zonadub
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Surprisingly, no news this week from the Big East. Supposedly, Boise St and / or BYU are reportedly the hold ups.
Not directly related to conference realignment, but would be a significant change
http://espn.go.com/c...ame-sources-say
Basically it means there are no more auto-bids for any conference to the Rose, Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls. Those bowls would do their own TV contracts and their own tie-in deals with conferences, like the rest of the bowls do now.
I like the idea, but you have to think that something with the potential to affect so much money is going to be fought hard. Status quo rules the day when it puts millions in your pocket.
a connection, maybe?
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I see Drake and San Diego tied at 9-2 for the Pioneer Football League title. SD was 25th in the Coaches poll, Drake got votes that would have made it about 30th. I feel better about that 16-0 early season Sioux win over Drake. I know the PFL is the only FCS non-scholarship conference, but the top teams somewhat hold their own at the FCS level.
Drake is rated # 133 in RealTime RPI.
San Diego # 138
UND #139
USD # 147
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one more note... when it comes to football, especially, you are not going to get a bison fan to go to a Sioux game by advertising the Sioux game, no matter how compelling the ad is. Nor would you want them to. the green team has a point about targeting your advertising - those that are going to drive in from the western part of the state are already doing it. again, do you think a cool ad will make someone drive 4 hours each way from Bismarck to watch the Sioux play Black Hills State? maybe next year when its Montana State.
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all kidding and sarcasm aside, the WAC was a proud conference with a great history. It is a shame to see this happening to the conference that started with Arizona, Arizona State, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, and BYU, to end up whimpering as a basketball/olympic only conference. Unfortunately, the WAC no longer has stability or respectability. That said, the loss of the WAC will mean the loss of the stepping-stone FBS conference in the west. If all the rest of the schools leave and Idaho is the only one left, could they invite new schools to reform the conference? it sounds like everyone else is leaving and Idaho is left holding the conference name.
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I think the MVFC is full for western based teams. SIU, YSU and I believe ISU(b) agreed to allow USD in if they could limit their travel west to one game a year. If an eastern based team came into play then I assume, not a guarantee, that those schools would vote for an invite.
but Northern Kentucky does not have football
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If NKU joins the OVC then they would be the 13th school. Belmont joins next year. The OVC is also in talks with UNA. I think EIU rethinks their overall position in the OVC and possibly bolts to anchor the eastern Summit and Eastern MVFC.
so where do you think they are expecting the D-I invitation to come from?
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In NKU's D-I feasibility study, they identify the Horizon League as the most desirable, followed by Ohio Valley, Summit & Atlantic Sun. Since the study was competed, Centenary, Southern Utah & Oral Roberts have announced they are leaving the Summit & South Dakota & Nebraska Omaha have joined.
The Horizon has 10 members & Northern Kentucky would be #11. Would the Horizon add an 11th member without a 12th? While its not likely that Detroit U will allow Oakland admission into the Horizon, nor would Butler want to add IUPUI, would they add IPFW? What happens to the Summit if they lose another team?
Best scenario for the Summit is for the Horizon to turn down NKU so the Norse would turn to either the Ohio Valley and become their twelfth school (and have it stop there) or the Summit itself and move it's center a little eastward.
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If USD would be available for a game on the same weekend as the SD Mines game is scheduled (Sept 1, 2012) this is a call and a conversation Mr Faison should be having next week.
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UC Davis UND played as a team in D2. ... I think it all starts with coaching - attitude, motivation, conditioning, playbook. We have the people to get the job done - witness Cal Poly SUU game, but not the consistency - as at SUU Cal Poly. The game this weekend really rests upon which Davis UND team shows up and even we can't predict that.
Exchange Cal Poly and SUU and you have a pretty good summary of the UND season in this part of GoAgs' post. Which team shows up for the Sioux this weekend? The team that played SUU or the team that played SF? UND has the people to get the job done but it all starts with the coaching.
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2012 NCAA Tournament Jerseys?
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Is there a single website, simple, that shows all the conferences and their members as of this recent spate of changes?
try collegesportsinfo.com
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There is no way Mike Stoops will come to North Dakota.
and no one has said that Nielson or DeBoer would come to North Dakota either...
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There is no way Mike Stoops will come to North Dakota.
something I have found out in many years of life - when you don't ask, the answer is always "no".
Stoops is from Youngstown, Ohio and went to college at the U of Iowa. Who knows what he might say?
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I am still in the get Bob Nielson corner, he has been nothing short of great at UMD. However, for those of you who feel that the next head coach must have D-I experience, I submit the name of Mike Stoops. He was dropped by the Arizona Wildcats this fall after a poor start, but had taken over a program that was consistently in the bottom third of the PAC 10 and made contenders out of them. Another plus for UND is that he was a successful football coach at a basketball school, so he would not have a complex about UND being a hockey school (as Nielson has been able to do at Duluth).
from ESPN.com:Known for his emotional sideline behavior, Stoops was the co-defensive coordinator on his brother Bob's staff at Oklahoma when he was hired as Arizona's head coach in 2004.
After five seasons of building the program, Stoops seemed to have the Wildcats back among the top teams in the Pac-10, leading them to a pair of eight-win seasons and trips to the 2008 Las Vegas Bowl and the Holiday Bowl the next year. ...
Stoops, 49, inherited a program in the absolute dregs in 2004. The Wildcats hadn't posted a winning season since 1998. After a slow start, he led Arizona to three consecutive bowl games.
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It's caving in around the Vandals.
and yet, the Idaho board gave their blessings for BSU to begin the final destruction of the U of Idaho's conference...
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Didn't know where to put this...
Butler loses 53-50 to Northern State in exhibitionINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Northern State’s Alex Thomas made his only 3-pointer at the buzzer, beating Butler 53-50 in Wednesday night’s exhibition game.
Butler, the national runner-up each of the past two seasons...
...Collin Pryor had 18 points and seven rebounds to lead Northern State, a Division II school from South Dakota.
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I think you missed the point. Notre Dame may be small in college hockey, but it doesn't matter when Versus/NBC's goal isn't to attract viewers from the relatively small market that is college hockey but rather is to attract as many viewers as possible. And Notre Dame will do that for them.
this ^^^^
NBC & Notre Dame have history. Notre Dame, because of their football history, is a school with national fans. Fans that already associate NBC with Notre Dame.
On the other hand, there may still be (the Gopher-less) Fox Sports North, later games on Versus (doubtful), Altitude, ESPN3. Who knows what Faison & NCHC have planned at this time?
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ok, the "easy" work is done, Mussman is up to #18. S F Austin's J C Harper (#17) is almost 200 ahead of Mussman. time to get those hockey people on board!
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That's a serious accusation, I have never heard of hockey players receiving any type perks around town. I see them all the time at restaurants and stores and they wait in line and pay their tabs like any one else. I will say they 're usually in the company of very attractive young ladies, but I'm sure the NCAA doesn't have a policy against procreation yet.
don't bring it up or they soon will
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Wouldn't that be the point? Then you could break off UND, NDSU, USD, SDSU, Montana, Montana State, Idaho, Utah State and add Idaho State for an awesome 9 team northern tier FBS conference! I mean, we're getting crazy, right?
another crazy thought for this... Northern Colorado
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It's a fun idea, but the WAC has already tried the 16-team, 4 quadrant model.......................the end result was the Mountain West Conference.
Wouldn't that be the point? Then you could break off UND, NDSU, USD, SDSU, Montana, Montana State, Idaho, Utah State and add Idaho State for an awesome 9 team northern tier FBS conference! I mean, we're getting crazy, right?
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Unless you are in Texas then it doesn't rain.
it ne-ever rains in California (if you are old enough to remember that song by B J Thomas)
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as of 10:45 today, tied with Trent Miles of Indiana State, #19.
Mussman is #1 Great West, #3 Big Sky
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I hope you are right, Sica. How many of the changed nicknames were something other than a color or weather phenomenon? Miami (Ohio) RedBirds? Any others?
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good point. problem: FBS schools rarely have an opening for the following season. they are typically scheduled a year or two in advance, unless someone pulls out of a game with them too. That said, how about another Drake game or San Diego, or even a game against a hockey school like Harvard (who will be here this Christmas)