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Maybe NIU will become the next Idaho, and drop down to the MVFC. Now that they're in Horizon for most sports, it may honestly make the most sense.

If your "eventual" here refers to after the 2032 expiration of the new GoR, then I suppose you could be right. I can't see AFA or UNLV leaving before then, unless the whole thing completely blows up and the new P4 super league decides they want a local Las Vegas school and/or all three main...

Bold: That's just wild to me if true, that the MWC would fork over that much money to ... a MAC team ... in football only? Good lord.

Genuine question that I'm guessing folks here could quickly and easily answer: do we have any recent examples of a high 3-star kid who committed to us before his senior year having only Minnesota, Iowa State type of offers, then had a huge senior year, "blew up", and got offers from helmet...

Couple more that really aren't that much better. PHX -- kings of the "lucky one-off seasons" Diamondbacks -- if it weren't for their lucky one-off in 2023, losing the WS, then their only other appearance was their win in 2001 Suns -- if it weren't for their luck one-off in 2020-21, losing the...

AND SO, with the above truth established, I give you a worse market than MSP: Detroit. They have all four major professional leagues. They're also a medium large metro, not huge, but not small. Also northern climate. Also with a strong local hockey history, both college and professional...

Here is the massive, foundational problem with this thread and those who support it and think like it: trying to pretend that a drought of 20 years is 2x worse than a drought of 10 years, and that a drought of 30 years is 3x worse than a drought of 10 years. FALSE. Badness saturates at 10...

You're using your own personal definition "success" that few share. The Vikings regular season winning percentage over the Wilfs ownership period says otherwise. Should have been SB winners the 2009 season. Could have made the SB in 2017. Several franchises have done much worse.

I accidently looked at the 1997 season instead of the 1998 season, thanks for correcting me, fixed now. McCombs is up one. McCombs bought into a great team and coach, then ditched the franchise after only seven years of ownership. That's not stable ownership, which is key to being a great...

I never said it wasn't three consecutive season of making the Divisional round. I correctly pointed out your false implication on ownership continuity. Thanks for noticing my one digit typo, corrected.

I'm sure Northern Illinois will quickly realize how stupid it is to be in the MWC football only, when the big western schools left and the money won't be any better than the MAC. If they admit their mistake and back out, that will open the door for SDSU. Or maybe Montana (State).

FSU isn't bad in research, but they were passed over for U of Southern Florida in the last round of AAU membership invitations. Seems wild to include a directional school, but I believe it is largely biased towards medical research, which is something FSU lacks. Despite its name, FSU is also...

I suppose you're right. I guess the more correct thing I should have said is that it makes no sense for other P4 schools who are at the same level generally as the Gophers to keep offering this kid. But P4 programs at a higher level that say suddenly lose a safety, could come after him, that...

A strong argument could be made that making the playoff should mean that school should get to keep the payouts for those games (which aren't nothing, but are far short of Rose Bowl level payouts). But again, I thought all payouts from all post-season football games were put into a single pot...

I'm only aware of Black Friday for when NBC/Peacock or CBS have aired Big Ten games on a Friday? I think Fox/FS1 have that exclusively for the Big Ten?

I was going to vote Nothingburger, but option 2 is the better choice. Not a literally nothing, but not anything worth writing home about. Agreed that he will be "benched" for one game, the game that doesn't matter at all if he plays. You could say that he's missing opportunity to get reps in...

Wild guess is it would take more than Iowa State and Minnesota offers to do it. Now that he committed to Minnesota, why would other P4 schools keep offering? They may well do it anyway, I don't know, just seems like a waste of time. Other than Nebraska, I would think he would flip to the...

Total number of NFL playoff advancements (which obviously includes a first round bye = automatic advancement from the first round): McCombs (1998 - 2004 seasons): 1998 +2 (bye, Divisional win) 1999 +1 (WC win) 2000 +2 (bye, Divisional win) 2004 +1 (WC win) Wilfs (2005 - current seasons): 2009...

There was a legal settlement between the ACC and Florida State which made leaving the ACC much, much easier and simpler. All FSU has to do is pay the exit penalty and they can leave and retain their media rights. The fee is $165M to leave for the 2026 season, and appears to go down about $18M...

You're the one who falsely injected the Vikings into the discussion in the first place, as is your want to be a Vikings troll. You also falsely implied that Vikings had continuous ownership over 1997-2000, when in fact McCombs didn't become the owner until the 1998 season.