Recent content by swede2

Right. I would frankly prefer that we scheduled regional FCS and FBS programs for OOC interest but the reality of CFB today makes it an understandable non-starter. Returning to the whole "bored of winning bit," I think the Bison sycophancy overestimate the opportunity for attractive games...

$18 million to the MAC. $5m to NCAA. No media share (I doubt there was much anyway). Sac has to pay travel for MAC teams to Sacramento. The biggest kicker - it's only a five year agreement. Sac is paying tens of millions of dollars for what is essentially a five year scheduling agreement.

Maybe four is too many for this program and reference ought to be made to Stone Mountain instead of Mount Rushmore.

I bet if you polled the average fan of any CFB team they would give their portal class the same grade. These kind of things are great exercises to keep our football starved minds from atrophy during the offseason. Where does the grading scale break down? I would venture that an "A" or "B" now...

Who knows how true this is but that won't stop NDSUers from parading it around like a dog who's found a useless stick in the park. In the bisonville.com world, one would think that having announced they were moving to the basement of FBS 9 days ago that regional P4 teams should be buying out of...

How about a 24 team CFP with top seed getting home field until the championship game which is held at a neutral site unaffiliated to any bowl organization? And then the CFB equivalent to the NIT, another consolation tourney for 24 additional teams? Scrap the bowls and the bowl system. There's...

Simple fix with such large conferences: Intra-conference 4 team playoff. Conference finalists are auto-bids. Teams that make CFP that are not conference finalists cannot be ranked higher than conference finalists. There's ways to make conference championships meaningful. What the B1G may...

How many championship caliber teams were in FBS prior to portal/NIL? Maybe 3? How many championship caliber teams are in the MWC? None. How many MVFC teams could compete in the MWC? A good handful. 4 different teams have won the FCS national championship this decade. Three for the first...

Forum reporter Rob Port for one is indignant over the ability of school bureaucrats to obligate the school to spend a lot more money. The contract with MWC not only requires a huge buy in but also that NDSU increase it's football budget to "reasonably competitive" to typical MWC football...

But the emphasis is on the "lately.". That was how many years ago and while it started well, how did it end? "Hit on" implies that he was successful here. You're moving the goal posts. The original implication was that this staff finds and developed HS QBs in the recent past. That hasn't...

I'd consider a trip for the Brawl of the Wild. There were arena improvements as well. Premium seating was a big part of it. I think the Fargo Dome has Metrodome style suites that are probably a downgrade from a typical seat. I think a lot of it was infrastructural work like more women's...

Huh?

What a weird phenomenon. Is there another college football fan base that grew tired of winning? If that really is the case, the new decade should have peaked some renewed interest. While NDSU dominated FCS and the MVFC from 2010 to 2019, since 2020, NDSU has only won 2 of 6 national...

The school isn't really growing and enrollment is down from all time highs and demographic trends aren't favorable. ND Board of Higher Ed is notoriously cheap. TCU and NDSU aren't great comparables.

They've tried to upgrade the Fargodome very recently and the city's voters have said "no."