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FYI, MAC schools are starting to get the cold shoulder from P5 teams too. I stated this in a previous post last week when I was in Akron. In a conversation with one of their officials about football, he stated this to me when I brought up NDSU's difficulty to get P5 games. He also stated this was causing MAC schools like Buffalo to drop sports do to the lack of revenue.
As far as moving to the MAC, NDSU is way too far West. Half the MAC football teams are in Ohio and the closest school is Northern Illinois.
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1. The FCS was the Best option for NDSU for a very long time.
2. As a general rule- the FCS sucks at football and has proven that is not committed to football at all.
3. It's time to go FBS
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I don't think this will be the answer anyways. When the true second tier shakes out, it will be reorganized so the G5 schools can find a way to be economically feasible. Right now the G5 can't fully fund football at 85 scholarships without P5 subsidizing them and I don't think that is going to last forever. As the P5 goes more parochial and decides their best interest is served by severing as much of the financial obligations as possible to anyone who is not a P5 school, then the real second tier will be forced to build its own identity. 85 scholarships will not be part of the picture. I am thinking the future second tier will look more like the FCS than today's FBS.
The question isn't whether NDSU can fund at the MAC level, it should be whether the timeline is realistic to wait for the MAC and the rest of the G5 to scale back towards the FCS. I think it would be nice to know there is a 5 year plan out there that certain events trigger certain behavior. I am fairly certain if the G5 starts finding some more distance between themselves and the P5 schools and there comes a time to scale back, that is a trigger for NDSU to aggressively move in a different direction than what is happening currently. I believe administration when it says we will be in the second tier, it is just prudent for the second tier to better define itself before NDSU starts chasing a moving target with a lot of money.
Doubtful. Take out ndsu and MVFC becomes pretty pedestrian. Sdsu won't have their talent forever and uni has been nothing since they formed their program.