2025 Non-UND FCS News/Scores Thread

[cowboys5xsbs]

1 minute ago, F'n Hawks said:

Making 1.3 million as Rutgers DC. Was set to make around 300k as USD head coach…

The Valley is looking ripe for the taking 

[UND-FB-FAN]

37 minutes ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

The Valley is looking ripe for the taking 

No question on that. Gonna win it this year… and more.

[TwamleyShuffle]

2 hours ago, F'n Hawks said:

Making 1.3 million as Rutgers DC. Was set to make around 300k as USD head coach…

Plus knowing how “successful” Rutgers is at football, who’s to say the HC doesn’t get fired in a few years and he steps in that role 

[Bison Dan]

19 hours ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

We put more money into education than sports unlike the ag college 

UND takes out double from the general fund to support their athletic dept.  The last report I saw was 5M to 10M. That was a few years ago.

[1972]

Saw a post on the old Book face,  asking Fargo residence if they would support a renovation or a replacement of the Fargo Dome.   One comment stated that given the fact the FBS schools travel so well, its a given they need to go bigger.  This is the type of thinking that got them here.  Only top FBS schools travel "well"  other than that, its FCS type fans, maybe worse.  Good luck

[UND69er]

47 minutes ago, 1972 said:

Saw a post on the old Book face,  asking Fargo residence if they would support a renovation or a replacement of the Fargo Dome.   One comment stated that given the fact the FBS schools travel so well, its a given they need to go bigger.  This is the type of thinking that got them here.  Only top FBS schools travel "well"  other than that, its FCS type fans, maybe worse.  Good luck

Yeah, folks from Honolulu, El Paso, Colorado Springs, San Jose etc can't wait to travel to FARGO ND.

[1972]

1 hour ago, UND69er said:

Yeah, folks from Honolulu, El Paso, Colorado Springs, San Jose etc can't wait to travel to FARGO ND.

Exactly!

[jdub27]

2 hours ago, Bison Dan said:

UND takes out double from the general fund to support their athletic dept.  The last report I saw was 5M to 10M. That was a few years ago.

The UND students voted to increase their fees to support it and have continued to support that decision.
NDSU has tried to do the same thing twice and the athletic department fell on their face and showed up unprepared for their presentation to the Student Government because they thought they were going to get a rubber stamp.

So don't frame it beyond what it is.

[UNDBIZ]

15 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

The UND students voted to increase their fees to support it and have continued to support that decision.
NDSU has tried to do the same thing twice and the athletic department fell on their face and showed up unprepared for their presentation to the Student Government because they thought they were going to get a rubber stamp.

So don't frame it beyond what it is.

And for some reason tuition and fees at UND are still roughly the same as tuition and fees at ndsu...

[Bison Dan]

27 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

The UND students voted to increase their fees to support it and have continued to support that decision.
NDSU has tried to do the same thing twice and the athletic department fell on their face and showed up unprepared for their presentation to the Student Government because they thought they were going to get a rubber stamp.

So don't frame it beyond what it is.

Fees?  I'm talking about monies from the UND's operating general fund.

[UNDBIZ]

6 minutes ago, Bison Dan said:

Fees?  I'm talking about monies from the UND's operating general fund.

Tuition and mandatory fee revenues are part of each university's general fund.

[jdub27]

15 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said:

Tuition and mandatory fee revenues are part of each university's general fund.

And somehow UND can manage their budget and NDSU has to ask for 8 figure line-item relief from the state legislature.
The next budget cycle is going to be interesting to watch...

[gfhockey]

4 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

And somehow UND can manage their budget and NDSU has to ask for 8 figure line-item relief from the state legislature.
The next budget cycle is going to be interesting to watch...

Ndsu won’t need it going forward 

the sbohe with ndsu guy as chair and most of board are changing the funding model to the legislatures

[The Sicatoka]

Got to listen to the Governor speak earlier this week; my summary of his words:

- ag and oil revenues are down
- everything is on the table to look at 
- expect broad and significant budget cuts 

[cowboys5xsbs]

48 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Got to listen to the Governor speak earlier this week; my summary of his words:

- ag and oil revenues are down
- everything is on the table to look at 
- expect broad and significant budget cuts 

Well yeah after the state announced the are trying to retire people early to save money it was not a good sign of things to come

[nodakvindy]

On 2/11/2026 at 10:58 AM, FSSD said:

I do think he is right, Air Force, New Mexico, and UNLV are robbing Peter to pay Paul.  And in 5 years, Air Force, New Mexico and UNLV are gone to Pac 10 or American.

UNLV, likely. Air Force maybe, the lobos, Doubtful

[jdub27]

30 minutes ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

Well yeah after the state announced the are trying to retire people early to save money it was not a good sign of things to come

Oil prices coming back up a bit helps out a little bit.
Continental Resources saying they are stopping drilling (still TBD what that actually means) is a bad sign.

As it relates to the funding model, I fully trust Armacost and his team have a good handle on having input in any changes to ensure UND remains in a strong spot.

[The Sicatoka]

On 2/11/2026 at 11:12 AM, cowboys5xsbs said:

We put more money into education than sports unlike the ag college 

I'd say you see priorities based on spending:
- $50M football training facility
- $17M buy-in for football 
But rather than starting new, just wrapping 40-60 year old buildings in a new shell (engineering). 

Meanwhile UND goes from
- new education building to
- new business building to
- new union to
- building a new STEM building
And this was after new Med school, Law library addition, new Wilkerson, new West, new McVey, ... and that's off the top of my head. But I didn't mention the PPP of Memorial Village I and II. And yet through all that came the Pollard Center and Albright Field too. 

[jdub27]

9 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

I'd say you see priorities based on spending:
- $50M football training facility
- $17M buy-in for football 
But rather than starting new, just wrapping 40-60 year old buildings in a new shell (engineering). 

Meanwhile UND goes from
- new education building to
- new business building to
- new union to
- building a new STEM building
And this was after new Med school, Law library addition, new Wilkerson, new West, new McVey, ... and that's off the top of my head. But I didn't mention the PPP of Memorial Village I and II. And yet through all that came the Pollard Center and Albright Field too. 

Don't forget the PPP with the steam plant! Was a pretty big deal modernizing energy efficiency on campus. Not to mention Aerospace growth...

[The Sicatoka]

24 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

Don't forget the PPP with the steam plant! Was a pretty big deal modernizing energy efficiency on campus. Not to mention Aerospace growth...

Imagine still using a coal fired boiler for heat. 

The UND/PPP gas fired plant is efficient and opened up valued space mid-campus.

[ND-fan]

The beginning of next step by people pushing this move and now question is general public of Fargo going to support this all out funding to move of football forward. I think we’re going t see if group can sell this to general public of Fargo or will they meet resistance . If general public goes all in then football move will work until general public find the costs to high and want changes to be made. if they can’t sell this to general public and support for football continues remain about same and attendance gradually becomes steady average but not back when people were bidding to get into building. Then FBs is going to become anchor around the  university financially I believe with deal they got going into conference play with not getting media money and not sharing NCAA money for number of years is disaster. I think NDSU is going to be in serious trouble with the state and large number of people in the state on there financial management  of university will no doubt come under scrutiny with this latest amount spent on football. When you have FM area that has gown substantially in last 10 years but enrollment has declined significantly in same period of time are figures hard to sugar coat write off. The money spent seems to me has been directed to sports and but little has been done to upgrade the academic side of the school and at same time the costs to go there have put them in one of more expensive schools to region excluding private schools. I am not saying they are isolated among schools having this happening to them. They have invested to heavily sports brand not enough in all over brand for the school. I have friends who are big Bison supporters but have stopped supporting them financially because of increasing costs and demand for money for athletics but see core things that NDSU was established not receiving resources they need greater North Dakota but more emphasis on spending in FM area. So I think this move has many more legs that are going to surface because this move.

[1972]

1 hour ago, ND-fan said:

The beginning of next step by people pushing this move and now question is general public of Fargo going to support this all out funding to move of football forward. I think we’re going t see if group can sell this to general public of Fargo or will they meet resistance . If general public goes all in then football move will work until general public find the costs to high and want changes to be made. if they can’t sell this to general public and support for football continues remain about same and attendance gradually becomes steady average but not back when people were bidding to get into building. Then FBs is going to become anchor around the  university financially I believe with deal they got going into conference play with not getting media money and not sharing NCAA money for number of years is disaster. I think NDSU is going to be in serious trouble with the state and large number of people in the state on there financial management  of university will no doubt come under scrutiny with this latest amount spent on football. When you have FM area that has gown substantially in last 10 years but enrollment has declined significantly in same period of time are figures hard to sugar coat write off. The money spent seems to me has been directed to sports and but little has been done to upgrade the academic side of the school and at same time the costs to go there have put them in one of more expensive schools to region excluding private schools. I am not saying they are isolated among schools having this happening to them. They have invested to heavily sports brand not enough in all over brand for the school. I have friends who are big Bison supporters but have stopped supporting them financially because of increasing costs and demand for money for athletics but see core things that NDSU was established not receiving resources they need greater North Dakota but more emphasis on spending in FM area. So I think this move has many more legs that are going to surface because this move.

It will be really interesting.   I think they caved to a very loud, but small group that pumped their ego so high, they actually believe that they will get a power 4 school to actually come to Fargo and play then now that they are FBS.  They still have this unrealistic view of them selves, and think that they can compete with anyone in the FBS.  It is gonna be very interesting to see how the recruiting actually goes, as well

[shep]

19 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

Got to listen to the Governor speak earlier this week; my summary of his words:

- ag and oil revenues are down
- everything is on the table to look at 
- expect broad and significant budget cuts 

Also a glut of sugar worldwide will have a significant impact on Red River Valley farmers as per ton profits may go to an all time low.

[UND-FB-FAN]

1 hour ago, 1972 said:

It will be really interesting.   I think they caved to a very loud, but small group that pumped their ego so high, they actually believe that they will get a power 4 school to actually come to Fargo and play then now that they are FBS.  They still have this unrealistic view of them selves, and think that they can compete with anyone in the FBS.  It is gonna be very interesting to see how the recruiting actually goes, as well

NDSU obligated to INCREASE football spending

Everyone is drinking the Fargo ag college Kool-aid. Of course, I hope they fail.

The proposed funding model and the required funding increase to ag college football (per their contract with the MW) along with the inevitable pressure it will put on state taxpayers (who don’t care about ag college) is the most b*llshit part of this. Biggest arrogant f*cks around come out of Fargo ag football …

But UND needs to make it hard on them and focus on themselves; keep winning on and off the field, and Schmidt’s group most certainly will …

[SIOUXFAN97]

22 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

NDSU obligated to INCREASE football spending

Everyone is drinking the Fargo ag college Kool-aid. Of course, I hope they fail.

The proposed funding model and the required funding increase to ag college football (per their contract with the MW) along with the inevitable pressure it will put on state taxpayers (who don’t care about ag college) is the most b*llshit part of this. Biggest arrogant f*cks around come out of Fargo ag football …

But UND needs to make it hard on them and focus on themselves; keep winning on and off the field, and Schmidt’s group most certainly will …

u know what would make it really hard them would be to.......

but fenton won't bc he's a skinny pussy