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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.

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I am going to go ahead and speculate that this means UND is possibly bringing back baseball. The Summit wants 10 basketball schools, but what they need is another baseball school as a cushion to protect the autobid for basketball in case of a defection since they are at the bare minimum required. So after all the budgetary turmoil of the last year, we are going to end up right where we started with 21 sports in a big fat bloated athletic department. That big fat bloated athletic department is going to chew through the travel savings that the SumValley can offer within 5 years and we will be right back to toeing the line.

He said a few posts later he lives in North Dakota. I disagree that this move is going to result in a flood of UND fans at road games.

My own personal meltdown is enough for me.

I am guessing this is why the 9 game schedule the Big Sky was about to adopt was tabled.....

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35-21 EWU end of 3rd

21-14 EWU

14-7 EWU leading Poly at start of secomd

I am just not comfortable leaving it completely in the hands of the committee. Again, working with limited info here so probably a discussion for another day I suppose.

Honoring the Schedule is great of course, but no access to the auto bid would be seriously detrimental IMO.........

At least we saved women's hockey.

I know this is probably early on, and we are working with very little info, but they wouldn't effectively force the football program to play as an independent for two seasons right?

This.

*Hand raised. Pick me, pick me!

So can someone translate the timeline for me? It says Big Sky would honor football schedules through 2019, but we would not be eligible for conference titles. Does that mean we could potentially not be allowed to receive the auto bid for two years?

Yay. Trips to places like Greeley every single week. All just to placate this morbid obsession with NDSU that so many North Dakota stakeholders have. Looks like a tremendous opportunity will be lost. #FollowTheLeader #ThinkSmallBeSmall Ok, done venting now. I know, don't post while angry.

Well !@#$.......

Former President Kelley is in the house. Anybody want me to give him a message? Or maybe a bill for the hole he put the university in?

The wife and I have arrived.......

There are hundreds of thousands of people in Midcos footprint that can't access their programming either though. You don't need the sports pack from DirecTV to get the Big Sky games that are on Root. They are also on Audience which appears to be available on even the most basic DirecTV package. Both networks are owned by DirecTV. At any rate, it would be ideal if Midco could somehow get on one of the satellite providers' sports tier. I miss being able to watch stuff like UND Sports Extra on TV. I do think it is pretty lame that Root games can't be streamed, and also lame that conference football games can't be put on FCS.

Me too. I would guess just as many people in North Dakota have access to Root via DirecTV and Dish as do like that have access to Midco. Now their game selections, that is another story.