USD to the MVFC!?!?

[TheHerd]

We at the XDSU's didn't really care for them a few years back when they rejected us. Now USD pulls one over on them and I think it's freakin great.

Shut up. the big sky would kill the MVFC.

Have you payed attention to the conference power rankings lately?? Apparently not.....MVFC number 2 and the Big Fluffy number 3.

[BlackFalkin]

Southern Ill vs Eastern Washington = W for EWU
Northern Iowa vs Montana = W for Montana
Indiana St vs Montana St. = W for MSU


Child Please! BSC ftw

[kemajic]

Will UND try and go MVFC?

They have been trying forever. All they needed was an invite. Fullerton has no much egg on his face now he might even let them go.

[kemajic]

Looks like UND might have jumped the gun at bit. It looks like they rushed things a bit. A Summit League offer, I believe, was basically a done deal. All the Summit League wanted to do was their formal process of offering. I'm sure a MVFC invite would have followed shortly there after since Cal Poly and UC Davis were headed to the Big Sky for football and likely SUU to follow shortly there after (as was seen last week). Now they are in a conference with no real rivalries (No. Colo if you want to count that from the NCC days) and no real close conference games. Plus they have the Montana schools possibility of leaving in the near future hanging over that conference. Instead, they go ahead and cancel the Summit League visit and jump at the first offer they got without thinking thinking and seeing how things played out. They look like the oddball of the bunch in the Big Sky instead of forming the new backbone of the Summit League. Poor decision by them.

And a poor decision by Fullerton to offer UND without USD as a package. An otherwise weak commissioner in desperation mode.

[clenz]

MSU to South Dakota is about the same distance as MSU to UNI.

According to Google Maps
MSU to YSU - 808 miles
MSU to NDSU - 774
MSU to SDSU - 588 miles
MSU to USD - 487 miles
MSU to UNI - 481 miles
MSU to ISUB - 388 miles
MSU to ISUR - 387 miles
MSU to WIU - 331 miles


So, it's less than 10 miles difference, and Vermillion and Cedar falls, and about 100 miles less than Brookings. What's the big deal? Why is traveling to USD such an issue, they are closer than other schools in the conference that MSU currently travels too.

MSU to NDSU - 774
MSU to SDSU - 588 miles
MSU to USD - 487 miles
MSU to UNI - 481 miles


You would also only make two of those trips per year, so it would likely be UNI and NDSU booked together and USD and SDSU booked together.


If MSU wants to move FBS it's only going to be worse.

The way the conference is likely to be split up the road games each year for the division would be:

[Gil Dobie]

Southern Ill vs Eastern Washington = W for EWU
Northern Iowa vs Montana = W for Montana
Indiana St vs Montana St. = W for MSU


Child Please! BSC ftw

NDSU has won the last 3 meetings with Montana

[webfan]

Blackfakin why is Weber on your sht list? I take that as a compliment.

[Thumper 76]

Blackfakin why is Weber on your sht list? I take that as a compliment.

Which leads to the question what is everyone else doing to not be on his shit list, and what do they have to fix to get onto it?