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.
I'm sure it's not great. Fargo is a long way from the Bakken and one needs to realize most of the oil wealth is owned by people that have nothing to do with NDSU or even the state of ND (except a royalty check).
Fargo's minor league Pat Ruesse, Mike McFeely, while a huge supporter of the move, wonders if the Bison fans aren't chasing the dragon. Contrary to belief, it isn't a huge fan base but they are loud and perhaps as obnoxious as they come. Lots of the sycophants are certain they'll be Big 12...
This is a great deal for the MWC. NDSU is paying $12.5m to the conference in addition to the $5m to NCAA to reclassify. The MWC media deal stinks, and it has promised legacy members no less than the prior deal ($3.5 million). It has also promised a ransom to UNLV and AFA to stay in the fold...
Tell me you have no business experience without telling me you have no business experience. Businesses pay expenses before businesses pay investors. Businesses that do otherwise are soon insolvent and they and there investors are being sued for defrauding creditors.
What expenses of the WNBA...
I would guess at a $5 million loss, none of the games turn as profit. Why does WBB get any revenue sharing? Why do we pay coaches high 6 figure salaries?
Is that pronounced "icks?" Also maybe consider sarcasm.
When factoring media revenue, FB produces 75% of the department revenue but is...
I was somewhat indifferent to Indiana FB. I viewed schools like Indiana as a good reason for expansion - add the top PAC teams and play the Indians less. But I love the story here and while we can all bitch and moan about the portal and NIL and all that's wrong with CFB, and I agree there are...
I'd say the probability of a donor like Mark Cuban emerging is low but not impossible. Skeptical donors may have previously believed their efforts would be in vain. I think Indiana showing it can be done at a place like Indiana makes it more probable.
Yeah, why not dream? The naysayers - and they'll show up here -will say it's lightning in a bottle, but so what? Why play and why be a fan of if you think that it will likely never happen? Good for Indiana and why not here? Why not us?
As far as I know, the B1G still requires its institutions to honor 4 years of scholarship, rather than year to year. I don't know how the portal interplays with that rule.
Is there a caveat to the B1G scholarship rule that says you lose your scholarship by entering the portal?
I wonder what value the portal really is to the player if they know they are leaving a school. Why not use the Jake Retzlaff maneuver?