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A post from the USD Board indicates that they're playing Minnesota in 2010. No source or confirmation of course.

The answer is easy. The University of North Dakota is nation-wide!

Got mine

Buning to Southern Methodist

I would worry more about potentially only having three years of eligibility.

Homecoming versus Western Washington is the only game that will be televised.

Since you brought it up, here's how this season's FCS opponents were picked within their respective conferences......... -Idaho St. was picked 8th in the Big Sky -Southeastern Louisiana was picked 7th in the Southland -UC Davis picked 2nd in GWC -USD picked 4th in GWC -SUU picked 5th in GWC -Southern Illinois picked 5th in the Missouri Valley

FCS Coaches Poll is out. Cal Poly is #14. Obviously, UND is not in the Top 25, but we did get some respect. North Dakota got got 5 votes.

USD's Schedule is out. I like ours better. North Carolina is kinda cool though.

I recently received an email from USD A.D. Joel Neilson, and he said that the conference champion will indeed be determined by winning percentage of conference games.

Sioux to meet Northwestern

The Great West Preseason Poll has UND picked to finish 3rd in the conference this season.

COLLEGE NOTEBOOK: Future Sioux-UNI games possible

UND football: New top target

I would say that is an excellent interpretation of this particular marketing campaign.

That site has been "under construction" for the past 4 years. If you want podcasting and streaming audio of other than actual game broadcasts, you'd better hope that UND dumps Clear Channel.

Ed Grom comment from Vandrovec's blog

NDSU is now in a conference, so scheduling is easier for them now. You're exactly right about it being economics. It makes sense to play regional opponents for a few warm up games and schedule fillers, just like we have been doing for years with Dickinson, Minot, VCSU, Dakota Weslyan, etc, etc. We've gone around on this a couple times, and we just agree to disagree. I would rather play THE University of Montana than Duluth. You said Northern Iowa is coming to GF next year. Well maybe they'll take Minot's spot on the schedule. Wouldn't you rather see them on the schedule than Augustana, for example. After all, we have won 19 of the last 21 meetings with UNI! We've been playing local lower level colleges for years, and we'll continue to do so. But in time they will be fewer and farther between rather than more and more common like has happened in the last seven or eight years. I don't expect Big 10 and Big 12 schools to come to GF regularily if at all, and no one really should. But what I consider our peers (athletically, academically, and demographically) probably will become regulars. Like Montana and Montana St, Idaho and Idaho St., Wyoming, Northern Iowa, Iowa State, Drake, and the list goes on and on. All those schools and about 150 others sound better to me than St. Cloud, Augustana, Bemidji, or Wayne St. I look forward to UND basketball returning to the glory days of the 60's and 70's when they regularily competed against some of the teams that now make up the Mid-Major schools of DI.

Overall, it is a decent first year schedule. Not much for home games obviously, but there is still USD which will be alot of fun, and the other two transitionals (SIU-E and Seattle) have been solid DII programs for years. Not nearly as good as the women's schedule, but there's alot more involved on the men's side I suppose. I give credit to the staff for doing most of this without an A.D. Nice away schedule. 2 MVC teams and a Big 12 school. Nice to hear that UNI is coming next season, rather than have us travel twice before getting the return game. I would think that Green Bay and Northern Colorado are amongst the teams returning games next year. Walrus, I know you were pretty much against the move to DI, and a big basketball supporter but come on. UND has played Crookston every single year since 1999, and 3 of those games were at their gym. On top of that, UND hasn't played less than 2 NAIA teams a year (4 last year) in the same time frame, travelling to play them on a couple of occaisons. After this season, we can only have 4 non-DI games a year. I'm guessing we will almost always play 2 NAIA's probably from the DAC each year, and probably 2 DII's each year. I would think, and actually hope, that one of our non-DI games each year will be either Mary or Crookston.

Of course we are excited about playing Idaho. They are a 85 scholarship FBS program that could be very winnable games, and are likely paying a decent guarantee. Excitement should be high for the first game in Moscow, as we will probably be christening there newly renovated stadium. Sure, they have been a poor team in recent years, in fact a quick check of the Massey Ratings shows they were rated at 120 (dead last) among FBS teams last season. Only 12 spots behind Minnesota for the sake of comparison. I don't really know if that is a good indication of where they will be 2 years from now though but we'll see. At any rate, I'm excited about those two games. I think it was mentioned a few times in the 2008 Schedule thread. But why talk about it really? Nobody is excited about it, but that is the type of games that fall into place in the first transitional year for a new DI program. Alot more common than you might think. I don't recall anyone here giving Valparaiso the credit of being as good as any D2 team. They are just like LaCrosse, they don't have any scholarships. They are very similar except for the fact that LaCrosse wins against the other non-scholarship competition that they play, while Valpo is not very competetive against the other non-scholarship competition that they play. I think it is right here. At any rate, I'm excited for this opportunity to play Texas Tech. Could likely end very ugly, but it is just not the type of experience that many student-athletes or fans from small schools or states like North Dakota get to experience very often. And of course the pay check will be nice. As for the game itself, it is pretty early to make projections, but my biggest concerns are what TT has done to their other recent FCS competition, and the fact that we will be breaking in a new Quarterback that game. That will be one hell of a way for a small-town QB to presumably be making his first start of his career.

Nov. 18 vs. Southwest Minnesota St. Nov. 22 vs. Bemidji St. Nov. 26 vs. Upper Iowa Dec. 2 @ Montana Dec. 6 @ Northern Iowa Dec. 10 vs. Valley City State Dec. 17 vs. Dickinson St. Dec. 30 vs. UM-Crookston Jan. 2 vs Minot St. Jan. 13 vs. University of Mary Jan. 19 vs. Mayville St. Feb. 3 @ Southwest Minnesota St. Feb. 12 @ Northern Colorado Feb. 19 vs. SIU-Edwardsville Mar. 1 @ SIU-Edwardsville TBA vs. Seattle TBA vs. South Dakota TBA @ Seattle TBA @ South Dakota TBA @ UW-Green Bay Mar. 7-8 UND Tournament

Very cool. I'd be interested to know how we got this game since UND won't be eligible as a counter for a bowl game until 2010. At any rate, it looks like our openings for FBS teams are full for the coming years with Texas Tech in '09, and Idaho in '10 and '11.

Nov. 18 vs. Southwest Minnesota St. Nov. 22 vs. Bemidji St. Nov. 26 vs. Upper Iowa Dec. 2 @ Montana Dec. 6 @ Northern Iowa Dec. 17 vs. Dickinson St. Dec. 30 vs. UM-Crookston Jan. 2 vs Minot St. Jan. 13 vs. University of Mary Jan. 19 vs. Mayville St. Feb. 3 @ Southwest Minnesota St. Feb. 12 @ Northern Colorado Feb. 19 vs. SIU-Edwardsville Mar. 1 @ SIU-Edwardsville TBA vs. Seattle TBA vs. South Dakota TBA @ Seattle TBA @ South Dakota TBA @ UW-Green Bay Mar. 7-8 UND Tournament

Agree that they are most likely 2 for 1 agreements. The UWGB contract is a "multiple year agreement".

Nov. 18 vs. Southwest Minnesota St. Nov. 22 vs. Bemidji St. Nov. 26 vs. Upper Iowa Dec. 6 @ Northern Iowa Dec. 17 vs. Dickinson St. Dec. 30 vs. UM-Crookston Jan. 2 vs Minot St. Jan. 13 vs. University of Mary Jan. 19 vs. Mayville St. Feb. 3 @ Southwest Minnesota St. Feb. 19 vs. SIU-Edwardsville Mar. 1 @ SIU-Edwardsville TBA vs. Seattle TBA vs. South Dakota TBA @ Seattle TBA @ South Dakota TBA @ UW-Green Bay TBA @ Northern Colorado Mar. 7-8 UND Tournament SIU-Edwardsville will participate in the season ending tourney. I assume USD and Seattle will as well. Just a quick glance at the women's schedule shows home double-headers on Dec. 17, Feb. 19, and away Mar. 1 at SIU-E. I'd imagine the games with USD and Seattle will also be double-headers both home and away. Both the men's and women's season ending tournaments take place on the same weekend as well so there will be alot of basketball played that weekend.