MafiaMan

Why don't you ask UMass folks, darell? It was their big vision of FBS money falling from the sky and a huge rivalry with BC that was supposed to put them on the map. http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/12/26/moving-was-big-time-mistake-for-umass-football/8Zh7LNm9RkrxgumwLLZOkO/story.html

Too bad weather was such a factor in Wyoming today...I thought Montana had a shot at winning that game.

http://www.mlive.com/opinion/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2013/12/editorial_moving_divisions_a_c_1.html An article about Eastern Michigan and moving down...I wonder what their attendance was today at home on the new turf... Former FCS member UMass played its Super Bowl today against Boston College. 30,000 (that's 38,000 below capacity) ame to Gillette Stadium to see the Minutemen get waxed 30-7. How's that FBS move looking now?

And if Ann Arbor doubled its population, Michigan Stadium could be renovated to hold 200,000...

Assuming you're doing 80 MPH's, you're still not making Missoula-to-Bozeman in 2 hours flat.

I believe the "reasonable and prudent" statute was changed years ago...

My point was needing more capacity. If EWU had a 30,000 seat stadium, they would have still drawn 10,000 against SHSU.

I know about the Junior A team and club hockey there...neither are 7-time NCAA champions. Bozeman is 200 miles away from Missoula...how fast are you driving?

All that high talent for EWU drew 10,000 to see the #1 ranked team in the country play a Sam Houston State team that has eliminated them in the playoffs two years in a row. Apparently there wasn't any need to move the game to Seattle to accomodate all the fans.

Is there a D-1 hockey team in Missoula? If Montana football is lackluster, do fans just join the other side and drive to Bozeman (a solid three hour drive) for a game instead? Nope and nope.

Grand Forks is a hockey-mad town...considering that only approximately 3,000 fans (not including students) could attend a game, it certainly wasn't unreasonable to think that that number could easily be increased.

Wyoming's a great model to follow...except that there's no Wyoming State seventy five miles away!

I don't know what the average attendance was, but even if it was 15,000, you are talking about more than doubling attendance. Where are all of these new fans going to come from?

And what FBS opponents are you talking here? Sure, 35,000 would show up to see Michigan or Wisconsin come to Grand Forks. You think that many would come to see Troy or Tulane as opposed to Montana or Eastern Washington? Go ahead...call me skeptical...

You're talking about a 20,000-25,000 increase in average attendance over the largest crowds now!

Helmet...wrong color. White pants...wrong color. Jersey...wrong color numbers. Other than that, FSU looks great.

Iowa State? I thought that NDSU was playing the University of Southern Iowa Trojans?

You diggin' FSU's new duds, cberkas?

Georgia breaks open a close game against Clemson...from 24-21 to 45-21 in a hurry!

What the h-e-double-l is Florida State wearing?

Leave it to Lou Holtz to bring up how "impressive" Notre Dame was today...in a discussion about Alabama and Ohio State.

Bummer that Ohio State and Alabama didn't put one in the "L" column today...

Did Bret Bielema eat last year's Bret Bielema?

That INT hurt...not a good decision by SDSU QB.

I keep forgetting that Maryland and Rutgers are B10 now too...