A new and better FBS thread

[taper]

Anyone have a clue as to what women's sport would
be added when we go FBS?

Tennis makes the most sense. Easy add and the Summit sponsors it.

[HerdBot]

Anyone have a clue as to what women's sport would
be added when we go FBS?

What about swimming and diving? Tennis only has a roster of 10

Do we have facilities for either? USD has womens triathalon

[daddy daycare]

Women's hockey.

Perfect. Games can be played at Sunmart arena. Pre and post game at Chubbs.

[bisonaudit]

What about swimming and diving? Tennis only has a roster of 10

Do we have facilities for either? USD has womens triathalon

I think one of the Olympic trial competition pools from Omaha, NE is in West Fargo.

[BigHorns]

Anyone have a clue as to what women's sport would
be added when we go FBS?

Beach Volleyball FTW

[KSBisonFan]

Beach Volleyball FTW

Discussion halted. This is the correct answer ^^^.

[The_Sicatoka]

If our current financials are so tight that $500K annually makes or breaks our move to FBS, than there is absolutely no reason why we would even be remotely considering a move to FBS.

Might this be exactly why your administrators are taking pause?

NDSU literally cut $942k out of the College of Engineering budget on Oct 28. That was just a portion of immediate campus-wide cuts handed down by the NDSU Provost.

[BigLakeBison]

Might this be exactly why your administrators are taking pause?

NDSU literally cut $942k out of the College of Engineering budget on Oct 28. That was just a portion of immediate campus-wide cuts handed down by the NDSU Provost.

Possibly in the short term. Long term I would think that ticket sales, donor contributions and other larger revenue sources would be more critical to that decision. Currently my understanding is that ticket sales revenue hasn't dropped significantly because season ticket sales were still fairly strong even if not all of those tickets were utilized and the decline has been more apparent and significant in the playoffs which doesn't affect as much because a large percentage of the net goes to the NCAA rather than to the university. However, how long that will remain to be the case will be key to the future. I am not a season ticket holder but know of a number of people who are and there were numerous times over the past few years where they were able to find tickets to better seats much cheaper on the secondary market compared to what they spent in Teammaker fees and Ticket prices. For them personally they see value in supporting the program but how many will continue to do that if that trend continues? How much will Teammakers need to reduce the fees per seat in order to keep this from happening? My guess is that lost revenue from those types of adjustments if they are needed would likely be larger hits to the budget than that. The key is trying to project how far attendance could/would drop if nothing changes and what that represents in lost revenue. I guess that's where most of my criticism lies regarding a larger plan for the athletic department. It may very well be that all of that is currently being accounted for and we have a rock solid "tipping point" in which staying FCS becomes detrimental to maintaining the long term health of the entire department. There is just absolutely no indication currently that that is being done in any meaningful way which makes it very difficult to just trust that it is happening.

[The_Sicatoka]

Anyone have a clue as to what women's sport would be added when we go FBS?

Equestrian.


Too soon?

[JMB]

Might this be exactly why your administrators are taking pause?

NDSU literally cut $942k out of the College of Engineering budget on Oct 28. That was just a portion of immediate campus-wide cuts handed down by the NDSU Provost.

I suspect this is a huge consideration, or at least it should be...