I have been fascinated for some time why in the devil NDSU ended up staying in D2 when the 1978 creation of 1AA football started. That would have seemed to me a natural time to move to D1 and can understand the decision making up until that point of staying in D2. Was the NCC against that or something? Who knows the actual history and why did the NDSU leaders choose not to move up?

Okay, you old guys, fill us in.