2025 Non-UND FCS News/Scores Thread

[nodak651]

22 minutes 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

 

Without a pres, does that timing make sense?

[jdub27]

1 hour 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

Let's see the contract first. Timing seems to be more about Colorado St and Oregon St sniffing around pretty hard. Mora, Jr getting hired at CSU today seems like pretty coincidental timing...

Pretty sure they saw what happened to SDSU last year and realized they've gotten pretty lucky their program has been gutted with the coaching changes they've had.
Coming up with a few hundred thousand, which would get them top few of the FCS but still the bottom of the FBS, would probably insulate them from taking a bottom feeder FBS job.

Don't think the extension is going to change the issues they have previously faced moving up. Is there some hidden movement behind the scenes that make this supposedly different than last time?

[homer]

Dom’s intuition may be right but I lean more towards Polosek saw an opportunity to get a raise and some more financial support and pounced and got the school and boosters to up their ante.  The details of the raise will be telling

[gfhockey]

3 minutes ago, homer said:

Dom’s intuition may be right but I lean more towards Polosek saw an opportunity to get a raise and some more financial support and pounced and got the school and boosters to up their ante.  The details of the raise will be telling

I think Big Dom is just mad that national media scooped him by a mile

[homer]

I will also add that if a football only invite does come for NDSU, the remaining Summit/MVFC members better be ready to push for a vote to remove them from the Summit league.  NDSU will still be a competitor so why make it easy for them by providing a bus league for other sports.  FBS should be the goal and the quickest path for all of these schools (Dakota) to move is together.  

[JacksonW]

12 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

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. 

 

Eyeballs matter- media rights drive most (almost all)decisions. The media money isn’t there for the four Dakota schools. Virginia Beach has more population than the Dakotas combined.  

[Johnny Five]

8 minutes ago, JacksonW said:

Eyeballs matter- media rights drive most (almost all)decisions. The media money isn’t there for the four Dakota schools. Virginia Beach has more population than the Dakotas combined.  

There really isn't a huge different between Fargo or Boise, ID for eyeballs.  Being a G5 football school in the middle of the best FCS conference and 3 hours from a a B1G school would also have it's advantages.

Whatever.  All conjecture at this point.  I've always stated if NDSU moved up I'd love to have a Regional rival.  That doesn't exist without UND or SDSU.

[SIOUXFAN97]

23 hours ago, Dustin said:

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

i doubt it

[fightingsioux4life]

3 minutes ago, Johnny Five said:

There really isn't a huge different between Fargo or Boise, ID for eyeballs.  Being a G5 football school in the middle of the best FCS conference and 3 hours from a a B1G school would also have it's advantages.

Whatever.  All conjecture at this point.  I've always stated if NDSU moved up I'd love to have a Regional rival.  That doesn't exist without UND or SDSU.

I have always said that the best way to move up is to have the 4 Dakota schools and the 2 Montana schools move up together. There is strength in numbers and along with those numbers, bargaining power.

[JacksonW]

25 minutes ago, Johnny Five said:

There really isn't a huge different between Fargo or Boise, ID for eyeballs.  Being a G5 football school in the middle of the best FCS conference and 3 hours from a a B1G school would also have it's advantages.

Whatever.  All conjecture at this point.  I've always stated if NDSU moved up I'd love to have a Regional rival.  That doesn't exist without UND or SDSU.

Boise has sma population of 775,000 and student enrollment of 27,000. 

[NDRA]

35 minutes ago, JacksonW said:

Boise has sma population of 775,000 and student enrollment of 27,000. 

Actually Boise is 846,000.  FM Metro is around 250,000.

[SIOUXFAN97]

7 minutes ago, NDRA said:

Actually Boise is 846,000.  FM Metro is around 250,000.

and the fm area, uni, and dome are dumps....at least compare apples to apples

[Wilbur]

Is it just me, or would others love to see NDSU move up to the big boy level to thereby completely eliminate all future national championships won at that school?

I'll hang up and listen. 

[Hawkster]

2 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

Is it just me, or would others love to see NDSU move up to the big boy level to thereby completely eliminate all future national championships won at that school?

I'll hang up and listen. 

I've two completely separate lines of thought on this and I'm not sure which is right.   I agree, if they move up and especially with the South Dakota schools collapsing under their own weight that leaves us positioned to pick up the void and move to the top.

However, I remember how people thought NDSU moving up from D2 would somehow help us and be a disaster for them.   We all know how that turned out.   NDSU never wins a natty again if they move up, that's for sure, but I sure hope they don't somehow catch lightning in a bottle again.   I think the whole point is moot, I'm not convinced they get that mythical invite.

[Wilbur]

21 minutes ago, Hawkster said:

I've two completely separate lines of thought on this and I'm not sure which is right.   I agree, if they move up and especially with the South Dakota schools collapsing under their own weight that leaves us positioned to pick up the void and move to the top.

However, I remember how people thought NDSU moving up from D2 would somehow help us and be a disaster for them.   We all know how that turned out.   NDSU never wins a natty again if they move up, that's for sure, but I sure hope they don't somehow catch lightning in a bottle again.   I think the whole point is moot, I'm not convinced they get that mythical invite.

Like I say to my NDSU grad brother.  "I thought they had already moved up to the top level in all sports?" 

[Big Green]

1 hour ago, Wilbur said:

Is it just me, or would others love to see NDSU move up to the big boy level to thereby completely eliminate all future national championships won at that school?

I'll hang up and listen. 

No.  Much rather them stay FCS and get better than them.  
 

Also it they move up we probably need to also.  FBS football does nothing for me.  My UND interest would severely drop.  Unless FBS splits into 2 totally different divisions and both have a playoff system.  No thanks.  

[Dustin]

9 minutes ago, Big Green said:

No.  Much rather them stay FCS and get better than them.  
 

Also it they move up we probably need to also.  FBS football does nothing for me.  My UND interest would severely drop.  Unless FBS splits into 2 totally different divisions and both have a playoff system.  No thanks.  

Agree with this mostly.  I wouldn't say my interest would drop.  But I feel at some point, the G6 and certain FCS schools would merge into a level.  In addition to the Dakota and Montana schools, put us in the Mountain West / Pac X and divide up into divisions.

[Dustin]

3 minutes ago, Dustin said:

Agree with this mostly.  I wouldn't say my interest would drop.  But I feel at some point, the G6 and certain FCS schools would merge into a level.  In addition to the Dakota and Montana schools, put us in the Mountain West / Pac X and divide up into divisions.

I would add, too, that a bracketed playoff system would be a must.

[Siouxperman8]

30 minutes ago, Big Green said:

No.  Much rather them stay FCS and get better than them.  
 

Also it they move up we probably need to also.  FBS football does nothing for me.  My UND interest would severely drop.  Unless FBS splits into 2 totally different divisions and both have a playoff system.  No thanks.  

I am anti moving up to FBS too.  I don't see the attraction of more far flung teams and games and maybe a low rung bowl game if you're lucky.  I like where we are now with the ability to drive to a couple road games a year if want to. If FBS was to split that would be a different story. 

I do have to admit that I was against moving to I-AA when the SU's did and I was completely wrong on that so my opinion isn't worth much. 

[Wilbur]

13 minutes ago, Big Green said:

 FBS football does nothing for me.  My UND interest would severely drop.  Unless FBS splits into 2 totally different divisions and both have a playoff system.  No thanks.  

I think this is a concern in Bison country with talks of a move.  You go from playoff football Decembers in the Dome and raising FCS trophies to raising the pop tart bowl trophy.

James Madison paints a good picture of the future in FBS for FCS schools moving up.  They will likely finish 11-1 this season but a loss on the road to Louisville costs them any chance of the CFP over a Tulane team that got nuked by Ole Miss and UT-San Antonio.

[Going48]

6 hours ago, homer said:

Dom’s intuition may be right but I lean more towards Polosek saw an opportunity to get a raise and some more financial support and pounced and got the school and boosters to up their ante.  The details of the raise will be telling

I think Matt Larsen just got worked over by Polasek for more money.  A couple schools had openings and Tim said his agent was "in contact with a lot of people right now" and now he's saying his agent's discussion "wasn’t so much between his agent and other schools but between his agent and search firms".  

Larsen got punked.

[Oxbow6]

Boots on the ground say this 7-year deal was not done to keep doing this FCS status quo thing through the length of the contract. 

Dark meat >>> white meat and sweet potato casserole is king.

Go Pack Go

[Wilbur]

1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

Boots on the ground say this 7-year deal was not done to keep doing this FCS status quo thing through the length of the contract. 

Dark meat >>> white meat and sweet potato casserole is king.

Go Pack Go

Duke's Mayo Bowl >>>FCS national championship??

Simple question? 

[gfhockey]

1 hour ago, Oxbow6 said:

Boots on the ground say this 7-year deal was not done to keep doing this FCS status quo thing through the length of the contract. 

Dark meat >>> white meat and sweet potato casserole is king.

Go Pack Go

I can confirm

[gfhockey]

NdSu works the old ladies oil money hard

 

never seen a und fundraiser out here