St. Thomas is a good school, a beautiful campus in a great area of St. Paul. The problem I see is with their stadium. Can they expand it enough? One major issue is the neighborhood residents don't necessarily like the school's expansion and probably wouldn't like hoards of football fans in the neighborhood.
So are the military academies, if you want to get technical!
They're trying to build a new hockey arena on the south campus:
It will be interesting to see. I've been to football games there in recent years. It's a nice setting. You can even look out on the field from a student cafeteria. It is an intimate setting and it seems it would be hard, if not impossible, to get the capacity up to 10-15k. And then there's the parking in that area.
Yes, I'm well aware. And yet, much higher profile due to tradition and prestige, and ranked significantly higher by Sagarin due to strength of schedule.
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Pioneer League is DIII football, and they wouldn't be at the top of DIII. It's not really a jump.Not an argument in favor of a Gophers -Tommies match, just fascinating to witness...St Thomas gets some notice for their unprecedented DIII to FCS move, and for their unexpectedly quick success.
St. Thomas enjoys big jump to FCS after boot from D3 league
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Sixteen months ago, as St. Thomas prepared to complete an unprecedented jump up in competition, one set of just-for-fun national power rankings pegged the Minnesota Catholic school as dead last among the 128 teams for its rookie season in the Football Championship Subdivision.
Agree. Bethel would win games in the Pioneer league.
They certainly would be near the top of D3
That assertion doesn’t agree with what he said. Bethel was the 13th rated team in D3
LOL!!
Have you seen d2?