The Big 5, the Mountain West, and NDSU

[344Johnson]

I'd say first in the Missouri Valley Football Conference is better. We'll go FBS when the time comes and not before. Who wants to be third?

Are you saying winning the valley is tougher or am I misreading this?

[Hammersmith]

Are you saying winning the valley is tougher or am I misreading this?

You're misreading. Winning the Valley means a conference championship, an autobid to the tourney, a likely top-4 seed in the tourney, and a probable deep run in the tourney. A third place in the MWC means a lower tier bowl game and that's it. That was his point.

[JMB]

You are correct. We did lose our coach. But by moving up how does that change anything? It doesnt unless NDSU figures out a way to bring in an additional 10 million a year EVERY YEAR.

I still agree as I did when I wrote it orginally. Having a good record at FCS and being ready for the next level are too entirely different discussions.

[HerdBot]

We could never compete dollar wise vs the big 5 but 10 million more per year would put us on the top of the mac conference and would pull us to Wyomings current level. The question is could we raise the money?

We can obviously do more with less but we MUST increase coaches salaries to protect the program

[BisonNation11]

We could never compete dollar wise vs the big 5 but 10 million more per year would put us on the top of the mac conference and would pull us to Wyomings current level. The question is could we raise the money?

We can obviously do more with less but we MUST increase coaches salaries to protect the program

Fire inflation, save coaches!

[reformedUNDfan]

step by step.

[tjbison]

We could never compete dollar wise vs the big 5 but 10 million more per year would put us on the top of the mac conference and would pull us to Wyomings current level. The question is could we raise the money?

We can obviously do more with less but we MUST increase coaches salaries to protect the program

I want nothing to with being compared to Wyoming at its current level.......

[ZHerd]

I know some (ok maybe one) have let their desire be well known for NDSU to join the mountain west. I was just reading on a MWC teams forum and it was mentioned that of the 12 teams only Air Force has a coach who has been there 4 years or more. That seems like insane turnover. Is that a normal rate of turnover for FBS conferences? If not, I don't know if I would want to join into that kind of instability

[reformedUNDfan]

I know some (ok maybe one) have let their desire be well known for NDSU to join the mountain west. I was just reading on a MWC teams forum and it was mentioned that of the 12 teams only Air Force has a coach who has been there 4 years or more. That seems like insane turnover. Is that a normal rate of turnover for FBS conferences? If not, I don't know if I would want to join into that kind of instability

three long tenured coaches recently left jobs at Boise state, Fresno state, and Nevada.

[ZHerd]

three long tenured coaches recently left jobs at Boise state, Fresno state, and Nevada.

Ok so it fairly coincidental. I knew about Petersen but have not followed the other two schools much.