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In Fcs we get the pick of the liter first. We are competing for championships. We already get FBS caliber players. Weve been a top 25-40 team in ALL of college football most years since we started winning it all. In FBS, most years we'd be playing for a bowl game and thats it. Unless we somehow elevate ourselves to a team Boise had for the early 2000-early 2010s, but thats unlikely.
I see numerous empty stadiums all around FBS. Win titles now or risk recruiting advantage to play higher teams? Double-edged sword.
You keep flapping your yap about the anti FBS people. Not many are really anti FBS. We just realize what it will take to get there and want answers on how its going to happen. You dont just wave a magic wand and make it happen. Plus bringing up the challenges and pitfalls of such a move doesnt make one anti FBS either.
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We let our season tickets go this year. Our two main reasons were the cost of the tickets and the quality of competition. We got tired of watching blowouts each 10 weeks a year. I think we already pay FBS prices so we might as well go FBS. I got an email from U of M this spring and their season tickets are less expensive than NDSU. You can make the debate whether or not NDSU is better than U of M but the Gophers do play better competition. I think the good FCS schools moved up and there are not many replacing them.
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Gophers tickets SHOULD be less than Bison tickets. Did I say less? Sorry, I meant A LOT LESS!!! The entertainment value is minimal in comparison. Arguably right now they should almost pay us to shag our sorry asses down there to watch that failed program. You are tired of watching excellence in action. I think I get it although I most certainly do not agree. You don’t want to see blowouts. So if you are in Paris you will deign to go to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa because it blows everything else away? I d o n o t g e t i t.
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Don't believe everything you think.
You certainly go see the Mona Lisa, but do you go see it if you are in the Louvre several times every year?
Watching blowouts gets boring to a lot of people. That's life. At some point you begin to question if it's excellence in action or if one of the teams in the division simply doesnt fit the rest anymore.
Not saying its right or wrong, just a reasonable and common view of things.
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What I'm looking forward to most about the FBS move at some point in the future is Chapo's new thread about how NDSU needs to push their way into the P5.