A new and better FBS thread

[oldmantutters]

He does other things good

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[Bison03]

This might be the best chance to go FBS, well at least for now lol. The biggest hurdle to overcome is the same it has been forever. Location and media market size. I think media market size being a bigger hurdle. I could see a scenario where the MT West tries and gets into Texas and their media markets. Rice and Texas Southern are in Houston, University of North Texas is just north of Dallas, Texas-San Antonio and even Incarnate Word are in San Antonio. I hope that we can make the case and be looked at as a potential member in f the MT West. Clearly we care about athletics, and especially football with our facilities, ahem…need to upgrade the dome, so come on MT West, do it!

[Grizzled]

While I suspect he “knows” we are at least making a full fledge press, uncertain if anything is official or done yet. Lots of moving parts and may take time for the dust to settle, and a formal invite would require the existing MWC schools to vote us in.

Also, found his follow up retweet of this one kind of bizarre:
https://x.com/unnecroughness/status/...bQhDgWeqSXZc2w

That suggests to me it isn’t done yet perhaps.

And I know a lot of people would love that scenario, but there is about a 1 in a bazillion chance the PAC go that direction. They will likely look outside both MWC and FCS for additional schools. I’m thinking most likely two top AAC schools will join them initially to get to 8. That would keep PAC alive and give it a strong base to build on later if they choose.

It would be pretty irresponsible of him as an extension of the athletic dept to be tweeting any false information.

[THEsocalledfan]

While I suspect he “knows” we are at least making a full fledge press, uncertain if anything is official or done yet. Lots of moving parts and may take time for the dust to settle, and a formal invite would require the existing MWC schools to vote us in.

Also, found his follow up retweet of this one kind of bizarre:
https://x.com/unnecroughness/status/...bQhDgWeqSXZc2w

That suggests to me it isn’t done yet perhaps.

And I know a lot of people would love that scenario, but there is about a 1 in a bazillion chance the PAC go that direction. They will likely look outside both MWC and FCS for additional schools. I’m thinking most likely two top AAC schools will join them initially to get to 8. That would keep PAC alive and give it a strong base to build on later if they choose.

I took it as a bit of a joke to push for more money......but what do I know.

[BigHorns]

I took it as a bit of a joke to push for more money......but what do I know.

You may be right. I expect there have been conversations, and feel like things are close. But there has not been enough time for MWC to make any official decisions yet.

[KSBisonFan]

While I suspect he “knows” we are at least making a full fledge press, uncertain if anything is official or done yet. Lots of moving parts and may take time for the dust to settle, and a formal invite would require the existing MWC schools to vote us in.

Also, found his follow up retweet of this one kind of bizarre:
https://x.com/unnecroughness/status/...bQhDgWeqSXZc2w

That suggests to me it isn’t done yet perhaps.

And I know a lot of people would love that scenario, but there is about a 1 in a bazillion chance the PAC go that direction. They will likely look outside both MWC and FCS for additional schools. I’m thinking most likely two top AAC schools will join them initially to get to 8. That would keep PAC alive and give it a strong base to build on later if they choose.

Lol at Eastern Washington on that map.

[BigHorns]

It would be pretty irresponsible of him as an extension of the athletic dept to be tweeting any false information.

Head of the collective is a bit different than being employed by NDSU. His job is to “pump it up” in a way, and encourage donations to the NIL.

[ndsubison1]

I’d say Jay knows. Odd he would be the one spilling the news but he is tapped in here and isn’t going to spread misinformation.

Its happening. I want to go tailgating right now and have a jag bomb or three.

[THEsocalledfan]

You may be right. I expect there have been conversations, and feel like things are close. But there has not been enough time for MWC to make any official decisions yet.

I will say Jay is typically pretty careful in comments that could be taken the wrong way.....which is why I started taking more seriously with reading all of you.

[ndsubison1]

While I suspect he “knows” we are at least making a full fledge press, uncertain if anything is official or done yet. Lots of moving parts and may take time for the dust to settle, and a formal invite would require the existing MWC schools to vote us in.

Also, found his follow up retweet of this one kind of bizarre:
https://x.com/unnecroughness/status/...bQhDgWeqSXZc2w

That suggests to me it isn’t done yet perhaps.

And I know a lot of people would love that scenario, but there is about a 1 in a bazillion chance the PAC go that direction. They will likely look outside both MWC and FCS for additional schools. I’m thinking most likely two top AAC schools will join them initially to get to 8. That would keep PAC alive and give it a strong base to build on later if they choose.

Go outside the conference and eventually come back to other MWC schools when the price tag is lower. UNLV and Nevada seem like obvious picks.