Quote from: The Third Division on February 09, 2026, 11:53:01 AMI'm confident this topic has been discussed for years in this website so I hate to bring it up again.

With NDSU moving up to FBS, My understanding is that mount union didn't move up their football program to D2 because it would have involved all their sports moving up to d2, and Mount Union didn't want to offer athletic scholarships.

Is there anything else I'm missing?

So besides the basic logistical issues of moving within a subdivision to moving entirely to a new division another huge difference here is that there's no financial incentive for Mount Union to go to D2.

With the current economics of D1 football there's plenty of reason for a school like NDSU to move up to FBS because of TV money. There's not a similar incentive for a D3 school to move up to D2. I don't think D2 football even gets materially more media coverage than D3 does.

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Quote from: pradierguy on February 05, 2026, 02:07:38 PMMount Union is adding Women's Flag Football as an official sport. I wonder if any current staff gets plucked to run that program?

That hasn't happened at other schools, for what it's worth.

I'm not trying to be "well actually guy" but I happen to know that that did happen at Thiel.

Their linebackers coach became the head flag football coach: https://thielathletics.com/news/2025/12/5/bevier-named-inaugural-thiel-womens-flag-football-head-coach.aspx

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Quote from: Dr. Acula on January 28, 2026, 11:28:08 AMListening to Zac Jackson's podcast from the Senior Bowl.  He said there was buzz of "who is this kid from JCU?"  Sounds like Montgomery is opening some eyes down there.  Also saw on Daniel Jeremiah's draft top 100 that the safety from Toledo is #19.  I'm curious what type of talent VK is going to be able to get to Cuse and develop.

With all the hype I saw on social media I was suprised to see that he had zero touches in the game

The game is actually the least important part of Senior Bowl week.

Regardless of relative importance I was just surprised.

Quote from: Dr. Acula on January 28, 2026, 11:28:08 AMListening to Zac Jackson's podcast from the Senior Bowl.  He said there was buzz of "who is this kid from JCU?"  Sounds like Montgomery is opening some eyes down there.  Also saw on Daniel Jeremiah's draft top 100 that the safety from Toledo is #19.  I'm curious what type of talent VK is going to be able to get to Cuse and develop.

With all the hype I saw on social media I was suprised to see that he had zero touches in the game

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Quote from: Dr. Acula on January 28, 2026, 11:28:08 AMListening to Zac Jackson's podcast from the Senior Bowl.  He said there was buzz of "who is this kid from JCU?"  Sounds like Montgomery is opening some eyes down there.  Also saw on Daniel Jeremiah's draft top 100 that the safety from Toledo is #19.  I'm curious what type of talent VK is going to be able to get to Cuse and develop.

boy are the Polian's taking a beating in the social media world the past week or so, hopefully the JCU WR can get drafted.  He is the type of athlete that can break the D3FB draft dry spell.

VK is one of the top DC in all of college football.  His 'Cuse defenses will be absolutely nasty within a couple of years.  VK is a leader of men to a tee

With all the videos I've seen of JCU WR Ty Montgomery absolutely torching FBS defensive backs, I've really got to hand it to Mount Union's D the last few years. 2024 playoff matchup we held him to 2 catches for 24 yards. This year he had a lot of catches (10) but he only had 89 yards receiving and 0 TDs. Kind of amazing, when you see how well he matches up against guys who will likely get drafted.

A few PAC teams have announced as well

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Quote from: D3fanboy on January 14, 2026, 02:31:53 PMhttps://footballfoundation.org/news/2026/1/14/nff-announces-all-star-2026-college-football-hall-of-fame-class.aspx

the all-time great Jordan Lynch of Northern Illinois makes the CFBHOF, but Nate Kmic and Bill Borchert are on the outside looking in...makes perfect sense

Lynch was 3rd in the Heisman voting and took a mid-major team to the Orange Bowl. Dude was a beast as a dual threat QB. He had a great college career. No need to try to diminish him just cuz your guys didn't get in yet.

Literally all of the finalists had great college careers and were "beasts". But the all time, all division rushing leader should be a no doubter

Former all time, all division rushing leader unfortunately.

Covid asterisk

Both Kmic and mcLaughlin (current rushing record holder) both played in the same number of games

Seven of those games were during the COVID season and eligibility free.  If Kmic had seven extra games, he'd probably be knocking on the door of 10k yards

It's irrelevant, they both have the same number of games to accumulate the yardage. Nobody had "Extra games" compared to one another.  Obviously it's not a perfect comparison, becuase number of touches differ, but I'm just saying the Covid thing doesn't matter in this case

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Quote from: D3fanboy on January 14, 2026, 02:31:53 PMhttps://footballfoundation.org/news/2026/1/14/nff-announces-all-star-2026-college-football-hall-of-fame-class.aspx

the all-time great Jordan Lynch of Northern Illinois makes the CFBHOF, but Nate Kmic and Bill Borchert are on the outside looking in...makes perfect sense

Lynch was 3rd in the Heisman voting and took a mid-major team to the Orange Bowl. Dude was a beast as a dual threat QB. He had a great college career. No need to try to diminish him just cuz your guys didn't get in yet.

Literally all of the finalists had great college careers and were "beasts". But the all time, all division rushing leader should be a no doubter

Former all time, all division rushing leader unfortunately.

Covid asterisk

Both Kmic and mcLaughlin (current rushing record holder) both played in the same number of games

Quote from: purple on January 15, 2026, 11:58:54 PMDorian Grant told me on Wednesday he was returning to Mount Union.

Who the hell is Dorian Grant? I hope he's half as good as Davion Grant was. 

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Quote from: blue_jays on January 14, 2026, 05:22:46 PM

Quote from: D3fanboy on January 14, 2026, 02:31:53 PMhttps://footballfoundation.org/news/2026/1/14/nff-announces-all-star-2026-college-football-hall-of-fame-class.aspx

the all-time great Jordan Lynch of Northern Illinois makes the CFBHOF, but Nate Kmic and Bill Borchert are on the outside looking in...makes perfect sense

Lynch was 3rd in the Heisman voting and took a mid-major team to the Orange Bowl. Dude was a beast as a dual threat QB. He had a great college career. No need to try to diminish him just cuz your guys didn't get in yet.

Literally all of the finalists had great college careers and were "beasts". But the all time, all division rushing leader should be a no doubter

Former all time, all division rushing leader unfortunately.

Quote from: D3fanboy on January 15, 2026, 10:52:53 AMUC Davis HC (former Boise OC) - talking about his offensive philosophy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDf7GdPl9p4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEipR2BrUB8

hopefully Burke brings in some of the Boise (Dan Hawkins) and Davis (Plough) with his LK background and Mount offense gets back to where they once were. 

I've never seen a QB at any level run the zone-read / RPO better than KB

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Quote from: D3fanboy on January 11, 2026, 10:45:06 AMCongrats to Kaleb Brown on his commitment to Tarleton State (FCS).  The Texans just ended the season ranked 6th.  Damn good program, hopefully he gets the playing time and shows out.

Things don't seem to be going as well for the other Mount guys in the portal.  Nick Turner is participating in "All Star" combines and all quiet on the Davion Grant front.  I bet that his "agents" are just working really hard behind the scenes.....

I noticed that Kaleb Brown had some offers and I'm happy for him. He's earned that opportunity...I still wonder if he was even allowed an extra year if he wouldn't stayed at Mount Union.

Kappas brings some energy back to the program. He's already out there recruiting. If you didn't listen to the interview he did with Kenny Roda, it's worth a listen to great his excitement level to be back and trust he has in Dartt.

I think if he could have stayed at Mount he would, based on his post-JCU press conference comments. I'm still of the theory that guys can get an extra year at a different level but not entirely sure.

Quote from: mucgrad06 on January 04, 2026, 10:52:28 PMMaybe UWRF doesn't have a kicker. Bc they have left 9 potential points on the field

I have to disagree with the "UWRF should have kicked FG takes." Being aggressive was part of their offense all year, they frequently went for it on 4th down and didn't take field goals.

I think it made perfect sense to have the same aggressive mentality in the Stagg Bowl, you don't want to change up the strategy that got you there in the first place.

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Quote from: D3fanboy on January 04, 2026, 10:43:49 PMIf NCC doesn't pull off the comeback, I really don't want to hear their "dynasty" compared to Mount or even UWW. 

I certainly wouldn't compare Mount or UWW of yester year to current NCC.
IMHO, dynasties repeat as champions during their reign. Unfortunately, on the national level, NCC does not qualify as "dynastic" for that reason. CCIW dynasty? Yes. D3 National dynasty? Not yet. Until NCC has an uninterrupted succession of championships, they can not be considered "dynastic" by definition. Congrats to RF on an outstanding effort all around, players and coaches. Congrats to NCC on their run this year. I feel for those players and coaches.

It is shocking that despite how much the D3 media entities slob all over NCC, that the Cards have never won back to back titles.  Especially in this era of D3FB...

NCC isn't as dominant as Mount or UWW were back in the day, but I think reaching 6 straight titles and winning 3 Stagg Bowls qualifies as some type of dynasty. It's definitely NOT NOT a dynasty of some sorts lol

Quote from: Fido0650 on January 04, 2026, 08:12:35 PMIt took North Central about 2 minutes to score, River Falls goes 3 and out.  They have no chance of winning tonight no matter how fast the offense goes.

I was thinking the same thing after that first drive, but I also remembered our first drive against JCU this year.