Anyone have any numbers as to how many tockets have been sold?
Anyone have any numbers as to how many tockets have been sold?
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Larsen has referred to "opportunities like the target field game" as FBS game alternatives in the future. On a handful of occasions the athletic department has stated that they are looking to add, what I would call "spectacle" games likes this...
What other games would they be looking at? Like for real? do you think that a Non Con cupcake each year will be played at Target field? UN_ "away game" at TF or the zigi? something else entirely? I'm excited to go to this game but does anyone know what the "other" opportunities they may be looking at?
1. The FCS was the Best option for NDSU for a very long time.
2. As a general rule- the FCS sucks at football and has proven that is not committed to football at all.
3. It's time to go FBS
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I believe you can look at games like this, at neutral sight stadiums, on years when there is 12 games in the schedule. Don't know when the next 12-game season is.
Other than that, I think our scheduling philosophy stays the same: 4 conference home games, 4 conference away games, 1 "cupcake" at home, an FCS home and home series with our home game in the year we schedule an FBS = 6 home games, 5 away games. If no FBS game that year, then 2 home cupcakes and an away game at a home and home series = 6 home games, 5 away games.
I mentioned in the thread about the NCA&T game that would be a good game to have in the US Bank stadium. The HBCU's travel really well and I'd think a game like that in MSP would be a big draw. Lots of Bison alumni in the area, easy to get to from any major city, etc. Something like that or maybe try to get a H/H deal with an FBS team where our game is down there might be an option too. I think it would only happen on a year with 12 games though.
What I think will happen is this:
When NDSU cannot get any Power 5 takers (because lets face it, except for a select few group of 5 teams, most of them won't pay us to come beat them), NDSU will look at doing these neutral site games as our "road games".
I think that NDSU may even sign a "home and home" with a FCS team that is in close proximity to a major venue that would be willing to play NDSU like this. Maybe JMU (Landover, Maryland), or a SWAC team in New Orleans or Atlanta.
The next 12 game seasons are (2019) then 2024, 2025, 2030, 2031, 2036, 2041, 2042, 2047, 2052, 2053, 2058, 2059, 2064, 2069.
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