I don't think SDSU lucked into anything, they are doing exactly what I have expected them to do and it would be what I would expect of NDSU fans if the tournament was in Fargo. Congrats for doing a good job of supporting something that is in your largest alumni metro area and very short drive from your campus, to me it isn't a massive accomplishment. It is meeting my expectations.
Nice try. That's not what I'm saying at all.
What I'm saying is sdsu fans would show up a hell of a lot less on a monday/tuesday night if they had to travel the same distance as, say, NDSU fans. Even fewer of they had to travel the same distance as ORU or IUPUI.
Sioux Falls put together a nice bid and is a good match for the league tournament. Clearly, they were counting on having fans from the host city there to cheer for a team based an hour or less away in order to make revenue projections.
But don't throw a shoulder out patting yourself on the back thinking that the sdsu fan base is so awesome when reality is that sdsu fans don't have to make the same investment in time or money when the tourney is less than an hour away.
Please, go ahead and provide counterexamples of the sdsu fan base, travelling in any quantity of substance, to a distance, oh hell, how about 150 miles or more, on any day of the week, much less a monday/tuesday.
OFFICIAL BISONVILLE SPONSOR OF:Tatanka™ brand humor. Gary Bettman's incompetence. The process of recommending a task force to recommend a process to be suggested to another task force, and of meetings called to discuss future meetings. The 21.3% of teh university students that, unlike Tatanka, are online-only, and the 15+% that never step foot in North Dakota. And hating Detroit...Proud member of TOHBTC and NDSU Team Makers.
OFFICIAL BISONVILLE SPONSOR OF:Tatanka™ brand humor. Gary Bettman's incompetence. The process of recommending a task force to recommend a process to be suggested to another task force, and of meetings called to discuss future meetings. The 21.3% of teh university students that, unlike Tatanka, are online-only, and the 15+% that never step foot in North Dakota. And hating Detroit...Proud member of TOHBTC and NDSU Team Makers.
I'm well aware of the NCAA's absurd process for determining FCS hosting privileges. The majority of the games are basically sold to the highest bidder. In that respect the process differs little from the means of selecting conference tournament hosts.
When, inevitably, NDSU is unseeded in the FCS playoffs, you as Bison fans, will be pleased that the money you spend on NDSU football will enable you to buy multiple home games. In that respect in particular, NDSU fans grumbling about the ability of SDSU fans to 'buy' a home conference tournament seems particularly strange.