greenandgold01

They've got to be kidding. Well, it's pretty obvious that tennis and skiing were the top sports considered in this article. More likely, the Edina AD simply sent SI a nice fat check.

Haha. Did you see the smiley faces? You're the one turning it into smack.

You can have airplanes, we'll take RFID tags.

I personally don't think that the Big Sky is going to be an option for NDSU or UND. When Sac State leaves for the WAC, I think the sky will add UC Davis.

UTPA does have an advantage over those schools in that it's part of the UT system like UT San Antonio and UT Arlington.

TAMU CC and UT PA are being considered for the Southland.

The Gateway + another conference is also an option.

This question goes to the heart of the matter if the DIaa football playoffs are worth more in dollar value to the TV networks thanthe DI hockey playoffs.

It'd be interesting to see what the DIaa playoff TV deal and the Frozen Four TV deal compare in terms of dollar value.

I'm almost positive that for regular season games ESPN only shows DIaa and DIa football scores on the ticker. Perhaps you saw when they included the DII and DIII playoff scores.

I'm curious, do you guys think you would've gotten all that attention this year if the NHL was playing? Does the NCAA have a TV contract to put a certain number of DI hockey games on?

When NDSU wins it's first DIaa national title game, the Bison will have won a DI football title.

But what do you care? I mean, all UND fans are only hockey fans. No one really cares about the football team unless it's the national championship game.

UND has DI hockey, NDSU has DI football. I don't see anything wrong with that arrangement.

You shouldn't be ragging on the DAC 10 schools, after all, they're all going to be in the same division as UND soon!

They probably know simply by virtue of being DIaa that they could tap into the vast bed of football talent in the southeast.

That all makes sense. I wonder, in fact, if the top level DI schools will split away from the NCAA in the future and form their own association.

They could get rid of the probationary period and simply say that a school that moves up can't go back down for 5 years.

What's the deal with the NCAA having a post season transition probation period for new teams? Most teams that move simply won't be able to compete with the top teams in the division, and wouldn't make the playoffs anyway. The few teams that would be able to compete at the top level right away deserve to be there, so why make them wait?

I see, thanks for the info. What do these moratoriums in 1996 and 2000 do to restrict the influx of NAIA schools?

I'm curious, why does the NAIA even exist? It seems like every year more NAIA teams move over to NCAA D2. What advantages are there to being NAIA?

From what I've heard about Sac State, they may be going to the WAC in the next 3 years (depending if they can get their new stadium and arena built). Portland State isn't going anywhere, however.

I think that would depend on how you define the Twin Cities. According to the US Census Bureau, the Saint Cloud MSA is combined with the Minneapolis MSA to form a CMSA. Essentially this means it's one great big metro area like Washington/Baltimore. At the minimum, you have to include: Anoka, Washington, Dakota, Scott, Carver, Hennipen, and Ramsey counties for the Twin Cities. I would think at least 50% of Saint Clouds undergrads come from those counties.