They might consider that if only because it would allow a MVFC crew a chance to work a championship. Playoffs are a major recognition for officials and the opportunity to work outside their normal conference is a cool aspect of it. A MVFC crew working UNI at NDSU in the playoffs is less of an honor. But they could possibly do it. I don't know that's is absolutely not allowed.
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Why was the umpire in the offensive backfield for the USD Nicholls game? Only posting here seeing IndyBison posting.
I know some states have started to put the umpire in the offensive backfield for HS like the NFL on an experimental basis. Maybe the conference working this game is doing a similar experiment so they were allowed to continue it in the playoff game. I had not heard of that.
One of the threads on the JSU fansite discusses how we have a better team because we don't have as much competition in recruiting as they do, apparently the SEC is in their backyard. So I thought that should be looked into a little bit.
JSU is located in Jacksonville, Alabama. The states surrounding Alabama are as follows:
Alabama - 4.86 mil
Georgia - 10.31 mil
Florida - 20.61 mil
Louisiana - 4.68 mil
Arkansas - 2.99 mil
Tennessee - 6.65 mil
Total - 50.10 million people
NDSU is in Fargo, North Dakota. The states surrounding ND are as follows:
ND - 0.76 mil
SD - 0.87 mil
MN - 5.52 mil
WI - 5.78 mil
IA - 3.14 mil
MT - 1.04 mil
Total - 17.11 million people
Obviously we have a much easier time recruiting with a much smaller population to pull from and lame recruiting competition from the like of UofMN, UofWI, Iowa, Iowa St., Montana, etc.
Disclaimer: Nebraska should probably get factored into this, as we pull some good talent out of the pipeline from there. That is another 1.91 million people. Also, these are total populations and aren't broken into demographics (age groups).
So assuming we beat USD do people think we'll play next Friday night or next Saturday?
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The recruiting for Jacksonville has 8 times population but they also have spring ball plus 7 on 7's in summer...Wait that maybe the problem for them is kids in south play football year round and don't play other sports... Watching the Dakota bowl there seems to be more athleticism in ND/MN as kids still play multiple sports.