I really don’t think so. Honestly it may end up helping us. Look at UNI, SDSU. Only way it affects us badly enough to bring us back down to earth is if we lost our top 10-15 guys to FBS transfers. Good news is that a lot of them already turned down FBS offers and it sounds like this is one of the most cohesive, high culture teams we’ve had.
I was curious about that as well... you have two players that could be taken in the first round -- a monumental achievement for most P5 teams -- and something no no team below that will ever achieve. You know that a game against upper competition will solidify those projections. In addition, there are other players that have NFL aspirations -- get them some tape they need for evaluations -- who knows, we might have set a record for most players drafted by an FCS team. As the AD, I would be willing to take the game for expenses (travel and related COVID-19 testing and support) -- Why? It enhances the NDSU brand at a national level. Really hope this perspective was considered when they were attempting to cobble together a schedule for the fall.
If any team, at any level can turn this huge challenge into an advantage, I believe NDSU football can! Coach Entz and his staff appear to be on the leading edge of college football coaching... could be pretty interesting to watch them overcome these challenges -- the Bison have the staff, players, and culture needed -- sit back and watch what's next!
I pity the next team who plays the Bison -- Northern Iowa (if we play in the Spring), or Albany (if we have to wait for Fall 2021) -- they are going to get crushed, no matter who is under center for the Bison!
Has there been a single game added between 2 schools that wasn’t in ink back in January? I haven’t seen 2 schools say “yo, our opponents are strictly conference only, you want to play”
100 schools? bahaha BULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
that's why TCU and WVU are begging for games TODAY. Saturday 8.15? and Matt said "we would like 1 fbs and 2 fcs games"
why didn't he just come out and say "Its a once in a lifetime opportunity, NDSU motto is Bring on the Competition and we will play 3 FBS games vs ANYONE for ANY PRICE" #EastCoastSoft
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
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I wanna give the benefit of the doubt, but Larson has been at ndsu 6 years and inherited what Gene had done. Gene was special and difficult shoes to try and fill for anyone.
Are there any examples where he wasn’t playing things super safe?
Some out of conference basketball maybe?
Fuzzy line between being negative and constructive criticism, but players, fans and teammakers wanna see games.
Liability considerations whatever. But this would have been an opportunity to show some big boy conferences an “NDSU is bigtime” mindset. Even at revenue neutral- it would have been a positive overall for NDSU. Show college football fans its not all about the money.
The games will likely all be cancelled by ncaa eventually- so yeah. Schedule some spash games. Let NCAA be the bad guy.