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Mayville St is dirt cheap. SDSU has Alabama St, Southern U, and Savannah St as DI buy wins, as they want an at-large bid if the Summit Tournament does turn out for them. They did have Bemidji as their only sub DI game. That is much more expensive than UND and NDSU. MEAC and SWAC games are expensive because there are in demand for an "easy" DI win.

Most DII and DIii teams have bigger budgets than Savannah St. They are degrading to DII because they couldn’t afford DI to begin with. SDSU just had the money to buy a game and pay for their travel. It’s rather sad and sorry actually.

Always thought the block north of the Lyons garage would be an ideal spot for a high rise as well as the old water plant. Both buildings would have close up views and access to the Greenway.

According to TSN, Austin may be the next NHL city, even over Houston. It doesn’t have a NHL quality arena yet, but UT and another group are poking around at multiple locations for a new arena. Austin metro has grown to 2.1 million and San Antonio is just under two hours. Austin will get an MLS expansion team as it’s first top team pro team though. https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/insider-trading-are-there-any-unknown-markets-the-nhl-could-expand-to~1557908

District 8 outside Williston will need to build new schools, as its enrollment grows by 150-200 per year at just K-8. It was just at 200 kids 8 years ago. https://www.willistonherald.com/news/district-looking-toward-new-schools/article_b6a4987a-f8e5-11e8-8340-b33f837ff62a.html

Canad owns the Radisson in dwtwn Winnipeg, so Canad can change the name if it make $ sense.

Your point was that UND and Milwaukee have always been bad. Just counterpointing you.

Bijiek and Hazenkamp only got three minutes each. The working roster is going down.

Milwaukee made the Sweet Sixteen in 2005. But the last few years they have been bad. UND 83 Milw 72 Final

Carson Wentz and who else? G5 means a whole scholarship plus the COE. That normally beats out an FCS offer.

Think SDSU dropping both tennis programs is another demonstration that more tennis programs will come over as the Summit is now at the minimum. Augie would not help for five years. https://gojacks.com/news/2018/4/24/mens-tennis-sdsu-announces-end-of-tennis-programs.aspx?path=mten The Summit men’s tennis programs are OK now because it contains Valpo, Drake and Illinois St’s programs, but if they move to the Horizon or any other league en masse, UND men’s tennis could be in trouble. But the Summit women’s programs are at the bare minimum. http://www.thesummitleague.org/sports/wten/2017-18/standings http://www.thesummitleague.org/sports/mten/2017-18/standings#

Goon, Southpaw, and the bizon trolls will look ridiculous when all this is over. You all could have had second jobs for all the time you agonized over this thread and didn’t even read my attachment articles.

Your blog site went into depth when PUFW said they wanted the Horizon, W Illinois is almost broke, and ORU wanted out for the Southland. You must be a brainiac with all that predigestwd info on your blog.

Think the Dakotas left DII late because they didn’t have a natural conference to go. But the schools were so inward focused even in the 90’s as the states were so ag-centric. After the low bar set by the OVC and Summit and many other conferences 20 years previously, the Dakota Presidents surely knew that DII wasn’t the place anymore, but they let St Cloud St and Mankato St control the situation. The only MVC school that has affinity for us is UNI as we share like 50years of the NCC. Illinois St, SIU, Ind St, and Mo St would not go to bat even for a single Dakota in the MVC. They will go to bat for Murray St though. The Montanas have always been a match and they had to have force their agenda on the rest of the Big Sky to get USD and UND invites. NDSU President Chapman, who was at Mont St, knew of the Montanas desire to add at least the ND school and tried to force his way in. History will repeat itself when the same two Dakotas repeat the favor given UND and USD.

I wasn’t born yesterday. EWU first attempted a grand Gateway Project that would renovate the stadium more than 16k. Then Chaves proposed a new stadium greater than 16k that would eliminate track around the field, but that more appropriate FBS project didn’t get fundraising support. Now the new AD proposes a barebones renovation to 16k, but it will still have funding issues. Why doesn’t the AD propose adding a few thousand seats at a time every decade and call it good? Because the EWU President demands that it hold 16k by a certain date because the EWU President wants to stay in contact with Idaho and the Montanas athletically. UND has that capacity issue too, but I’ve long held that mega donors are waiting in the wings. South Alabama went more than a decade from even wanting football to actually getting FBS even though it was already in an FBS conference. They still have needs and are building an on campus stadium, because the city owned Ladd- Peebles is dump and miles away from campus. FBS takes time, especially if you have to go with other schools to form a new FBS conference out of a low rent autobid conference.

Minot is in discussions to decide about how to proceed with their High Schools. A split may happen rather soon (technically it is already split, but not a traditional one.) http://www.minotdailynews.com/opinion/editorials/2018/11/creative-problem-solving-needed-to-address-minot-school-challenges/ School districts in ND have arbitrary boundaries which makes it more difficult to annex land from one to the other unlike cities do with rural land. Formerly rural District 8 outside Williston is growing rapidly, now with 660 students grades K-8. But that district continues to funnel students to Williston HS. As it keeps growing, either a merger or new District 8 HS will happen. https://www.willistonherald.com/news/enrollments-up-in-district-district/article_76dbd5c8-b60f-11e8-a470-53d4242b710d.html

Strange how AD Mike Larsen goes on about FBS with an American or Mountain West bid. FBS is on his mind, anyone with a brain can see. He certainly didn’t shut the door of the FBS conversation and the trickle down effect among FBS conferences. Of course he’s going to slam the FBS door on some loud mouth know-it-all troll who would spread it all over, as he’d be fired for spilling the beans. But Bresciani is at a level to know specifics, not Larsen. https://www.bisonillustrated.com/matt-larsen/ Forgiveness needed to posting something from that rag.

No one knows if the P5 splits off or if the G5 gets its own playoff. Waiting for those to happen could take decades. A “Great Northern” is good academically regardless. Going FBS with it is much better than hoping the G5 begging major FCS conferences to move up. G5 fans and President hate the idea because FBS takes some effort to move up. If a G5 playoff ever comes about, the G5 wouldn’t be gracious about FCS invites. All of has been listed previously here is available by current rules. China just caved in on trade negotiations because of a position with purpose. Begging the G5 for status is just a strategy for morons, which bison trolls seem to be. If Coastal Carolina, UL Monroe, Troy, E Mich and Kent St can do it, the bar isn’t that high. It’s a reasonable growth objective.

Kent State is almost the very definition of a FBS school without fan support that stays FBS because of media recognition. Kent St Presidents are not grossly stupid. Known Kent St alumni and they don’t follow KSU football. Have laid out a plan for FBS before that fall entirely under current rules: The Summit gets Idaho, the Montanas, Weber, and maybe EWU and sponsors FCS for a year. PUFW, ORU and W Illinois leave. For two years, the Summit fb teams join the WAC as affiliates with other new transitional schools. The WAC can still grant FBS status to affiliate schools. The Summit would only lose its autobid if fb doesn’t return after three years. When the eight or nine Summit schools are fully FBS, they move back under the Summit umbrella. The NCAA will grant FBS status to any conference that has at least eight FBS schools. I his has to happen before the new CFP contract, which specifies the FBS conferences and distributes the money, not the NCAA. The NCAA allows this and no rules would have to be changed. Over 20 G5’s have moved up in previous years. In 2004, if I said that WKU would be an FBS team and in CUSA in 2012, would have been shouted down as crazy like the trolls do now. If the object is to be G5, one has to make an FBS transition.

The EWU board is rather optimistic now and they have the revised plans on the site though less expensive bare bones 16k than when Chaves was there. EWU FBS would make the Idaho and Montanas so much easier for travel. EWU would like ULMonroe going FBS, and Spokane has more corporate presence. EWU will be isolated from other conference mates if it doesn’t move up. The Montanas and now Idaho make a large portion of their gate. The EWU President seems to be FBS or the athletic department can be discarded.

To answer to zonadub question on why UND should go FBS after UCF got rejected from the CFB after two unbeaten seasons. The national status of FBS is so much more than FCS. For lower level teams, going FBS would be equivalent to tens of millions in advertising annually even for G5’s. This year marks the second year in a row that the Big Ten and PAC12 didn’t get CFP teams. Those two conferences will be pushing for an expanded 8 team tournament behind the scenes. Even the Big 12 realizes that the CFP 4 has become an SEC invitational, as Georgia would have got in at OUs expense if they had held on against Bama. UND and the other FCS regional flagship schools will join together because our Presidents see wisdom in doing that and going FBS. Under no illusion that that new “Great Northern “ League competes with the SEC but it will be better than the SunBelt academically and athletically. For UND, as a pilot training site for two national airlines with guaranteed jobs with a “B” average, that is a huge motivator for parents and their kids nationally. UND should have a 20,000 enrollment with proper advertising and awareness. UND will have the space, as it hardly uses the old med school and more facilities such as the new business school will be built. The new CFP may pay as much as $2 million annually per G5 school and a couple multimillion P5 games per season can be had. The cost will be less than FCS if a 15k stadium is donated or renovated for that capacity. A time is coming when the NCAA will split. Unless UND spends and attracts big in men’s basketball ( which won’t happen), FBS is important as the FBS/FCS fracture line will be the key differentiator. Even if P5 alone splits, at least the G5 will have their own playoff system that will get many more eyeballs than FCS. Hockey will want and need FBS.

Put that on the Wichita Eagle, not me. Don’t follow Tech or USU football. The trolls are keeping laborious notes on what I supposedly predicted. The thought of NDSU and UND going FBS together just drives them more bananas than they already are.

So according to Bizon trolls, all AD’s need to do is twiddle their thumbs, greet boosters warmly and share beers with them, hire good coaches and don’t concern yourself with the future.

Miami, Wyoming, Southern Miss, and UL Monroe qualified for bowl games but didn’t get bids, as more teams were eligible this year. Miami and ULM seem to be requesting the NCAA to allow them to play a 13th game in Louisiana.

This says Seth Littrell of North Texas is the odds on favorite for K State, but Klieman is on the list. Littrell might already have an offer from Texas Tech. https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article222265515.html