Hawkster

Translation: Desperate

I can't say that Long Island U and St. Thomas are exactly marque attractions. I know, I know, let's get some wins, but I'm not a fan of this type of scheduling.

If we're going to fork out $23 million to move I'd rather spend it getting to a better conference than the MAC. That's pretty much slum territory.

What has Bill Chaves done in the last week?

That's becoming the problem, money is making things move rapidly. It's going to take extreme amounts of money to do anything in regards to moving up and things get dumber all the time. NDSU and Sac State probably guarantees that no one moves up on the cheap. Look at Memphis offered the Big 12 $200 million for an invite. True they got turned down but still it's money that's being offered. But you are right that the NCAA is letter others make their own rules.

There's only 6-8 quality FCS schools left at best and even the good conferences like MVFC and the Big Sky have a huge variation between the great ones on top and the also-rans at the bottom. I don't see much sense in merging anything. It's going to be the best ones moving up at some point, if they can.

The sad thing is if we want to move up we'll need them to succeed. If they all flat on their collective faces we won't be going FBS. It's not what I like but it's the reality of the situation. Let them iron out the kinks and show what works.

Boy I hope the Vikings never get this desperate again but then it's the Vikings. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/vikings-interested-underwhelming-qb-reunion-214010854.html

Kernan for Sat

Strinden

They come here because they're miserable and they want to spread the misery. As I said a couple weeks ago their ex players are worse than their fans.

James

Littler

I think there's a limit as to how many gaming licenses are available in GF. I'm sure that heavily regulated as much as liquor licenses. That's why there's such a battle to get those spots.

Minot State isn't D1 either and while they could move up they won't. My better idea is worry about improving our athletics instead of trying to destroy the Summit. Dude, did you react like this the first time your girlfriend dumped you?

Mankato isn't even D1 and the University System in Minnesota will never let any other school move up since it would threaten the Gophers. So you'll have to find someone else to fill their slot in your pipe dream.

After Idaho was dropped by the SBC they begged, pleaded and threatened every other FBS conference for an invite and didn't get one. Dropping back was their only alternative. I can see NDSU being successful in the MW but I doubt they parlay it into anything higher. B12 or B1G won't ever come calling. I suppose the PAC might take them if they think they can get another $17 million in entrance money from them but they shouldn't count on it. My hunch is that NDSU thinks the door will slam shut on moving up so they were desperate. I can't see any other reason to pay that much money. I can sorta see the NCAA continuing to make it harder and harder.

I'm surprised NDSU will pay no exit fee to the MVFC and gets to cancel their '26 games. I always thought the point of having an exit fee was to keep teams from walking away without a long time notice. UND will take a hit over not having that sellout game at the Al.

And football has nothing to do with the Summit League. Give it a rest old boy before you stroke out. I'm not interested in Summit football either. Just get our house in order.

You don't remember when we left the WCHA and started the NCHA? Do you remember when we were in the Big Sky Conference?

I dislike the Bison as much as anyone but this idea is beyond bizarre. So, using your rationale the Big Sky Conference should have kicked us out when we formed the NCHC in 2011? It certainly has parallels. I'd like to see UND try and pull ourselves up and get in position to move up if it turns out FBS is the way to go and if it isn't, let NDSU fail. No need for this petty stuff that isn't going to happen. Remember it was this same backwards attitude that kept us in D2 when it should have been apparent to everyone that going to 1 AA was the right move. No way does the Summit kick anyone out. And for the record, I still think we should have stayed in the BSC and then we wouldn't have to worry about the Summit collapsing.

I don't foresee a split. The change coming is that the G6 will implement their own playoff system and will heavily curtail the bowl games. The Big Boys don't want another JMU getting into their playoff picture.

But then we'd have to change your handle to Suefan97.

I agree with the evolving part but what happens if those that aren't FBS are locked out and can't move up? Remember, we narrowly avoided the 5 year moratorium imposed by the NCAA when we announced the move to D1. I think we got under the wire by something like a month or we would have had to wait 5 years. NCAA keeps putting more restrictions on all the time. The $5 million fee was just added, who knows what's coming next.

Did "we all" think that or was it RT and Kuppy that pushed that line? IIRC there were plenty that wanted to move up but no one at the top had that vision.