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UWGB wasn't DIII. They started as NAIA in 1969/70, moved to DII in 1974, and went DI in 1980/81. FGCU did the same path, starting in the NAIA around 1999 with a limited number of sports, moving to DII in 2002 with a full set of sports, then started the DI move in 2007 and finished in 2011.

It's funny how much you think McFeely is pro-Bison and anti-UND. It's pretty obvious most of you only read his stuff when he writes about UND. If you'd read all his stuff, you'd realize he's passively or actively negative about EVERYTHING!. IT'S LITERALLY HIS FREAKING JOB! McFeely is employed by Forum Comm to be a social gadfly. A newspaper position that was invented about 30 minutes after newspapers. A gadfly writes columns to upset people and get them talking. The stronger the emotions the better. Basically, a slightly more intelligent version of clickbait. And it's a healthy role to have filled. We need someone to poke at our blind spots and make us think. A good gadfly will do that at the same time as generating revenue. Is McFeely a good gadfly? He's not great, but he's about what you'd expect in a market our size. And, yes, he pokes at the Bison all the time. I think there are at least three long-running threads on BV that are more critical of him than you guys have been here. (And, yes, I've written posts like this over there, too.) A couple other things to think about: 1. McFeely said nothing in that column that hasn't been said here dozens of times by just about everyone. So it must just be the old "I can s**t talk my brother as much as I want, but if you do it, there'll be trouble" sort of thing. 2. With the state of UND football at the moment, this column needed to be written. Everybody that follows UND football knows that things aren't going well, and they're talking about it to each other. This board is a prime example. If it's such a major topic of conversation, it would be irresponsible for the local paper not to cover it. And consider this: If Forum Comm needed to write a column on it, who would they want to give the assignment to? (and some of you are cute the way you think McFeely chooses what to write about; he's an employee - he writes about what his editor tells him to.) If they give the story to Tom Miller, it could hurt his relationship with Bubba and the program. And they're not going to give it to Brad at the start of hockey season. McFeely is the logical choice. He can write a critical column because that's what he's employed to do, and by giving it to a Fargo writer, it doesn't harm the relationship between UND/Bubba and the GFH sports department. One last, tiny thing to Mama: Just about every major NDSU coaching contract in the last decade and a half has been published in the Forum at one time or another. McFeely doing it for Bubba is nothing special.

It was either 2007 or 2010. The UND webpage on him isn't clear. It says that this is his 13th year at UND overall, but it doesn't specify if the 3 years he spent at UND as a grad student counts. If it was 2007, that means his only non-UND experience was his undergrad work at MSU-Moorhead and a single year at Wyoming.

Sorry, thought it was obvious that the Gophers were the 'almost' part of 'almost untapped'. Most other top-15 markets are shared by a bunch of DI MBB schools. I'll admit it was a bit of hyperbole.

Actually, I'd say that MBB has the potential to be their real money maker. The return on investment is way bigger there than hockey or FCS football. Mid-sized private school in an almost untapped(for DI MBB) top-15 media market? Conferences will be salivating over them if they put the resources into it and perform well.

Pioneer for now. Maybe MVFC or whatever later down the line. ('whatever' because who knows what the landscape will be 10 years from now) Have to assume the NCAA waiver is just a formality. Can't believe it's gotten to this point without ST or the SL getting a positive response from the NCAA.

Library renovation will be finished early 2020. New steam plant will be online spring 2020. Old steam plant will be taken off-line fall 2020, demo shortly after. Memorial Union will be finished summer 2021. Business building fundraising is not complete. $40M has been publicly committed($20M matching donation/$20M state). $30M more is being sought. Don't know how much of that is left. No construction timeline until the money has been raised. I assume the street work is wrapping up this month unless there's another phase of it coming next year.

Which is exactly what the Tarleton poster in question is saying. The guy never mentions FBS at all. In fact, he's saying he's heard NMSU is ready to drop down. What the guy has heard is that the Southland is going to break apart from internal pressure which will free up SHSU and SFA, NMSU will drop down, and UNC will come over from Big Sky because the new WAC will suit them better. The big difference between the Tarleton guy(wisdomgymrat) and our conference prognosticator on here is that wisdom actually has an inside source and that he also freely admits that this scenario has a bunch of moving parts and has a long way to go before it ever happens. Here's the original source so you can all read his stuff for yourself. It's a long thread, but almost all the important wisdomgymrat stuff is on the first three pages. https://www.d2football.com/forum/forum/football/super-region-4/lsc/429857-tarleton-to-wac

I believe the only actual restriction is that, per NDUS policy, the universities may not hold a liquor licence. So alcohol can be served on university property as long as someone else is doing the selling. (In this case, BWW.)

OK, that's fair. I just want to be clear about the scope of things so people who don't follow this stuff as carefully as we do don't get the wrong idea. TM only gets involved in smaller capital projects that are on a tight timeline. I think all of these have been in the low six figures. And I think the athletic dept "pays it back" from future guarantee money; although it's really just moving numbers around on a page. In the case of bigger projects like the SHAC, the Foundation only guarantees a small portion of the overall project cost, mostly just to allow the project to not miss a construction window. I think in the case of the SHAC, it was something like $3M-$5M guaranteed on a $45M project. And most or all of that $3M-$5M was raised while construction was ongoing; I don't know how much, if any, money actually had to be loaned to the athletic department. In your case, I don't know if the earlier HPC2 project ever got even close to the 90% funded stage to allow your Foundation to do something similar. Still, I could see where it could be a problem if they won't even work with you on the smaller stuff. Having a group like TM do stuff like this is really helpful to take advantage of time-sensitive situations when the athletic capital budgets are otherwise set on a biennial basis.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean guaranteeing the money to allow construction to begin like what happened with the FB office and locker room remodel in the FD or the last few million for the SHAC? If so, that was the Foundation/Alumni Assoc and not TM. IIRC, the only times I remember TM backing a capital project directly were smaller projects with a quick deadline. The bubble over Dacotah Field(something like 8 months from fundraising start to installation) and one or more of the turf replacements on Dacotah Field and/or the FB practice fields. Both of those turf projects were done in a hurry(the practice field project needed to be fast because the turf was the damaged stuff from the FD, and it was either buy it fast or it was going to be hauled away).

I don't know how Champions Club does it, but 100% of the Team Maker funds have historically gone to scholarships*. That's what it was founded to do, and I believe it's in the charter. It might be getting slightly more complicated lately since Team Makers is now generating more funds than are needed for scholarships. I don't know if the extra is going into endowments or used for other things. TM only crossed the 100% funding threshold a few years ago, so they may be still figuring it out. It's a little harder to see what CC is doing because it's just a division of the Foundation/Alumni Assoc. TM is it's own entity on paper, so it's a little more transparent. I'm sure there are advantages both ways, so don't take this as an attack or anything. People sometimes think TM is responsible for raising funds for stuff like the SHAC or the new IPF, but they're not. While the groups that fund-raise for those projects likely have access to the TM mailing lists, they actually are part of the athletic department or the Foundation/Alumni Assoc and not TM. *And I mean scholarships across all programs, not just FB. The reason why NDSU is fully funded(including FCOA) in ALL sports is because of the huge jumps in TM revenue over the last decade. But the vast majority of that revenue is because of season ticket seat fees for FB.

The home slate is horrible, but the overall schedule isn't that bad. Here were last year's Kenpom rankings of each team with UND included for comparison. Seems like a nice mix of programs. Some winnable, some challenging, some out of reach but good for experience. 2 Gonzaga 46 Minnesota 47 Nebraska 81 Oregon State 103 Georgia Southern 137 Montana 181 Campbell 213 FGCU 220 Valpo 237 Eastern Washington 271 UND 296 Milwaukee

Last 2:00, I think.

It's becoming clear that the refs are only going to overturn extremely egregious mistakes when it comes to PI calls. And this isn't a bad thing. I think the coaches are beginning to get the message; especially with the PI reviews earlier in the game.

Here's a little wider group of regional schools(ND/SD/MT/IA/NE). The first set are sorted by student fee dollar amount, the second set by percentage of athletic dept revenue, the third set is student fees per year per full-time undergrad student(also per year per FTE for ND schools). All data sets are from the 2017-18 academic year. $3.6M UND $3.0M USD $2.3M SDSU $2.2M UNO $2.0M MSU $2.0M UNI $1.5M NDSU $1.2M UM 15.3% USD 12.6% UND 10.5% UNO 10.4% SDSU 9.8% UNI 9.0% MSU 5.4% UM 5.3% NDSU $606 USD $425 UND ($312 by FTE) $273 SDSU $224 UNO $219 UNI $163 MSU $161 UM $139 NDSU ($122 by FTE) Sources: USA Today NCAA Finances Report, US Dept of Ed: Equity in Athletics, NDUS Enrollment Report

They talked about changing the rules, but it never happened to my knowledge. The only group that can stop a non-green field is Boise State(because they've trademarked or copyrighted it). Schools like EWU, CCU and UCA had to get clearance from Boise St first.

Probably more than just that. The facilities category is defined as: "Not just the arena, but also practice facilities, weight room, locker rooms, etc." I'm guessing it's the small size of the Betty combined with it being more of a high school configuration rather than a bowl style with a concourse and premium seating. Plus a lack of dedicated basketball practice facilities(shared with VB). I'm also guessing the weight room and locker room could be better as they're a major element of the HPF II project. Don't know if that's enough to really be in 7th place(don't know the Summit facilities well enough to say), but it must be a factor. Or the coaches that were interviewed didn't fully know UND's facilities yet and judged them inaccurately. Hard to know.

NDSU definitely did not win a DII championship, and UND did have more DII success. The DII champ in 1977 was Chattanooga. NDSU - 10 NCC championships, 9 NCAA tournament appearances, NCAA tourney record of 8-8; best finish: regional 3rd place winner(3x). UND - 18 NCC championships; 19 NCAA tournament appearances; NCAA tourney record of 29-22; best finish: national 3rd place winner(2x) .

Here's the play if all you guys don't want to just go by memory: https://youtu.be/L3EM82AZtcE?t=6199 The called foul was NDSU #55 hitting UND #18. The UND player saw it coming and they were mostly facing each other at the time of the hit, so it wasn't a classic blind-side block. But it was definitely a foul under the new rules. The NDSU player took any doubt away when he paused while walking over the prone UND player. It's a player safety issue, so good call on the foul. The hit referred to by nd1sufan happens between NDSU #94 and UND #61. The two were engaged at the end of the play near the ball carrier and the NDSU player gave the UND player a shove right at the end(I think it was to prevent the UND player from piling on top of the NDSU ball carrier who was already down). The UND player was already unbalanced, so he went straight to the ground. He then got up and broke into the group of NDSU players to get into the face of the NDSU #94, which is what caused most of the following excitement. Personal opinion is if this had been called a foul, it would have been fairly ticky-tack unless the NDSU player had already been warned for similar behavior earlier in the game.

I'm not too awful worried; I strongly suspect it will be replaced next year or the year after. NDSU's football IPF will be built next summer or the summer after and that means two new turf fields to buy(one inside, one outside). If I were NDSU and the Fargodome, I'd see if I could get a small discount for three turfs since all would be identical and the installation crew would already be here. Heck, maybe even the Alerus could join in so the crew could install four turfs before heading back.

According to your media guide, no. Army once back in 1930.

It was part of the 100th anniversary of the Yale Bowl(stadium). Yale and Army have been playing on and off since 1893, and their games were often some of the biggest games of their eras. I don't know if Yale paid Army, or if Army agreed to do it just because of the history and that they're a public institution. I do know Army needed a waiver from the NCAA to allow a win over Yale to count as a win toward bowl eligibility(since Yale doesn't officially offer scholies), though it didn't matter because Yale actually won the game in OT. I can also remember WKU playing a couple FCS away games, but that was because they were transitioning to FBS or had just finished(like the scenario you guessed at before.)

The real kickoff is Villanova at Colgate in a couple minutes. YSU/Samford at 2:00. Also Florida/Miami at 6:00 and Arizona/Hawaii at 9:30 in FBS action.

The three sections that apply to the situation are: 18.5, 20.02.5 & 31.3.4. Of the three, 18.5 is the most on-point for the discussion of autobids. None of the three sections appear to specifically exclude affiliate members from counting towards automatic qualifiers(maybe in basketball only). Here is all of it. Sorry it's so long, but it's the NCAA and it was likely written by lawyers. Personally, I agree with several of you and suspect the plan is to add Augie and get a waiver to cover the 2-ish years needed, with the backup plan being going for UNC for baseball only. Or maybe the priority is reversed and the Summit will go for UNC first. 20.02.5 is listed above.