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Thread: A new and better FBS thread

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    https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/rep...-12-defections

    Decent article that provides some insight into considerations other than football. Makes a point to mention our lack of basketball strength.

    Reiterates the view that we'd be a football-only addition to the MWC. I want all sports to move.
    North Dakota State, a football team the big boys of college football should avoid like the plague, helped christen a $90 million renovation to Snyder Family Stadium — including a statue of famed Kansas State coach Bill Snyder himself — by taking a sledgehammer to the place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KSBisonFan View Post
    https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/rep...-12-defections

    Decent article that provides some insight into considerations other than football. Makes a point to mention our lack of basketball strength.

    Reiterates the view that we'd be a football-only addition to the MWC. I want all sports to move.
    Agree.

    Really hope lack of investment in basketball doesn't come back to bite us on this. We have largely ignored that sport, and its the second leg of what drives conference moves. Football is clearly first, but basketball is sometimes a factor.

    Regardless of outcome, we need to embrace and support basketball better if we want continued growth as an athletic program.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KSBisonFan View Post
    https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/rep...-12-defections

    Decent article that provides some insight into considerations other than football. Makes a point to mention our lack of basketball strength.

    Reiterates the view that we'd be a football-only addition to the MWC. I want all sports to move.
    Exactly. All sports or forget it. This is an opportunity for all athletics and their athletes, not just FB.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NI4NI View Post
    Exactly. All sports or forget it. This is an opportunity for all athletics and their athletes, not just FB.
    I would take a FB only invite if that is on that table. We won't be in position to dictate terms. If we were offered FB only, that suggests the rest of our sports weren't considered up to snuff, and it would be disappointing. I also want to see all sports go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigHorns View Post
    I would take a FB only invite if that is on that table. We won't be in position to dictate terms. If we were offered FB only, that suggests the rest of our sports weren't considered up to snuff, and it would be disappointing. I also want to see all sports go.
    Of course we do

    Matt Brown lays out a cute vision of the MWC as a BB conference, but Gloria has already indicated that she wants to pursue FB, and she will pursue. She also wants earlier games

    All this talk about the MWC dissolving or dropping down to FCS is garbage. Her career/legacy will be defined by how she rebuilds the MWC, plain and simple

    Otherwise, Matt basically says UTEP/NMSU and the XDSUs are the only options, and this is my prediction. I don’t think the Montana schools will jump

    https://www.extrapointsmb.com/p/im-h...everybody-else

    I can’t see the XDSUs turning this down if an invite comes (even though SDSU isn’t emotionally ready, lol), so they will pull the $$ from somewhere

    It's game day!! Go Bison!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhoRepsTheLurker View Post
    Of course we do

    Matt Brown lays out a cute vision of the MWC as a BB conference, but Gloria has already indicated that she wants to pursue FB, and she will pursue. She also wants earlier games

    All this talk about the MWC dissolving or dropping down to FCS is garbage. Her career/legacy will be defined by how she rebuilds the MWC, plain and simple

    Otherwise, Matt basically says UTEP/NMSU and the XDSUs are the only options, and this is my prediction. I don’t think the Montana schools will jump

    https://www.extrapointsmb.com/p/im-h...everybody-else

    I can’t see the XDSUs turning this down if an invite comes (even though SDSU isn’t emotionally ready, lol), so they will pull the $$ from somewhere

    It's game day!! Go Bison!!

    This sucks, but SDSU is better prepared for the move than NDSU in regards to a 'all sports'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KSBisonFan View Post
    https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/rep...-12-defections

    Decent article that provides some insight into considerations other than football. Makes a point to mention our lack of basketball strength.

    Reiterates the view that we'd be a football-only addition to the MWC. I want all sports to move.
    That’s not what he says. He says we’d struggle in basketball (yes we would) but then fails to mention that we have the best bb program compared to the four schools he put in front of us. Sac State plays in a gym smaller than the bison bunker field house lol.

    Montana is perennially a top team? Yeah perennially for the last 12 months lol. Been fuckin terrible for the 14 years before that.

    It’s essentially worthless clickbait, but it is one fan’s perspective. I will say I’m glad to see that, again, UTEP and NM State are far down the list past the best FCS options. I have yet to see anyone put those schools ahead of us and that’s obviously the way it should be. Edit - Lurker’s column he posted above is the first.

    To the point you’ve been making for a long time, we needed to be investing more in bball. If we don’t make it this time, that will be the problem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NI4NI View Post
    This sucks, but SDSU is better prepared for the move than NDSU in regards to a 'all sports'.
    Financially, they very much are not more prepared to go all sports more than us lol

    For better or for worse all sports are the way of the future it seems. No more half-in half-out BS.
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    The investment we need to make in basketball is coaching, we have completely embraced mediocrity and being just happy to win the autobid every once and a while. The three games in March mentality needs to die.
    NDSU to the FBS always. In all ways.

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    The glaring problem for us is that adding the XDSUs and Montanas would severely harm the basketball brand. MWC cares just as much about basketball as football and it would be the basketball equivalent of the MVFC adding the top four teams in the OVC.

    We got mad about Murray State. Imagine adding three more of them…
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