2025 Non-UND FCS News/Scores Thread

[Und Princess]

14 minutes ago, 90siouxfan said:

What do monkeys throw when they run out of feces?  Asking for a friend. 

A tantrum?

[Siouxperman8]

6 minutes ago, Und Princess said:

A tantrum?

Now that's funny. 

[ND11]

On 11/2/2025 at 12:32 PM, Siouxphan27 said:

Your entire argument about SOS was touting ndsu’s SOS being close to UND’s by using all of D1 teams.   Why is that stat relevant especially considering ndsu played zero FBS games. 
 But yes, despite mentioning them, you never mentioned ndsu. lol. 

To be fair nobody will schedule ndsu with their history of beating FBS teams.

[jdub27]

51 minutes ago, ND11 said:

To be fair nobody will schedule ndsu with their history of beating FBS teams.

To be fair, that's not completely accurate. 

They struggle to get the games they claim they can't but part of it is because they can't get the terms they ask for. They have turned down FBS games in the past because they felt the offers weren't good enough, which is will within their right to do. Also, tough to blame them to turn down what they feel is a low offer when they can make more money hosting a cupcake.

I have no doubt their phone isn't ringing off the hook, but there is plenty of leaning into the "no one will schedule us" narrative. 

[Wildfan]

13 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

To be fair, that's not completely accurate. 

They struggle to get the games they claim they can't but part of it is because they can't get the terms they ask for. They have turned down FBS games in the past because they felt the offers weren't good enough, which is will within their right to do. Also, tough to blame them to turn down what they feel is a low offer when they can make more money hosting a cupcake.

I have no doubt their phone isn't ringing off the hook, but there is plenty of leaning into the "no one will schedule us" narrative. 

The majority of the games that are large sum paid ware from Big10 teams as well who put a policy in place for a few years to stop scheduling FCS teams after SDSU, NDSU, and USD all had wins against the Big 10. The Big10 stated it was due to scheduling conflict with needing to add more conference games but sure. The smaller teams that otherwise USD and UND played their first 5-10 years after rising to FCS were smaller paydays from small FBS teams. Not sure what the profit is from a sold out home game, but also pretty sure a NDSU would make more at home against Drake then they would on the road at Bowling Green, or San Diego. 

Otherwise all the big time FBS programs typically schedule teams in their state or region of available. Cost for travel is lower and with majority of recruits from these regions it excite some of them to get a chance to go in and smack the teams who passed over them in the mouth. 

I'm sure NDSU can find games against FBS schools if they go and request to be scheduled stating they will drop the normal desired payout. Not sure what past games they have received vs FBS vs other similar FBS payouts to the other MVFC teams. I'm sure some of them would love games where they don't have to give away money just to play a non conference game. 

Also they seem to rotate through their opponents. UND I don't believe has played Minnesota yet and won't until 2028 and 2030. Not really sure why they played LA Northwestern state but they have already played USD, SDSU and NDSU in years past. So even getting 2 games each against them took 6 years plus the 2015-2017 Big10 scheduling freeze.

[Siouxphan27]

3 hours ago, ND11 said:

To be fair nobody will schedule ndsu with their history of beating FBS teams.

How does that support Slow’s argument?  If anything it makes his use of FBS rankings even sillier.