Actually, no. Pretty sure NDSU is now fully-funded across the board. Going FBS doesn't mean basketball or soccer or volleyball could get more scholarships; they're already maxed out. I do think NDSU would need to add at least one more women's sport just to keep things in the ballpark, but the additional scholarships would be for football and these new teams; no others.
The situation does open a low-cost option: Stay in the Summit and add a women's sport or two, and get a football-only invite to the MAC or Sun Belt or something. It would allow us to keep our non-football budgets fairly low while we ramp up for FBS. Then once the FB program is established in FBS, find a full FBS home and ramp up the funding for the olympic sports. But the problem once again comes back to where the invite will come from. Conferences aren't handing them out like candy.
Hail the BISON!!!
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If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles"
When you play football, you gotta like the taste of blood, And 50 percent of the time, it's your blood.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
The biggest problem with money is that we need to realistically double or triple our MBB budget to get real looks; maybe even quadruple it. Our MBB budget is a joke compared to the good mid-major conferences including many of the G5.
One reason our football is so good is that we pay our assistants top dollar for our level. It lets us hire top people and keep them a year or two longer before they move up. We don't have the same advantage in MBB. We're not nearly as bad as UND, but that's saying absolutely nothing; their pay is worse than bad.
Good points. If you are going to move up you are going to pay the price to do so. Plus its not a one year thing. That has to be raised every year. Thats going to be a pretty big nut to crack. Fund raising is going to have to step up especially with all of the other building projects going on.
If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles"
When you play football, you gotta like the taste of blood, And 50 percent of the time, it's your blood.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
50% of the people use logic with their points.
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Boy wouldn't that Gasparilla Bowl (AAC) or Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (MAC) put NDSU on the map.