A new and better FBS thread

[The_Sicatoka]

NDSU is R1 with serious momentum on that front, just for the record ...

NDSU just rolled a #285 from US News. At least it's not last in the Dakotas and better than the bottom of the MWC (Boise State).

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges...tDirection=asc

[WhoRepsTheLurker]

NDSU just rolled a #285 from US News. At least it's not last in the Dakotas and better than the bottom of the MWC (Boise State).

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges...tDirection=asc

You mean the ranking that no one believes and is under the gun for being BS? Carnegie is all you need for the truth ...

But you don’t want to play this game here, lest I start pulling up public stats that you will find most unflattering. It’s not your board anyway, little brother ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educa...rankings-2023/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educa...lege-rankings/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educa...rankings-2023/

[Bisonator98]

With everything that's gone down over the past ~two years, it wouldn't surprise me if NDSU somehow ended up in the Big 12. Obviously I don't mean the current Big 12. I just wouldn't be surprised if there's still a massive shake up that happens and the Big 12 is the victim. The footprint stays similar but the schools are totally different. Pipe dream would be TCU, Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, SDSU, NDSU, Wichita State kind of staying along that I-29/I-35 corridor.

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I think this has a chance of happening too but they need to get to FBS first and foremost that's why I'd be willing to go Indy at this point if need be just to have a seat at the table. The Power 5 is trying to get to 16 teams per conference. The B1G and SEC are there. The ACC needs 1. The B12 is going to need at least 4 more schools at some point. The PAC 12 will need 6. Gotta get our foot in the door to make it happen!

[BigLakeBison]

So you don't see that perspective changing now with the expanded CFB playoff and the potential windfall of making it in as a G5? Details still TBD, but all that matters on that front is how good your FB program is

I would also argue that the biggest reason to add UConn and UMass would be their basketball program not their football. That's likely why CUSA didn't want them for football only.

[The_Sicatoka]

You mean the ranking that no one believes and is under the gun for being BS? Carnegie is all you need for the truth ...

Forbes?

Carnegie over-rates uncompetitive (no bidding) research dollars. AAU is the gold-standard club to shoot for as they look at competitive and non-competitive bid research dollars.

[WhoRepsTheLurker]

Forbes?

Carnegie over-rates uncompetitive (no bidding) research dollars. AAU is the gold-standard club to shoot for as they look at competitive and non-competitive bid research dollars.

Nice smoke screen

Try these

https://cwur.org/2022-23.php

I see you climbed a little. Guessing you had to lobby hard for that ...

[The_Sicatoka]

Nice smoke screen

Try these

https://cwur.org/2022-23.php

I see you climbed a little. Guessing you had to lobby hard for that ...

A UAE based survey, quite a stretch. How long you out with that pulled hammy?

[WhoRepsTheLurker]

A UAE based survey, quite a stretch. How long you out with that pulled hammy?

I’m at full speed now. Thanks for asking. Just ran 3 miles this AM, along with 50 pull ups and 120 situps …

It’s not a .com, so it reflects the actual data you would find in journal citation reports etc. ... as opposed to lobbying

I find it amusing that you come on to our board to throw shit at the fact that NDSU is R1 and you are not. I would say that’s a reflection on you, not me

[NDSU1980]

Travel partners have been a mainstay of collegiate athletics since the start. If you say you don't understand that maybe you should consider you don't actually understand anything. Just look at the schools that went without partners and how they did. I absolutely do not want that level of failure to happen to NDSU. Maybe your ego thinks otherwise, but you do you.

Some things never change with your kind

[daddy daycare]

Some things never change with your kind

Like common sense?

Or the crowd saying "let's take Hawaii's spot."

Jesus christ.