Per the Herald 2 more businesses are leaving the mall. Maurice's and West African Cuisine are moving elsewhere in GR, and West African was the last business in the mall food court.
It appears they are all locked in by their GOR agreement for the next 5 years. The other development is if congress gets around to passing the Save College Athletics or whatever it's called, the Power conferences will be capped at 19 members which won't leave much upward movement. Without the G6 conferences getting poached I don't see movement anywhere for some time.
That's why I don't want to schedule non con games against Valpo and Drake. Those teams are a joke even if some think they make excellent "tune up" games. Yes, the Valley is going downhill fast.
Playing a scrimmage game against ourselves is probably a better tune up game than playing a bad Pioneer Conference team. There is nothing to be gained playing garbage like this. Iron sharpens iron, as they used to say. We need quality opponents to get tuned up. It's gotten to the point that some of the Valley teams are bottom of the barrel quality. We don't need non con Murray State teams.
I just saw this, we scheduled Valpo for '27. I'm not excited at all to be playing them again and playing a non scholly is almost embarrassing. I know, we need wins to make the playoffs but holy cow surely we can get someone better than Valpo. Sorry for the attitude but not sorry. https://fbschedules.com/north-dakota-adds-valparaiso-to-2027-football-schedule/
As far as I know, nothing happened. He's still convinced half the Mountain West is moving even though the MW commish said at their media day no one is leaving as they are locked in the GOR agreement for 5 years.
How much did NDSU get paid from Gate City to put on those little 2 x 2 patches on the uni's? I can't comprehend that anyone is even going to see those things let alone run out and open an account there.
The first half of the season won't tell us much except at Nebraska. The first half is an incredibly easy schedule. The real test comes down the stretch. We have to make sure the gas tank is still full.