FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

OzJohnnie · February 23, 2026, 06:39:14 PM

The SJU home schedule is excellent this year. I'll be subscribing again and up at 4am on a Sunday for these games.

faunch · February 23, 2026, 07:55:05 PM

Quote from: OzJohnnie on February 23, 2026, 06:39:14 PMThe SJU home schedule is excellent this year. I'll be subscribing again and up at 4am on a Sunday for these games.

I don't understand why we host BU, GAC and Concordia this year and were on the road with them last year. Figure out a way to make a schedule where the top 5 teams play 2 on the road and 2 at home against each other each season.

Patrick Coleman · February 23, 2026, 10:28:55 PM

Quote from: faunch on February 23, 2026, 07:55:05 PM
Quote from: OzJohnnie on February 23, 2026, 06:39:14 PMThe SJU home schedule is excellent this year. I'll be subscribing again and up at 4am on a Sunday for these games.

I don't understand why we host BU, GAC and Concordia this year and were on the road with them last year. Figure out a way to make a schedule where the top 5 teams play 2 on the road and 2 at home against each other each season.

Conference offices tend to not like to get involved in that sort of thing, and set master schedules via random draw.

hazzben · February 24, 2026, 11:26:38 AM

Will be interesting to see what this means for Drake/Walker and UST/Caruso. Walker was making real inroads recruiting in the Twin Cities. I'm sure that will remain an area of opportunity for him at Drake. Also probably a benefit for Bethel, SJU, and top 3rd of the MIAC. An ascendent UWRF, with tuition reciprocity, was a tough recruiting battle.

Winners would seem to be Bethel, SJU, Drake, UWP, UWL ... losers are UWRF (not wishing them ill, just think they take a clear step back post Blaha/Walker) and potentially UST.

art76 · Last Edit: **Yesterday** at 10:02:21 AM by art76

Quote from: Mister36 on February 23, 2026, 02:24:25 PMBethel officially announces schedule:

https://x.com/BethelRoyalsFB/status/2025992889507962972?s=20

Both NCC and St. Johns away

https://www.d3football.com/teams/Bethel/2026/index

We get a home night game against Hamline, which I appreciate, as I have a club launch scheduled that day as well.

faunch · Last Edit: **Yesterday** at 08:50:18 PM by faunch

This MIAC charging PPV for conference basketball playoffs....also women's basketball, and men's and women's hockey playoff streams are also PPV. Johnnies and Bennies have teams in 3 out of 4 of the playoff tournaments.

$10 per game...$25 for all games.
Thoughts?

OzJohnnie · Last Edit: **Today** at 12:30:26 AM by OzJohnnie

I'm in Delhi this week and was thinking about the new AI search engines and how powerful they are. Using Grok, Twitter's LLM which I have found is the best search engine available by a long way and leaving Google well in the dust. Anyway, I took a generic street picture, removed all the meta data and loaded it into grok. It not only picked the city, it picked the building behind me that I was standing outside of.

I wonder if the AD dept has the computer science department using some student job spots for training analytical models on opposition analysis. Play/scenario deep dives and trends, etc. OC's and DC's will really be able to lift their games at the lower levels like DIII.

DuffMan · **Today** at 04:14:23 PM

I get that you want it to be free, Faunch, but it costs money to produce these streams. Do you think the schools should just eat the cost? How much would it actually cost you to go to the game?

I'm not saying that I like having to pay, but if the option is paying for a decent broadcast vs. watching a CSS Football stream, I'll gladly pay the $10-$15.