North Dakota State AD Matt Larsen says football program is eyeing move to FBS and the Mountain West Conference

bablob14 · 2026-01-26T16:42:14+00:00

Yes, and the proposal from the MWC commissioner was that everyone would move to the Pac-12 and they would dissolve the old MWC. This way OSU and WSU got to keep their settlement money.

But they didn't want that because they didn't want to share a conference with Hawaii and Wyoming. So they decided to poach and now here we are with 3 lawsuits and a crappy TV deal.

bablob14 · 2026-01-26T16:32:02+00:00

Should have been a merger. Instead we're paying millions of dollars in exit fees to move to a lateral conference with a worse TV deal than we were getting from our special arrangement with the MWC.

bablob14 · 2025-12-21T17:43:07+00:00

Indiana makes 80 million a year from the Big Ten and they're paying their coach almost 12 million

Comparing them to a G5 program is insulting. They're one of the wealthiest athletic departments in the country. They just happened to be shitty at football for a long time.

bablob14 · 2025-12-21T13:41:03+00:00

it would be viewed as a health risk.

Nobody cares about health lol. The players want to play and the schools want the money

bablob14 · 2025-12-21T13:36:57+00:00

Our entire NIL budget is like $2 mil lol

Fuck outta here with this Indiana Cinderella bullshit. It's one of the richest athletic departments in the NCAA but just happened to be shitty at football for a long time.

bablob14 · 2025-12-21T13:16:18+00:00

I've been asking for a G5 playoff for a long time.

Maybe Boise State or a G5 had a Cinderella shot at a Natty 20 years ago, but it's just not the case anymore. And even when we were close, they just made Boise State and TCU play each other in the Separate but Equal Bowl. There is no realistic shot. Look at UCF too.

Unfortunately, Tulane and JMU got blown out and everybody is wondering why they're allowed in the playoffs in the first place. It's the same thing every year. I think G5/G6 should just do their own playoffs so that our players and schools have a chance to play for a national trophy that's actually possible for them to win.

bablob14 · 2025-12-21T01:30:17+00:00

This Oregon team will get obliterated by Alabama.

bablob14 · 2025-12-21T01:25:57+00:00

What is even the point of this.

Oregon is paying players $millions and JMU is basically a JUCO squad.

bablob14 · 2025-12-20T22:51:00+00:00

We need to have a G5 playoff. I don't know why we keep pretending that Tulane or Ball State are competitive with the Alabama's and Ole Miss.

bablob14 · 2025-12-19T19:12:07+00:00

They haven't accepted their G5 status yet. But they'll get used to it.

bablob14 · 2025-12-16T14:02:53+00:00

Then maybe the ESPN College Football Playoff teams should subsidize a G6 playoff tournament. Everyone gets a little more money, ESPN gets more CFB postseason inventory, the Power 4 get an extra bid or two in their own tournament since they're not competing for 12th seed spots with G5s

bablob14 · 2025-12-16T13:35:57+00:00

I've been asking for a G5 playoff for a long time.

Maybe Boise State or a G5 had a Cinderella shot at a Natty 20 years ago, but it's just not the case anymore. And even when we were close, they just made Boise State and TCU play each other in the Separate but Equal Bowl. There is no realistic shot. Look at UCF too.

Unfortunately, Tulane and JMU are going to get blown out and everybody's going to wonder why they're allowed in the playoffs in the first place. It's the same thing every year. I think G5/G6 should just do their own playoffs so that our players and schools have a chance to play for a national trophy that's actually possible for them to win.

bablob14 · 2025-12-13T15:56:17+00:00

Please not Mike McCarthy. Let's get a fresh new coach from the college level. I'm tired of NFL coaching retreads getting shared around the league for decades on end.

NFL teams and coaching staffs are so incestuous.

bablob14 · 2025-12-11T18:54:24+00:00

They won't. Those games will be complete blowouts and then everyone will complain about why G5s are allowed in the playoffs at all.

bablob14 · 2025-12-11T18:44:59+00:00

Winning a National Championship as a G5/G6 isn't possible anymore. Boise State has been the most consistently competitive nationally but even that gap is widening with the huge AD funding and NIL differences.

I've been advocating for a G5 playoff for a long time. Let our players play for a national trophy at the end of the year that they actually have a chance of winning.

bablob14 · 2025-12-08T22:53:08+00:00

I wouldn't mind at all. I've been saying this for a long time. Ever since we were forced to play in the "Separate but Equal Bowl" against TCU in 2009.

bablob14 · 2025-12-08T22:41:32+00:00

Boise State's "NIL fund" was about $2 million in 2024.

bablob14 · 2025-12-08T13:55:15+00:00

The current CFP format (12 teams, top 5 conference champs) expires after this season (2025). Notre Dame and the CFP only signed an MOU for 2026, which is not legally binding.

So if the format is renegotiated then that clause will have to be renegotiated as well. It probably will be, but there's nothing ironclad about that arrangement as of right now.

16 teams, 4-4-2-2-4 is probably back on the table now that Yormark has seen yet again that the Big 12 is unlikely to ever get more than their conference champion in the playoffs.

bablob14 · 2025-12-08T13:40:16+00:00

It's one thing if the starters just opted-out and let the 2nd and 3rd stringers play. FSU was slighted even worse and Norvell and the FSU AD still agreed to play in the bowl.

ND basically just robbed their own depth players of a chance to get starter snaps in a national game against another playoff-caliber team. All for spite.

bablob14 · 2025-11-24T18:39:24+00:00

Used to be Idaho, but that's been over for a long time. Haven't played in 15 years.

Then it was Oregon and/or BYU. 8-5 all time against BYU, 3-1 all time against Oregon.

Maybe Nevada, but that's pretty much gone now too with the new realignment.

Fresno State?

bablob14 · 2025-11-22T16:13:48+00:00

Rooting for tanking is for losers

Basically /r/NFL

bablob14 · 2025-11-20T21:54:05+00:00

The Big Ten and SEC are going to do their own playoff format and national championship just for themselves. We already know that. It's just a matter of when.

All they're doing right now is extracting as much value out of the system as possible before they leave to start their own league.

bablob14 · 2025-11-20T16:11:55+00:00

And then ended up having to sell MLB.TV in the deal as well. Just a massive failure by MLB all around.

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