Goodbye NCAA tournament as we know it?
Goodbye NCAA tournament as we know it?
Co-founder of the Bluegrass Bison crew, Kev’s bag holder.
well, there goes the AAC for NDSU. argh Aresco was 100% a NDSU fan.
SOURCE: AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco will announce his retirement,
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
Aresco doesn't make the decisions on who to add, the existing schools do.
Unfortunately, they've decided to stay in their footprint. Aresco was pitching OSU/WSU to the members, and they declined.
If they don't want OSU/WSU, its not happening for us either. Geography matters.
Time to hop on board the MWC train Chapo.
With $100M the expected base budget ante, it's looking more and more like:
- Top 40-60 programs
- Other
Been saying this for literally 10 years. Operation “hope Scarlett Johansson asks us to marry her” is never going to happen. Breaking into the next level, even in a bad conference makes us FAR more likely to get into a good conference later, compared to our dream scenario of the super hot girl randomly asking the Reddit nerd to dance even though we’re not even in the fricken gym.
Matt Entz seems to agree with me, so there’s that.
Good conferences are way more likely to take a BAD FBS program to join them than a good FCS program, simply for the optics of not being a JV conference.
1. The FCS was the Best option for NDSU for a very long time.
2. As a general rule- the FCS sucks at football and has proven that is not committed to football at all.
3. It's time to go FBS