A new and better FBS thread

[daddy daycare]

Can you at least agree that this is the only reason why NDSU can’t/won’t/shouldn’t move up?

I'm fine if NDSU moves up. Just not to the CUSA or some other shit conference. "Fine" but not blow my wad and send stacks of cash to Fargo like El Chapo makes up.

[MWC]

The MWC is not going to add an FCS call up, regardless of who it is. We have a finite amount of time to make this move before the window closes and we should move when the situation is right. We are worth significantly more to a good G5 conference as a fully transitioned FBS counter. Up until last year, the only conference to take a transitioning program was the Sun Belt and Big West. Now that CUSA is bottom tier, they are taking them. Sitting around waiting for an invite to the MWC or AAC is in exercise in futility.

After Nevada, Fresno and Hawaii left, that version of the WAC took on UTSA and Texas State..UTSA is moving to the AAC. It didn't take long..

[PickedBess]

lol. stfu. we don't care about und. just the pud fans do.
real d1 ndsu fans want more. you dipshits are the ones holding us back

Groundhog Day

[56BISON73]

lol. stfu. we don't care about und. just the pud fans do.
real d1 ndsu fans want more. you dipshits are the ones holding us back

[daddy daycare]

Can you at least agree that this is the only reason why NDSU can’t/won’t/shouldn’t move up?

I forgot to mention the obvious reason: geography.

[NDSU92]

I forgot to mention the obvious reason: geography.

Well they don’t want us because of the geography, but yeah 100%. At this point I think everyone is on board with going MW if we got an invite. I’d guess a slim majority would want to go if we got an invite to MAC, and very few of us would want to go CUSA. Does that sound right?

[The_Sicatoka]

Can you at least agree that this is the only reason why NDSU can’t/won’t/shouldn’t move up?

Someone brought up Title IX.

First, has a group tried to resurrect a failed suit against UND (for dropping women's hockey)? Yes. Will it fail again? More than likely given same attorney, same claims, and plaintiffs with less standing than the first go-around. That's before I mention that UND had the best Title IX firm in the country on retainer when it went through the evaluation and action of dropping the sport. (That's why the first suit failed.)

If NDSU goes FBS it'll surely go from (FCS) 63 to (FBS) 85 equivalencies, 22 more for men's sports. NDSU will find that money. But where will it put 22 additional women's equivalencies? NDSU is max'd out per this site. It sounds like "add a sport" to make it work.

[The_Sicatoka]

Additional thoughts:

Beyond Title IX (Federal law), to be NCAA FBS you must sponsor 16 NCAA sports. Checking the usual suspects brought up here ...

NDSU: check (8+8 for 16)
Montana: fail (6+9 for 15)
Montana State: fail (7+8 for 15)
SDSU: check (9+9* for 18)
UND: check (8+9 for 17)**
USD: check (7+10^ for 17)
UNI: check (7+10 for 17)
MoiSt: check (9+11 for 20)

Montana and Montana State would have to add a sport to go FBS.
All would have to ensure Title IX compliance.


*might be 10, not sure if equestrian is officially recognized by the NCAA yet
**UND was at 21 when it first moved to DI but that is unsustainable unless you're P5 or have fat stacks of cash just laying about
^might be 11, not sure if triathlon is officially recognized by the NCAA yet

[El_Chapo]

I forgot to mention the obvious reason: geography.

STRAWMAN !!

Im gonna repeat for the 100th time, because you and the bison media dorks don't understand:

if NDSU is in the MWC, that's 5 games in Fargo.
Nevada for example would FLY to Fargo every other year, right now Nevada flies to Boise/Wyoming.. flying to Fargo is 1 hour longer, BIG FUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKIN DEAL!!!

[The_Sicatoka]

... athletic directors are worried that the conference's media rights dollars won't stretch far enough to add more programs without their payouts being diminished.

Translated: If you don't bring more to the pie than take, it's a non-starter.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...e-realignment/