Originally Posted by
WhoRepsTheLurker
Money certainly does, but …
Who is NDSU’s "geographic rival"? If you say fighting hawks, that’s incompatible with FBS. There are only 800k people in ND, and UND already takes extra money from Bismarck to try to compete in FCS (because they are a hockey school and hockey is expensive). Two FBS schools from ND isn’t going to fly, precisely because of your second point
So if NDSU jumps without SDSU, they’ll have to create a new one. Apparently that's what we did when we jumped to FCS ...