(05-02-2012 10:50 PM)lakesbison Wrote: NDSU , National Football champs at FCS, and are currently sitting #8 in Capitol Cup standings. NDSU is an ALL SPORTS dynamo recently:
NDSU Football has already beaten 6 FBS teams, dominated the MAC in football.
Basketball made the NCAA's and beat #8 and #13 Wisc/Marquette.
Baseball is currently ranked in top 30, beat #5 Arizona is, 33-9
Softball was in super regional and been to 3 NCAA's
Volleyball has been in 3 NCAA's
Soccer has been in 2 NCAA's
Track has had numerous athlete's at NCAA, *2nd place in 800 w* wins the summit league in mens/womens for 4 years straight.
Wrestling pulled off a top 20 upset.
GOLF Amy Anderson made 3 NCAA"s, Lead Us Womens 1st round.
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Facilities are top notch (new basketball, track arena's within a year)
Fargo ND, 200,000+ in Metro area, Big Airport, 3 hours from Minneapolis
Who wants us? honestly, our football team deserves the FBS.
The WAC. You're probably too far west for the MAC plus they've shifted east.
The WAC needs NDSU and 5 other schools to begin their transition with the 2012 season. In 2013 all 6 of those schools would need to join the WAC for all sports.
North Dakota
South Dakota
South Dakota State
Montana
Montana State
to come with you and the WAC will welcome you with open arms.
If that actually happened, the Summit League would be down to the following:
Nebraska-Omaha
Missouri-Kansas City
Western Illinois
IUPUI (Maybe)
IPFW
Oakland
If IUPUI leaves for the Horizon League that would leave the Summit at 5 schools, and they would need at least two more who are active members of Division I to retain an automatic bid-it looks like Chicago State and NJIT would be the first calls, and NJIT might not be available much longer. if NJIT wasn't available, then UTPA and/or Utah Valley would be next on the list.
The prettiest woman I've ever seen in my life was in Fargo, North Dakota of all places. I like the NDSU logo, but that's all I know about them. I think the WAC is dead as far as football is concerned. I hope they can replace my alma mater (SJSU) and all the other teams that are leaving, but I wouldn't bet on it.
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2012 03:58 AM by crixus.)
(05-03-2012 08:09 AM)wvucrazed Wrote: What is the capacity of NDSU's stadium, average attendance, and are there plans to expand?
It's a Dome so I doubt there will be expansion.
It is also one of the loudest places we've ever played at.
The Fargo dome is much louder than Alabama's Stadium last season when we played in both. I don't mean a little bit louder, I mean like a damn NASCAR race was taking place kind of loud.