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Post by valpo04 on Jan 22, 2006 7:07:20 GMT -5
ESPN"This raises our profile, hopefully helps recruiting, but it may not help scheduling. But what the heck," Miles said. NDSU landed the game with Wisconsin because Phillips had been an assistant coach under Bo Ryan. The Bison got their $35,000 guaranteed check for the game, Miles said, a game that was scheduled this week because the Badgers had a bye week in the Big Ten.
NDSU's hope is to gain membership into the Big Sky or Mid-Continent at some point, but for now the Bison have entered into a scheduling consortium of home-and-home games in the same season with fellow independents South Dakota State, IPFW, Texas Pan-American and Utah Valley State. But we digress here.
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Post by fargobison on Jan 22, 2006 22:50:18 GMT -5
NDSU would love to get into the Mid-Con, and I think more and more Bison fans are becoming interested in Joing the Mid-Con. Here is some more info about NDSU. NDSU is located in Fargo ND and has an enrollment of 12,000. For years NDSU was in the NCC(D2) conference and enjoyed a lot of success in DII(20 titles) but eventually it just seemed like DII was not a good fit for NDSU athletics so we jumped to division I a few years ago. NDSU may be a ways away from some of the other Mid-Con schools but NDSU has good facilities, fan support, and a basketball team that is young and looks to have a bright future. Here is a few pictures of NDSU's facilites. The FargoDome(football-18,900, basketball-14,000) The FargoDome is used mostly for football but if there are basketball games that could draw 7,000 or more the FargoDome is available to use. The BSA(6,500) This is the BSA post renovation, which hopefully will began soon. Newman Outdoor Field(4,059) Also if you want to know more about NDSU here are a few links for you. NDSU athletics www.gobison.com/ NDSU message board www.bisonville.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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Post by crusaderguy08 on Jan 22, 2006 23:40:01 GMT -5
Thanks for posting the NDSU info. I wish you guys luck on your bid to enter the Mid-Con and I think you would be a welcomed addition. Your facilities look great! We, here at Valpo could only dream of a football and baseball facility like yours and the basketball facility looks good as well. Hopefully our teams will be traveling to play in your facilities soon!
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Post by 89rabbit on Jan 23, 2006 0:13:24 GMT -5
Since we are approaching the Mid-Con together here is SDSU's info and some pics. Here are some quick facts, SDSU is the largest and only D-I University in South Dakota (enrollment of 11,021) located in Brookings, SD. Our Colors are blue and yellow and we are the Jackrabbits. SDSU's best sports are Men's and Women's Basketball (although the Men are rebuilding this season). Our Men's Basketball team has won 1 NCAA D-II Championship, 1 NCAA D-II Runner-Up, and made 24 NCAA D-II tourney appearences (3rd most all time), won 20 NCC Championships (Most all time). We lead the Nation in D-II attendence 6 out of the last 10 years we were in the division. Our last season in D-II, '03-'04, we spent the whole season ranked in the top 20 with several weeks being ranked #1. The Women won the D-II Championship in 2003 and made three straight appearances in the Elite 8, before moving up to D-I. We play our games on Campus at Frost Arena (Cap. 8,500) and just spent $3 million on new score boards. Frost Arena (Cap. 8,500) New Scoreboard Coughlin-Alumni Stadium (Cap. 16,000) New Scoreboard Baseball has two homes. Bob Shelden Field (Cap. 1,500) Sioux Falls Stadium (Cap. 4,500 - where we play our "bigger" games) Finally SDSU joined the Mid-Con as an Associate Member in the sports of Men's and Women's Swimming earlier this season. If you would like to know more about the Jackrabbits feel free to visit the links below. Offical Athletics Site: www.gojacks.com/Fan Site: diaafootball.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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Post by crusaderguy08 on Jan 23, 2006 0:29:30 GMT -5
Thanks to you also for posting the SDSU info. I would repeat the sentiments in my earlier post to you as well. I absolutely love the new scoreboard in the basketball arena! Hope both Dakota schools find a welcoming home in the Mic-Con very soon!
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Post by hite on Jan 23, 2006 11:01:36 GMT -5
That scoreboard is pretty sweet. When do we get one of those in the ARC?
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Post by rich23 on Jan 23, 2006 11:39:12 GMT -5
That scoreboard is pretty sweet. When do we get one of those in the ARC? When VU becomes a state school and can get some state money. Seriously though, both of those school's facilities look very nice and rival, or just plain blow away, most, if not all, of those in the Mid-Con - especially from a football and baseball standpoint. One of the main concerns I think would be from a geographic/travel aspect. Spliting the conference into a divisional format may be one option, but I'm not sure how popular that is with the current member's coaches and administrators. It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.
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Post by 89rabbit on Jan 23, 2006 11:53:58 GMT -5
Actually the SDSU Foundation (Private fund raising arm of the University) fronted the Athletic Dept. the money for the boards. The Athletic Dept. will in turn repay the Foundation with add revenues generated from the boards. If I recall correctly it will take less then 6 seasons to pay back the $3 million dollars.
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Post by rich23 on Jan 23, 2006 12:48:55 GMT -5
89Rabbit, I just wanted to make sure that you didn't think my original comment was meant to be a slam towards SDSU. That wasn't the intent, I was making light of VU's limitations of being a small private university. Even with all of our basketball success, it is still a struggle for us when it comes to budgets and fundraising. We can probably only dream of having a scoreboard like that hanging from the ceiling of the ARC. Not that I'm complaining, that's just economic reality.
It sounds like you have a nice basketball tradition and from what you said, the b-ball teams draw really well. How about the other sports?
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Post by fargobison on Jan 23, 2006 12:51:42 GMT -5
One of the main concerns I think would be from a geographic/travel aspect. Spliting the conference into a divisional format may be one option, but I'm not sure how popular that is with the current member's coaches and administrators. It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. Here is how the Mid-Con may look if NDSU, SDSU, and IPFW are added. East Chicago State IPFW IUPUI Oakland Valpo Western Illinois West Cenetary North Dakota St Oral Roberts South Dakota St Southern Utah UMKC Each team would play teams within their half of the conference twice and once against a team from the other side. So this really would make travel costs about the same as they are now, the only problem I could see is that there are more teams gunning for that one bid.
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Post by 89rabbit on Jan 23, 2006 13:51:22 GMT -5
89Rabbit, I just wanted to make sure that you didn't think my original comment was meant to be a slam towards SDSU. That wasn't the intent, I was making light of VU's limitations of being a small private university. Even with all of our basketball success, it is still a struggle for us when it comes to budgets and fundraising. We can probably only dream of having a scoreboard like that hanging from the ceiling of the ARC. Not that I'm complaining, that's just economic reality. It sounds like you have a nice basketball tradition and from what you said, the b-ball teams draw really well. How about the other sports? No I didn't think it was a slam at all. I was just pointing out that the boards can fund themselves. SDSU did it themselves so that we could reap the benefits once the Foundation is payed back. Ahother way to finance new boards is to go through DSM. DSM will provide the boards and do all that leg work. They will find all the sponsers but they keep the rev. even after the board is payed for. USD a D-II school in South Dakota did it this way. Of course their boards are not rearly as nice. www.daktronics.com/dak_service.cfm?page=marketing
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Post by fwalum on Jan 25, 2006 23:04:55 GMT -5
One of the main concerns I think would be from a geographic/travel aspect. Spliting the conference into a divisional format may be one option, but I'm not sure how popular that is with the current member's coaches and administrators. It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out. Here is how the Mid-Con may look if NDSU, SDSU, and IPFW are added. East Chicago State IPFW IUPUI Oakland Valpo Western Illinois West Cenetary North Dakota St Oral Roberts South Dakota St Southern Utah UMKC Each team would play teams within their half of the conference twice and once against a team from the other side. So this really would make travel costs about the same as they are now, the only problem I could see is that there are more teams gunning for that one bid. Actually this arrangement could help greatly with travel. We currently travel approx 4525 miles during a season. With the expanded conference the most we could travel in a season would be 4071 miles and the least could be 2791 in alternating years. A more reasonable travel schedule would have us doing 3149 one year and 3713 the next. The long range trips per year (trips over 300 miles) would be reduced from 4 to 3. I do agree that this would mean that 3 more teams would be chasing the elusive single bid and for that reason alone I doubt that the conference expands to 12 teams.
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Post by milwvu04 on Jan 26, 2006 1:24:13 GMT -5
Here is how the Mid-Con may look if NDSU, SDSU, and IPFW are added. East Chicago State IPFW IUPUI Oakland Valpo Western Illinois West Centenary North Dakota St Oral Roberts South Dakota St Southern Utah UMKC As much as I have wanted Valpo to find a step up from the Mid-Con, I think adding these teams and splitting the conference would be very good for all of the schools. As mentioned, the added teams would create more competition in the one-bid conference, but we would expect a more difficult schedule in a new conference anyway. Are all of the schools commited to staying in the conference? I thought Centenary expressed interest in leaving the conference?
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Post by nkvu on Jan 26, 2006 7:48:22 GMT -5
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Post by nkvu on Jan 26, 2006 8:05:21 GMT -5
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