Originally Posted by
NDSU92
Personally not interested in CUSA at this point, but if that thinking is shared by the actual conferences that's great news for us. We need to be known to be the next piece taken off the table when a G5 comes looking. The more our name comes up in front of other conferences, the more the MW may feel the need to pick us and Montana up before someone else does. The leverage would swing from "NDSU will always be there should we need them" to "we better pick these guys up before the MAC does".
We are a Day 1 plug and play option for a quality G5 conference. Our geography may be difficult to swallow for some in those conferences, but in all other regards we'd enter into the MAC or MW as a middle of the road athletic department.