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The MIAC looks wide open thus far. I guess I'd have to pick the Johnnies if I was going to pick the champ but the Oles made them look very ordinary.

I'm thinking you haven't been to Fargo lately, they've had a lot of construction in the last few years. I'd rather go to Duluth but it's 100% because of the lake.

Fargo downtown is actually pretty nice. Just lacks the big lake.

Concordia has moved playoff games to the FargoDome in the past. This kind of cold and wind can absolutely change the game.

Nope, have to move every sport now. The programs with teams in multiple divisions were grandfathered in.

The coaches poll is not used for selection or seeding. As with seemingly all polls, the coaches give way too much credit to record without looking at the schedule.

UST still doesn't offer football scholarships. They could really be included in this thread as they are D1 in name only.

It's pretty easy to understand: St. John's beat Whitewater, Whitewater beat the defending champ Mary Hardin-Baylor, Bethel lost to unranked 1-3 Platteville.

Those rules don't mandate that St. Cloud stays at D2, just that no other team could add a D1 hockey team without being D1. It's easier to go down a division than up a division as the expenses are typically smaller. There actually is a D2 hockey conference, by the way, the NE-10, but since...

All of those things happen at the D3 level as well.

I'd say that because they're public it is wrong to favor the athletes over every other student when the athletic program doesn't generate revenue to come close to covering the program costs even excluding the scholarship costs.

About 20% of the 440 D3 Colleges and Universities are public. It's a big division and they are most welcome in it. They have some advantage in recruiting with their relatively low price point and variety of academic programs, but in college a larger enrollment really doesn't help at all. The...

I'd say the Gusties have been ahead of Bethel in the facilites race for 15 years now since the new stadium opened. I really don't think you can spend your way to the next level, just takes some special teams to win the big games and then the recruiting will follow.

New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts.

It's always odd when I see people talking about exceeding expectations on here. Well if you recruit the worst roster in the Big Ten, the expectations for that group are going to be pretty low. I'd hope that the expectation is that you can put together a better roster in the first place. It...

Most of those helmet schools have at least one big time non-conference opponent. We've got 4-8 Colorado. It's also somewhat easier for us to schedule multiple better teams since teams aren't as afraid of us.

My post was toward the bottom of the 1st page, #29. I will say most of the suggestions on here are better than what we actually have scheduled.

2 different issues I was addressing. One, a game against NDSU is a better game competitively and in terms of attendance, tv viewers than most of the games against the dregs of the FBS. Two, I'd like to see at least one non-conference game against someone likely to be in the top 25 or ideally...

Coward I can't believe the people in this thread who never want to challenge anyone and play big schools in big games on big networks. Raise your expectations a little bit everyone.

NDSU Iowa State Notre Dame Mizzou Kansas State Oregon Texas South Carolina Virginia Tech Let's give the MAC a 10 year break.