2025 Non-UND FCS News/Scores Thread

[forksandspoons]

1 hour 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 …

A couple bad games from unproven Nathan Hayes… 

[cowboys5xsbs]

2 hours 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 …

Anyone have a non paywalled link

[F'n Hawks]

10 minutes ago, cowboys5xsbs said:

Anyone have a non paywalled link

If you have an IPhone, you can press the top left button to put in reader view and read it like normal.

[The Sicatoka]

2 hours ago, forksandspoons said:

A couple bad games from unproven Nathan Hayes… 

Pondered the same. 

[siouxweet]

4 hours 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 …

Why do we need to try and make it hard on them??  What are we going to do?  Who cares what they do.   

[cowboys5xsbs]

4 hours 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 …

They have to double their football budget and then even more if they have losing seasons.  This deal is so stupid.  Enrollment at NDSU will continue to dwindle as the costs increase.  

[CMSioux]

You can bet they will try and justify more taxpayer dollars.

[SIOUXFAN97]

23 minutes ago, siouxweet said:

Why do we need to try and make it hard on them??  What are we going to do?  Who cares what they do.   

you and fenton need to exchange numbers

[BisonMav]

On 2/12/2026 at 12:35 PM, 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 

Been a long time since I responded to anything on this message board.  Do you think with talk of a few Mountain West teams leaving in a few years for the PAC, that openings for more FCS schools will happen.  If the MWC loses 3 teams, they could add 5 or 7 new schools over time and create a football conference for the top of Big Sky/MVFC football schools.  UND, IMO, has a great young coach and will make a run at the MVFC title this year as long as the coach is there.  I can see several of these schools talking within, on the possibility of going FBS.  Some may already be deep into the discussion.

[jdub27]

13 minutes ago, BisonMav said:

Been a long time since I responded to anything on this message board.  Do you think with talk of a few Mountain West teams leaving in a few years for the PAC, that openings for more FCS schools will happen.  If the MWC loses 3 teams, they could add 5 or 7 new schools over time and create a football conference for the top of Big Sky/MVFC football schools.  UND, IMO, has a great young coach and will make a run at the MVFC title this year as long as the coach is there.  I can see several of these schools talking within, on the possibility of going FBS.  Some may already be deep into the discussion.

I think it is a possibility.
I think that the top Big Sky/Summit(MVFC) teams are already in conversations on future landscape (see the new scheduling alliance for MBB that just came out).
I don't know that what you're proposing would be well received under the current landscape (though I think it makes sense).

The P4 needs everyone else to finish paying the share of the $2.8 billion NCAA lawsuit payments that they stuck them with before they are going to make their next move. However, once that happens, I think that is when you finally see the seismic shift that has been tossed around for quite a while and the P4 (or what's left of it) finally separate themselves. Can't remember exactly how that timeline would fit with the Grant of Rights for the MWC that would allow for the changes you mentioned.

At that point, I could realistically see a separate second division and the top portion of the FCS combining with the G6. But that window is probably 6-8 years out. The P4 isn't dumb, they stuck all the lower level schools with a huge chunk of the settlement bill and are going to keep them around at least long enough to get that paid off.