McFooly's Article Today

[2011BisonAlumni]

Seems to me he is implying NDSU is winning championships due to zero competition. FCS is no different from FBS. Realistically how many teams, really, can win an FBS title? 5 maybe 10 tops.


http://inforum.com/opinion/columns/4...l-championship

[MNLonghorn10]

Seems to me he is implying NDSU is winning championships due to zero competition. FCS is no different from FBS. Realistically how many teams, really, can win an FBS title? 5 maybe 10 tops.


http://inforum.com/opinion/columns/4...l-championship

10 tops? That's 8 more than what the fcs bodes

[Herd]

Mission accompli oh mcfoolish one. Let the gnashing Of teeth commence.

[kab1one]

Seems to me he is implying NDSU is winning championships due to zero competition. FCS is no different from FBS. Realistically how many teams, really, can win an FBS title? 5 maybe 10 tops.


http://inforum.com/opinion/columns/4...l-championship

Isn't he spot on? And haven't we had this discussion before when it was viewed 10-15 teams a few years back could compete. Whereas now that number has gotten smaller, but the won thing Mike leaves out the Valley has probably gotten more difficult for the Bison to run the table on due to the improvement of USD, along with an occasional one off run by a team (Illinois State), and the more traditional year in and year solid teams. SDSU and UNI.

In the FCS, how many schools offer the full ride of scholarships? That in my opinion is the number of teams that have "any chance", from there you can reduce the field. NDSU full allotment versus that of UND for example. UND doesn't have a chance. can say that about the Montana schools currently. And Eastern Washington as they only play offense.

So, the 20 (or whatever the exact number is) full scholarship schools is very quickly reduced.

Lakes and all his yelling for a different conference and moving up, is probably correct from a football competition perspective, but the money just doesn't work. So as a result, we should just enjoy the run

[NorthernBison]

He actually said FCS is much the same as FBS in terms of the teams capable of winning it all each year.

Nothing negative in what I read. Definitely nothing dissing NDSU.


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[THEsocalledfan]

He actually said FCS is much the same as FBS in terms of the teams capable of winning it all each year.

Nothing negative in what I read. Definitely nothing dissing NDSU.


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Agreed. It was 100% factual and well researched. I thought this was fairly well known. This is the rational part of the FBS or bust crowd argument; the irrational part are the money, facility, and crap G5 issues.

[Snowgoose]

Agreed. It was 100% factual and well researched. I thought this was fairly well known. This is the rational part of the FBS or bust crowd argument; the irrational part are the money, facility, and crap G5 issues.

I actually don't think this is a rational part of the move to FBS. FBS is almost identical. Maybe a couple more schools have a chance. But realistically only the top one or two Schools from the Big five conferences legitimately have a even chance to qualify for the playoff as the G5 conferences have zero chance to even be in the playoffs right now.

[Christopher Moen]

I think the article focuses too much on the past and provides little insight on the actual future of the FCS. Go back three years ago, and the same article could have be written, except that JMU is not considered a top-tier team. There are going to be teams rising to be part of the cream of the crop, especially in Georgia Southern and App State's area. One of those teams will be Kennesaw State.

I also think teams will start rising elsewhere, especially in the Big Sky. Too many good teams with great tradition to be kept down.

With that said, NDSU will be ready for them.

[tony]

I think the article focuses too much on the past and provides little insight on the actual future of the FCS. Go back three years ago, and the same article could have be written, except that JMU is not considered a top-tier team. There are going to be teams rising to be part of the cream of the crop, especially in Georgia Southern and App State's area. One of those teams will be Kennesaw State.

I also think teams will start rising elsewhere, especially in the Big Sky. Too many good teams with great tradition to be kept down.

With that said, NDSU will be ready for them.

People have short memories. 30 teams have made the quarterfinals since 2010.

[JMB]

He actually said FCS is much the same as FBS in terms of the teams capable of winning it all each year.

Nothing negative in what I read. Definitely nothing dissing NDSU.


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Yeah I certainly didn't get a negative vibe, and he mentions in the article that this isn't unique to Fcs, look at Championship participants at the D3 level. This is happening all over in football.