The Sicatoka

But we all keep playing and trying …

There's this "transformation" committee at the NCAA level. You have FBS G5 conferences inviting FCS teams that are nowhere (and I mean about half of UND's numbers) near the 15k average attendance number for FBS. Is that a "tell" on what is really coming down?

You mean like Conference-USA bound New Mexico State. (Even some NDSU fans are dubious of that.)

So Darcy Kuemper is in WAS and Jack Campbell is now in EDM? OK, ... I'm behind. Anyone have this year's "Goalie Carousel"?

I'll take the under, please.

Which is why conference decisions are made by university presidents.

Great idea, wrong line-up. Close, but wrong. (Mo State wants SunBelt; UNI is questionable at best to want to go west; NM State is going C-USA.) https://twitter.com/TheSnowBelt

Rat. Ship?

Given the FB bye week, can we get Quincy Vaughn to attend one of the games and have a display board side-by-side with the QU bench? Good Q / Bad Q

You must turn in your car keys before playing.

Drop a pin in at the MT/ND/Canada border point; swing a 600 mile arc: Minnesota and Wyoming Drop a pin in at Nashville; swing a 600 mile arc; you have everything from MSP to DFW to Orlando to Philly. (It's easier to count what's NOT in that circle.)

Was it kinda like this?

It could be Fenton if he declared "Summit League Football".

FBS in this region has what I'll call the "UND in BSC" problem: The closest FBS G5 schools (MWC, C-USA, SunBelt, MAC) are 700 miles away, and their conferences go out from there. Sound familiar? Sound like "UND in BSC"? OK, so full membership is costly (travel) and hurts fan travel. So why not FB-only membership? To a G5 conference that might get poached, a FB-only doesn't help maintain FBS status. You need 8 all-sport members. But Bresciani did lay out how it could be done. -> " ... would require a league in that the television revenues were substantial, that our fans could still go to away games, that our fans would recognize the schools by name and reputation and that the cost would be minimal, of any at all, ... " That sounds like "do it yourself" in the upper great plains, but be sure to capture someone in the MSP and DEN markets.

You really didn't narrow that down much ... urine color ... more urine color.

Here's again where I look to the Summit/MVFC rep on the NCAA "transformation" committee, namely (former) NDSU president Dean Bresciani. What's he know and telling to Armacost, Cook, and Josh Fenton? I know what Bresciani said to Bison 1660 (above) and it's summed up as "beware the cost".

Verizon is becoming a dirty word to me. Twenty-plus year customer and they want to raise my monthly bill and charge me for new phones. 20 years * 12 months per * average $75 bill over that time is ... $18,000.00 <- that's a gasp-worthy number when you see it Anyone using T-Mobile/Sprint? AT&T? Horror stories there? How's coverage? Thinking I-94, I-29, US 2, US 83, and US 12 in the Dakotas/Minnesota.

The following is an excerpt from a ForumComm article about a Fargo radio (Bison 1660) conversation with then-outgoing NDSU president Bresciani: I'd say Bresciani lays out the formula -> " ... would require a league in that the television revenues were substantial, that our fans could still go to away games, that our fans would recognize the schools by name and reputation and that the cost would be minimal, of any at all, ... " - "substantial" revenues (for expenses) - relatively easy (fan) travel - known rival schools - "mimimal" cost increases What's he say four times about a requirement of a potential move to FBS? - We'd have to find an affiliation that didn't bankrupt us - that our ... cost would be minimal, - we don't believe that we have the wherewithal to get into a situation that's going to require a lot of new resources ... - and right being defined as one that wouldn't require a lot of new resources

I'm glad they put the qualifier "G5" on there, because for P5 invites it's "do you bring as much as you take" to the conference (revenue) potluck. See: OU/UT to SEC and USC/UCLA to B1G.

There's a list of what he's set up on the left. If a city is not shown "pinned", scroll, and it'll show up. (Fargo and Clown are the last two on the list for me so they didn't show up until I did that.)

On Schlossman's ballot. (Schloss picked DU to win it all last year.)

USD.

Think ... this.

Have you noticed the state of education in the US?

For reference, last year's "squad": https://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/31740-the-all-und-in-the-nhl-team-2021-22-edition/