Looking Ahead to 2024

[reformedUNDfan]

Packaging NDSU, SDSU, MSU, UM together for a move to FBS would seem to make the most sense, or just get rid of Misery St, ISUB, Murray St, W IL, UND and add MSU, UM, ID and move the MVFC to FBS together.

I have no idea what the draw of the Montana schools is. I'd rather have a conference with the MVFC state schools and the remaining good Mid-Atlantic schools.

[NI4NI]

For discussion sake, let's say FBS is not in our future. Then we should mold a 'FCS Super Conference' of the following...
Idaho
Montana
Montana State
UND
NDSU
SDSU
USD
UNI
St Thomas
Would be wonderful having a stacked schedule with no 'softball' games. Every game interesting. A conference that is the envy of every FCS school across the nation. A group of schools capable of upsetting their FBS peers on any given Saturday.

[HerdBot]

For discussion sake, let's say FBS is not in our future. Then we should mold a 'FCS Super Conference' of the following...
Idaho
Montana
Montana State
UND
NDSU
SDSU
USD
UNI
St Thomas
Would be wonderful having a stacked schedule with no 'softball' games. Every game interesting. A conference that is the envy of every FCS school across the nation. A group of schools capable of upsetting their FBS peers on any given Saturday.

St Thomas is non scholarship. Every team on that list beats them by 50

[HerdBot]

I have no idea what the draw of the Montana schools is. I'd rather have a conference with the MVFC state schools and the remaining good Mid-Atlantic schools.

Montana schools invest in football, win games and have great atmospheres. What more do we want?

[NI4NI]

St Thomas is non scholarship. Every team on that list beats them by 50

Look at their trajectory, they've done well at whatever level they've played at. They're 151-28 in the Caruso era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Th...mmies_football
They will be a legit contender sooner than you think.

[GreenfieldBison]

St Thomas is non scholarship. Every team on that list beats them by 50

In another two or three years? Doubt it.

Does NIL money count as scholarship?

[BiZon22]

Look at their trajectory, they've done well at whatever level they've played at. They're 151-28 in the Caruso era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Th...mmies_football
They will be a legit contender sooner than you think.

It’s embarrassing to be put in the same category as St Thomas.

[NDSUguy]

In another two or three years? Doubt it.

Does NIL money count as scholarship?

I think that they have the pieces in place to be successful EXCEPT that they are non-scholly. That will ultimately make them not competitive against the scholarship teams. There isn't enough NIL money to entice a whole team of players to play for your school when they have options to get scholorships and NIL at other schools. That will ultimately be their limiting factor - unless they want to go to scholarship football.

[HerdBot]

Look at their trajectory, they've done well at whatever level they've played at. They're 151-28 in the Caruso era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Th...mmies_football
They will be a legit contender sooner than you think.

Division 3 is non scholarship
D1 Pioneer football is non scholarship
D2 is 32 scholarships

Therefore they are the same as they were in football, but below D2

Some day they may be FCS with 63 scholarships, but right now they are like Drake

[tony]

Look at their trajectory, they've done well at whatever level they've played at. They're 151-28 in the Caruso era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Th...mmies_football
They will be a legit contender sooner than you think.

Drake put up 52 on them this season. They will probably have really good regular season records as long as they stay in the Pioneer, get the autobid, and lose in the first round most of the time. When they win, they'll go to a seeded team in the second and lose by 5 TDs.

Now if they move up to a scholarship conference, their ceiling gets quite a bit higher.