southpaw

My thoughts exactly.

How does your NDSU afford the move to FBS? They can't increase attendance without building a new stadium and this time won't be able to do it with the city's help. Sports 2-4 are floundering and have been a mess recently. Attendance can only go up slightly, but you see that happening with a new schedule of MAC teams that nobody in Fargo cares about? The savings from the Summit/MVFC are big for the Dakota schools and if NDSU goes FBS, they'll lose that in order to play games against exciting teams like Eastern Michigan, Kent State and Buffalo. Take a look at the average MAC home football schedule against FBS opponents: -Syracuse (ACC) at Western Michigan, on Aug. 31 (CBS Sports Network); -Cincinnati (American) at Miami on Sept. 8 (at Paul Brown Stadium); -Kansas (Big-12) at Central Michigan on Sept. 8; -Maryland (Big Ten) at Bowling Green on Sept. 8; -Utah (Pac-12) at NIU on Sept. 8; -Miami (Fla.) (ACC) at Toledo on Sept. 15; -Western Kentucky (C-USA) at Ball State on Sept. 22; -Army (Independent) at Buffalo on Sept. 29; -UMass (Independent) at Ohio on Sept. 29; -Army (Independent) at Eastern Michigan on Oct. 27. I don't think moving up makes sense for any of the local schools because attendance can't grow with the cost of the move. Even with new stadiums, you'll run out of people to go to games. Throw in a few down years, the ability to not play for a national championship and games against teams people have never heard of and you're not generating the millions of dollars it's going to cost to move up.

Yeah, it was a commitment to spending the resources to remain relevant in hockey. At the time the NCHC was formed, Mankato was considered one of the budget-conscious schools in the WCHA.

The main thing that gives me hope is UND has a pretty good goalie and that's all it takes late in the season and playoffs. He has given this team a chance to win every night and I could see him putting together a string of dominant performances.

There was a blizzard a few years back in Colorado Springs. Barely anyone was out, but my friend that I met at UND and I went to a local bar. One other customer there so we started chatting. He was a UND grad too. Not surprising the 3 people at a bar during a blizzard were from UND.

In this case, it is two separate words as may be is being used as a modal and not as the adverb maybe. If you were going to complain about grammar, it would have been about the lack of the word It to start the sentence.

Your sibling is an idiot if they live in the springs and take i70 to get to skiing. Kids from Cali who want to ski are not moving to Greeley to go to Eldora. Yes, Alabama has doubled its enrollment in the past 20 years, but you claimed it doubled under Saban, which is a lie.

If Cali students are looking for a place to party and ski in Colorado, they're going to choose UCCS over Greeley in a heartbeat. Have you even been to Greeley? And what math are you doing on Alabama? There were already 25,000 people going to Alabama when Saban was hired and there certainly aren't 50,000 there now.

Thank you once again for your unsolicited analysis of NDSU's roster in reply to a post that said nothing about NDSU.

Hypothetically, I would think the NCHC cares more about making sure UND gets home ice than promoting a Hobey candidate.

They most likely will be used to show stats and ads. That's exactly what the Pepsi Center did when they updated their center board. You wouldn't want to see these next to the ones in the Betty as the quality would be significantly less on the old ones. Also, it's not as simple as setting up some giant big screen TVs if you were putting them in the Olympic. You need to move a good amount of equipment, run new wiring and then program the Daktronics Venus computer to run all of the ads or videos that have to be precreated created and loaded. Which is basically more work than they're worth.

But how many times have you said we shouldn't believe a report like that? Just last month you told us not to believe a report about an FCS WAC, but now you're all about believing this one?

UND moved up to 18 after the win last night. With Jim's PWR Predictor, this would be a good place to discuss both UND and other teams' movements in the PWR.

Suggestion that UConn should drop to FCS due to financials: SB Nation: Why UConn should probably drop to FCS and leave the AAC. https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2019/1/18/18187320/uconn-football-aac-fcs

That's a ridiculous comparison. It's a damn golf course that was losing money. Financially, during a difficult budget situation due to decisions from previous presidents it was a good decision to close it and sell off the equipment. The handling of the reaction to donors was crap and now UND is scrambling to abide by the wishes of angry donors, even if it costs the university money. But, which is worse? Closing a golf course and trying to sell it or keeping it open and cutting another educational program?

https://forum.siouxsports.com/search/?&q=Vegas&author=southpaw&search_and_or=or You need to get better at making up lies that can't be proven wrong. Not a single post by me for or against the NHL in Vegas.

In the history of college sports have two conferences ever "traded" schools?

Wrong again. The WAC's excuse for adding GCU was because it was hemorrhaging teams left and right. The stability that was there when DU joined was gone and they jumped ship. Adding GCU and losing Denver happened for the same reason , but the latter was not because of the former.

#thinkFBS

Cam was just called up to the Devils. Gotta say, I never thought he would get there. Congrats to him.

It's cute you think asking for facts and refuting the ramblings of an old man is considered hate.

So you'll move on from the Summit moving up but what will be the "new" way for UND to get FBS? So far, you've had the Big Sky, WAC and Summit all moving up. I suppose you haven't mentioned just the MVFC. I guarantee you'll still be around posting your lies, calling everyone trolls, and acting like a child when others can't read minds, stocks or Biblical references like you.

Dallas gets the 2020 Winter Classic but no opponent has been announced. It has to be Austin, right?

So the math you did in your head is better than what a company like OVG can do?