greenandgold01
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No doubt that if Fargo's gambles in RFID manufacturing pay out like this one did, that will also be great news for the region economically. However, I still don't understand the need to turn good economic development news for the region into divisive Fargo vs. G.F. smack; please confine that sort of thing to the appropriate sites.
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Haha. Did you see the smiley faces?
You're the one turning it into smack.
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You can have airplanes, we'll take RFID tags.
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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.
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UTPA will not get an invite. TAMU-CC, even though it has a decent basketball program, a great downtown facility, and a decent media market may also be left out because it doesn't have football. Central Arkansas is practically a sure thing, and Tarleton State may get in rather than TAMU-CC.
Of the eight schools looking into that independent conference, NJIT and Longwood probably can get into conferences within two years. UTPA and Utah Valley State have fewer options and less hope than NDSU/SDSU.
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UTPA does have an advantage over those schools in that it's part of the UT system like UT San Antonio and UT Arlington.
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TAMU CC and UT PA are being considered for the Southland.
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The Gateway + another conference is also an option.
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What does that have to do with anything?
Do you remember that the DII Championship game had higher ratings than the DI-AA game a couple years ago on ESPN?
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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.
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You may be right about it being pointless insofar as the NCAA. The point that I was trying to make was about public perception. NDSU is attempting to garner national attention for their football. My point is that no one cares who plays DI-AA. They care about DI-A. Like I said it is a silly argument.
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It'd be interesting to see what the DIaa playoff TV deal and the Frozen Four TV deal compare in terms of dollar value.
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My other personal pleasant surprise this year (being out of market) was the addition of UND's football games to the ESPN tickers, which came in handy more than once when I was out during UND's game.
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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.
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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?
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I can go with that. That's exactly what I was trying to say, a JV team. And I don't care what a manual says....when that Bison have the opportunity to qualify for a BCS bowl game, then I will call them DI. Remember, UND's top sport does qualify for the DI title, NDSU fb doesn't.
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When NDSU wins it's first DIaa national title game, the Bison will have won a DI football title.
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Let's get one thing straight, NDSU is not DI in football....they are DIAA. Just as well could be called DII+ or something to avoid confusion for the fans. In no way, shape or form is NDSU DI in football.
I get a kick out of Bison fans for getting on UND because so few of the big schools play hockey, well in NDSU's headline sport....NDSU doesn't play ANY of the big schools. <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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.
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UND has DI hockey, NDSU has DI football.
I don't see anything wrong with that arrangement.
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The amount of coverage for UND v. NDSU surprized me as well. I mean, who wouldn't want to see the Bison Men's BB team take on Dickinson State or the Bison Women take on Valley City or Mayville. That increased competition they are getting in D-1 is really quite a draw...
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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!
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West Georgia? They stink. What have they done lately in the GSC to make them think they could be a successfull D1-AA??
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They probably know simply by virtue of being DIaa that they could tap into the vast bed of football talent in the southeast.
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Yes, but there are also a lot of little differences between divisions that necessitate the transition period. For example, the different eligibility standards between DI and D2. There are many D2 schools that sign JUCOs or high school recruits that aren't eligible for DI. In theory a D2 school could sign a boatload of these types of players with the promise that they could compete for a I-AA title when the school switches divisions the following year. You also have the issue where a D2 school could get a recruiting advantage over other D2 schools by promising to recruits that they will get an opportunity at the I-AA postseason in their careers.
You also have the whole issue with the NCAA now having a federated structure. By that I mean that D1, D2, and D3 essentially operate as seperate entities under the umbrella of the NCAA. They all enact their own legislation, vote exclusively on their own rules, etc. It used to be that all three divisions operated essentially as one. This will lead to more of these little quirks and rule differences between the divisions in the future.
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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.
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The main reason it's there is for stability. If you didn't have that transition period in there, schools could jump around from division to division on a whim and simply move right back if it didn't work out. Basically the transition period insures that only schools that are serious about competing in the new division make the move. I do agree though that the probationary period should be shortened if a school can prove that it is reaching certain benchmarks sooner than expected.
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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.
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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?
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The NAIA started as a national basketball tournament for smaller schools in Kansas City back in the 40's. It was attractive at that time because it offered the postseason possibilities for small schools that the NCAA did not.
When D2 began cutting scholarships in football (especially that last cut to 36 about 10 years ago) it became more and more attractive for the top NAIA schools to join. Almost every school that at one time played NAIA Division I football (there were two divisions at one time) has now joined NCAA D2. If not for the two membership moratoriums that D2 had in about 1996 and 2000, the NAIA would likely have collapsed by now.
The other reason the NCAA has attracted so many NAIA members is because the NAIA had no catastrophic injury insurance and also did not reimburse its members for postseason travel expenses like the NCAA does. Postseason play was literally bankrupting some of the NAIA schools that had successful athletic programs.
There are really two things that make the NAIA attractive to a segment of schools now. First, there are no overall sports sponsorship minimums to play in the NAIA. There are many, many NAIA schools that only offer 4,5,6 sports. To be D2 or D3, you have to sponsor 10 sports. Secondly, it serves as a place for small private schools that want to offer some athletic scholarships. Most NAIA schools could not be competitive in D2.
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I see, thanks for the info.
What do these moratoriums in 1996 and 2000 do to restrict the influx of NAIA schools?
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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?
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Would Sac State and Portland State have to leave the conference before it happened (a ten-team BSC), or would it be two 6-team divisions?
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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.
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25% of SCSU students are from the Twin Cities.
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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.
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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.