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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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...
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    $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.
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    Mount Rushmore of gopher coaches

    Maybe four is too many for this program and reference ought to be made to Stone Mountain instead of Mount Rushmore.
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    The Athletic: Grading the Big Ten’s transfer portal classes (Minnesota: B-)

    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...
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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...
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    Big Ten details 24-team CFP plan with no league title games

    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...
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    Big Ten details 24-team CFP plan with no league title games

    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...
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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...
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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...
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    Gophers QB comitt transfering high schools

    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...
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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...
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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...
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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.
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    They've tried to upgrade the Fargodome very recently and the city's voters have said "no."
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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).
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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...
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    The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

    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...
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    GPL: Minnesota Athletics Reports Record $163.6M in Revenue for FY25

    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...



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