At least you won't see Western Illinois after this year.
https://goleathernecks.com/news/2023...ll-sports.aspx
True. P5 are generally looking for easy payday wins at home when they schedule G5 schools.
If they want to enhance their resume, they play other P5's.
Some of the P5 conferences are pushing for their members to stop scheduling G5 away games, even on a 2-1 basis.
No P5 wants to risk a G5 loss, anymore than FBS teams want to risk FCS losses.
Not much different than what you see with basketball scheduling now. "Power" teams don't want to play non-power away.
El Cid is a unique place, and they were a regular playoff team 5 or so years ago.
Success is cyclical sometimes, and they seem to be rebounding. It might be a better game than people expect.
They beat Coastal Carolina in 2015. Can't overlook them and assume an easy game. Things can change.
Last edited by BigHorns; 05-17-2023 at 09:42 PM.
FCS still sucks.....and 90% of those East Coast teams really do. Guess NDSU will keep lowering their standard until the team gets closer to the rest of FCS. Kind of like what happened in D2. But keep patting Stoney Brooks lame ADs ass for getting games like this. Long past time to move to FBS. Then again most of Bisonville, Teammakers and fans in general have lowered their expectations. Bison football in decline.
In a lot of ways, I think the history, success, and expectations of NDSU fans make ML's job one of the toughest in FCS. Imagine walking a mile in his shoes and trying to get schools to return your call to schedule a game. Many schools just don't want to play us.
FBS teams are scared of us. FCS schools don't want the loss before the playoffs. Some teams don't want to travel far, and don't need to on the east coast. There's also no magic wand that is going to get us a MWC invite tomorrow. It takes a cascade of events, and those events move slowly sometimes. When the PAC makes their move, that will cascade downward. But it might take another year or so to happen.
Losing one game in Frisco doesn't spell the end.
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I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie