Missoula, The Mecca of FCS Football?!?

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Missoula, The Mecca of FCS Football?!?

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So says Sam Herder at HERO Sports. Feel free to disagree....

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Now why should anyone disagee with Sam?
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DMoo531 wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 4:08 pm Now why should anyone disagee with Sam?
The average ungulate fan believes Fargo is the center of the college football universe.
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Yes, it is. Fargo is a close second. Delaware isn't in the conversation the past decade, but could easily get back if we finally hire a decent coach. Winning cures everything.
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How many college fb teams play in Missoula again, i forget

Baltimore is a better fb town FFS


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It’s a fucking awesome place to watch a game and a great and proud city. We honestly have no business trying to compete against all that support and resources but somehow we manage.
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kalm wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:03 pm It’s a fucking awesome place to watch a game and a great and proud city. We honestly have no business trying to compete against all that support and resources but somehow we manage.
Lots of tractor maintenance and meth cooking degrees being handed out in Cheney….. :coffee: :coffee: :coffee:
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Missoula is the Mecca and yet the road to the BSC Championship has gone through Sacramento since 2019. :coffee:
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CID1990 wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 6:23 pm How many college fb teams play in Missoula again, i forget

Baltimore is a better fb town FFS


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I love Baltimore but your FCS Mecca is Missoula.

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SDHornet wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:52 pm Missoula is the Mecca and yet the road to the BSC Championship has gone through Sacramento since 2019. :coffee:
Actually it went through Missoula this year. :coffee:
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kalm wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:03 pm It’s a fucking awesome place to watch a game and a great and proud city. We honestly have no business trying to compete against all that support and resources but somehow we manage.
That is, of course, because Cheney is neither loud nor cold enough.
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AZGrizFan wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:34 pm
kalm wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:03 pm It’s a fucking awesome place to watch a game and a great and proud city. We honestly have no business trying to compete against all that support and resources but somehow we manage.
Lots of tractor maintenance and meth cooking degrees being handed out in Cheney….. :coffee: :coffee: :coffee:

I assume the giant spark plug in the background is the Meth Department?

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AZGrizFan wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:34 pm
kalm wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:03 pm It’s a fucking awesome place to watch a game and a great and proud city. We honestly have no business trying to compete against all that support and resources but somehow we manage.
Lots of tractor maintenance and meth cooking degrees being handed out in Cheney….. :coffee: :coffee: :coffee:
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Ivytalk wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:41 am
AZGrizFan wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:34 pm

Lots of tractor maintenance and meth cooking degrees being handed out in Cheney….. :coffee: :coffee: :coffee:
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If it offers a degree in motel management, it can market itself as the Cornell of the Big Sky.
Dude goes to the Kremlin on the Charles to only end up losing countless political arguments on a football message board to a directional school rec management major.

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Mvemjsunpx wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:45 pm
AZGrizFan wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:34 pm

Lots of tractor maintenance and meth cooking degrees being handed out in Cheney….. :coffee: :coffee: :coffee:

I assume the giant spark plug in the background is the Meth Department?

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kalm wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:11 amOh look! Here I am paying respect to a fierce rival and the toothless hill folk of the Rattkesnake try and get all salty.
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Mvemjsunpx wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:33 am
kalm wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:11 amOh look! Here I am paying respect to a fierce rival and the toothless hill folk of the Rattkesnake try and get all salty.
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Bobby Clarke ftw.
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That looks like one electric atmosphere.
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I think we should examine the definition of "Mecca." Per dictionary.com, definition #2 (lowercase) says "any place that many people visit or hope to visit." That's pretty vague. Should it be, as Herder says, "Missoula is FCS at its peak (no pun intended), home to the Montana Grizzlies, a big-time stadium, a beautiful setting, great facilities, a downtown near campus that embraces the university with logos and memorabilia everywhere, and a fan base that cares and supports its team deeply"? Or should it be a place like EWU where there's a clear unique draw (namely the field, aptly nicknamed by one FCS wag on this board "the used maxipad?" Or maybe a place like Delaware or Harvard/Princeton with a super-old stadium with lots of character (like going to Soldier Field in Chicago or Lambeau Field in Green Bay)? And, oddly, the older FCS stadia like Delaware and the Ivies seem to have the most capacity. (Delaware at c. 20K, Harvard at c. 30K, and Yale at currently 61K, though it was as high as 70K in the past.)

SH's non-homer list (and I disqualify Hornet Stadium for many structural reasons as have been discussed ad nauseam on Hornet Sports):

For current team success: Montana and NDSU (Although I think that by playing in a dome, NDSU loses a LOT of home field advantage as determined by the elements. Of course, I've never been there, and NDSU fans and those who have gone there as road fans may beg to differ; I will, of course, cede to them.)

For stadium uniqueness: EWU (the "maxipad" effect")

For character: Harvard Stadium

Please feel free to chime in with your views. You may even have other categories. I'd love to hear those. And for those I've named, I'd love to visit one of these days. Travel costs are SO hard, though....
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89Hen wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:08 am
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That looks like one electric atmosphere.
Actual footage, 5:00 minutes to kickoff before UD’s last home game…

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SuperHornet wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:38 am I think we should examine the definition of "Mecca." Per dictionary.com, definition #2 (lowercase) says "any place that many people visit or hope to visit." That's pretty vague. Should it be, as Herder says, "Missoula is FCS at its peak (no pun intended), home to the Montana Grizzlies, a big-time stadium, a beautiful setting, great facilities, a downtown near campus that embraces the university with logos and memorabilia everywhere, and a fan base that cares and supports its team deeply"? Or should it be a place like EWU where there's a clear unique draw (namely the field, aptly nicknamed by one FCS wag on this board "the used maxipad?" Or maybe a place like Delaware or Harvard/Princeton with a super-old stadium with lots of character (like going to Soldier Field in Chicago or Lambeau Field in Green Bay)? And, oddly, the older FCS stadia like Delaware and the Ivies seem to have the most capacity. (Delaware at c. 20K, Harvard at c. 30K, and Yale at currently 61K, though it was as high as 70K in the past.)

SH's non-homer list (and I disqualify Hornet Stadium for many structural reasons as have been discussed ad nauseam on Hornet Sports):

For current team success: Montana and NDSU (Although I think that by playing in a dome, NDSU loses a LOT of home field advantage as determined by the elements. Of course, I've never been there, and NDSU fans and those who have gone there as road fans may beg to differ; I will, of course, cede to them.)

For stadium uniqueness: EWU (the "maxipad" effect")

For character: Harvard Stadium

Please feel free to chime in with your views. You may even have other categories. I'd love to hear those. And for those I've named, I'd love to visit one of these days. Travel costs are SO hard, though....
Seeing a game at WaGriz is on my bucket list, a game at the Fargo Dome isn't.

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- Grambling/Southern (or any big HBCU game for the halftime show and pageantry)

NDZU has a great homefield advantage but a game there isn't something I would consider an FCS must-do. Is a trip to the Fargo Dome a bigger deal to others on the Board then it is for me?
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kalm wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:49 am
89Hen wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:08 am That looks like one electric atmosphere.
Actual footage, 5:00 minutes to kickoff before UD’s last home game…

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kalm wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 10:49 am Actual footage, 5:00 minutes to kickoff before UD’s last home game…

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Looks like a nice venue. It is too bad the Hen are down to 14,000 average attendance. The days of 20k were awesome. Well, at least 14k is still almost double what that tampon holds.

BTW, it's nice of them to mark my last season ticket spot with that lone blue seat in the North End Zone (left side). 8-)
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UNI88 wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 11:29 am NDZU has a great homefield advantage but a game there isn't something I would consider an FCS must-do. Is a trip to the Fargo Dome a bigger deal to others on the Board then it is for me?
I'd say top 5 for me. WaGriz, FargoDome, UNIDome, and maybe Princeton and Dykehouse (most similar looking to UD prior to renovation). Past that it's slim pickings. Back in the day: Cowboy (McNeese) and Stambaugh (YSU) would have been cool.
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