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Chris Klieman said when he was at North Dakota State, they tried to schedule Alabama, but it never happened. @RossUglem @HankSouth247
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Chris Klieman said when he was at North Dakota State, they tried to schedule Alabama, but it never happened. @RossUglem @HankSouth247
Not surprising. I think we have tried to schedule almost every FBS team. Multiple times.
Yes, we would have been crushed, but damn would that have been fun!
Road, you think NDSU made enough money on the Target field deal that maybe they could attract a mid major FBS team to play there? In other words, could NDSU pay a high enough guarantee and maybe they'd consider it since "neutral" site? Thinking teams like Northern Illinois, Wyoming (yes, know that would not happen, but the type of team I'm looking for), Colorado St, etc.
Matt Larson was on 1660 today an said we would play any FBS team willing but nobody wants to sign contracts
Now people will bitch and complain about why it never actually happened.
NEWS FLASH!!
Schedules don't usually mesh up nice and perfect for everything to fall into place ever so nice. You can try, but sometimes, it just won't work.
Alabama: you want to play us?
NDSU: Yes, we have these dates open- xxxxxxx xx, 20XX....etc.
Alabama: oh sorry, those don't work for us, how about November, 2030?
NDSU: Nope, sorry can't do that late in the year. Conference schedule goes up to the weekend before Thanksgiving and then playoffs start immediately afterwards.
Alabama: playoffs? Oh, those two games you play in January?
NDSU: No, the 4 or 5 games we play in November, December, AND January.
Alabama: Well, we are the college football national champion.
NDSU: We are the NCAA Division 1 football national champion.
I'd say try to get a service academy to US Bank for a neutral site game.
SEC has that funny schedule where they start conference play a week early and then have an open week later in the year. Really cuts down on available dates.
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I got to work a scrimmage at a major P5 school. After the scrimmage we got to eat with the team at their training table. Our host happened to also be in charge of scheduling for the team. I asked him if they would ever consider scheduling North Dakota State. He said absolutely not. They might lose and that would look very bad. And this was a team that would likely beat NDSU if they played. But they could lose and weren't willing to take that chance.
He clearly takes his orders from photo illustrations
I just don't know why ANY FBS team would be willing to play a neutral site game against NDSU. Any of the big boys have zero need/reason to do so. So that means G5 and the like. They have to know they would get beat. Why would you be willing to put the spotlight(neutral site with an FCS, especially NDSU) on a loss to a "lesser" team? Even if it's a MAC school that needs money and we can give them a guarantee, is it really worth it? They can go get killed by a P5 and still get paid and no one blinks an eye at the result.
Agreed, I think even the least prestigious G5 teams would have egos too big to agree to even a neutral site game with a "lowly FCS school".
Funny you say that because there were some UND fans who threw shit fits on AGS when Kolpack said something along the lines of 2018 NDSU was closer to Alabama than they were to UND.
Lots of good logic here......
So, to me, the only reason to ever do Target field again would be a for a premier FCS match up. Let's face it; the only FCS team that would "turn the dial" to make it interesting would be JMU. But, I'd rather do a home and home with them if they were willing.
Also heard that the Florida State AD seemed receptive to a game until he talked to his head coach.
Let's assume that this quote were to come to fruition. AFter the next 3 FBS games the Pac12 wants nothing to do with us... Then what?
G5? Nope
Big 10? Nope
Big 12? Nope
MWC? Nope
MAC? Nope
The only conference left is the SEC which has no need to fly in NDSU when they have 100 teams closer with less chance of a loss.
If the money games are gone, what becomes of NDSU's funding? That money is pretty important i'd think, so how could we replace it?
It's not that much money when you look at the big picture. They're getting 400-600k and travel expenses come out of that which is probably 100k of that at least. Last year the NDSU AD had a 27M+ in revenue so you're talking about 2% of the total revenue the athletic department brought in coming from an FBS game. The biggest downside is we, as fans, don't get to spar with overconfident FBS fan bases and when watch our team beat them on the field and the players don't get that "chip on the shoulder" game against the bigger schools/programs as often as I'm sure they'd like.
But as far as what replaces the FBS game... I haven't heard the figure but judging from what was reported they just got at least a 500k check from the Minnesota Twins.
Depends on your definition of many. I bet they'd bring 3-4k maybe more if tickets were readily available. It's a cheap and easy flight. I've had a pipe dream for the last few years that two schools like NDSU and JMU would agree to a home-and-home like agreement on neutral(ish) fields. One game in Minneapolis and the other in DC. I think both would draw well.
The Target field game was exactly what it needed to be. A way to spice up a game against a weak opponent. It would only be appropriate if it served the same purpose down the road. Good games need to be in Fargo, not played in a baseball stadium.
Here is a complete list of remaining exciting FCS teams we will not have played after this year:
Harvard