GeauxSioux
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2 hours ago, SiouxFan100 said:
I was fortunate enough to be going to UND for two of these 1980 and 1982. Magical time with beating su in football three out of four years and something like a 35 home winning streak in men’s basketball during My four years.
I, too, was at UND during that time frame. Kermit's luck guides our puck. The battles against Wisconsin were epic.
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West Florida athletics reportedly headed to Division I, new conferences
I can't paste the article, as I lost my two free views on the PNJ site.
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4 hours ago, fightingsioux4life said:
And lots of other schools with their hands out.
Florida does have more than it's share of millionaires, but also has a number of large established universities. So the money gets spread out a bit. UWF has only been around since 1963 and has really only grown a lot in the last 20-25 years. UWF was NAIA until 1994 and have only had football since 2016. They won the D2 football national championship in 2019.
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I saw this over on CSNBBS...
Interesting that UND won a championship every decade except the 70s. It is time for win in this decade.
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4 hours ago, Hawkster said:
How big is their commitment to D1 football? UND type commitment or Murray State type? The last thing FCS needs right now is more Ne'er Do Wells. Same thing can be said about D1 basketball except you can't use Murray State as an example, they seem competitive in BB. How successful were they in D2 athletics?
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6 minutes ago, nascar99 said:
Feel like this tournament has been fairly easy to predict so far based on roster composition and SOS. Only 2 games I didn't have a great read on were Quinnipiac-Providence College and Penn State-Minnesota Duluth upcoming.
I went for the Minnesota State upset in my predictions. Blew that one.
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The University of West Florida is making a major announcement next week regarding the athletic department. Rumor is that it a change of classification to Division I.
If true, I will have FCS football in my backyard. They are currently building a new football stadium to seat 7500.
I have pointed out on another forum that UWF has a high school gym for basketball. Definite upgrade required.
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Duluth did not win the regular season or the conference tournament. They should not be rewarded by moving up a slot due to geography.
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3 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:Maybe this is the meeting where they are asked how it is possible to have the same enrollment number three years in a row.
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It appears UND is up around 1.38% from Spring 2025.
2026....15,155
2025... 14,591
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I don't have Sharepoint access to see the figures.
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I cannot find UND's 2026 Spring enrollment figures, but NDSU is down 1.4% from Spring 2025.
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College Football Program Sues to Force Conference Realignment
QuotePer their official statement, “Today, Louisiana Tech took a necessary step in the best interest of its student athletes. When we joined Conference USA in 2013, its membership was different, its scheduling was different, and the landscape of college athletics was very different. Seven months ago, we notified CUSA of our intent to exit in July 2026. We have worked in good faith toward an amicable separation within conference bylaws. The proposed 2026 football schedule drafted by CUSA left us no choice but to pursue this remedy.
Wave of the future?
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16 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:
Okay, some blame to go around (as has happened in the past with Alerus Center), but will this contract cancellation and open big process really change the outcome in a positive way? Unfortunately, likely only in a negative way, but that is how the path we’re going down…
Hopefully the process is expedited and Daktronics is still appropriately awarded the contract and the opportunity to actually improve the situation inside the Alerus Center …
That is the path that must be followed.
In the end Daktronics may end up with the contract. But will their price still be the same? As a contractor, my price/proposal is usually a bit higher when I know that I am the lone bid on a project and tend to sharpen my pencil a bit when I am in competition. Since Daktronics price is already out there, their competitor(s) know where to shoot for. Daktronics knows this and may have to sharpen their pencil a bit
The City messed this process up, not LucentHD.
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45 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:
Here's the problem:
To an outsider that looks like somehow someone knew exactly when, how, and what to bid (to slip it past a taking a vote) when bids were not even publicly sought.That is exactly what that sounds like. As a contractor, I can understand why someone would protest, if the bid process was not public, as it is supposed to be.
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I saw this on the CSNBBS board.... With college sports in chaos, 2 key meetings this week could chart a path forward: 'Something's going to have to give'
QuoteIn a 16-page memo distributed to attendees and obtained by Yahoo Sports, Smash Sports details its plan, which, in short, features optimizing football schedules to arrange more attractive non-conference matchups; establishing a new governing body; and offering billions to schools in private capital cash meant to bridge financing before a consolidated rights package can be struck after current television deals expire. (Smash would presumably recoup that financing while accepting a piece of the new consolidated package.)
Smash guarantees that all 138 FBS programs, including the SEC and Big Ten, will see annual distribution increases as part of its plan and allows conferences to determine the distribution formula, as they do now under the College Football Playoff structure.
Interesting to say the least. Really smacks of anti-trust laws.
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This guy??
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7 hours ago, nd1sufan said:
They have a contract with ESPN for the playoffs through 2032. There will be no G5/FCS merger before that for sure. If they expand to 24 teams (which the big boy conferences are talking about) and have a guarantee one G5 team in every year, this year according to the formula for picking the top 24 there would have been 2, there is no way the G5’s will be adding teams Willie Nillie. Much better to have your foot in the door now than taking a chance waiting.
Yes, they have a contract with ESPN, but you are already talking how they may alter it for 24 teams. What other alterations could they make? Lockout the G5’s completely? The Big Boys are calling the shots and can do what they want, because they have the money to do it.
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56 minutes ago, nd1sufan said:
Minimum 6 years down the road. 2032 at the earliest and then why would the G6 want to expand and let anyone in with a pulse from the FCS. They would want to hold onto any of the media money and keep their G6 championship their own. No network will be clamoring for a team from Grand Forks or brookings or Normal, Illinois to get invited to a conference to sweeten a TV contract.
NDSU will be in a better place when and if that happens. And if the FCS teams want to think they will be paid to enter an FBS conference when that happens, good for them. They will be in the third tier for a long time.
Not buying that timeline. Things seem to be happening fast and somewhat unpredictable. Who would have predicted 5-6 years ago that four members of the Pac10 would be in the Big 10? Money is making things move rapidly. The Big 10 and SEC are running things, not the NCAA and they can make their own rules.
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Going back to those who were disparaging SiouxVolley aka Star2City. He had a vision of using the dying WAC and reconfiguring it with FCS schools to make a nice western FBS conference. Isn't that pretty much what is happening to the WAC, being rebranded as the UAC? Just moved it East.
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The current and and expected future of college football turmoil reminds of the Fire Sale part of Margin Call. Caution these is some course language here....
The ground is shifting beneath our feet.
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As has been reported, in all likelihood there will be a big shakeup/split between the Big Boys and the rest of FBS in the not too distant future. What happens to the rest of the FBS? Does it merge with some of the FCS conferences?
If UND is not looking to go full throttle toward the FBS model following NDSU, positioning still needs to happen for the future. What about partnering with SDSU and look west and a return to the Big Sky? The Big Sky is losing Sacramento State and likely UC Davis in the next couple of years. Can Cal Poly be far behind? They may need some new blood to keep things moving. That would position us with the Montanas should there be a fracture in the FBS.
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The Frozen Four-Viva Las Vegas!
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