The thing that bugs me in reading a lot of comments by other fans is that the underlying tone is sometimes along the lines that NDSU lucked out or was given this success. They can't seem to wrap their head around the fact that the Bison have had a great deal of success over the last 50 plus years and this current team has been built by a lot of hard work.
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix.
I agree with you... if it happened, I would be pissed! Seriously, if you have to play multiple "money games" to fund your athletic program, or you fund it predominantly through student fees and school funds, you need to seriously throttle things back and move down a level to something you can afford.
I always see some bullsh*t list that includes Marshall, Georgia Southern, App State, ODU, and Coastal Carolina, and some nonsense about "if they were still in the FCS, NDSU would not have won all those titles..." such a bunch of crap! Hell, the FCS/1AA is lucky NDSU waited till 2003 to move up -- if it was earlier, we would have a lot more 1AA/FCS Championship trophies. And seriously, some of the teams those idiots list would have been dismantled by NDSU -- ODU? Seriously, they had no defense whatsoever! and CCU played us twice, and we won twice! We owned Georgia Southern, and we would have taken down App State if given the chance. Marshall with Randy Moss would have been an interesting game though
Hey I understand your point, but... the rules of the FCS are defined by the members. One school, one vote. We complain on here about "watering down" of division 2. I argue that something else happened, that NDSU outgrew the division and became an outlier. The schools in the division adjusted the rules so there were more inline with what the "typical" division 2 school was capable of.
The weather in Fargo keeps the undesirables out.....
...Which is why I live near the Twin Cities.
UF
LSU
AU
UA
OSU
FSU
CU
that seven different schools that have one one in the last 11 years
11 different schools have won titles this century, and UU and UCF have been in position to claim split titles as well. Multiple other teams have appeared in the championship game.