The Sicatoka

"Neat"? Turn in your Man Card (assuming you had one).

I recall UND playing in an NCAA national semi-final this spring ...

Ah yes, you contribute much to the betterment of society. Where'd you go to school again?

So then what are you good for?

Patience, Grasshopper. The final obstacle has been cleared. Your 63rd education will come soon enough.

If the current P5 were to rewrite parts of the rules, as you hypothesize, you have to know they'd understand that many FCS schools don't have 15,000 seat stadiums. I wonder if they'd revisit that number (or the attendance section in general). It'd take the pressure off of a significant number of current FBS (G5) schools also.

That's an excerpt from the memorandum returning Idaho (all but football) to the Big Sky. Fullerton wants Idaho back in the Big Sky. Idaho's academic credentials would help Fullerton appease the concerns of the Montana schools regarding letting lesser academic schools in the conference. (Fullerton wanted North Dakota for that same reason.) You can see the same concern in reverse from Idaho, namely, if those named three weren't at the party when Idaho showed up they could get out of the deal including getting their deposit back. (Fullerton would give the deposit back! That's how much he was willing to bend to what Idaho wanted to get them.) Idaho tightens up, makes more stable, Fullerton's northern Big Sky nucleus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Adidas_sponsorships#Colleges_and_Universities

Adidas makes much, much more sense given the bolded portion (quoted from SFI).

Eleventy-billion to two!

Lose your captain for the semi-finals because he takes a stupid penalty in the quarter-finals. Lose your best offensive weapon to a chipped vertebrae due to a knee in the back. But then put a stamp on in and mail it in ... in front of the home crowd. Welcome to a top five worst day in Brazilian history.

Don't forget DeHoff too ... on second thought, nevermind.

Your transcription of the tapes was slightly off so I fixed it for you.

I'm hoping the next problem doesn't happen. Getting the NGLs out before shipping, doing the chemical extraction and processing in North Dakota, would mean building those plants in the Bakken region* and they'd need chemical engineers. *Right now they are predominantly on the Gulf Coast.

Meant to put this in a while back, but Taylor isn't even getting that large of a pay bump (saw it in the Fargo Forum). So he's going to Iowa to be #2, behind a boss who's six years younger, and he's not getting that big (>15%) raise I'd assumed. http://www.inforum.com/content/gene-taylor-make-245k-first-year-iowa

The power of the interwebs: Actually, here's a pretty good game: http://www.sporcle.com/games/NC_Watson/smallest-fbs-schools

I'd rather have the regional cable over a local affiliate.

Soccer.

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Hi, I'm on the board of directors of an organization with $200+ million in assets and $100 million in annual revenues. We're looking for a new CEO. We'd like to hire you for $1 million per year. And we assume you'll be giving about 80% of that to students because you can easily live on $200k annually. Right? Greene's making $10 million over 4 years ($2.5 annually). Taxes, agents, etc. and he's taking less than half of that. And given his age, that may be the last deal of his career. He'll be 30 and done earning. Compare that to ... Do the math in a "normal" (30-35 year career): If you average $60k you'll have earned about $2 million in your lifetime.

OK, one team can move. OK, two different "one team" can move. So, six different "one team" can't move? Then, after meeting criteria to be FBS, what stops a group of "one teams" who've been in a conference together (continuity) from splitting off from a conference to form their own? Of course I speak of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. And before you jump on me about "new mouths to feed", SCSU was a DII hockey program that the WCHA "made" DI (back whenever). SCSU then jumped into a newly formed conference (with a group that had continuity). Mankato and Bemidji were once DIIs and new "mouths to feed" in DI also and it was in the realm of possibilities that they would jump into the NCHC. Once a team has been bona fide invited and has achieved FBS status, they aren't a "new mouth to feed". They are a FBS member. The way to preclude this scenario would be to prevent any FBS conference from inviting any FCS team in.

My apologies for parsing your sentence; however, You begin absolutely correct -- a team or group of teams must join an existing conference to transition to FBS -- however, after that, you start either reading words only visible to you in the NCAA manual or applying *your* interpretation to the written rules. Once a team or teams are of full FBS status they can realign into new conferences as they see fit. I think you're hung up on "making the Big Sky FBS". This group would form a new western FBS conference called <name here>. Thought exercise: What would stop full FBS members Texas, Notre Dame, Alabama, LSU, Michigan, Florida, Oklahoma, Georgia, Ohio State, and Nebraska from forming a new, eleventh FBS conference on Monday morning? (I picked the ten most valuable college football teams per Forbes for this conference.)

But that doesn't solve the lack of a third and fourth line.

Precisely.

Oversight is not the gorilla; the bolded (spelled $$$$$) is the gorilla.