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You seem to fail in thinking things through. A belt size increase isn't just due to an increase in width, but depth too. Pot bellies and big posteriors add to the diffulty of bizons getting to their seats and finding them very uncomfortable to manuever in. You and your fellow trolls have been insisting FCS will be stable for the foreseeable future. Liberty revealed it as a lie, but you won't admit it because you know ndsu can't afford to move up now. A WAC FBS may not appear like I've been foretelling, but I am sure that NMSU coach Weir and Seattle coach Dollar's views are better than your sausage based "wisdom" that says it doesn't have a chance. FCS won't be recognized in a few short years because all of the schools that want to move up. A site like AGS is clueless on these matters, defending all things FCS as sacred, and that and your AD's words are where your "wisdom" sausages come from.

The bizon engineers pride themselves in project management, but guess who screws up the biggest ndsu project in years, as it can't accommodate the fans fat a**es. Can't write a better script. Liberty got a waiver for FBS, as the NCAA knew its rule wouldnt stand up to legal scrutiny, which your many fellow trolls said on here would never happen. It's just a matter of time before Jacksonville St, Youngstown St, JMU, Delaware, Stony Brook, Albany, UNH, Sam Houston St, Lamar, Wichita St and maybe more apply for the same waiver. We will all be in an effective DII in football again.

How's the remodeled BSA getting wider seats and aisles to fit in the Bison fatties that are complaining so fiercely if the budget gets cut? Lord have Mercy!

Brad Davidson, who was an Australian PRO coach, or another assistant must have had an enormous influence on Jones' coaching style this season. The Australian pro league dont have the potential that the NCAA has for a career. It is almost like after the Portland St blowout, Jones knew he was in trouble and acquiesced on coaching philosphy to someone else. There has been few street balling episode since, but this is a much more disciplined and confident team. Whoever that was needs to be maintained and given a raise too.

I regularly correspond with him on a message board. In the past, he assured me that UND would not go to Big Ten Hockey. He hasn't revised his thinking much lately, but this proves even socalled experts are wrong on occasion. He has said though it's apparent that no other Big Ten schools will move to add hockey in the short term. The move to the Slummit makes sense if the Big Ten follows through and adds us. The Big Sky made UND fans look west, including Ariz St and maybe Utah, Arizona, and UNLV for future hockey. The Slummit will force UND fans to always look Midwest. A Big Ten affiliate membership is huge, as UND should get sitting privileges for the Big Ten academic consortium, which gets much of the government's research dollars. While we may not be an actual member, we will know best practices and have an in to high level research that wouldn't normally be available to us and may tack on to research at Big Ten schools. That is huge for UND, and no President in his right mind would turn it down. Haven't seen this on this site, but Liberty was granted a waiver to FBS by the NCAA. That opens up a whole can of worms, as more teams will probably leave FCS. Youngstown St, Stony Brook, Albany, Delaware, JMU, Jacksonville St, Sam Houston St. That would force others such as NDSU and Montana to look into it, as FCS is destined to be watered down if there is no P5 aplit.

Chicago St has a five year contract with the WAC that ends next year and isnt a permanent member, according to their own documents. Chicago St is also talking about FCS to placate the WAC and stay in it. Won't happen. Some Big Sky schools have been planning a split for five years, hence the five year contract for Chicago St. WAC FCS football will start in 2018-19 with mostly Big Sky schools. Some posters here just will do anything to deny the coming changes and not even read these posts. My patience has worn out.

The Montanas and Idaho will be gone from the Sky so no one to support us except maybe N Colo. If we don't go FBS when they go, the Slummit and MVFC are what we can go to. By that time, Wichita St will have left the MVC and Mo St may have already. There would be openings in those conferences down the road.

These posts prove that your either blithering idiots who have no clue about NCAA regs or just get glazed eyes when I mention FBS Said for several months now that the NCAA has given former FBS conferences the right to still offer FBS to schools. The NCAA gave the rules for the WAC in 2011. The WAC, which lost its FBS status, is the only one that qualifies. Youve lost your chance to even interject now, as your effectively trolls and are on ignore.

We are going to an FCS WAC first, and if we have funding and an FBS stadium, later our leadership wants FBS when the whole league transitions up. It doesn't hurt to play nice with Slummit and MVFC people if we don't have money down the road. It called politics, which much of this board doesn't seem to acknowledge school presidents have to play the politics game even with conferences. That's often why they make appearances with officials. This is getting more and more like a bizon board, as UND can't do anything aspirational there, except in hockey.

Cameron Dollar, the men's bball coach at Seattle, just said Cal Baptist won't be the only school added to the WAC. https://m.facebook.com/GoSeattleU/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE His comment about expansion came after the 7:30 mark. NMSU's Coach Weir has also said the same, only that the WAC will get more fb schools. I guess these are just two buffoons according to bizon trolls and other know-it-alls here.

The Montana Regents want both schools in the same league. MSU had money problems when it expanded its stadium, but you rant on. Take your arguments to the bizon board where they were livid at MSU cancelling their game to go with a moneyed G5 to help balance their athletic budget. Many of the people on CNSBBS strongly dislike Liberty, but some of the posters are lawyers that say Liberty would likely win a case against the NCAA on the FBS rules. I take their word much more than yours. NMSU mens basketball coach Weir recently said at a media days event that more football teams will be coming to the WAC, but he probably shouldnt say that. Cal Baptist doesn't have fball. But I Coach Weir guess he is just a buffoon too. It takes years of planning for a new FBS conference to get off the ground. The Sun Belt was a non-fb conference for most of its existence, but decided to go FBS around the year 2000 because the rules allowed it then. That took years of planning. The ignorance of responders here is astounding.

There is not documented information anywhere on Kennedy wanting in the Slummit. Faison sending text messages to Douple is something anyone can do, especially if it was to fool a two bit reporter like Miller. Apparently Faison fools most on this board too. UND is much more like Wichita St, which has FBS aspirations, than W Illinois, which is the only school that has been in the Slummit since it formed. Wichita St prides itself on its aerospace, business and basketball programs. UND is much more diversified and nearly the same size. W Illinois meanwhile is a declining school with only marginal programs in criminal justice and education, an oversized Dickinson St. So that what you believe UND should aspire too? Unbelievable aspirations right there, How many time do I have to mention the WAC will be FCS first, and then FBS. That is conveniently overlooked here. The economy will play into this, but you seem to be insisting that North Dakota will be a basket case for years now. Why bother planning for anything let's just drop sports and do the minimum to stay DI. So it's wrong for Kennedy and me to have aspirations for UND ATHLETICS? That is the tone is here.

Southpaw, Posted the new WAC a few times already. WAC- North Montana - Montana St EWU - Idaho UND - Weber St WAC - South UTRGV - Lamar Sam Houston - SFAUSTIN NMSU - Denver - maybe N Colo until it goes FBS Wichita St - FB only - UMKC Liberty fb only The Southland schools might not come over until 2020. UND will have less travel miles in this league, but it isn't a bus league.

You failed to mention that you have rebuked everyone of these with your stupid trolling logic. After all, Fullerton was just a fool too.

We'll count the number of claims that something will happen: -Fullerton spoke up in a number of papers that an Big Sky FBS move was inevitable. But those claims were not made made in the home town newspapers of teams that didn't want to move up or weren't capable yet. -Denver U sources have said the Montanas backed out of the WAC expansion with UTA, UTSA, and Texas St. Montana St borrowed money to expand their stadium to meet FBS standards, but later had financial issues so cancelled the NDSU game at little cost and got a big payment from SMU for a game. Clearly, MSU couldn't have moved up to FBS then without running a bigger deficit, but now maybe can. - Around the same time the WAC was going after the Montanas, the Big Sky offered Cal Poly and UC Davis affiliate spots and UND, USD, and SUU full time spots. That was clearly a change in direction, as if the Big Sky was preparing for a major loss of teams or a split. The Big Sky with 12 bb and 14 fb makes no sense without a split entering in the equation. -In the same time period, the WAC and Big Sky had talks with the NCAA. The NCAA actually changed its rules to allow former FBS conferences to invite FBS teams. What prompted THAT? The NCAA didn't have to do anything, but the new President Emmert is much more open hearted to Idaho and NMSU than previous NCAA presidents. People that have bashed the WAC as a lower level league that won't survive don't know the true facts. - In the following years, the Big Sky and WAC had merger talks several times. The Big Sky wanted Denver and Seattle, which were part of the WAC then, to start FCS. Denver and Seattle refused. Why would the Big Sky need more FCS teams? An FBS / FCS split is the only possible answer. So instead, a school like Azusa Pacific, moved up to DII. Azusa is a rival of California Baptist but has football. The west coast Big Sky teams want and need more FCS teams. - UND dropped baseball, which is very important to the Slummit survival, but as only a good move for UND if it went FBS. The reality of the situation a Slummit add of UND does nearly nothing to help the Slummit's numbers except if UND restarted baseball. A UND that is truly interested in the Slummit would have kept baseball and dropped tennis and swimming. Instead, UND gave the middle finger to the Slummit. - E Washington is desperately trying to get a new or renovated stadium over 15k. The timing seems urgent. Why would EWU need a bigger stadium Now? Why can't it wait 10 years like other college fundraising projects (see NDSU). - Weber St'S President and AD have told booster that a Big Sky split is going to happen. This was a year ago. -SUU's President told the local paper that the Big Sky will split down research and non-research institutions. - Montana's improvements to Washington Stadium mirror the improvements that MAC teams have made - look up Miami's new fb offices and workout building. - Montana's Engstrom hasn't been a strong proponent of athletics there, certainly compared to Dennison. Engstrom retired to the end of last year so Montana is free to do what the Regents and Cruzado want. - Freedom of Information requests from Idaho showed that it wanted the Montanas and UND in the league, or it didn't have to join the Big Sky. Why would Idaho be so adamant on those three schools. Perhaps those three were all planning FBS and are the beginnings of a Northern research consortium. - The Southland, like the Big Sky is bloated with teams. The Southland took Incarnate Word and Abilene Christian as if it knew that Lamar, Sam Houston St, and S F Austin would leave for FBS if given the chance. Those three wanted in the Sun Belt, but have been rebuffed. A Southland of 14 teams makes no sense unless it is known or suspected that those 3 teams will leave. -Wichita St and UTRGV show signs that an FBS bid is imminent for football, even though they don't have membership in an FBS conference yet. Wichita St isn't interested in the MVFC, which is a slap in the face to the MVC and FCS. Recent reports have the AAC interested in WSU, but it won't take a baby FBS program. Wichita knows something and wants to build toward full membership with the help of another FBS league. The MVC is running out on Wichita State Final Four run payments, so WSU's move is imminent. The AAC will take it without FB, and the take them as a full member later when FBS is running in the WAC. -Their have been reports that Liberty has an FBS bid coming from somewhere. Existing FBS leagues unanimously renounce that talk about Liberty. The only possible league that would take Liberty's big money is the WAC. Liberty could sue and win as the FBS move up rule is likely unconstitutional as it is a restriction of free trade. Why hasn't Liberty resorted to that? Because the WAC will be a cheaper option. -The next contract negotiation for the CFP are in 2023 or 2024. The WAC needs to be back as an FBS before then to gain a seat at the table of FBS conferences. A WAC transition in beginning in 2020 fits, with an FCS league before. -Gene Roebuck said near his retirement that UND in an FBS WAC was likely before the end of the decade. I trust Gene cause he doesn't speak idly like most do. -UND's illustrations for a new on campus stadium are published. Some say that is just idle talk. But UND has multiple boosters that can make it a reality if they so choose. A Big Sky and WAC to swap teams with one going FBS takes years of planning. Its happening before our eyes but most prefer not to see and comprehend.

Like the players on the team. But Jones will be staying on if they get to the dance in Reno. That's what we are looking at. Not sure if I should celebrate or cry in my beer. If this team plays like it is capable of in Reno, we should be dancing. I want this program to have a distinct and winning pattern to it, but that not we have, yet. It's not going to happen with Jones at the helm, even if he leads us to Dayton.

Cal Baptist doesn't actually join the WAC until the 2018-19 season, as they just moved to DII this decade from NAIA and needs five years in DII as a full member as well as 3 years in transition. That means the addition of Cal Baptist doesn't remove the vulnerability of WAC until 2023. Just one more school has to leave, assuming the disaster of Chicago St isn't resolved favorably (Illinois has to pay for DI status for a school with less than 90 freshman and dropping) and the WAC will lose its autobid to the dance. Big Sky Presidents respond to the situation the same way vultures gather around a dying or sick animal. The Big Sky Presidents want to consume the WAC offices and privileges and then hold the right to offer themselves FBS status with out paying an arm and a leg to the MWC. Only this time the WAC doesn't die and the WAC schools are given new life in conferences that suit them better. No other FCS conference has a solution, but the Big Sky does if it just changes names and swap schools. A more accurate analogy is the Big Sky Presidents are like Gollum in the Hobbit series in their desire to possess the precious ring. The ring that can bestow FBS status on their teams. That ring is the WAC.

Only play the Montanas once this year. Would have won at home.

UND isn't getting in the MVFC. The pot of gold is a lot bigger eventually with a WAC FBS. The travel talk savings is just an excuse, and Kennedy has seized on it because for UND it would be saving trips to the west coast. If UND has any football aspirations at all, it would take the WAC, not the MVFC. If money does nor work out down the road for FBS, there is always the Slummit with poor schools like W Ill and IPFW. Maybe N Colorado would sponsor us for the new Big Sky. When the FBS option comes into play, in a couple years, NDSU will probably take it if offered if we reject moving up, and we take their Slummit and MVFC spots. The choice is clear, either we take the lead and go FBS, or allow NDSU to forever be tops in ND college fb. Montana fb was 2nd rate to MSU until Washington built them a new stadium. Things can change. The Friday night maybe serves a purpose - the WAC still needs existing DI teams to survive and they don't want to call attention to that as in a Big Sky swap.

It won't be FBS first, but FCS with less travel. Its like renting with an option to own. If you can't afford it when the option is over, then you go to the Slum(mit).

Well, have often said that a Cal Baptist move to DI was imminent. This will make an easier swap for Idaho, the Montanas, EWU Weber and UND in two months. CBU, GCU, UVU, Bake and Seattle would be a good geographic fit for the rest of the remaining Big Sky. At least CBU has a 6000 arena that should be soon done, unlike Sac St. Get with the program, guys!!

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Higher budget teams charter. Big difference from the Slummit.

Since I live far from the Midwest, that would be a demotion. The WAC has a new app.