2025 Non-UND FCS News/Scores Thread

[geaux_sioux]

8 minutes ago, AJS said:

100% they are gone.

To which conference exactly? 

[AJS]

5 minutes ago, geaux_sioux said:

To which conference exactly? 

$ on Mountain West

[UND1983]

49 minutes ago, NDRA said:

I'm guessing, by the fact that he stayed, they're going FBS in the near future.  Makes sense that he would turn down bigger jobs with a promise to that effect.

Sigh, I am astounded at how stupid Bison fans are about realignment. 

[Hawkster]

1 hour ago, NDRA said:

I'm guessing, by the fact that he stayed, they're going FBS in the near future.  Makes sense that he would turn down bigger jobs with a promise to that effect.

NDSU has been going FBS for the last 5 years or more.   I'll believe it when I see it.

[NDRA]

38 minutes ago, UND1983 said:

Sigh, I am astounded at how stupid Bison fans are about realignment. 

Wow.  Strictly conjecture on my part.

[fightingsioux4life]

1 hour ago, AJS said:

100% they are gone.

We've heard this before. I'll believe it when I see it.

[UND69er]

Could probably replace irrelevant Minnesota in the Big 10.

[UNDBIZ]

Didn't Bohl or Klieman sign a new contract right before leaving as well? Basically just secured extra money for ndsu from Wyoming/ Kansas St for a buyout. 

[geaux_sioux]

1 hour ago, AJS said:

$ on Mountain West

Why does right now all of a sudden make sense?

[geaux_sioux]

2 minutes ago, UND69er said:

Could probably replace irrelevant Minnesota in the Big 10.

This notion is laughable because the B1G has academic standards. Nebraska is the worst school in the league and they’re ranked 152 nationally and have elite athletic heritage and big boosters. NDSU ranks 232 as a school and has no cache in comparison and is in a market that is unmeasurably small.

[gfhockey]

2 hours ago, LH Golfer said:

With declining enrollment and declining attendance, where's the money coming from?

They have a foundation that raises a ton of money

 

their enrollment really passed us by 

[UND-FB-FAN]

3 hours ago, Dustin said:

UND needs to keep up.  Match NDSU's salary package for HC, staff, and program resources.

No question. We hopefully have learned from the early 2000s. Can’t be left behind again. Cut some salary from Dane Jackson and give it to Schmidty and his staff. The arms race in division I collegiate athletics ain’t with hockey, I’m afraid, and UND is primed to potentially screw up a second time in the past quarter century if leadership and boosters don’t step up and use their brain …  

[KBH2010]

36 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

their enrollment really passed us by 

?

[UNDBIZ]

40 minutes ago, gfhockey said:

They have a foundation that raises a ton of money

 

their enrollment really passed us by 

Their enrollment is in the tank. 

[gfhockey]

I meant endowment

[gfhockey]

What is our champions club endowment

[UND1983]

When they get the offer they are gone.  Got it.  

[fightingsioux4life]

1 hour ago, geaux_sioux said:

NDSU ranks 232 as a school and has no cache in comparison and is in a market that is unmeasurably small.

Careful, we don't want Imperial Cass County boosters coming here to dispute your description of their market size as being "small". 

[nodakvindy]

1 hour ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

No question. We hopefully have learned from the early 2000s. Can’t be left behind again. Cut some salary from Dane Jackson and give it to Schmidty and his staff. The arms race in division I collegiate athletics ain’t with hockey, I’m afraid, and UND is primed to potentially screw up a second time in the past quarter century if leadership and boosters don’t step up and use their brain …  

UND isn't in the arms race for FBS. Rewatch the end of WarGames. There's a lesson to be learned. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

11 minutes ago, nodakvindy said:

UND isn't in the arms race for FBS. Rewatch the end of WarGames. There's a lesson to be learned. 

You might want to examine non-fiction instead. 

Don't exemplify small-mindedness: a UND education is worth more than that.

The FBS is entering the picture real soon, at least for the Dakota schools that will actually ascend. UND may not be in the arms race for football and/or FBS, but that isn’t a stance to be proud of …

[UND69er]

2 hours ago, geaux_sioux said:

This notion is laughable because the B1G has academic standards. Nebraska is the worst school in the league and they’re ranked 152 nationally and have elite athletic heritage and big boosters. NDSU ranks 232 as a school and has no cache in comparison and is in a market that is unmeasurably small.

Sorry. This was a tongue in cheek shot at the miserably overrated Gophers FB program.

[nodakvindy]

1 hour ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

You might want to examine non-fiction instead. 

Don't exemplify small-mindedness: a UND education is worth more than that.

The FBS is entering the picture real soon, at least for the Dakota schools that will actually ascend. UND may not be in the arms race for football and/or FBS, but that isn’t a stance to be proud of …

I put my UND education to good use, thanks.

Nothing small-minded about understanding the realities of geography, the market size of Grand Forks and that College football is about as financially balanced as MLB, and in in FBS, we would be the Pirates and not the Yankees or Dodgers.  

It's more likely that a lot of the smaller conferences get sent packing. TV only cares about the big brands and the FBS is controlled by the conferences not the NCAA. Very like that a private equity fueled super league is on the horizon. Preparing for that eventuality makes sense. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

2 hours ago, nodakvindy said:

I put my UND education to good use, thanks.

Nothing small-minded about understanding the realities of geography, the market size of Grand Forks and that College football is about as financially balanced as MLB, and in in FBS, we would be the Pirates and not the Yankees or Dodgers.  

It's more likely that a lot of the smaller conferences get sent packing. TV only cares about the big brands and the FBS is controlled by the conferences not the NCAA. Very like that a private equity fueled super league is on the horizon. Preparing for that eventuality makes sense. 

Geography means very little anymore, from the FBS to the FCS to the NCHC, there are several examples of this. If you can pay the bills, you can be in the conference. 

Grand Forks certainly has geographic disadvantages, but I would argue it is in fact small-minded to exclude potential advancement and reorganization based purely on that. Not wanting to aggressively compete with the Fargo-Moorhead area and beyond is arguably one of UND’s biggest flaws; you can’t just be niche and opportunistic. You have to take some chances.

There’s no question that reorganization in college football is upcoming. The timeline is fluid, but whether UND athletics would be the Pirates (more likely) or the Yankees (less likely), they need to be prepared to make a hard decision financially. Conservatively bowing out echoes the early 2000s, significantly, and the fact some can’t see that is a concerning ignorance towards historical precedent. 

 

[Kab]

Per Doms intuition Polaseks extension is speculating on them moving up

thats probably the case

if UND isn’t sniffing around the AD athletic department needs to be blown up

 

[gfhockey]

1 minute ago, Kab said:

Per Doms intuition Polaseks extension is speculating on them moving up

thats probably the case

if UND isn’t sniffing around the AD athletic department needs to be blown up

 

Blown up or burnt down?