JohnboyND7

This assumes you need to pay the same as other schools. But $15 million annually maybe doable with alums and Fargo business in mind. I was like 10 when NDSU moved up to D1, so a bit young for that. But the internet is forever, and there was some skeptical folks about that.

Footprints don't exist anymore. It's not like it's a bus league either. If the MWC wants NDSU/SDSU, I think you guys would be left behind.

A win is a win. But UND will be facing stacked boxes moving forward. I hope UND makes it work. Things are more fun when the Dakota schools put a decent team on the field.

I notice that sometimes DC's (even awesome ones) have trouble adjusting to offenses without anything resembling a passing game in real-time. Unless the UND QB gets better in that department, other DC's will adapt.

I would say they ought to be careful but I think it's too late.

Off topic but UND's uniforms would look much nicer with green numbers

I think that's normal for teams in week 1. Probs moreso against good teams that are faster than you are.

I've only flown into Jamestown once. The bags were waiting by the door by the time we deplaned lol

When we went to the NDSU ISU game in 2014, I think we stayed in Des Moines and just drove up in the morning.

Name a team in the east who should switch with Minnesota then? If/when more teams are added, it can be revisited. As for Portland, I'm not sure why divisions really matter. Assuming the AI search thing on my phone is correct, each team plays every team in their division 4 times. They play the rest of the conference a minimum of 3 times. I guess they could swap Phoenix and Portland, but what does that really change?

I'm not following your complaint. That map looks the way it should.

I don't know enough about whether that's completely accurate, but if it is...I'm sure the folks pushing it are aware and simply don't care. It's basically revenue sports pushing for money/a piece of the pie. I can't imagine they really care about women's athletics enough to give up the money they think they'll get.

I think a decent number of them would just quit. My cousin walked on at NDSU. I believe he had decided on NDSU for school long before he decided to walk on. Now NDSU is not Nebraska, but I think they probably have some of those kind of guys too. My dad's cousin walked on at Notre Dame, dude was going to Notre Dame no matter what, happened to be pretty good in high school and decided to be a practice dummy for a historic program. Maybe those two examples are not normal. But yes, fewer roster spots will cause plenty/many(most?) to filter down to other schools.

I believe so. Wikipedia says the Title IX does not apply to people employed at schools. That makes me wonder what happens if/when the athletes are considered employees?

How is this supposed to work? Thats a lot of travel