We were notified this afternoon from a reliable source and thus have reason to believe that Central Arkansas has bought out their return trip to The Alerus Center next season, which was set for September 8th, 2012.
After the Idaho State buyout debacle, we have to believe that the buyout is in the $125,000 – $175,000 range. Based on the amounts we have heard lately, we think it would cost at least that much to bring in another FCS opponent from a long distance away. Hopefully, the buyout is in that range. This is a huge chunk of change for an athletic department with a budget the size of UCA’s, which leads us to believe they will be getting a large payday to go play Arkansas or another SEC school in the geographical neighborhood. It’s interesting to note that UCA already is scheduled to open the 2012 season in Oxford, Mississippi to take on the Ole Miss Rebels in week 1.
UND has found a replacement for this game. UND will host Portland State in a non-conference game on Sept 8th, 2012. Now UND has 11 teams back on the slate but 10 of them are DI teams so now we need to get rid of that SD Mines game. Thank you Faison for finding a replacement game and thank you Vikings for accepting.
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:With the nickname issue being "resolved" and you guys in a conference...
Time to call Gene Taylor and put a decade of impossibly bad blood to bed - and give people what they want... a non-conference Nickel Game.
I have a feeling that time is getting closer. The two teams will be playing (not every year but at least playing) by the time this decade is over.
it makes no sense... guaranteed home sell-outs... guaranteed tv game... probably get on ESPN3 at this point - most years it will have playoff implications - given the strength of the two programs (now and in the future)
If Auburn and Alabama can play every year... I think it may take political interference... pass a law requiring the game... that's what it took in Alabama...
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Darell1976 wrote:
I have a feeling that time is getting closer. The two teams will be playing (not every year but at least playing) by the time this decade is over.
it makes no sense... guaranteed home sell-outs... guaranteed tv game... probably get on ESPN3 at this point - most years it will have playoff implications - given the strength of the two programs (now and in the future)
If Auburn and Alabama can play every year... I think it may take political interference... pass a law requiring the game... that's what it took in Alabama...
Not as long as Gene Taylor is there. He will never go for every year, and as long as there is a team no matter the calibur willing to go to the Fargodome UND is just going to half to wait. As for the UND front they have a full DI 11 team schedule (no FBS teams either) in 2013 so that year is out unless there is a buyout. UND has Valpo, SDSU and Montana as non-conference games. So maybe 2014 UND plays at NDSU and 2016 it gets returned to the Alerus. Who knows. Maybe the NCAA will up the games to 12 like the FBS for every year.
Darell1976 wrote: Who knows. Maybe the NCAA will up the games to 12 like the FBS for every year.
When you have five playoff rounds that should not even be considered. Small college football is not supposed to be year-round.
Between the season, the playoffs, off-season conditioning, and spring ball, college football has ALWAYS been year-round.
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TwinTownBisonFan wrote:it makes no sense... guaranteed home sell-outs... guaranteed tv game... probably get on ESPN3 at this point - most years it will have playoff implications - given the strength of the two programs (now and in the future)
If Auburn and Alabama can play every year... I think it may take political interference... pass a law requiring the game... that's what it took in Alabama...
Aren't Auburn and Alabama both in the SEC?
Personally I don't think it will happen as long as Gene Taylor is employed by NDSU.
If UND replaced it with PSU, does that hint we're going to see more Big Sky teams playing each other "out-of-conference" now that the BS expanded to 14 teams (which includes almost all western programs)?
TwinTownBisonFan wrote:it makes no sense... guaranteed home sell-outs... guaranteed tv game... probably get on ESPN3 at this point - most years it will have playoff implications - given the strength of the two programs (now and in the future)
If Auburn and Alabama can play every year... I think it may take political interference... pass a law requiring the game... that's what it took in Alabama...
Aren't Auburn and Alabama both in the SEC?
Personally I don't think it will happen as long as Gene Taylor is employed by NDSU.
Didn't matter... they didn't play
From Wiki
Tensions further built when, after both 1906 and 1907 contests, Auburn head coach Mike Donahue threatened to cancel the series if Alabama head coach "Doc" Pollard continued employing his elaborate formations and shifts.[4] The series was indeed suspended after the 1907 game when the schools could not come to agreement over the amount of expenses to be paid players, as well as from where officials for the game should be obtained.[5]
In 1947 the Alabama House of Representatives passed a resolution encouraging the schools to "make possible the inauguration of a full athletic program between the two schools".[6] The schools were disinclined to resume the series despite the passage of the resolution, since it did not have the effect of law. However, the Alabama congress threatened to withhold state funding from the schools unless they DID resume the rivalry. With that threat in mind, Ralph B. Draughon, the president of Auburn (then named the Alabama Polytechnic Institute), and Alabama president John Gallalee decided during the winter and spring of 1948 to end the disagreement and renew the series.
