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No concern on my part, it just humors me that the Fargo media is scared to step on the FU athletic departments toes for fear of losing access.

That doesn't answer the question why the Fargo media took such in interest in a hire at UND and are more or less ignoring one of the biggest hires in NDSU history.

As long as this thread was brought back up, anyone have any idea why the Fargo media isn't reporting anything on the applicants for the AD position at FU? McFeeley hasn't said a word about it and Izzo has done one list and updated it a week or two later. They were doing at minimum weekly updates on UND's football coach. You'd think this would be a bigger deal.

Like most places, I would almost guarantee they still use tickets sold not butts in seat. The exclusion might be playoffs where reporting a lower number is more beneficial. Watch any Twins game the rest of the summer and it is a prime example. They also use scanners for tickets but I guarantee the number reported isn't people in the stadium.

Correct

He is the king of getting threads started "just for discussion"...

Not sure but Bubba was wearing an adidas polo at the meet and greet at Scheels last night. Make of that what you will.

Are you trying to spin it now that his offer was dropped?

Getting a little ahead of the topic, but the Herald says that UNI will be making a return trip to Grand Forks in 2015-2016. NDSU will also be coming to Grand Forks and I'd assume SDSU will as well. Not a bad start to the home OOC schedule for next year.

You'd think fans of a team coming off 3 straight championships wouldn't have such an inferiority complex. Sad that they immediately contact the kid to see why he choose UND over NDSU. Don't see them doing that for other schools. Also they never bring up what other offers from them or other schools are partials vs. fulls. Had no problem talking with the kid and reporting his NDSU offer when he got it, not a mention of how much it was. Only took him an hour or two to come up with it after he made his decision. Real surprising that the faithful are leaving it at only being a "partial" and didn't disclose that the partial was actually an 80% scholarship. Plays basketball and I believe is a Golden Gloves boxer. Excited to see him in green and white.

WDAZ reported it tonight as well. Believe his only other offer was NDSU.

Definitely need to get USD on the schedule and keep Omaha on it. Rotate UNO/USD/NDSU/SDSU with 2 home and 2 away ever year at least is a decent start for an OOC schedule. Hopefully at least some of the road games will lead to a home game down the road. Decent OOC road schedule with last year final RPI's listed. Other than two of the games being played in the Utah tournament, pretty decent teams, but doesn't look like there will be a top 25 team on the schedule this year unless Pitino really gets Minnesota going. UNI (112) SDSU (143) Alabama St (253) - neutral site Utah (83) UTPA (312) - neutral site Drake (179) Minnesota (34) NDSU (32) Marquette (94)

I have no clue what you're asking? The split in talent between the P5 and G5 in football is much larger than in basketball especially due to the size of rosters and number of players on the field/court at one time. Basketball outcomes are also much more random (or prone to "luck") than football outcomes and a single player can have a large effect on altering the results. And you still haven't explained how this is remotely true:

You keep comparing basketball to football and it is not a valid comparison.

Do you even remember what your original argument was anymore?

That's how many tickets were sold, not saw the game. First home game, second year of the stadium. The shine hadn't worn off yet.

Its a combination of the two. More people would go if there were no other options to watch college football. Instead, there are two very good B1G teams, so people have no problem switching their allegiance because EMU stinks and there are better options nearby. I'll lay it out for you: -EMU is a directional school that is 11 miles from one of the most successful, historical football programs in history with the largest stadium in college football and 75 miles from another very good school in a major conference. -EMU is not a very good team and plays in a low tier conference. Attendance isn't very high at games where teams aren't very good and don't have very good opponents. -Because EMU is not very good and there are infinitely better options to watch football very nearby, their attendance suffers even more. And the NCAA doesn't lose any money because of any of this.

NDSU and UM combined have roughly 2/3's the attendance that the Big House draws. Your comparisons make no sense. No one watches EMU because they stink. Not sure what that has to do with populations, other fan bases and how many miles it is to Detroit. You still haven't explained how any of this causes the NCAA lose money because of EMU and they should be relegated because of it?

Because its not a "feel-good" cause and/or it doesn't cost them any money. Cross either of those lines and you'd have their attention.

Wow. Could you stretch any further? The EMU's of the world and their attendance (and anyone who would replace them) aren't even a blip on the NCAA advertiser's radar. Forcing EMU down a level and replacing them would do nothing for the NCAA's bottom line. You know how I know that? Because if it would make them more money, they would have enforced the rules they have on the books long ago. Very plausible scenario depending on the teams involved but notice that the NCAA making more money has nothing to do with it (again, your point to begin with).

Not by the NCAA, who has nothing to do with bowl games, which was your reasoning for forcing them down a level. So how again does EMU's attendance hurt the NCAA's bottom line?

What does NIU playing in a BCS bowl have to do with anything? EMU isn't going to play in a BCS bowl, therefore they would not play in a bowl that would have any effect on the NCAA bottom line. Even if they did, it still wouldn't matter. And your link talks about money the conferences get. It doesn't change the amount that the NCAA gets which was your argument to begin with. The NCAA will get no less or no more money regardless of what division of football EMU plays in. Switching from the BCS to the College Football Playoff does nothing to change that. Really looks like a big change....

Actually no clue. What he said. The NCAA doesn't get a cut of their attendance. And as was pointed out, the NCAA doesn't control bowl games. And the BCS doesn't control any bowl game EMU would ever play in anyway so while so not even sure that is an issue even though its a valid point.

How exactly would replacing EMU with YSU would make the NCAA more money?

Not comparable. The first/second/third rounds are played a few days after announcing of the bracket done in multi-game sessions. They are not dependent on fans of a single team to sell tickets, nor are they really dependent on ticket sales for the revenue since the majority of it is the TV money. Plus FBS isn't saying that you need a certain amount of fans to play in the postseason tournament (which is what your example was), they are saying you "need" that number to be a member of the subdivision.