St. Johns has dominated in football before, nobody cared.
That doesn't justify saying things like "Got usted from the Seminary for being a Pedo?"
It would have to be funded by boosters who want to use it to raise the profile of the school.
Contrary to popular belief, MIAC probably wanted UST out for about 20 reasons BEFORE football. Though football was a reason. ST John’s has been better than UST in football even in the last 3-4 years. St. John’s has been running up 80 on people too.
When you combine St. Ben's/John's undergrad population, it's pretty close to St. Thomas.
I agree.
They are getting a transfer QB from Moorhead State this year.
Yeah I remember SJU voted one way but some comments from their administration echoed that they understood the concerns about the other schools too...
Not really, (closer to half, along with St. Olaf) and institutionally you can’t just ignore grad students because that lends to the type of school you are talking about. Basically a full third of UST enrollment is grad students. Here are enrollments with breakdown between grad and undergrad students. St. John’s/St. Bens combined are a good fit. UST is not.
Enrollment is really only a disadvantage when your school is so small, maybe less than 1000 undergrads, that you don't have a typical variety of majors. St. Thomas wasn't one of the bigger D3 schools, they just recruited better than most. Many other factors besides enrollment went into that recruiting advantage.Not really, (closer to half, along with St. Olaf) and institutionally you can’t just ignore grad students because that lends to the type of school you are talking about. Basically a full third of UST enrollment is grad students. Here are enrollments with breakdown between grad and undergrad students. St. John’s/St. Bens combined are a good fit. UST is not.
Enrollment
www.mnprivatecolleges.org
At ~10K students St Thomas appears to have been on of the larger D3 schools. Having looked at the enrollments of the schools at D3 there are two conferences of public colleges / universities in NY and WI that have schools in the 6-15 thousand range. Otherwise most schools were between 1500-4000 students, save for large public institutions like UT at Dallas and UC Santa Cruz and elite universities like Johns Hopkins and RIT which were above 20K students.
From what I've heard from parents whose kids have been recruited to NAIA schools, there's a lot less oversight than from NCAA schools, so there's a lot of funny business going on (not that there isn't in NCAA ball)
I thought the same thing would happen to NDSU, but it didn't.
For now...
I mean their worst two years in D1 were years 5-6
It's interesting to go back and look at those 2003-2006 NDSU schedules. A few of the opponents also moved to D1 around that time so not much change there from D2. Also, the top of the old NCC was very strong so they probably matched up OK with lower FCS. I've always thought that the best teams in one division could usually compete with mediocre/bad teams in the division above.
St. Thomas has more under grads than Notre Dame. Now let that sink for a minute.
Hmmm...where are you getting your numbers?
I think the skill level and coaching across CFB land has started to blend together more than in the past ... unless you're talking about the tip top teams.
St Thomas has roughly 6,400 vs 8,700 for Notre Dame
Not that uncommon when App State was FCS and upset Michigan in 2007, they played a D 2 team the following week. Personally I've always thought the Bison would be better off scheduling an old NSIC rival once a year than some of the garbage teams like Butler or Incarnate Word that have appeared on their schedule.
The difference is not many NCIS teams need the payout to take the beatdown