NDSU's FCS measuring stick with Georgia Southern won't last too much longer.
It is becoming increasing clear that change in the FCS is almost a certainty, not just talk, and the beneficiary of it all stands to be the Missouri Valley Football Conference and to an extent, the Big Sky Conference. With Georgia Southern and possibly Appalachian State bolting for FBS and leaving the Southern Conference, and with the CAA on the verge of losing a few schools to FBS, the Missouri Valley is just hanging out without much hint of change.
It’s addition by subtraction, at least in the short term until other schools fill the power void left by the vacancies of GSU, Massachusetts, Old Dominion (although relatively new, still a good program) and whoever else leaves.
My story on the subject is here.
The CAA will find some replacements for UMass simply because there are a lot of good programs. But what if change sweeps the league and not only UMass and Old Dominion head to FBS but Villanova (which is a strong possibility to the Big East), James Madison and Delaware follow suit? Currently, that would leave the CAA with just five teams: Towson, Maine, William & Mary, Rhode Island and Richmond. Say goodbye to the SEC of the FCS motto. What a striking change that would be when the league just a few years ago had 12 teams and two divisions. But Northeastern (and Rocky Hager) and Hofstra dropping football started the descent.
Meanwhile, about the only slight piece of evidence of change within the Missouri Valley are rumors of Youngstown thinking of the CAA (maybe not now) and the Illinois State president saying he someday wants the school to go FBS.
Losing some of the better FCS program helps no one. All it will do in the long run is water down FCS and make winning in FCS less relevant than the general fan already views it.
Obviously anyone can become an FBS team right now. You don’t even need that much money or be in a large media market(Southern Georgia).
Unless you can get into a top FBS conference its really not that special to be a mid to lower tier FBS team.
Losing good, competitive programs is not addition by subraction.
Poorly worded. What I was trying to get at is addition of the possibility of more Missouri Valley teams in the playoffs with the subtraction of some top FCS powers.
Jeff this site has moderator 9 out of my last 10 posts
Why the Fbs constant jibber jabber. Win and keep winning in fcs and worry about Fbs then. Outside the top 25 teams, only the teams own fan base care where you are at. I do not want to be another Toledo or bowling green or pick your no namer. Ndsu has had more exposure on the captalone cup standings commercials than any of those obscure Fbs teams and their 500 records in Fbs.
As of right now our boys are standing next to Alabama hoisting a trophy and I already forgot who won the the basketball title. Oh ya it was the young pro team who probably spent a combined 20 hours in the classroom. Kentucky. Anyone outside the Kentucky family locked on their Fbs football team.
I used to think the Bison be in FCS forever. Now not onl. do I think they will go, I thinkit willbe much sooner than I ever dreamed. I have always said you gotta get a new stadium. Now that is even more important. Gotta get some oil money from out west. Go Bison!
I appologize for my spelling and overall lack of typing skills in my last post. It looks like I was drunk. Go Bison!
Can a team go FBS without a conference invite?
Schools cannot make the move up to FBS without a conference invitation. That’s what makes watching the Colonial interesting, there is speculation the whole league would decide to move up.
Could be an opportunity to dominate the FCS and take the program to the next level. I want to see the MVFC get a good TV deal. That helps.
Please vote no.
Test to see if i can post here
Yeah ive been trying to post here but it doesn’t let me. People are kind of upset
Whose upset?
I’m not sure how that moderation process works, to be honest. I just work here.
I think its just some idiotic random system. Sometimes people post and it works. Maybe they made a mistake and put the letter A on the naughty list filtering system.
Whatever the case, if I could fix it, I would.
Dont worry he just likes to complain.
Gabe- Settle down! You are the only person upset with this!
People are upset that they can’t read your nonsensical babble on every topic? Isn’t there enough of an outlet for you already at bisonville? You and 344 should start your own area voices blog. A must read that would be.
Vote yes ! screw u darell
Yes ndsu should be fbs, fcs was soo easy
If people can’t even post comments on here, what’s the point of having comments turned on?
Jeff – pick up the phone and call you IT guy at the Forum. I know you have one.
How about moving this page away from areavoices.com? They’re obviously screwing it up. How about blogspot or better yet, why not directly on the inforum.com website?
If people can’t even post comments on here, what’s the point of having comments turned on?
Jeff – pick up the phone and call you IT guy at the Forum. I know you have one.
How about moving this page away from areavoices.com hosting? They’re obviously screwing it up. How about blogspot or better yet, why not directly on the inforum.com website?
If people can’t even post comments on here, what’s the point of having comments turned on?
Jeff – pick up the phone and call you IT guy at the Forum. I know you have one.
How about moving this page away from areavoices.com hosting? They’re obviously screwing it up. How about blogspot or better yet, why not directly on the inforum.com website???
If people can’t even post comments on here, what’s the point of having comments turned on?
Jeff – pick up the phone and call you IT guy at the Forum. I know you have one.
How about moving this page away from areavoices.com hosting? They’re obviously screwing it up. How about blogspot or better yet, why not directly on the inforum.com website??
If people can’t even post comments on here, what’s the point of having comments turned on??
Jeff – pick up the phone and call you IT guy at the Forum. I know you have one.
How about moving this page away from areavoices.com hosting? They’re obviously screwing it up. How about blogspot or better yet, why not directly on the inforum.com website?
If people can’t even post comments on here, what’s the point of having comments turned on???
Jeff – pick up the phone and call you IT guy at the Forum. I know you have one.
How about moving this page away from areavoices.com hosting? They’re obviously screwing it up. How about blogspot or better yet, why not directly on the inforum.com website?
If people can’t even post comments on here, what’s the point of having comments turned on?
Jeff – pick up the phone and call you IT guy at the Forum. I know you have one.
How about moving this page away from areavoices.com hosting?? They’re obviously screwing it up. How about blogspot or better yet, why not directly on the inforum.com website?
If people can’t even post comments on here, what’s the point of having comments turned on?
Jeff – pick up the phone and call you IT guy at the Forum. I know you have one.
How about moving this page away from areavoices.com hosting?? They’re obviously screwing it up. How about blogspot or better yet, why not directly on the inforum.com website????
I’ll always support NDSU, but the only way I presently could get behind a move up in football were if the entire structure of what is now FBS changed and the BCS conferences split to create their own league allowing for the current second tier conferences, CUSA, Sun Belt, MAC and possibly Mountain West, to form their own league with more of a playoff post season. In this scenario, it would be possible for either whole FCS conferences or the top tier of the MVC, CAA, BSC and Southern to move up and still be in a “championship” race without having to go toe to toe with Ohio State and LSU.
sway1551…..my thoughts exactly!
Good idea but then let them play Ohio State. Oh wait that would be playoffs.
Then there are those who may have to go the other way simply because their conference is disbanding and they have no other invite.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/ncaa/?eref=sinav&sct=hp_nv_a
Quit being smalltime, FBS is attainable. We already dominate fcs and all sports are flourishing. Shut up and make fargo relevant please!
Hey Kolpack, NDSU lacrosse made sweet 16 MCLA tounament in Greenville, SC May 14-19. Why not a little story? This is second year in a row they made it to this tournament, not bad for a program only in existence since 2004. Larcrosse is growing like gang buster all over US and again, North Dakota is going to be behind the curve, like usual..