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With the way the defense was playing, not really surprised. The crowd was so loud, that may have impacted jt

With volatile oil and farming, they need to be extra careful. Our carelessness is what got us into trouble last year. This is from an article in September https://www.governor.nd.gov/news/burgum-preliminary-revenue-forecast-reaffirms-need-conservative-approach-2019-2021-budget The state used roughly $800 million in reserve funds and transfers to balance the current general fund budget of $4.3 billion – a budget that had already been reduced by an unprecedented $1.7 billion from the previous biennium.

It would have 4 Dakota schools and Omaha. That's 5 original NCC schools that were together for like a hundred years. You only need 6 or 7 for an autobid. Rock solid stable IMO. Unless of course someone wants to jump to the Missouri Valley in basketball

FBS teams can only offer full rides. Partials don't exist in the world of FBS

This is a big deal for the conference and fcs football. The criteria seems to be 1) 2 top teams 2) top notch fan base Not many good non conference games period but this is a home run.

Serious? Entertaining game but to act like it's going to spearhead us to National Championships is silly. Heading in the right direction and a better brand of football. Let's wait and see how the season plays out

Did Montana lose their QB? I see 2 names in the box score?

Serious? The "Carney" comes to Fargo for FREE and gives them exposure you couldn't possibly buy. Fans follow Gameday all over the nation so it brings money into the community. ESPN even covers much of the costs. Worst analogy ever.

The core of 6 solid teams in the ncc; sdsu, usd, ndsu, und, Omaha, and Northern Colorado were pretty kick ass in their D2 days. Seems like which ever team won the conference made it to the Championship That core of teams stuck together for decades. The Dakota schools for a century. Its only a few schools away from gaining NCC type stability in the Summit. But the mvfc is different obviously with Omaha not playing football and UNC and UND in the BSC. It would be like a D1 version of the ncc minus the !@#!$ schools (and some new schools) and a ton of kick ass rivalries that fill the stands

The Gophers improved but they still sucked. 8-5, 4-4 in a down year for the Big Ten. 50% of BCS teams go to a Bowl Game. They had 2 wins vs teams with winning records and that includes a win over a bad Western Illinois team. High school rankings are silly. Tim Brewsters teams according to the experts at rivals had a top 20 recruiting class! :rofl: Not saying he's going to be a bad player. I'm saying to expect him to be an NFL guy is silly

Yes the Big Sky has produced some NFL talent but this kid isnt good enough to play on a bad gophers team so I'm not sure how he could play at the next level.

Haskol needs better resources. Can we add a few stories to the Ralph? Maybe get some more granite?

Agree but NDSUs success has nothing to do witb us. We dont play them anymore. NDSU has won 11 national championships in 4 different decades and has 2 losing seasons in 50 years. I dont see the cycle turning bad in them. We had very little to do with their success and we don't play them anymore. We need to focus on the Big Sky. Not the NCC or NDSU

I think he's a very good player but I think a lot of it is positioning. His mom is on twitter trying to hype him like Lebron calling for #decision Tuesday. We are still his only full ride offer. I'm cautiously optimistic. If he was so good be would have gotten a full ride like the kid they signed a week earlier

As a DE maybe. As a DT in a 3-4 no. He isn't the type of guy who absorbs blocks. UNI runs a 4-3 now too so don't count them out