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IIRC In the D2 days, season ticket holders had Monday after selection day until mid morning on Tuesday to claim their seats. After that, they were opened up to everybody. Not sure if it is the same with the FCS playoffs.

All of Izzo, McFeely, Kolpack, and Peterson thinks UND will get a seed. Kolpack critical of UND's schedule. McFeeley thinks UND is one of 5-6 teams that could make it to Frisco. Kolpack critical of UND's schedule. Izzo thinks UND and Wichita are headed to MVFC. Kolpack critical of UND's schedule. McFeeley was gushing about UND's defense. Kolpack critical of UND's schedule.

Live chat going on right now at Bison Media Blog. Lots of playoff talk......

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New bracket from nobowls.com.......

Sagarin Ratings - 11/13/2016 NDSU EWU UNI James Madison Jacksonville St SDSU Youngstown Sam Houston St Central Arkansas Chattanooga Richmond Illinois St. Citadel Montana Samford Wofford Villanova Charleston Southern Western Illinois Lehigh North Dakota Coastal Carolina Princeton Northern Arizona Cal Poly South Dakota North Carolina A&T Southern Illinois Liberty New Hampshire Grambling Tennessee Martin Southern Utah Colgate Albany Furman Kennesaw St Penn Weber St Fordham Harvard Indiana St San Diego Maine Delawere Mercer St Francis Stony Brook McNeese St Eastern Illinois Northern Colorado

That's almost a 30% increase over last year's season finale at home. Not too shabby.

Not much more I can add to this thread. One of the best games I recall in the history of the Alerus. Glad I was there to see it.

Women's hockey, men's and women's swimming/diving, men's golf. Anything the Big Sky doesn't sponsor, and probably anything it doesn't require.

That's the point, the savings is unclear. Several fans, yourself included, have been saying all week that UND "can't afford" to be in the Big Sky and the travel savings in the SumValley would save so much money that we could pay coaches more and blah blah blah...... Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but the real savings and benefits would come from dropping sports, not switching leagues.

Love it. Excellent article and homework by Miller. Hope this puts to bed the idea that the SumValley is some sort of big box store/discount conference.

My stance is based on the idea that I want UND to compete regularly against a mix of the best and most intriguing competition possible. I am not saying I never want to play NDSU or other SumValley teams for that matter. We play NDSU and the other Dakota schools quite frequently, and that is great. I've attended every UND-NDSU basketball game in GF since the turn of the century. I enjoy the rivalry with the Bison, but not so much that I am willing to support slamming the door on emerging relationships with Big Sky schools, specifically Montana, Montana St, Idaho, Weber, Cal Poly, and UC Davis. As members of the Big Sky we will still have games frequently with the other Dakota schools. As members of the SumValley, we would rarely, possibly even never play most Big Sky schools again.

I'm not negatively biased toward NDSU, I am just not infatuated with them. I feel that North Dakota can succeed without being conjoined twins with them. A lot of fans would seemingly trade a national championship trophy for a Nickle Trophy. I would not.

I think that remains to be seen given the fact that he is willing to support 20+ programs, most of which the University cannot possibly fund at a high level.....................

I've got an uneasy feeling about this game. NAU is solid in all phases of the game. They've won 4 in a row, including games against Weber and the Jizz.

iramurphy & Sioux95 get it. Big picture people, look at the big picture.

That's debatable IMO. Take out NDSU's recent run, which has been extraordinary and props to them for it, and what makes the MVFC so great competitively? It is a fact that when we were DII we were on par with UNI who ruled the MVFC before the XDSU's got there. For me anyways, the fact that NDSU & SDSU both have done so well in that conference since they joined tells me that it is really over-rated. Especially when you look at SDSU, they sucked for 100 years, but now they are awesome apparently. They've made the playoffs in DI 5 times but a Big Sky team ended their season 3 of those 5. Personally, I think moving from the Big Sky to the SumValley would be like a Big 10 school moving to the Big 12, or an SEC school moving to the ACC. It's not a huge drop off competetively, but it is definitely a down grade in competition, visibility, and stature. What irritates me most about the whole proposition is the fact that if the roles were reversed, and NDSU were the only Dakota school in the Big Sky and UND were in the SumValley along with the other ex-NCC schools, I am 100% confident that nearly every UND fan that currently prefers the SumValley, would actually be pushing for a move to the Big Sky.

Is anyone really surprised though?

Excellent post, very well said. Post of the year nomination.

College sports madness bracket has North Dakota v. Western Illinois in the first round.

Nobowls.com bracket

Sagarin Ratings - 11-6-16 NDSU EWU UNI James Madison Jacksonville St SDSU Youngstown St Chattanooga Central Arkansas Montana Sam Houston Richmond Citadel Samford Villanova Illinois St Coastal Carolina Western Illinois Lehigh Northern Arizona Wofford Cal Poly North Dakota Charleston Southern Princeton Liberty New Hampshire South Dakota North Caronlina A&T Southern Illinois Grambling Southern Utah Tennessee Martin Colgate Harvard Albany Indiana St San Diego Kennesaw St Furman St Francis Stony Brook Penn Weber St.

Lets just simmer down for a moment, and some can just agree to disagree and leave it at that. My own personal opinion is that youthfulness is no excuse for stupidity.

Well that will all change with a move to the SumValley. All those folks that can't seem to find the Sioux Center are all salivating over the thought of a trip to Vermillion.

The article cited a return text from Douple to Faison indicating an upcoming conversation with the Big Sky commissioner. This news helps explain, to me anyways, why the WIU AD was on Fargo radio two weeks ago publicly fawning over the idea of UND being in the Summit.