nd1sufan

Of course, I see New Mexico State, Eastern Washington, Northern Arizona, etc. on all of the list of top schools in the country.

The only way FSN is interested in UND football is if UND buys the airtime. They will not pay big money to televise UND football.

The only cost of staying in FCS for NMSU is losing guarantee game money. They don't get any donations to speak of right now. Their ticket revenue is pretty much non existant. That is a pretty sad reason to stay FBS. They take a paycheck knowing they have ZERO chance of winning the game. NDSU hasn't gone into a guarantee game not thinking they were going to win it. I know which program I would rather align myself with, and it wouldn't be Idaho and NMSU.

Sept 19th, 3 first downs and 61 total yards.

Yes, NDSU would become irrelevant in your scenario. NDSU is better than anybody in the WAC or Sun Belt righr now. When you combine the 2 WORST WAC teams with a bunch of transitioning FCS teams that have no business moving up, the only thing historical about that move up and conference is how historically bad it would be and how stupid the move would be. If NDSU moved up and into that conference, I would open up a Bisonvile account and be the first to start a "Fire Larsen" thread.

So the correct answer is he knows nothing about how to produce a sucessful FBS program?

Oh yes, that FBS powerhouse NMSU. That "Big Time" school whose athletic budget is smaler than both UND and NDSU. He does know something about NMSU and WAC football, and if he is smart, he wants nothing to do with an association with either of them.

Was it a school that made a sucessful transition from FCS to FBS under his leadership?

Yep, and who better to organize a top secret highly strategic plan than Brian Faison. If that isn't a recipe for sucess I don't know what is...

What counts as a full FBS member? A conference can't just declare a school a full member. If that were the case, why did NDSU and UND have to wiat until their 5th year of transitioning to become a full member?

Well his claims of when NCAA rule changes, Idaho rescinding its FCS move, etc have come and gone with no such announcements.

If strength of schedule is an issue, FBS teams will schedule MVFC schools before any WCA/BSC combo or Sun Belt team for that matter.

Where are the eight fulky transitioned FBS members in a new WAC? Isn't that saying 8 currenr FBS schools can form a new league? Not one FBS and 7 FCS schools.

What donors are they worried about? It looks like they get a litle over $500,000 between big donors and their clubs for supporters. They have a major problem with revenue in both FB ticket revenue and donations.

I am not saying it is not a rule the WAC can use. But you had rock solid information that this rule change was going to happen. Now all of a sudden it isn't necessary. Are you saying the people that were feeding you this info at the NCAA didn't know a rule change wasn't necessary? They found out from the Idaho report just like you did? Or was there never really going to be a rule change in the first place?

So this big NCAA rule change that you guaranteed was coming this summer isn't going to happen now? This rule change was just to allow BCS conference schools to make the move to FBS so now that they have this WAC avenue it is being scrapped? I didn't realize the BSC weilded that kind of power. Why didn't they just tell the !NCAA they wanted to move on their own. Why wait for Idaho to drop down? It sounds like the NCAA would have jumped at the demand of the powerful BSC.

No, that was before he knew what he now has learned from the Idaho study that he didn't know before that. You have to follow along. Now there is going to be a 16 team new FBS WAC with teams from Washington to Arizona to Georgia to Long Island, NY. But it will only be for a few years, then they will split up. It is not that hard to believe, these kind of things happen all the time.

Your theory gets more far fetched every week. I do believe that nearly every FCS teams from all corners of the country have now been mentioned to make your plan come together. When is the big rule change annoucement from the NCAA coming? How much more time before Idaho announces the move back to FBS if not this week? Are they waiting for someone to care that they dropped down in the first place?

I think Faison slammed that door when he tried to make Douple the fall guy for having to change the nickname.

Wow. Somebody figured it out. Kind of shoots the theory that MSU wanted an FBS guy to help them with the pending move to FBS.

Come on, you can't be serious! Costello is only an Associate AD at a Slummit school. He can't be qualified to run a BSC athletic department.

Your math is about as good as your theory. Your 6 BSC conference teams to the FBS only adds up to 5. You forgot to make up another team that is interested to replace NMSU, who is obviously not interested.

The team that didn't look like they were going to get a first down in a game at the Fargodome this year.

The Univ of Idaho was aware of this study long before they made the move down to FCS annoucement. They obviously looked at the report and didn't think the WAC/BSC FBS combo was feasible. Why play FCS caliber teams in an old FCS conference in FCS stadiums and call it FBS? Is telling your fans we are bringing in Cal Poly, UND, Northern Arizona, etc, but telling them they are FBS schools going to excite their fans and get them to come to games, pay more for tickets and donate more money than just playing them as FCS schools? No. Why have the extra expense for 22 more schollys, coaching staff salaries that are at least 4 or 5 times more than your average BSC conference school, etc. They decided it makes no sense. Or they are very stupid. It is the Univ of Idaho after all. Any FBS conference that is relying on the Univ of SD to join them to make the move is starting out on very shaky ground.

Well, there have been some schools that have moved up in the last 6 or 7 years that have kind of watered FCS down, maybe one within say 75 miles of NDSU.