nd1sufan

Frazier isn't bad and JJ may be better, but on a list of upgrades needed for UND FB, tailback is probably last on the list.

What style points? You beat a 1-5 team that lost at home to a Division 2 team. You don't get style points for that, you just better win. I heard someone (Jack Michaels or Joel Heitkamp) saying the toughest game left in UND's schedule may be Northern Colorado in Greeley. There are no style points left on your schedule. You just better win all of your games if you want a slam dunk playoff bid. 8-3 with that schedule is not a guarantee.

You are right, Iowa is probably a middle of the road G5 team. Hell, Bowling Green would have been a tougher test. Maybe those voters in the AP Top 25 poll got confused and actually were voting of the UND Fighting Hawks instead of NDSU...

Are you kidding. Yes, it was just one game and nobody should be preparing a bust for Canton just yet, but it was an impressive debut even if it was against the Browns. They are a bad team but their defense is not horrible. Joe Haden is considered one of the best CB's in the league. I don't know what great_sioux was watching, but he must not have watched the entire game. There may have been a handful of the 37 throws he would like back, but the 2 TD throws and several others were perfect throws where only his receiver could get it. His touch on Sunday was just fine. I am sure he will run into tougher defenses and have some bad games this year and in the future, but to claim Sunday meant nothing is crazy.

Shocking that a committee looking into a budget shortfall and looking for ways to cut expenses would nix a move up to FBS with elevated expense and no viable way to increase revenues with such a move. And you can tell me all you want that a move to FBS will not increase expenses much, and I will tell you if it doesn't, you aren't doing it correctly.

You were saying KVLY way overbid for NDSU's FB rights. It was actually pretty close. I don't have any idea what NDSU's thinking was in selecting the winning bid, but with the open records process, it would have been tough not to go with the high bidder unless they pulled something like WDAY tried.

Perhaps the most concerning for UND fans is a team that needs to rely on the running game having a suspect o- line.

It looks like Midco's bid for NDSU FB was $360,000/year. Not that much lower than KVLY's,

The amount of State funds going to NDSU athletics is much smaller than the amount of state funds UND uses for athletics, so any cuts would be smaller than UND's.

So you are saying Midco won the rights to televise NDSU Mens BB, Womens BB and Volleyball by requiring the least amount that NDSU has to pay to get them shown? I don't quite get what you are trying to say. UND got $285,000 per year to have all of their sports shown. NDSU got $400,000 for football only from KVLY and my guess is they didn't have to pay Midco to get them to take the rights to BB and Volleyball. I would even go out on a limb and say they are getting some money from Midco. Are you saying NDSU is paying Midco at least $100,000 grand a year to get them to air their games?

I think naming rights are more for facilities that hold large events that many people attend, not generally for facilities mostly used for training athletes.

Number 2 in the bid for NDSU football was higher than the bid for all UND sports on a yearly basis, and that was from UND buddy that they are building a great rapport with, MIDCO.

Would you put faith in the financial responsibility of an Athletic Director running a million dollar plus deficit tha commits to close to another million dollar expense in FCOA the day after a rival announces they are going to provide FCOA without any plan of how to pay for it? He went on the radio and admitted he didn't know how they were going to pay fot it. Not very fiscally responsible.

That is because NMSU's only revenue stream from FB is guarantee games, which would drop from 4 to probaly one or two. They are not worried about being competitve on FBS.

Kind of stupid of Faison and Kennedy to accept a rather piddly new 5-year TV contract with UND's athletic departments current financial troubles considering the impending big jump to FBS. You would think they would have allowed the last year of the contract take place and then let all of the regional media (Midco, Forum Comm, FSN) knock themselves out bidding for the contract after the big annoucement. Not a great business decision.

So flying to Texas, Washington, New Mexico and Idaho is so much better? I think Kennedy is thinking more in the line of bus trips to Fargo, Brookings, Vermillion and Omaha. Or maybe Bemidji, St. Cloud and Moorhead is more plausible than the BSC/WAC set up. But keep the dream alive. Maybe when all of the Big Sky presidents get back from vacation there will be a big press conference. I bet Whicita State backers are bursting with excitement in anticipation of that powerhouse FB conference. Who doesn't think big time football when you see UTRGV, Lamar, Northern Colorado and UND. I am surprised they have been able to keep it secret this long.

How would it save UND money? You haven't answered that.

Of course! How stupid of Tom Miller not to see the obvious!!! That WAC set up was exactly how Kennedy was planning on making up the $1.4 million deficit and come up with the extra million or so to pay for cost of attendance. The travel cost savings would be huge travelling to Texas or New Mexico instead of Montana or Oregon. Can you imagine how much UND could charge for a ticket to see Lamar ot UTRGV? They would be turning ticket buyers away!

When NDSU wanted to get into the BSC they seemed to be the only option. Now that they are in the Summit/MVFC they have realized the error in their thinking, as evidenced by their non-interest in joining a new pipe dream FBS BSC. 10 years ago the WAC would have been a good conference to join also, now not so much. Times change. Maybe UND athletics would be healthier if they and their fans realized that.

What is UND's record against MVFC teams since they joined the BSC? Which FB conference has been the strongest in FCS the last five years and it isn't even close? The MVFC has even been stronger than some FBS conferences the last few years. You can talk about the advantages of the challenges and unknowns of the Great BSC all you want, but the reality is we know the "unknowns" of the BSC. Exorbitant travel costs and lack of fan interest to where the atletic department has a $1 million plus deficit. I guess people know what thay are getting when Southern Utah, Sac State, or even Montana or Montana State come to town, and it is not enough to fill the seats. You would have 4 bus trips in the Summit with at least 3 of those teams being bigger draws than any current BSC teams. I am more than happy with UND in the BSC, but I am not sure your new administration is.

Here is all you need to know. If the Summit/ MVFC offer was given to UND today they would accept it on the spot. If the BSC offered NDSU, even with FBS football, they would say thanks but no thanks. We all know which conference setup is superior for a team in the Dakotas. UND fans just don't want to admit it.

Maybe UND should close their practices. Maybe they they would have gained more than 61 yards last year...

I get it. If the kid is not very good then you can commit early. Who is to say he doesn't have a great season and blow up and get future offers? Why commit to a PWO before your senior season?

Who made who commit before he left an office? The Hallock kid or the SD kid? I haven't heard anyone in on the conversations comment in either case.