fightingsioux4life

This is why having depth is so important.

If UND moved up under the current circumstances, I would call it a huge and expensive mistake. Nice try, though.

Maybe our youth is showing late in the season?

For the millionth time, moving from FCS to FBS is not even in the same universe as moving from D2 to FCS. That cannot possibly be disputed. The gap between FCS and FBS is huge and will continue to grow exponentially. Someone posted the FB budgets of MWC schools and NDSU's current budget is way behind even the smallest MWC budget. And the gap between the MWC and the P4 schools is even bigger. I don't give a damn about NDUS funding formulas or oil money or what Teamakers is raising, the stratospheric gaps I laid out above are not going to be closed by a land grant school in flyover country. I don't know what else I have to say to convince people that this is not even remotely close to what happened 20+ years ago. If the P4 and G6 do formally split and the G6 have their own tournament, then a move up may be worth exploring for all the Dakota schools and maybe even the Montana schools. But under the current alignment, being a G6 school is a one way ticket to permanent obscurity.

How will the prospect of no more championship runs impact interest from the fan base? Going to the Whatever.com Bowl in mid December with a sparkling 7-5 record is going to be hard for Forum Communications to hype up.

The NCAA is as weak as they have ever been. The threat of a lawsuit may be enough to get them to cave.

For me, nothing ever will.

If Burgum was going to bankroll this, wouldn't they have done it a long time ago?

That's the same bull$h!t I heard from Doomsday Preachers on the hockey forum last year who insisted we will have to settle for being a Mid-Major in hockey because of NIL and the transfer portal. I'm sick of being told we have to settle for less in everything. That attitude has held us back for decades and it will continue to do so unless we start thinking big. We need to modernize our fundraising. We absolutely have to stop relying on one donor for everything. We need to be prepared for the next big shake up in college football, which is coming because the status quo is not sustainable in the long run. As for Imperial Cass County being equal to Minneapolis, let's wait until they have their own Congressional District like Omaha before we start calling them that.

Why don't you go back to planning your CFP championship parade?

FCS isn't just a different planet than FBS, it's a different solar system. This is a much bigger move, where the big $$$$$ P4 programs can buy and sell the G6 programs many times over. Aside from an occasional upset of a P4 team on the road and a crappy bowl game victory in December, what else is there for FU except bigger and bigger bar tabs?

1. MINNESOTA (Realignment be d@mned) 2. Denver 3. Duluth 4. Wisconsin 5. BC 6. BU

Well, it will all come out in the wash at the end of the season like it always does. What I find annoying with your posts is that you make it sound like this is last year's team all over again. However the season ends, this season is 100x better than last season ever was. I am choosing to be positive about this team and program again. But keep up the Eeyore approach if that makes you happy.

One thing has nothing to do with the other. Hockey will bounce back tonight and FU will be drowning in red ink. I like where we stand

If are so happy about this, why don't you go down there and cheer them on and "be a part of it"? But don't think for one minute I'll be joining you. You probably have them in the CFP as soon as they are eligible. But moving from D2 to FCS is 1000% different than moving from FCS to FBS. This is a much more expensive move requiring millions of dollars annually to compete with FBS budgets. The bills won't stop coming in the mail; they will keep coming and get larger as time goes on. And there is NO WAY IN HELL I will support playing any FBS money games in the FFD. Let them go to Alabama or Georgia for money games like a good little G5 program. We should NEVER, EVER play them again in FB while we are in different classifications. Again, support them if you want. But I don't think most people on here will join you.

@Sioux90 seems to disagree.

One bad game doesn't equate to missing the tournament.

I know sweeps are tough to come by in this league, but I think it is alright to start believing in this team again. This isn't last year's team.

Then this whole discussion forum is odd. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

I don't know what happened to bring about this change of fortune, but I'm liking it! 😁

Looks like having "the ultimate captain" wasn't enough to put ASU over the top.

That left a very bad taste in my mouth.