A new and better FBS thread

[Christopher Moen]

us Pro-FBS fans have no gotten Bison 1660 , KFAN MPLS, Kfan Fargo and Inforum and KVRR sports people to discuss NDSU to FBS. its literally all over right now.

the AAC conference thread, the Bison Fatique thread. heck Trey Lance thread.

Let's all stop being scared and do something 1 time in our lifetimes that will be incredible!!! NDSU to the FBS could be bigger than anything you could ever imagine. same discussions as 2002 and 2003 are happening everywhere.

you naysayers then need to step aside once again and be proved wrong

NDSU CAN SUCCEED AT FBS.

Appy St, Kansas State, Wyoming all ranked in top 25 this year....You know dam well NDSU could be too

Who's scared and has yet to do at least one incredible thing in their lifetime? You're hanging out with the wrong group dude.

[Hammersmith]

And that also means more schollies for ALL sports which means more $$$$$$$$$. Most havent thought of that. Wheres all that money going to come from. Travel for all those players and teams.

Actually, no. Pretty sure NDSU is now fully-funded across the board. Going FBS doesn't mean basketball or soccer or volleyball could get more scholarships; they're already maxed out. I do think NDSU would need to add at least one more women's sport just to keep things in the ballpark, but the additional scholarships would be for football and these new teams; no others.



The situation does open a low-cost option: Stay in the Summit and add a women's sport or two, and get a football-only invite to the MAC or Sun Belt or something. It would allow us to keep our non-football budgets fairly low while we ramp up for FBS. Then once the FB program is established in FBS, find a full FBS home and ramp up the funding for the olympic sports. But the problem once again comes back to where the invite will come from. Conferences aren't handing them out like candy.

[Christopher Moen]

And that also means more schollies for ALL sports which means more $$$$$$$$$. Most havent thought of that. Wheres all that money going to come from. Travel for all those players and teams.

I thought we were already to the max for the other sports. For example, wrestling is 9.9 (was 11 before the 10% cutback way back in the day). That is the maximum allowed for them regardless if NDSU goes from FCS to FBS in football.

[56BISON73]

Actually, no. Pretty sure NDSU is now fully-funded across the board. Going FBS doesn't mean basketball or soccer or volleyball could get more scholarships; they're already maxed out. I do think NDSU would need to add at least one more women's sport just to keep things in the ballpark, but the additional scholarships would be for football and these new teams; no others.

Yes we are fully funded for what we are allowed to offer. For clarification---basketball, baseball, T and F etc has the same scholarship numbers be it NDSU or Notre Dame?

[Hammersmith]

Yes we are fully funded for what we are allowed to offer. For clarification---basketball, baseball, T and F etc has the same scholarship numbers be it NDSU or Notre Dame?

Correct. DI is DI. The only sport where the scholarships limits are different is football.

[56BISON73]

Correct. DI is DI. The only sport where the scholarships are different is football.

Thank you for the correction!. I thought there were different numbers. Well that certainly helps out on the Money except for having to add another sport to stay in compliance .

[Hammersmith]

Thank you for the correction!. I thought there were different numbers. Well that certainly helps out on the Money except for having to add another sport to stay in compliance .

The biggest problem with money is that we need to realistically double or triple our MBB budget to get real looks; maybe even quadruple it. Our MBB budget is a joke compared to the good mid-major conferences including many of the G5.

One reason our football is so good is that we pay our assistants top dollar for our level. It lets us hire top people and keep them a year or two longer before they move up. We don't have the same advantage in MBB. We're not nearly as bad as UND, but that's saying absolutely nothing; their pay is worse than bad.

[56BISON73]

The biggest problem with money is that we need to realistically double or triple our MBB budget to get real looks; maybe even quadruple it. Our MBB budget is a joke compared to the good mid-major conferences including many of the G5.

One reason our football is so good is that we pay our assistants top dollar for our level. It lets us hire top people and keep them a year or two longer before they move up. We don't have the same advantage in MBB. We're not nearly as bad as UND, but that's saying absolutely nothing; their pay is worse than bad.

Good points. If you are going to move up you are going to pay the price to do so. Plus its not a one year thing. That has to be raised every year. Thats going to be a pretty big nut to crack. Fund raising is going to have to step up especially with all of the other building projects going on.

[wagsabison]

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[daddy daycare]

Boy wouldn't that Gasparilla Bowl (AAC) or Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (MAC) put NDSU on the map.