NSIC Predictions

[USFIllini]

Just because I am itching for some football talk. Here is my uneducated predictions for the NSIC this season:
1- Kato
2- Bemidji
3- Winona
4- NSU
5- Duluth
6- USF
7- Wayne
8- Augie
9- SMSU
10- Mary
11- St Paul
12- Moorhead
13- Minot

[vikingfaithful]

You were looking through your purple tinted glasses when you ranked Augustana #8 HaHa. At least you realized the Coo is going through many changes.

1- Mankato. Safe pick every year
2-Winona. Just a feeling
3- Duluth. Always good
4-Augustana. Lots of talent returning
5-Wayne. Bohn best QB in league
6-Bemidji. Probably undervalued them
7-Sioux Falls. Big changes and lost much talent.
8-SMSU. Excellent HC
9-Northern. Who is the QB
10-MSUM. Could do better
11-Concordia. Lots of transfers every year
12-Mary. New HC
13-Minot. New HC
Will be a very competitive season.

[USFIllini]

You were looking through your purple tinted glasses when you ranked Augustana #8 HaHa. At least you realized the Coo is going through many changes.

1- Mankato. Safe pick every year
2-Winona. Just a feeling
3- Duluth. Always good
4-Augustana. Lots of talent returning
5-Wayne. Bohn best QB in league
6-Bemidji. Probably undervalued them
7-Sioux Falls. Big changes and lost much talent.
8-SMSU. Excellent HC
9-Northern. Who is the QB
10-MSUM. Could do better
11-Concordia. Lots of transfers every year
12-Mary. New HC
13-Minot. New HC
Will be a very competitive season.

I never said I was unbiased haha

[laker]

I have to give a shout out to Crookston. I did crops judging in HS.

[WSUWarriorFan]

I have to give a shout out to Crookston. I did crops judging in HS.

Did they forget to research Plattevilles logo? Also shout out to my second favorite D1 school K State.

[Purple Mav Man]

I have to give a shout out to Crookston. I did crops judging in HS.

I was surprised to learn Crop Judging was a thing. Even more shocking, I haven’t seen a West Texas thread about this previously…

[laker]

Did they forget to research Plattevilles logo? Also shout out to my second favorite D1 school K State.

I've always liked K-State. But I like Iowa State too. That can be a problem.

[laker]

I was surprised to learn Crop Judging was a thing. Even more shocking, I haven’t seen a West Texas thread about this previously…

I was in West Texas in April. Saw more cattle than crops. Some huge lots there.

[vikingfaithful]

Wonder where W. Texas gets it's feed to finish cattle for slaughter? Maybe from Renville, Yellow Medicine and Lac Qui Parle counties.

[laker]

Wonder where W. Texas gets it's feed to finish cattle for slaughter? Maybe from Renville, Yellow Medicine and Lac Qui Parle counties.

In 2011 the railroad added over a mile and a half of sidetrack on Highway 212 west of Buffalo Lake to south of my place. They have unit trains of 110 cars that they load with corn (and occasionally soybeans). It takes around 12 hours to fill it- sometimes they sit full depending on the railroad schedule (hurry up and wait!). They also do this for the Brownton Coop 16 miles east and the Danube Coop 30 miles west. So a lot of grain goes by train from Renville County. Also, there is an ethanol plant just across the border east of Granite Falls- they pile up the corn at Minnesota Falls ( a "suburb" of Sacred Heart) and ship it the mile or so. They will have unit trains of tank cars full of ethanol. The ethanol plant in Buffalo Lake is no more- to much bad management and dubious owners- the last from New Jersey who made "lots of things" but were never willing to be interviewed by the local paper. Of course when they declared bankruptcy the county gets stuck with the clean up. It still looks like the product of a bombing or a natural disaster. Clean up takes a long time.

[SW_Mustang]

I was surprised to learn Crop Judging was a thing. Even more shocking, I haven’t seen a West Texas thread about this previously…

SMSU holds meat inspection competitions. I remember being on campus and seeing signs directing people where to go to get their meat judged.

What a time.

[Purple Mav Man]

It only took 10 posts to go from NSIC Predictions to cattle slaughter, getting a history lesson about rural railroad tracks and their usage, as well as a discussion about meat judgment on college campuses. GD the off-season is a strange place.

It’s still golf season :)

[WSUWarriorFan]

It only took 10 posts to go from NSIC Predictions to cattle slaughter, getting a history lesson about rural railroad tracks and their usage, as well as a discussion about meat judgment on college campuses. GD the off-season is a strange place.

It’s still golf season :)

The off-season posts in the college football subredit. Conference rankings based on best brewery closest to campus, closest distances to various restaurant chains... people really do have too much time on their hands sometimes. Maybe I will do closest kwik trips to each NSIC campus.

[Matt Witwicki]

Not to get back on-topic here....daggum Laker..

The conference typically puts out their NSIC coaches poll at the beginning at August..first week.

Tom and I will be starting up our show shortly after that and will have our own thoughts on the order picked by the coaches and so forth. I typically do my quick coach-chats right after the teams report....and Tom and I will offer up our best guess on how the season goes = sure to be mistaken.

[SW_Mustang]

The off-season posts in the college football subredit. Conference rankings based on best brewery closest to campus, closest distances to various restaurant chains... people really do have too much time on their hands sometimes. Maybe I will do closest kwik trips to each NSIC campus.

The closest to SMSU would likely be in Redwood. The closest to MSU - Ricky Lloyd could hit it standing on the 50 with a well placed throw.

I'd also like to recommend the mac and cheese at the Cenex in Cottonwood. It's a short drive, but well worth it.

Anyway, I'm just hoping we go 7-4 and beat Valpo. Unlikely, but not impossible.