Bison Fatigue

[MankatoBison]

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There were 3,000 less people at both of those games than you draw at the Fargo Dome. You have 5 times the number of students than the schools put together. 15,000 people at an FCS game when you are NOT Big State U is pretty damn good. FWIW The Citadel holds 21,000 with 3k seats closed due to lead paint.

That's not true. Both of those stadiums were embarrassingly empty, 1'd I pulled those capacity numbers from
Wikipedia. I didn't make it up.

But let's just say for a moment that I completely made up those numbers- and that Samford and wofford are national programs with ravenous football fans... that would make about 5 programs out of 125.

I'll take the point on this one too

[THEsocalledfan]

After having a day + to digest it, I am fully on the conspiracy bandwagon that the committee last year and this year is doing everything they can to assure they never have an all Missouri Valley final again. Further, with that philosophy, they are making it as difficult for NDSU as they can. I honestly cannot see any way you can justify UND seated over SDSU; you just can't thus conspiracy.

[wagsabison]

After having a day + to digest it, I am fully on the conspiracy bandwagon that the committee last year and this year is doing everything they can to assure they never have an all Missouri Valley final again. Further, with that philosophy, they are making it as difficult for NDSU as they can. I honestly cannot see any way you can justify UND seated over SDSU; you just can't thus conspiracy.

3 loss vs 2 loss
SDSU best win NDSU
UND best win Poly
Both conference "Co-Champs"
Kind of a toss up really. They had UND above SDSU the whole time so I can see why they kept them where they were at.

SDSU dropped the ball when they lost to ISU-r (still don't understand how they looked so horrible against them).

[BisonTeacher]

After having a day + to digest it, I am fully on the conspiracy bandwagon that the committee last year and this year is doing everything they can to assure they never have an all Missouri Valley final again. Further, with that philosophy, they are making it as difficult for NDSU as they can. I honestly cannot see any way you can justify UND seated over SDSU; you just can't thus conspiracy.

Is this causing you fatigue?

Just giving you crap man!

[THEsocalledfan]

3 loss vs 2 loss
SDSU best win NDSU
UND best win Poly
Both conference "Co-Champs"
Kind of a toss up really. They had UND above SDSU the whole time so I can see why they kept them where they were at.

SDSU dropped the ball when they lost to ISU-r (still don't understand how they looked so horrible against them).

Sdsu best win light years better.
SdSu conference far superior as a whole.
ISUr loss much more acceptable than either Bowling Green or Stony Brook loss.
Again, can't be justified. They are out to screw the valley and NDSU. And what about strength of schedule?

[wagsabison]

Sdsu best win light years better.
SdSu conference far superior as a whole.
ISUr loss much more acceptable than either Bowling Green or Stony Brook loss.
Again, can't be justified. They are out to screw the valley and NDSU. And what about strength of schedule?

I agree SDSU's win is much better. SDSU has no one to blame but themselves. You can't lose to ISU-r and Poly

[bruinbison]

Sdsu best win light years better.
SdSu conference far superior as a whole.
ISUr loss much more acceptable than either Bowling Green or Stony Brook loss.
Again, can't be justified. They are out to screw the valley and NDSU. And what about strength of schedule?

The NCAA also ends up ensuring there will be no all-Big Sky Conference
final as well. Not that I think Grand Forks University could win that many playoff games (but the committee doesn't seem to know that), but Eastern Washington certainly could.
So same thing, insuring there is no championship game with 2 teams from the same conference.

Sad to see lack of marketing, lack of furthering the national brand with inter-conference matchups in the quarterfinals for the FCS......


Buttttt, nice to get a chance to play the Jackrabbits again, like the Bison did with the Griz last year.

[TransAmBison]

Sdsu best win light years better.
SdSu conference far superior as a whole.
ISUr loss much more acceptable than either Bowling Green or Stony Brook loss.
Again, can't be justified. They are out to screw the valley and NDSU. And what about strength of schedule?

The committee sees the MVFC and the Big Sky as both good conferences. How many good teams vs poor teams would be splitting hairs for them. SDSU made it in to the seeding with 3 losses...I'm thinking that was big...UND had two losses at the beginning of the season and went through the conference without a loss. I doubt they put a ton of thought into it.

I do think SDSU deserved the #7 spot, but I can see how they got #8.

[bruinbison]

2015 FCS Attendance Leaders

Montana - 24139
Jacksonville State - 20598
Yale - 20547
James Madison - 19498
Montana State - 19172
Liberty - 18990
NDSU - 18497
Southern University - 18310
Delaware - 15826
South Carolina State - 15629
Florida A&M - 15060
North Carolina A&T - 14988
Youngstown State - 14854
Tennessee State - 14620
Jackson State - 13252
SDSU - 12899 (San Diego State??? )
Harvard - 12799
Alcorn State - 12343
McNeese State - 11692
Northern Iowa - 11549

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/footba...dance/2015.pdf

The Jackrabbits are averaging about 15000 this year with the new stadium completed, an increase of about 2200 from last season. Hope they don't hurt their average too much with an outdoor playoff game.....

[abc123]

Sdsu best win light years better.
SdSu conference far superior as a whole.
ISUr loss much more acceptable than either Bowling Green or Stony Brook loss.
Again, can't be justified. They are out to screw the valley and NDSU. And what about strength of schedule?

Big Sky 4-3 against the MVFC in head to head. Both are viewed as strong conferences
Common opponents: Both beat USD. UND beat Cal Poly, SDSU lost to Cal Poly.
UND on 9 game winning streak
UND ranked ahead of SDSU in release 2 and 3 (neither ranked in release 1). A win over a team with a losing record shouldn't be that impressive.

Not saying it isn't debatable, because it is, but if you can't see that, its because you don't want to. Strength of schedule is good and all that, but you actually have to win the games as well as play them. If SDSU beat Cal Poly or ISU-r, they are ahead of UND and there are no arguments. They lost both of those games and still got seeded despite having 3 losses.