NDSU to offer cost of attend schollys

[NativeGriz]

Herd, your facilities are great and based on your weather a dome stadium make sense. The way I see it. oil money and nice facilities are the trade off for having to live in ND.

 

[kemajic]

I heard the dome was fabulous. Actually I think all dome stadiums suck. I want to watch football outside. The only thing it does is help some weak home crowds sound louder than they are. The basketball arena does look good.

They don't even own the dome.

 

[Bisonation]

NDSU doesn't need to own the dome. NDSU will build a new stadium on campus when the BIG 12 Invitation comes. $150-$200 million 50,000 seat semi-enclosed stadium. NDSU will control all revenues & it'll be bad ass.

 

[biga75]

 

[Lakerhater]

I'm being redundant, but :thumb: :thumb:

 

[THE HERD]

I don't necessarily think this was done for the sole purpose to move up...it was done so the programs could be as competitive as possible no matter what level they play on. It will be a must to compete in basketball and it will set them up to maintain their status on the top of FCS or to consider moving up in football.

Spot on I would say!

 

[THE HERD]

Herd, your facilities are great and based on your weather a dome stadium make sense. The way I see it. oil money and nice facilities are the trade off for having to live in ND.

I agree that western Montana has some beautifal scenery, but half of Montana looks no different than North Dakota. Maybe you are one of those that doesn't claim eastern Montana, but as far as people go and quality of living I see no big difference between ND and MT and I grew up just a scant 50 miles or so from your border. I could easily live in either state is what I'm saying, but I definitely could see how someone from western Montana would miss the mountains if they moved to ND or eastern MT.

 

[Bisonation]

yea roll your eyes there J-LA when it happens in 10 years, ill come back and told ya so

 

[grizindabox]

yea roll your eyes there J-LA when it happens in 10 years, ill come back and told ya so

10 years....that is a long time...2/3 of current Bison fans will have succumbed to heart disease by then...

 

[NativeGriz]

Herd, your facilities are great and based on your weather a dome stadium make sense. The way I see it. oil money and nice facilities are the trade off for having to live in ND.

I agree that western Montana has some beautifal scenery, but half of Montana looks no different than North Dakota. Maybe you are one of those that doesn't claim eastern Montana, but as far as people go and quality of living I see no big difference between ND and MT and I grew up just a scant 50 miles or so from your border. I could easily live in either state is what I'm saying, but I definitely could see how someone from western Montana would miss the mountains if they moved to ND or eastern MT.

You are right. I could never live in E. MT. I have been in 47 states and ND is in the lower half of my list of states I would visit again and I would include E. MT in that. Bottom line, you don't have enough of the things I like to do outdoors such as good mountain biking, snow skiing, back country hiking, etc and if I don't have that I want a beach that provides good waves. I have been to TRNP which was nice, but I don't see how it became a National Park, though not as lame as a NP I went to down by Tucson AZ. By the way all the people I have met personally from ND were awesome-no exceptions to date and I get a feeling you are one of the good guys.

 

[BadlandsGrizFan]

They would have to build a new stadium to move up. Their 19k cow barn isn't going to cut it. Perhaps that is where oil money could come into play.

Good point. I doubt any conference would want them to join when their facilities are so god awful. They have a LOT of work to do, well beyond the shed, if they want to move up. If their facilities don't improve, they would be the next Idaho.

To say our facilities are god awful is just plain ignorant. We have great facilities and soon to be much improved with the 44million dollar basketball arena finishing up by next season. We have new track facility and indoor practice field as well. While the Dome is a nice facility for the FCS, something would need to be done there if we were to move up, I agree with ya on that. Not necessarily a new football stadium, but we would have to increase capacity up to 25-30K somehow. Most likely that would mean a whole new stadium, but I'm no architect, so who knows. Our baseball facility is also very nice. Our indoor practice field is a bubble, but there will be a permanent facility in the near future, plus we can practice in the Dome most of the time anyway, but when we can't we have the bubble.

But what happens when the bison quit winning championships? They havent had the crowds and following for the past 25 years...shit they havent even had them the past 6-7 years. So when the crowds die off, it becomes a lost cause? Unlike the Griz who have had a die hard fanbase for a very long time. I dont think Fargo is a community that lives and breathes Bison football unless theyre front runners.

 

[billings_poke]

Facilities at NDSU are tremendous! especially new $44 Million basketball arena, sweet baseball stadium, track & Wrestling/Volleyball will be in the basketball arena as well.

If Dome could expand to 25,000 somehow, Mountain West would take that over 18,000 people in a 38,000 stadium like Wyoming, air force, etc where its half empty!

NDSU is not mountain or West sorry but MWC will go to Texas long before NDSU gets a whiff is they expand

 

[Bisonation]

Spoken like a man that doesn't want NDSU dominating thier league.

Badlands griz. NDSU has 3 losing seasons in 65 years sorry but this is a program

 

[kemajic]

Herd, your facilities are great and based on your weather a dome stadium make sense. The way I see it. oil money and nice facilities are the trade off for having to live in ND.

I agree that western Montana has some beautifal scenery, but half of Montana looks no different than North Dakota. Maybe you are one of those that doesn't claim eastern Montana, but as far as people go and quality of living I see no big difference between ND and MT and I grew up just a scant 50 miles or so from your border. I could easily live in either state is what I'm saying, but I definitely could see how someone from western Montana would miss the mountains if they moved to ND or eastern MT.

The real mountains in Montana (the Beartooths) are actually in the south, but central, west vs. east. I look directly south to a perfect view of Granite Peak and I'm only 35 miles west of Billings.