Siouxperfan7

So on October 2nd we get to beat the Bison in football and the Bisons in hockey, all on the same day!!

I sure hope they don't take pictures on the sacred Bison logo at midfield if they win. Phil Hansen might lose it!

Sam Herder ranks the playoff fields chance to win the Championship this year. Has UND smack dab in the middle of the pack. https://herosports.com/fcs-football-favorites-spring-national-champion-bzbz/ 8. North Dakota UND last played on March 20. Will there be rust? Probably not, honestly. SDSU looked great last weekend against NDSU after four weeks between games. JMU looked great in a March 27 win against William & Mary after three weeks off and against Richmond on April 17 after another few weeks off. The Fighting Hawks should come out on fire at home, where they haven’t lost since 2018. Playing fellow MVFC co-champ Mo State isn’t ideal, but UND is in a good spot to win its first-ever FCS playoff win. A quarterfinal game at JMU is a different story.

Continuing to inspire. Can’t say enough about this young man.

Otis Weah, Tommy Schuster, And Bubba Schweigert all nominated for the Walter Payton Award (Player of the year), Jerry Rice Award (Freshman player of the year) and the Eddie Robinson Award (FCS Coach of the year) respectively. https://theanalyst.com/na/2021/04/fcs-college-football-walter-payton-award-finalists/ https://theanalyst.com/na/2021/04/fcs-college-football-jerry-rice-award-finalists/ https://theanalyst.com/na/2021/04/fcs-college-football-eddie-robinson-award-coach-finalists/

This year was a year they could have seeded the entire field given the circumstances. Home field in football is so much bigger than any other sport. Would love to see the top 16 seeded every year moving forward, but that would require the NCAA to do something logical.

It's been like that forever it seems. I think they should always seed the top 16 teams every year and the highest team hosts. But the NCAA wants to make as much money as possible, so they use the current system.

SDSU's last game before playing the Bison was on March 20th. a 28 day layoff between games. Our last game was also March 20th. We will have a 35 day layoff between games. SDSU was able to overcome that and have a pretty dominating performance against a top ranked Bison team. Hopefully we can do the same.

Higher seeded teams host. Seeded teams host over unseeded teams. If two unseeded teams are set to play, highest bid hosts. So our bid would need to be bigger than VMI.

New team photo!!

https://herosports.com/fcs-football-bracketology-10-playoff-predictions-bzbz/amp/

https://www.facebook.com/UNDFootball/videos/undproud-lgh/1213475559085257/

SDSU is the autobid. And they just beat the #2 team in the country.

Jacks celebrating with the Marker at midfield and taking pictures. This is what the Bison radio guys say; “This is bordering on inappropriate. There’s a lot of reasons I don’t like this program and this is one of them.” Now they know how the rest of the FCS has felt this past decade!!

This thread is named correctly.

UND planning for full sports crowds in the fall, but ready to 'pivot' if needed https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/hockey/6987555-UND-planning-for-full-sports-crowds-in-the-fall-but-ready-to-pivot-if-needed "We are going as if everything will be a full go," UND athletic director Bill Chaves said. "That is our anticipation. That's how we're selling our venues at this point. That's our default position. If we have to pivot, we would. But right now our assumption is we're selling full venues."

Which is why the MVFC needs to make changes this summer to penalize any team that chooses to forgo their season without a valid reason (Covid really being the only one, but that is not going to be an issue this fall.....hopefully). A bad precedent has been set.

I think it's up to 30 states now. The NCAA is going to run into some big problems and several lawsuits from a lot of states if they plan on going forward with banning post season tournaments in those states.

No doubt. There is a thread every year for hockey titled "Early Departures" on this site. Might as well get one going every year for basketball because it's going to be the same thing. I hate the new rule change. The mid majors are performing at an all time high right now in the tournament. now, every successful mid major in the tournament will have their best players leave and go to a bigger program. Even teams that don't make the tournament. the process is so much easier now. If you are a kid playing in the Summit League and the Big 10 or the Big 12 offer you a spot on the team, why wouldn't you go!!

North Dakota Senate sends transgender athlete bill to Gov. Doug Burgum's desk https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/government-and-politics/6986821-North-Dakota-Senate-sends-transgender-athlete-bill-to-Gov.-Doug-Burgums-desk So if Bergum signs this bill, what will this mean for UND and NDSU specifically in regards to NCAA post season games being played in ND? This bill is different from the one in Montana mentioned above because it affects only K-12 and not college. But that doesn't mean the NCAA can't do whatever the hell they want.

Missouri St. has chance to make the playoffs. A very slim chance. A win over UND certainly helps them, but would the risk losing the game and losing their first conference championship in 30 years for a small chance to make the playoffs? Especially after celebrating a conference Championship on the field.

So the more I think about it, the more I believe that even if Youngstown would have ended their season last Sunday giving UND and Missouri St. the chance to play this week, I don't think UND would have wanted to schedule a game against Missouri St this weekend. At least they shouldn't have wanted to if they wanted to make the playoffs. Think about it. After Youngstown pulled the plug on their season (even if it was last Sunday) UND was co conference champions and basically a lock for the playoffs. Only way that we don't make it is if we lose this weekend. I'm sure Bubba, the rest of the coaches, and the players would have wanted to play this weekend to knock some rust off before a potential playoff game since we haven' played in a month. But is all that worth the risk of throwing away a conference championship and a pretty much guaranteed playoff bid? Probably not. It sucks that we aren't playing this week and don't get a game to warm up before a potential playoff game. But It is reassuring knowing that UND is the co Conference Champions of the Valley and will be likely playing a home playoff game on the 24th. At the beginning of the season there is not one person that would have not taken that.

True. Pretty hard not to give the undefeated Big Sky Champion an autobid.

That being said, if NDSU were to lose and not be a seeded team, not win the conference for the first time in a decade, and end up finishing in 4th place in the MVFC....I'd be ok with that!!