Sioux>Bison

We would have two successful sports if we wouldn’t have cut Womens Hockey. The definitely would have been winning championships by now if they would have been cut short. All the lost future olympians too….. shame

Bring back Brad Davidson! I remember our bruiser 4th lines from back in the day.

I thought this team would be the bright spot this year for UND except hey decided to join the football and mens basketball teams at the bottom………. At least it is good to see the Womens BBall team tearing it up! These captains need to whip up their team too. Need some vocal leaders in the locker room

Yeah if we want to maximize our return on higher salaries we should be investing in Basketball…….. Is UND the average when it comes to salaries? If so I wouldn’t say under paying

Too much money and the G5 don’t even belong in the same sentence. The G5 would be guaranteed one stop in a 12 team playoff. Two could get in but we will see 1 team from the G5 most years.

Need to split this series at a minimum. If they want to get back on track and silence the critics they need to sweep them. Play like it’s the playoffs, can’t afford to slide anymore

Can they play that style of football every week in the FBS and be successful? Honest question I don’t know of any past FBS teams that play like the Bison…..

And even with the Bison having a down year they still only lost one game and won the title. Talk about a down year!!!! The Bison were a completely different team in the first and second half of the season. They actually got back to Bison form just in time for the playoffs. Wasn’t any doubt from me what was going to happen this post season. It’s like Minot High stomping all of the little class A division schools. Not a contest.

Yeah recruiting elite talent to Fargo is going to be easy……. NDSU already has G5 level facilities but are they going to be enough to beat out P5 facilities and programs? Some of the local talent will still cut it at a G5 NDSU but they will have to rely on out of the region talent to fill their roster especially if they want elite P5 talent.

A G5 NDSU is going to be able to keep those recruits that they lost to Minnesota and Wisconsin compared to the FCS NDSU? More scholarships will give you more depth but having more of them isn’t going to automatically going to help you recruit elite P5 talent.

Yeah those egos are not getting any smaller…….. NDSU has proven they can recruit G5 talent but recruiting P5 talent is unproven. How will NDSU win recruiting battles against Minnesota and Wisconsin once they are FBS?

Thought I read it somewhere. Am I wrong ? I can’t read the article. I thought it was 3 million a year or maybe 3 million per year total with all their contracts combined

How many recruiting battles did you win this year against P5 schools? So you really think G5 talent is gonna compete with the big boys every single week?

NDSU’s media market must be bigger than just Fargo if their media contract is 3 million +. That’s bigger than the CUSA and Sunbelt payouts (dwarfs them) and is very similar to MAC and MWC payouts. There is no doubt they could make it as a G5 team but no conference wants them because of their geography. Anyone that thinks they can beat the P5 teams week after week are delusional. G5 level talent isn’t gonna cut it against the P5 and they are not going to win recruiting battles against the P5.

Yeah my opinion is reality, yours is asinine! D2 to FCS moves are relatively easy . FCS to G5 also wouldn’t be that hard for NDSU. We are talking magnitudes more difficult to go P5. Be my guest and embarrass yourself in the football community with those aspirations!

I’m not talking G5. P5 is a pipe dream that won’t happen in this lifetime. look at Montana and Montana State. Montana is the bigger football school with much more national notoriety, but their school is in decline, dropping enrollment. Then look at Montana St, booming university. enrollment is exploding and the academics is following. Which school is more primed for FBS? Montana St.! They may even be better positioned to go FBS than NDSU. These are just the hurdles to get to the G5, P5 is not reality.

If NDSU isn’t desirable right now for an invite what will it take? Bigger TV market? How about better academics, research and bigger enrollment. P5 is about more than TV markets and a good football team. You need to have a top tier University in order to ever be considered for a P5 conference. I’m 20 years NDSU will be just as far away from the P5 as it is now! Who knows if they will even get a G5 invite in 20 years!

Minot’s parking ramps are a completely different scenario. They were designed to have a building on top of them and not a jerry rigged roof. The city’s engineers failed to keep the corporation to hold up their side of the deal. Minot needed the parking space , but not horribly designed ramps! UND’s ramp is much nicer and useful.

They used to and it was pretty slick especially when running late.

I paid good money to park in it and I thought it was worth it! plus it was built to save space on campus to allow for more parking, especially when we build that new partially enclosed stadium on campus!

Do they still do that for the parking ramp?

Or a Northern CUSA!

P5 isn’t happening. 9 FCS championships barely raised enrollment. NDSU going P5 one day is a Pipe Dream! NDSU is not Cincinnati, Houston or UCF!!!!! but be my guest and lose credibility!

So when is NDSU going to magically raise their enrollment to 30k, 40k, 50k? Or even to 20k? Are more students going to be clamoring to get to good ole Fargo once you tack on hundreds of dollars in student fees? NDSU isn’t a private university so they need to have a respectable enrollment like the rest of the P5 land grant schools. At this point the P5 is just as much a possibility for UND as it is for NDSU……… 0.00001% chance! Research, Academics, Enrollment, Athletics all need to drastically improve to ever become a P5 school. NDSU can’t even get a G5 invite so let’s start there before even considering a potential P5 move!

Dom really needs to work on his play by play skills……. His delivery doesn’t really scream FBS.