A new and better FBS thread

[MWC]

I have to say until NDSU posters started showing up on the MW board I knew very little about your program. I have never seen you play. I did know that Wentz came from there. However, I have since learned from those posters that you have had an amazing run in FCS, winning a bunch of championships in a row. I could not name a single school that you played in the final games though.

I am not saying any of that as a diss..I would guess almost none of you know much if anything about most of the MW schools. There are a lot of football schools out there so it is nigh on impossible to pay much attention to most of them.

By the by..I am a 49er fan. I have a vested interest in Trey Lance doing well..I had not heard of him until the talking heads started mentioning him for the draft. I was thinking the Niners would go for Mac Jones when they traded up so I was surprised. He looked okay in his limited playing time. He did not appear particularly fast or shifty but he certainly has a strong arm. Fingers crossed that Shanahan didn't blow it with this pick..

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I have to say until NDSU posters started showing up on the MW board I knew very little about your program. I have never seen you play. I did know that Wentz came from there. However, I have since learned from those posters that you have had an amazing run in FCS, winning a bunch of championships in a row. I could not name a single school that you played in the final games though.

I am not saying any of that as a diss..I would guess almost none of you know much if anything about most of the MW schools. There are a lot of football schools out there so it is nigh on impossible to pay much attention to most of them.

By the by..I am a 49er fan. I have a vested interest in Trey Lance doing well..I had not heard of him until the talking heads started mentioning him for the draft. I was thinking the Niners would go for Mac Jones when they traded up so I was surprised. He looked okay in his limited playing time. He did not appear particularly fast or shifty but he certainly has a strong arm. Fingers crossed that Shanahan didn't blow it with this pick..

There's some good points here about what the average fan knows about opposing teams and the division in general. Since we're taking the time to post in this thread every single one of us is in the top 1% of general football knowledge. We need to realize that the average fan makes up the bulk of ticket sales and cares more about name recognition than team talent. Why do you think UND is one of the hardest tickets to get despite them not having a chance? I remember when someone in the FCS crushed North Texas and I genuinely thought they were D2. Way back in 2004 our very first D1 game was Valparaiso. Of course they're a terrible team and we crushed them, but there was enough name recognition from their basketball program that people were aware of them and the marketing campaign worked.

[WhoRepsTheLurker]

After NDSU goes FBS, Bismarck can pay NDSU $1M to let UND come play them in the dome

[NDSUstudent]

Football only offer turned down by NDSU admin...

Some more Conference USA news:

Per @MattBrownEP, CUSA reached out to NDSU about partial membership but the Bison quickly denied the offer.

https://twitter.com/scottwatkinsTU/s...46043270041602

[TAILG8R]

Football only offer turned down by NDSU admin...



https://twitter.com/scottwatkinsTU/s...46043270041602

This is the same info we had weeks/months(?) ago. Which Brown claims and I'm not saying I doubt but ML says didn't happen.

[NDSU92]

This is the same info we had weeks/months(?) ago. Which Brown claims and I'm not saying I doubt but ML says didn't happen.

Reading between the lines I would guess it was that CUSA reached out to our consultant, who was already to no way, Jose.

Never reached out to “NDSU”

[TAILG8R]

Reading between the lines I would guess it was that CUSA reached out to our consultant, who was already to no way, Jose.

Never reached out to “NDSU”

Agreed. This is how schools/execs/coaches etc can always say they haven't spoken to anyone about XYZ. There is a proxy.

[NDSUstudent]

This is the same info we had weeks/months(?) ago. Which Brown claims and I'm not saying I doubt but ML says didn't happen.

This is the first I have heard of a football only offer put on the table, Brown seems to be doubling down on it lately.

To me all it means is that it was out there for the taking and we screwed it up. What we don't know is if it was ML, DB or both of them that passed on the chance. If DB didn't want to go FBS, ML may be playing a longer game waiting for a new president. A lot of people pile on ML but the FBS decision is largely out of his hands and is driven by the president.

[B.Schlossman Fan Club]

This is the first I have heard of a football only offer put on the table, Brown seems to be doubling down on it lately.

To me all it means is that it was out there for the taking and we screwed it up. What we don't know is if it was ML, DB or both of them that passed on the chance. If DB didn't want to go FBS, ML may be playing a longer game waiting for a new president. A lot of people pile on ML but the FBS decision is largely out of his hands and is driven by the president.

Huge deal if they turned down a football only offer. Football only offer is what everyone wants and would be very easy for NDSU to make happen.

[WhoRepsTheLurker]

Of course he said no. It’s a downgrade in TV deal. Not surprised at all and it was a good call to pass on this particular offer