jdub27

You're only looking at it for a 1 year at a time. If it is a home and home, you need to look at the years combined. If they played 2 home games in separate years and made $100K each year (your numbers: $500K gate less $300K guarantee less $100K expenses), they make a total of $200K over 2 years. If they have a home and home with UND, the first year, they make $500K gate less expenses of $100K for a profit of $400K (no guarantee needs to be paid) and make $0 the year they have to go to UND for a total of $400K over a 2 year span. Which scenario (using your numbers) does NDSU come out ahead in?

And what numbers are you using to show that they are losing money? The price for bringing teams will only go up and NDSU's margin on games will keep shrinking unless they raise ticket prices. NDSU already charges more for certain basketball games, so obviously the athletic department isn't adverse to doing it, they just haven't yet for football. Frankly, I'm surprised they don't (I guess I haven't cared to look at their single game ticket prices to verify), but if they want to leave money on the table for SDSU, UNI and homecoming games, fine by me.

Except you don't have to pay a $250K+ guarantee the year there is a home game and you can charge more for the UND game (dynamic pricing). Not sure how many times people have done the actual math to show that NDSU doesn't lose money in this scenario, but apparently you missed it.

I believe at the luncheon today, despite not dressing tonight, Hak said that O'Donnell had one of his best weeks of practice that he has seen. Someone can correct me if I misheard it but quite certain that was his comment.

Jones made some very direct comments today about how well these guys can play as a team when they let the offense run. He also said that some of the guys need to stop coming down the court like they have a big "S" on their chest and try to save the day with a big shot, but rather let the system and game plan do the work. Pretty much the same observation that has been stated over and over here.

Pretty much dead on. I would love to see what would happen if someone would go to FU's message board and post some stories about the things that UND's student athletes do in the community with no expectation of attention or recognition.

Hak said that Grimaldi is staying wtih Rowney/Caggiula and Gaarder moves down to the Mac's line. Looks to be correct.

Maybe I read it wrong, but it looks to my like you used A&M's 19 point win over SHSU and NDSU's 26 point win over SHSU to say they aren't that far apart. I'm saying that A&M could have won that game by 70+ if they wanted to (and were on track to surpass that). Yeah you said they don't have a chance in hell but you then said they aren't as far apart as people think. Just wondering how far apart you think they are? I think NDSU is a very good team due to their defense and could stick around with the majority of FBS teams because of it (outside of the top 35 or so).

So Indiana St. would have a shot is what you're saying? Texax A&M was up 47-0 less than 5 minutes into the 3rd quarter and 47-7 after the 3rd quarter. They let Johnny Football attempt an extra point. I don't think that game was ever in doubt.

Their losses were to South Carolina (#8), Northwestern (#17), Georgia (#5) and Florida (#9). I think you're understimating them a little bit.

5-2 would be a pretty good home record, not borderline failure, considering that we have 3 of this year's playoff teams (SDSU, MSU and EWU) coming in along with Montana. These are also 4 of the first 6 games of the year with what will most likely be a freshman QB. Our home schedule is much tougher than our away schedule (based on this year at least).

There is one or two voters who give their 25th place vote (1 point) to the D-1AA/FCS champion in the final poll of the year every year since 2009. App State also recieved 5 points in the final 2007 poll. Pretty neat, but nothing new.

Wonder what will happen in 2014 when the FBS has both bowls and a "playoff" that determines a champion.

Did the governor take the time to make the signs that referenced UND that were down in Frisco last year?

As I stated, I don't see Faison signing a one game deal with FU. If UM were to buy out the UND game (which is the only reason UND would need to look at scheduling another game for 2013 per what I've seen), they can afford to go on the road for the front end of a home and home contract to set up a nice home game down the road.

Everything I've seen and heard from UND's athletic department has been that they are set on 11 game next year. Looking at the schedule, putting NDSU on the September bye date, especially with what looks to be a freshman QB between UM and MSU (edit: SDSU game is before UM game), would be a terrible idea. There was rumbling a few months back that Montana would buy out their trip to Grand Forks ($75-100K I think, but am not sure). I haven't heard anything on that recently and I would assume Montana would extend some courtesy to UND as a conference mate and give a decent heads up if they were to do that. So unless UM buys the game out and GT will actually accept the one time home-and-home that has has claimed he wanted all along, this game will not happen. I don't see Faison signing a one game deal.

FU ends in a T-4 with themselves. Impressive.

Yet you're still hanging around here...

I do agree, the coaching staff is the one who needs to figure out if you have space for him. But saying is not that. It is saying guys that are already there are better, even though the majority of them haven't seen the field yet. They very well could end up better, but nothing is a guarantee in the world of recruiting.

I see there was a shot or two at Mollberg on there as well. Classy. But they didn't want him. That was what Bohl must have told him when he called from TCF Bank field right before their UofM game. Glad that they have moooooved on.

So coming out of high school one year ago, he was rated higher than most if not all of the majority of the young lineman you just named. But since he had the opportunity and chose to go somewhere bigger than those guys that are now FU players, he would have no chance coming there and playing? And you have seen little to no game action from any of them, but just assume they are better? Not sure I am following your logic other than you may or may not get him, so you need to make sure that there is a reason in your back pocket in case you don't.

In summation...buttfootball.

Jensen's legs have kept the FU offense moving much more efficiently than his arm, but those Bison fans who are saying that TD run was all him and he put the team on his back are doing a huge disservice to your line and the RB that cleared the path for him on that go ahead TD. He was barely touched. Not sure how GSU didn't key on him, everyone I was with called a QB keeper before the multiple timeout debacle. Also, their punter was probably the unsung hero of this game. He boomed a few and put GSU in a bad spot more than once, particularly in the 4th quarter.

Everyone in the building had to have seen the keeper coming. 50/50 shot at best of a RB picking it up and now way were they going to let Jensen throw it. Was a heck of a game, I imagine it humbled some FU fans, not so sure they should have pulled that one out but they hung around long enough and pulled it out. Their punter was probably the MVP of the game. Hope tomorrow's is just as entertaining.

Rowney - Rocco - Gleason