What Happens Now? Re: FCS

[Silvertip]

MSU had an excellent chance to promoted FCS by playing the national champion this year, but chose to schedule to a home game with Great Clips Academy instead.

Nobody outside of North Dakota or Montana cared about that game. It's not like it was going to be on ESPN in prime time and be the talk of college football. :roll:

Plus, are the schools who move up "doing what's best for FCS"?

:lol: Kidding, right? If you had the opportunity to advance to a better company you'd pass on it worried how it might affect your former employer :?: I don't think so...

 

[Spanky]

griz4life.....everyone in the top 12? I assume you mean the top 12 of FCS? What about the majority of the nation's football fans? Do you think they really care?

 

[TheBud]

Silvertip & kemajic - ditto!

If you have a different outlook for the vector of FCS, let's hear it.

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Thanks for the laugh, old man! THAT is funny!

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[griz4life]

griz4life.....everyone in the top 12? I assume you mean the top 12 of FCS? What about the majority of the nation's football fans? Do you think they really care?

I mean the one's interested in FCS, Spanky. Like you.

 

[HerdFan12]

FCS has never been a brand promoted by its members, or even protected. Few schools do what's best for FCS when push comes to shove. MSU had an excellent chance to promoted FCS by playing the national champion this year, but chose to schedule to a home game with Great Clips Academy instead.
You can't promote FCS if the subdivision's most intriguing matchups are cancelled for mediocre payouts. And let's face it, even an FBS bodybag game of $500,000 is mediocre in the grand scale of D-I football.

That said, all this hand wringing about the "best of FCS" moving on is just jibber jabber. When Nevada and Marshall, and Troy and North Texas and Louisiana Tech and Akron and Boise State and Connecticut etc, etc., moved on they were all thinking they were the best of FCS. And guess what? FCS just kept on being as uh, "significant" , to DI football as it's ever been. And it will remain that significant moving forward no matter who leaves.

There is just one thing. That 1996 Marshall team was the Best of IAA. There was 22 players on that team that was either drafted (2 First Round in Moss and Pennington) or signed UFA deals and played at least a year in the NFL.

Schools should do whats best for the school not whats best for the division or even conference they play in.

 

[brian s]

It has been said to "be careful what you wish for". It will be amusing to read egriz a year or two after we move up, and read the whining and bitching about going 3-8, with a half-full stadium, few Montana kids on the roster, and little hope for going to a third-tier bowl game looming on the horizon.

 

[kemajic]

It has been said to "be careful what you wish for". It will be amusing to read egriz a year or two after we move up, and read the whining and bitching about going 3-8, with a half-full stadium, few Montana kids on the roster, and little hope for going to a third-tier bowl game looming on the horizon.

Don't waste any energy worrying about that with the fortitude that exists in UM admin and the BOR. Worry instead about a steady diet of the Pan Handle St's, Ft. Lewis's and Western St's.