I'd take the MAC invite if it came, run that conference for a few years and hopefully get a better offer! Best part of the MAC would be staying near our recruiting base. Worst part is obviously maction, tuesday night FB........yuck
I'd take the MAC invite if it came, run that conference for a few years and hopefully get a better offer! Best part of the MAC would be staying near our recruiting base. Worst part is obviously maction, tuesday night FB........yuck
Definitely and possibly even host. IU and Purdue occasionally do home and home with local MAC teams. Looked at a few of the MAC teams from last year:
Kent State - at Texas A&M, at Iowa, at Maryland
Miami - at Minnesota
Ohio - vs Syracuse, at Northwestern
Northern Illinois - at Georgia Tech, at Michigan
Central Michigan - at Missouri, at LSU
Toledo - at Notre Dame, at Colorado State
The benefit of the current MAC schools is they are fairly close with Northern Illinois and Buffalo being the outliers. But Buffalo is only 3 hours from Akron/Kent State. Ball State is within 4-5 hours of every other school. Northern Illinois to Ohio U is about 8 hours and NIU to Buffalo is 9.5 hours. NDSU is just under 9 hours from NIU. That will be the challenge.
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I think its important that North Dakota is remote. Nobody recruits here. That means we will get some kids (Wentz) that would probably end up FBS/P5 if he was from somewhere else.
Then you got the surrounding states with 1 FBS school at most. They aren't going to identify every good kid and some kids are good enough for what NDSU needs but not for what the P5 schools are trying to do.
This positions NDSU pretty well. Keep the best kids at home + identify hidden gems/P5 misfits/etc
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I don't think you would have to place a lot of worries on walk-ons.
1. NDSU because of their coaching, offensive, defensive, talent and WINNING CONCISTANCY would still be able to recruit in the same areas you have been and for players that want a shot at a great regular season and a bowl game, NDSU would be very enticing to them outside your standard recruiting area.
2. NDSU also has the advantage of beating G5 & P5 FBS schools with FCS talent. When recruiting you can say- "If the Bison can beat FBS schools with superior coaching and FCS talent Imagin what we could do with your talent!!!"
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