As I have argued in the past, the only reason NDSU should ever move up is if it's a Power-Five Conference. Otherwise, they would be wasting their time in a G5 conference (competition isn't really better than the MVFC and they would play for nothing). Apparently, we (NDSU Fans) aren't the only ones in the country looking at the the Big 12 scenario.
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_...n-back-in-news