodome so it's a better overall fan experience and a more impressive recruiting tool. That might help a little. We can do something huge like build an athletics village for fans, that might help. Expand tailgating to all day? Build permanent tailgating facilities. Maybe build some space age looking locker room to wow recruits. Maybe we can figure out a way to build a 600 million dollar indoor stadium, paid for by the city and NDSU. But let's say that happens... are we going to be an FCS program with a 30K seat world class indoor stadium competing against Mankato State?
I enjoy the playoffs, but it's obvious I'm not the majority of people. The playoff attendance numbers don't lie.
NDSU NOT BEING FBS has cost us numerous recruits the last couple years 3-4 decommits this year
Sigle just got a Kansas St offer
NDSU being treated like minor leagues by FBS teams picking off our best players.
10000 fans for last 3 games
our 2nd teasers are making the semi-finals/finals.
this is enough!!! we have to make a stand!!