It's About the Caliber of Play

[The_Sicatoka]

St. Thomas is a big deal in MSP and they have some serious resources and donors. That said, they're going to have some growing pains going to DI because their facilities aren't where they need to be and that's going to eat resources. And right now they sponsor about 22 varsity (NCAA) sports. I don't see how that will remain fiscally viable for them either.

[ByeSonBusiness]

If youre going to be aggressive you have to have containment. This happened to us with Emanuel and ????????. DEs are crashing down the tackles just ride them down the LOS in effect collapsing the line play= a lot of running room.

Emanuel and Cole Jirik. Greg Menard(I think?) came after Jirik.

[ByeSonBusiness]

St. Thomas is a big deal in MSP and they have some serious resources and donors. That said, they're going to have some growing pains going to DI because their facilities aren't where they need to be and that's going to eat resources.

They can eat all the resources they want, NDSU has a smaller Thanksgiving spread on the table and more mouths to feed. St. Thomas has a big spread and a small group eating.

If they want to be good at football, money will not be a hangup. Notre Dame got complacent for a long time, then decided to invest hundreds of millions.

Should be noted some of these schools have philosophical reasons for not making the investments or commitments (Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame to a lesser extent). But I can't imagine St. Thomas is moving to D1 for the sake of being D1.

[reformedUNDfan]

They can eat all the resources they want, NDSU has a smaller Thanksgiving spread on the table and more mouths to feed. St. Thomas has a big spread and a small group eating.

If they want to be good at football, money will not be a hangup. Notre Dame got complacent for a long time, then decided to invest hundreds of millions.

Should be noted some of these schools have philosophical reasons for not making the investments or commitments (Harvard, Yale, Notre Dame to a lesser extent). But I can't imagine St. Thomas is moving to D1 for the sake of being D1.

St. Thomas is a tier 3 private school for rich kids who can't get into a real private school. Both NDSU and UND are as good or better schools.

They would be D3 still if their conference hadn't been pathetic.

[WeAreThePride]

St. Thomas is a tier 3 private school for rich kids who can't get into a real private school. Both NDSU and UND are as good or better schools.

They would be D3 still if their conference hadn't been pathetic.

All schools teach from the same textbooks. St Thomas gets you some pretty damn high level connections.

[reformedUNDfan]

All schools teach from the same textbooks. St Thomas gets you some pretty damn high level connections.

maybe if you are in to business administration. It isn't even a PhD granting institution. It's peer law schools are UND and USD, and thats its best program.

St. Thomas' connections aren't any better than any of the Dakotas. Its endowment isn't anything special and the ND schools are catching up. Its just a degree mill for dimwitted rich kids. Thats it.

[56BISON73]

Emanuel and Cole Jirik. Greg Menard(I think?) came after Jirik.

Menard. Thanks.