Re: A new and better FBS thread
Originally Posted by
NDSU92
Is your point that we won’t be able to recruit because parents want their kids playing close by? Do you really think the parents are going to tell their kids to not go to NDSU because they’ll have to fly to a couple more games each year than they would’ve if they would’ve stayed FCS? Do you even think kids today care how their parents get to games? The vast majority of our kids are either from outside the area or are going to NDSU when we come knocking (especially if we are MW).
Even biting that it does matter, the MW is still split up into divisions. Wyoming is playing one game in California this fall. I suspect that’s pretty typical for folks in the mountain division. To say that Missouri state, Youngstown, indy state, so ill aren’t far away but Colorado, Wyoming or Idaho are is tough.
As far as UND, they couldn’t recruit because they were the fourth horse to the region’s watering hole. IMO their inability to recruit up til now is probably much more a lack of resources, bad leadership and lack of tradition/fan base than anything. If NDSU were in the mountain west we wouldn’t be losing recruits to SDSU/UNI on the basis of NDSU playing 1/3 of their games out west.
Its part of the recruiting pitch. Just like it is for BB. How much it comes in to play I dont know. But how many kids leave NDSU and the excuse is they want to be closer to home?
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