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Interesting what MidContinent is doing: forming a Dakota sports channel. One school in Fargo seems conspicuously absent.

The football broadcast schedule on Fox is: Sept. 25 -- Northwestern State at UND football, 4 p.m. Oct 9 -- SUU at UND, 4 p.m. Nov 6 -- UCDavis at UND, noon As speculated, there indeed will be volleyball (USD at UND) and four women's hockey matches broadcast. LInk

About 40% of these top Canadian recruits went DI. Hopefully, UND can start tapping into that talent. Hoopsters Canada - Top 50 BB recruits

Hopefully, this will be huge for recruiting, especially for the mid-major bound player. Basketball has been making strides within Canadian cities, notably within their large immigrant communities. A player can even take Canadian Studies now at UND! With Division I basketball apparently not an option for Canadian schools for the forseeable future (UBC has seemingly given up on NCAA membership after it found it would be required to pass American accreditation reviews), UND needs to establish itself as a destination college for Canadian DI athletes in all sports. A name like Toews doesn't hurt that cause. SDSU has recruited Canada and is playing the NCAA's once in four-year foreign tour in Winnipeg in September, which helps give the team valuable extra practice and allows recruits to play in front of home fans. Would like to see UND do the same, maybe in Toronto or other Ontario cities, once some athletes have been recruited and established on the team.

The starting times of all the home football games (12 noon, and 4 PM) correspond to start times that FCS needs for broadcasts. It's likely FCS is also working out it's final schedule, too, so that it can pick and choose without UND changing start times. Will be interesting if FCS picks up any volleyball or women's hockey games. Next year, they probably would want all the UND-NDSU games (MBB, WBB, volleyball).

Mods: Could something be done (i.e. banning) with this particular poster? Much of his "contributions" are merely to rile up others. Many have him on ignore, but even that doesn't help when he goes in attack mode and multiple interchanges result.

BSA conversion to classrooms?

Funny how the "Best Buy Boys" - even the walk-on dropouts that weren't "officially" teammates - -were almost entirely midwestern. SDSU has a number of AZ, CA and "similar" kids, but hasn't had that kind of problem. Some coaches - usually the ones that have character to begin with - can judge character. Bohl even at Nebraska never had that "gift".

Would fully agree with that - especially if UND men's basketball could ever get on track. Moreso, since the women's team would normally be competitive, the overall tournament would have great attendance. The one issue is that UND probably couldn't schedule a regular season game at the Ralph, as the Summit generally doesn't grant tournaments to a home court.

Definitely agree that the REA wouldn't be considered for as an NCAA Men's host, but for different reasons: lack of upper-end hotel rooms in the city and lack of flights/seats into GF or within an hour. The NCAA generally has minimums for these: even Fargo probably wouldn't qualify. The REA could definitely go after hosting a women's NCAA 1st and 2nd round and the men's Summit championship. Those are much easily to qualify for. In both cases though, the Sioux logos could be counted against the REA. The Alerus could also go after those same events, as well as a men's hockey regional - but the rental ice capability would be costly. What I didn't understand is why UND didn't pursue hosting the women's hockey national championship at the Urban Plains arena in Fargo. The NCAA clearly has an issue with the REA - as any bid it has is doomed to failure - but doesn't have one with the Alerus and the Urban Plains arena.

This website tracks criminal charges and other mayhem that each FBS football school incurs during a season. Would be interesting to track the same stats for FCS, as NDSU would be certainly be the annual favorite in at least that category!. BTW, the Tennessee situation is nasty: 7 UTenn players beat s*** out of bar patron and off-duty police officer.

Oral Roberts actually reached the Elite Eight in 1974, losing to Kansas in OT. At the time, ORU was in the Midwestern City Conference, which is now the Horizon League. In the 80's ORU actually dropped down to the NAIA, and when it returned became a member of the Summit. With earlier membership, a number of MidCon teams with minimal resources have won NCAA games between 1986-98: Valpo (Sweet 16), Cleveland St (Sweet 16), N Iowa, SW Mo St (now Mo St), and UWGB. CBS Sports

The Vandal's receivers are tall and elusive too, so Enderle has great targets to throw at. The good thing for UND is that Idaho's OL was decimated (including a 1st round pick), so the DL may be able to pressure the QB - more than would have been possible last year.

With the NCAA's penchant for screwing the little guys, this is a much better arrangement than I expected. If eight automatic qualifiers had to play off for 4 #16 slots, almost all of the little guys would be 14, 15, and 16 seeds. Seeds like 13 and 12, which offer much better chances of winning, just wouldn't be available. Instead, the last 4 at-large teams which are mostly from major conferences have play-ins, so the entire tournament isn't one big screw job on the little guys.

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With the twins, average attendance for women's games should easily go over 1000. Would be interesting what a Top 5 UND team could draw for UMD, UM, and UW home games. Also, wonder if the any of the games will be televised on FCS.

Remember all too well certain things would never happen: NDSU would never join the Summit, as the Big Sky would offer UND moving to DI USD moving to DI USD wouldn't get in the Summit for years NDSU won't have a losing football record for years NDSU basketball will be a perpetual powerhouse in the Summit BTW, where has any Summit official been talking about UCDavis and Cal Poly? They are not Summit members. That is merely speculation and possible myth perpetuated by Bison fans.

One of the points of the study would be how quickly an autobid would be available. The Big South gained an autobid when it reached six members. An autobid is not that difficult to gain, especially now that FCS has 20 playoff spots.

The SU's have no natural rivals in the MVFC except for Northern Iowa, so this isn't a good analogy at all. A better hockey analogy would be Michigan Tech coming back to the WCHA would be like NDSU and SDSU coming back to it's roots.

Many conferences post their bylaws, Hammer. You're not posting up to your standards at all. Here's three found within a minute (could not find the MVC's): Big 12 Bylaws WAC Code Book Mountain West bylaws The Big 12 appears to require conference play in sports that have six participants. The WAC and Mountain West list particular sports they sponsor and don't appear to address other sports. One out of 3 would theoretically require it. Since the Summit (formerly MidCon) actually used to sponsor football in the 1980's and numerous sports have been dropped and then restarted as conference sports in the Summit's history, it is quite likely that this subject is addressed in the Summit bylaws. The whole issue of football sponsorship is a major branding issue for a conference. It would be a major coup for the Summit to sponsor football and bind the membership together better. But that's convenient to ignore, because it's apparent that you and most other NDSU fans want a weak Summit and want to leave it because you collectively think it "sucks" (per Bisonville). Have you ever, ever read one? I'm geekish enough that I have to help understand the timing and the financial ramifications of conference moves. Actually, I brought up this issue 18 months ago and you became pissy then. Seems like your temper is flaring, again, based on the next comment. The last time a posting irritated you, you called me JBB. Now I'm MplsBison. Am I next Lakesbison! Perhaps you should take your message board policing operation to your very own board. Found this by a poster named BraxtonT, who wants Summit football. He needs chastisement by your standards.

Again, the internet message board police are out in full force. Show me the bylaws. What is really telling is just how much NDSU and SDSU fans fear the thought of UND and USD being equal conference partners, and despise the thought of moving fully behind the Summit League when out of the other side of their mouth they brag it up.

In part, the Summit and Douple probably want UND to quit flirting with the Big Sky. The study might not even be done by the time UND is accepted, and thereafter SUU might be gone, so the whole study becomes a mute point. But if and ever UNO is added, the same situation would arise. The markets the Summit most needs schools are Omaha and St. Louis to connect the conference's geography. Lindenwood in St Louis has DI aspirations, too, but can't move up for a number of years. The Summit football issue has to be addressed. But if SUU is still in the league and Summit Football happens, and a Summit-MVFC scheduling agreement occurs, wouldn't everybody be relatively happy? Two autobids instead of one. SDSU, NDSU, and WIU no longer have to go through SIU and UNI for an autobid and would still be able to play MVFC teams. The MVFC, down to six, would welcome a scheduling agreement with the Summit just so MVFC teams wouldn't have to travel South and East to fill a schedule. With a scheduling agreement, the MVFC also likely waives the exit fees. Summit MVFC UND UNI NDSU Ill St SDSU SIU USD Ind St WIU Mo St SUU YSU Trade SUU for UNO later. Five games within the conference and three or four against the other conference. Two autobids vs one.

What is a fact is that other conference bylaws would force NDSU and SDSU to chose between the MVFC and Summit. Your posting here concedes that you are concerned that I am indeed correct. Thanks for that affirmation of my postings. As far as speculation, isn't that what message boards are for? As far as your concern that I took a "shot" at NDSU, certainly you must be a very sensitive type to hanging around message boards. Please, defend Chapman and his behaviour here: you have the floor. I can surely understand that you don't want SDSU to be forced from the MVFC, so your biases are understandable. But have you ever viewed bison boards, which are practically a non-stop attack boards on UND? If you have, and haven't defended UND, wouldn't that make your comments hypocritical? Surely someone trained as a "JD" would be capable of neutrality - even in an UXD vs XDSU issue - even with all it's allegiances? Perhaps not. Please do post the bylaws. Again, your concern shows that my speculation has substance. The bylaws aren't available online from my searches. If the Summit was only going to absorb Great West football, why the talk about an autobid? An autobid still wouldn't happen with five teams. Summit football with an autobid implies that Summit teams that play in the MVFC would move to the Summit.

Funny, they've been bragging up the Summit. Now, they are saying it's a crappy league and don't want to build it up. Chapman worked behind the scenes to delay UND's entrance into the Summit. Their own actions come back to haunt them.