I haven't seen you in the main FBS thread so I'll assume this is an honest question and respect that with an honest answer.
Money isn't keeping us out of FBS.
That's the nutshell. Getting to G5 level funding isn't trivial but doable. That Green and Gold Collective banner at the top of the page is exactly what you're suggesting. They seem to be off to a great start. The real problem is geography. If NDSU was in the footprint of a G5 conference we'd have jumped long ago.
The longer the decision goes on about the naming a new coach the less sure I am that it will be Roehl.
If you watch the postgame show from wday, Mcfooly mentions that some of the talk in the parking lot was that entz was leaving.
Matt Larson was just waiting for Brandon Staley to get canned so he can hire him.
I hope I'm not being too optimistic about this but maybe just maybe... ML has already made his choice, explicitly told the team while holding a set of nunchucks in his hand said "do not in any way let this get out of the locker room till after I announce it after the Missoula trip or else you will feel my wrath". Then does a 5 minute Bruce Lee sequence.
After all, I haven't heard or seen anything from any players regarding the HC position at all on social media in the last 3 days. Seemed odd that there were all kinds of posts from former and current players to nothing within 12 hrs.
Run the damn ball!! PRO FBS
IMO ML and ME should have told the players as soon as the decision is made and especially immediately after a reporter asks you about it. That's on them for letting it get out. How dumb do you have to be to think something like that isn't getting out? ML is proving to be more of a dumbass then I even thought he was already!