RE: NDSU president: Bison football is "exactly where it should be" in FCS
ark st (#37),
And your entire post is preempted by "ROI" being a false/incompatible ideology for college athletics at the G5 level, in the first place. If cost-containment and/or revenue generation is/are your goal(s), then you're in the wrong sub-division, bub.
FBS is a nice thing. It's an expensive thing. If you want to play the game at that level, then buck up and pay the costs. If not, then don't. It has really nothing to do with anything else.
Bish (#38),
This is my opinion: Bohl has one dream -- to be head coach at a Big 12 or Big Ten program. Obviously he'd love Nebraska, but not sure they'll "forgive" him there. I think he thought his winning at NDSU was going to propel him directly into the position, but then reality set in. He interviewed for Colorado St and they went for a P5 assistant instead, who is now HC at Florida.
So the next time he had an opportunity at the MWC, he jumped at it. If he can build Wyoming into a winner, some P5 will take a chance on him as HC (Tiller to Purdue, for example). I wish him the best of luck, but his first two seasons at Wyoming have been terrible.
From what I hear, it's a very difficult place to recruit because NCAA rules prohibit flying in recruits on charter/private air and there is literally no commercial air service to the state. So recruits have to fly into Denver, then bus up.
Nodak (#39),
Bohl's 2006 & 2007 teams probably would've won the FCS title, which were about half&half of his recruits and the last class of the previous head coach. He hit a recruiting slump, then exploded back to win the 2011, 2012 and 2013 FCS titles using all of his own recruits.
Klieman is a great coach, no doubt, but his 2014 & 2015 titles have mostly been using Bohl recruits. It'll be interesting to see how the team does a full year with Stick at QB, which I believe was the first class with Klieman as HC.
Granted, Klieman was on the staff and helped recruit a lot of those guys. But the HC is the closer.
I think they'll be just fine, but obviously the streak will have to stop some time.
NDSU has the most unique situation in the country with FCS. It's able to recruit FBS level players from the Dakotas, Nebraska, KC, Minn and Wisconsin, that are completely overlooked by the few P5 schools in those areas and there are no G5 schools in those areas, with relatively few FCS schools.
Simply put: NDSU wins because no other FCS schools have that many players on their rosters of that caliber unless they're transfers.
(This post was last modified: 06-28-2016 10:51 AM by MplsBison.)
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