2025 Non-UND FCS News/Scores Thread

[siouxweet]

27 minutes ago, 1972 said:

So NDSU looses a recruiting battle to the Gophers in their own back yard.  Maybe the allure of NDSU isn't so  strong when you are not playing for championships

Really?  They have lost recruiting battles to us while they were winning championships, I don't think this statement flies.  Maybe some kids would just want to play for a Big Ten school.

[1972]

24 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

Really?  They have lost recruiting battles to us while they were winning championships, I don't think this statement flies.  Maybe some kids would just want to play for a Big Ten school.

But the way the NDSU faithful have framed the move, you would think it was every kids dream to play in Fargo for a chance to play in a nothing bowl

[siouxweet]

3 hours ago, 1972 said:

But the way the NDSU faithful have framed the move, you would think it was every kids dream to play in Fargo for a chance to play in a nothing bowl

I get it.   I just don't pay attention to what segments of their fan base think as those segments can go do you know what to themselves as their is a segment of ours that can go do the same.  They don't live in reality. 

[SIOUXFAN97]

come to fargo...you can win natty's just like bama....now it's who wants a dumb jv title.....you wanna win the bluebonnet bowl against toledo?

[fightingsioux4life]

On 2/18/2026 at 2:42 PM, USTBench said:

Nothing really, but we were about as sportsmanlike with St. Olaf as NDSU was with us. 😆 That, and winning 2/3 of the team titles in an 11/12 team league, it was pretty clear it was time to go. I was upset at the time, but having a few years to reflect on it, I get why the MIAC did what they did. The mission of our athletic department was incompatible with the rest of the conference. That said, it's sad UST has left the football program out in the cold while they pour money into everything else. 

Getting kicked out of the MIAC was the best thing that ever happened to UST. And I think your FB program will eventually land in the MVFC.

[fightingsioux4life]

6 hours ago, 1972 said:

So NDSU looses a recruiting battle to the Gophers in their own back yard.  Maybe the allure of NDSU isn't so  strong when you are not playing for championships

B1G > MWC

It's not that complicated.

[SIOUXFAN97]

29 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said:

B1G > MWC

It's not that complicated.

tell that to the midget and the madman of cass county

[GeauxSioux]

This guy??

 

[USTBench]

1 hour ago, fightingsioux4life said:

Getting kicked out of the MIAC was the best thing that ever happened to UST. And I think your FB program will eventually land in the MVFC.

That'd be nice, but it sounds like AD Phil Esten and the powers that be don't have much stomach for scholarship football, but if there is a path it will require some major facility upgrades. When UST's unsolicited offer to buy the Town & Country Club for an athletic village for $60 million was rejected they decided to buy the old Ford Motor plant site in Highland Park about 2 miles south of campus, where they'll move baseball and softball, but Minnesota and their endless bureaucratic nonsense will have that project stalled for awhile with environmental impact studies and whiney neighbors.

Softball shares space with soccer and baseball takes up a ton of surface area on the NW side of campus just north of the football stadium. I don't know what, if anything, they have that space earmarked for, but if they could get a proper indoor facility for track/football/soccer and make some serious upgrades for spectators at the football stadium it might be MVFC worthy. Of course, having dumpy facilities never stopped Western Illinois, Indiana State, and Murray State from being part of the MVFC, so who knows. I just think if UST is going to make that type of move it will be to compete for a conference title, and there's challenges to being landlocked with unfriendly neighbors (sharing a stadium with track & field, no space to build out the stadium or revamp it, etc.). The other major issue is getting folks on board to fund scholarship football when they've clearly decided to flagship basketball and hockey, which is a little shortsighted as I think football is the hood ornament of just about every major school in the Midwest and it raises your profile in ways that hockey just can't. That said, drawing 7,000 to 8,000 fans a game would be optimistic, even with upgrades to the stadium, especially if game times overlap with the Gophers. What UST is missing is a rival like SJU to push them into an arms race, and you're just not going to get that in the Pioneer League, because Drake/Butler/Valpo just don't care enough about football.