The Big 5, the Mountain West, and NDSU

[56BISON73]

IF NDSU were 6-2 or 5-3 in FCS would it affect your home attendance?

Not much.........

[Christopher Moen]

Depend on where its at. Ive been to games where there is 2-3k. Others may be 500. A lot more mile in the MWC and the WAC. Our fans will show up in numbers to an away game on the coast once a year. But 4-5? If its with in 2-3 hours we will show up in force if there are tickets to be had.

Personally for me, getting to the away games would be much easier with USAFA, CSU, Wyoming and New Mexico being fairly short drives. With that said, I'm not sure the MW office would be too happy allowing a FCS school in their conference and having them dominate fairly quick. It would prove that they are not at the same level as the elite P5 schools as they want to believe.

[scottietohottie]

Well we could get rid of Lee Timmerman pretty easy with every away game starting after his bedtime.

[StL Bison Fan]

How many NDSU fans travel now?

Sometimes more of us than home team fans.
Illinois state for sure. Indiana state also.
Outside the stadium at siu more of them. Inside, more of us.

[Honeybooboo]

Personally for me, getting to the away games would be much easier with USAFA, CSU, Wyoming and New Mexico being fairly short drives. With that said, I'm not sure the MW office would be too happy allowing a FCS school in their conference and having them dominate fairly quick. It would prove that they are not at the same level as the elite P5 schools as they want to believe.

MWC has a pretty inflated picture of themselves that's for sure

[westnodak93bison]

MWC has a pretty inflated picture of themselves that's for sure

The are FBS

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[Christopher Moen]

The are FBS

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True, but in reality most of their teams are not much better than the teams in the MVFC.

Their budgets, however, are much better.


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[El_Chapo]

How many would travel for the away games? After the first two years the novelty is going to wear off.

kind of like sdsu? there was only 1200 bison fans therr this year . NDSU vs a Power 5 team in a bowl game would be amazing

[bruinbison]

Quote Originally Posted by El_Chapo View Post
I did some research:

NDSU to Mountain West: TV deal pays $1.6 million to each school. CFP money pays $5 million to each school. March madness $1.5 million to each. NDSU = $8 million more in revenue

Lets do this already

Could you please provide some links to recent articles that show any Mountain West Conference interest in expanding with NDSU.
Am genuinely interested in seeing these and you must be be aware of them from your research.

Bump......

[CaBisonFan]

The only two footprints that make any sense for travel are the Big 10 West and the Big 12. This is for both the teams and the fans. Not holding my breath.