Covid 19 will be the dividing line between the have and have nots in FCS.

[Bisonator98]

We can't get out of this pud division soon enough. I hope this gets NDSU's administration pushing hard to get NDSU to FBS and hopefully the big wig backers are on board. #B12ORBUST

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

Montana needs to just drop football they suck at it. It's not going to get any better and they are embarrassing when they play anyone with an above .500 record

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[MinotBison]

We can't get out of this pud division soon enough. I hope this gets NDSU's administration pushing hard to get NDSU to FBS and hopefully the big wig backers are on board. #B12ORBUST

I know its been discussed somewhere before, but approximately how much would these "big wig backers" have to fork over for us to go FBS (and be successful)?

[NDSU92]

There is truly only one way to find out

[56BISON73]

It’s a game of dominoes and NDSU is not going to make a premature move. When the P5 separates then we can start the discussion with the G5 schools about the new parameters for NCAA DI football.

P5 already separated when they became autonomous.

[23Bison]

Go get whatever games they can get. FBS, High FCS. And more FBS. Teams still want to play.

[El_Chapo]

Go get whatever games they can get. FBS, High FCS. And more FBS. Teams still want to play.

Chatty will!!! BYU will. NMSU Liberty will. southland teams

[AKBison]

This! D2, D3, NAIA, and now most of the FCS are pulling the plug on football because it's expensive. Yes, Covid 19 is part of the discussion, but is not the deciding factor in most of these cases. If we can get a D1 schedule lined up and the team wants to play (let them vote on it) then let's do this.

[JMB]

Will there be any schools that football doesn't survive COVID? Once a season goes by, they learn they can live without it?

[Bison bison]

This! D2, D3, NAIA, and now most of the FCS are pulling the plug on football because it's expensive. Yes, Covid 19 is part of the discussion, but is not the deciding factor in most of these cases. If we can get a D1 schedule lined up and the team wants to play (let them vote on it) then let's do this.

And the reason the schools still considering playing are doing it is the revenue side.

NDSU makes serious money off of football which floats the rest of the department. Unlike most schools where other sources do.

One school looks at this as an opportunity to cut costs another sees it as eliminating revenue. This makes it an easy decision for the former, hard one for the latter and why we've schools of certain type make decisions already.