Recent content by swede2

NDSU should schedule SDSU but bottom rung FBS teams from the MWC have avoided scheduling MVFC teams for years now so it's not surprising they won't.

Does anyone really believe that Big 12 is on the same economic level as the P2? One would assume the Big 12 took the best deal it could get for something like this. Its not a huge sum but its not nothing. I wouldn't sell the name of my business for a lousy 1% increase in revenue but what...

The gap between the B1G/SEC and the ACC and Big 12 is huge. This is gross but for the member institutions, it's still real money they didn't have yesterday. For a school like Iowa State, that's 1% more revenue for doing nothing but wearing a jersey patch. It's not like there isn't precedence...

There are a lot of reasons I quit reading the Strib. Souhan wasn't good as a reporter. He was a terrible columnist. The whole outfit seemed run in similar fashion.

That must be metric dollars since you're so close to Canada. The website says $10,400,000, of which $10,000,000 was a "match." By my math, that still leaves NDSU $7.5m in the hock to join a conference competing with CUSA for least relevant in the FBS. Congrats.

Great research. Can you easily calculate the number of combined seasons to 10 win season ratio and combined seasons to BCS/NY6/CFP ratios? Omitted from this list is 2020/2021 spring season FCS champ Sam Houston State who has gone 15-23 over three seasons work ones 10 win season.

It's a short term GOR, and Air Force and UNLV are supposed to be paid a ransom to stay. It sounds like the MWC and PAC litigation will be settled soon, the terms of which may very well determine whether MWC can deliver what UNLV and AF are owed or expect, and if not, particularly with PAC...

I would be surprised if any more eyes see an NDSU game in the Twin Cities. A casual fan will really need to search for them. Who turns on CW when they sit down on a Saturday afternoon (or late night?) looking for a football game. CBS sports presumably requires an upgraded cable(or streaming)...

I think the concern supposedly being addressed by freezing conference membership of the P4, and the reason schools like Minnesota are in support, is to prevent the blue bloods from forming a super league and leaving behind not just the G6, but also have not P4s like Minnesota.

Underreported aspect of the proposed legislation - essentially freezing P4 membership. Everywhere supported by schools like our dear old Ivy in Dinkytown, who fear a media entity ir other actor, plucking the must valuable college brands for a super league...

NDSU lost a lot of talent at the skill positions,in the portal, graduation and draft. I think the folks in Fargo realize they have a few more questions than typical for them going into the season. But the even bigger question is even with their own questions, who on the MWC will be better...

No one needs to be shown that the new MWC is a weak FBS conference and no one will be surprised if NDSU competes for a conference title right away. There's a reason MWC teams won't schedule FCS MVFC teams. Once UNLV and Air Force leave and Jason Eck is coaching we Wisconsin, the North Fargo...

I would think it will intensify reclassifying forward for high and talent to maximize revenue earning years (under the assumption that high end talent will also play professional sports).

The same guys that are making money on AAU/Club sports, etc., have a new marketing opportunity: Athletes that aren't getting the college offers they like now pay to play in a new, post HS club league in an effort to improve their athletic attractiveness to schools. Its not unfathomable. Is...

Their 2027 class is about on par for past classes. Top FCS teams generally recruit against and very often win recruiting battles against bottom rung FBS teams. I don't think NDSU's recruiting will change much at all unless someone dumps an enormous amount of money into NIL. There may be a tad...