North Dakota St or UConn as is?

[sportsart]

Most everyone on here knows the history of ND St and all of their FCS championships.

Would you rather drop down and try and compete for FCS championships or keep trying to tread water as an FBS.

With our highly ranked education and top notch facilities and stadium, why can't we just make the drop and build a dynasty? With an exciting offense and several 10-2 or 11-1 seasons plus playoffs, I think people show up.

My choice is to drop and become the next North Dakota St. (currently on EPSN vs South Dakota St in playoff game)

 

[shizzle787]

No, stay where we are. We will never get in a power conference if we drop down. Plus, we won't be NDSU at the FCS level; we'll be back to being UConn, who wasn't that great there.

 

[FartMan69]

I vote to try and hire an actual football coach before we try anything

 

[Husky92]

No interest in dropping down. I would rather struggle to play with the big boys than dominate (even if we could) URI, Delaware or Villanova.

 

[Stinger92860]

Hire the nd st coaching staff.

 

[Exit 4]

We may look at dropping down if we are again a loser in the next phase of CRA. Until then, I think we keep trying. Its tempting, but once you drop down, there will be no going back. What Temple managed to do is probably not something that can be repeated.

 

[huskyinfl]

They just Diaco'd the clock at the end of the half

 

[Nostical]

Never retreat. We need new leadership that can turn us around. There's absolutely no reason we can't be Kansas St or NC St, or Arizona or Iowa, or.....!

 

[Exit 4]

Never retreat. We need new leadership that can turn us around. There's absolutely no reason we can't be Kansas St or NC St, or Arizona or Iowa, or.....!

Financially a huge plus for us are our shinny new facilities. We are well positioned at that front and therefore relieving a burden/decision other schools have to deal with during this purgatory.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

The same things were said on here regarding the AAC a few years ago.

 

[sportsart]

No, stay where we are. We will never get in a power conference if we drop down. Plus, we won't be NDSU at the FCS level; we'll be back to being UConn, who wasn't that great there.

We are never going to a power conference. Time to face reality. Nobody on the FCS level can offer what we can.

 

[zls44]

We are never going to a power conference. Time to face reality. Nobody on the FCS level can offer what we can.

Thanks, Mr. Diaco, but the rest of us think UConn CAN do things.

 

[noeynox]

Drop down? no way .

 

[UConnNick]

If you want to assure you'll never run an athletic dept. in the black ever again, sure, go ahead and drop to the money losing FCS level.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Most everyone on here knows the history of ND St and all of their FCS championships.

Would you rather drop down and try and compete for FCS championships or keep trying to tread water as an FBS.

With our highly ranked education and top notch facilities and stadium, why can't we just make the drop and build a dynasty? With an exciting offense and several 10-2 or 11-1 seasons plus playoffs, I think people show up.

My choice is to drop and become the next North Dakota St. (currently on EPSN vs South Dakota St in playoff game)

This is really what you'd choose? You'd have plenty of room to spread out. 5k in a 40k stadium is not enticing. ND State draws well because they win. Kids go there because they win.

 

[sportsart]

This is really what you'd choose? You'd have plenty of room to spread out. 5k in a 40k stadium is not enticing. ND State draws well because they win. Kids go there because they win.

Nelson snuck in my house and spiked my juice. I don't know what came over me. Yes I'd rather live in a constant state of flux and wish and dream of better things that aren't ever going to come. (sarcasm off)

The only way we could ever survive at this level is getting snatched up by the P5, which may go to P4. Can anyone convince me that we will get an invite in the next 7-10 years to play with the big boys?

Mark my words. Susan and company have a plan and it doesn't not include us being in the AAC 10 years from now. What it is I don't know.

Time for a reality check. We would have already been invited if we were wanted. We can't survive bleeding money like we do (it gets worse very shortly when the BB tournament money runs out).

Got to 65 scholarships and win big and we get 30K+ and extra home games for the play offs.

 

[RioDog]

1. Appalachian St. 6 149,366 24,894
2. Montana 7 170,660 24,380
3. James Madison 7 147,076 21,011
4. Southern U. 5 100,536 20,107
5. Yale 6 99,045 19,809
6. Montana St. 6 118,222 19,704
7. North Dak St. 9 167,600 18,622
TEAM # GAMES TOTAL AVERAGE

Attendance 2013 stats. Surprising Yale does so well with no post season interest. I doubt UConn would be top 25 for attendance. I guess you have to ask yourself if 18-20,0000 is "people showing up" and if you would be excited by FCS competition. The answer to both of those questions for me is no. FBS P-conference or fly fishing.


EDIT: 30,000 +?! Thats delusional. App State can't break 25k but we would? Not likely.

 

[J187Money]

To be honest, that is probably the only thing that would cause me to stop coming, no matter how successful we would be in FCS.

Same reason I don't spend a lot of time at minor league baseball games.

 

[sportsart]

My reason for posting is I don't see any other reasonable solution.

We aren't getting invite soon, if ever. So what is everyone'solution?

I'll say it again. With our facilities, education and stadium. we should able to out recruit everyone.

Install a high scoring, spread offense and people will come to see a fun, winning team.

 

[J187Money]

My reason for posting is I don't see any other reasonable solution.

We aren't getting invite soon, if ever. So what is everyone'solution?

I'll say it again. With our facilities, education and stadium. we should able to out recruit everyone.

Install a high scoring, spread offense and people will come to see a fun, winning team.

Define "everyone"...

 

[sportsart]

Define "everyone"...

Everyone on this board. Or anyone or somebody or whoever.

Is that the only thing you picked up on?

 

[Dooley]

Can we just spend some fracking money and bring in a capable FBS level coaching staff for once?? Having a G5 leading AD budget does absolutely zero good if we can't crack the top third in the AAC in football coach salary.

 

[Adios]

Our fanbase wants to suicide the athletic department now because of Diaco? Last I checked, women's basketball is still dominating and making news quite often.

NDSU proves that power running because of "cold weather" is an antiquated philosophy. Doesn't get cold till late November anyway.....

 

[UConnNick]

Whatever we averaged at Memorial Stadium in Holtz's last season when we went to the I-AA playoffs is about what you can expect at the FCS level, and only if we win most of our games.

 

[FartMan69]

My reason for posting is I don't see any other reasonable solution.

We aren't getting invite soon, if ever. So what is everyone'solution?

I'll say it again. With our facilities, education and stadium. we should able to out recruit everyone.

Install a high scoring, spread offense and people will come to see a fun, winning team.

why are you acting like our facilities are some ground breaking shiny new toys recruits will fall in love with? They've been around for over a decade and we still lose recruits to Fordham.