For discussion sake, let's say FBS is not in our future. Then we should mold a 'FCS Super Conference' of the following...
Idaho
Montana
Montana State
UND
NDSU
SDSU
USD
UNI
St Thomas
Would be wonderful having a stacked schedule with no 'softball' games. Every game interesting. A conference that is the envy of every FCS school across the nation. A group of schools capable of upsetting their FBS peers on any given Saturday.
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Look at their trajectory, they've done well at whatever level they've played at. They're 151-28 in the Caruso era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Th...mmies_football
They will be a legit contender sooner than you think.
I think that they have the pieces in place to be successful EXCEPT that they are non-scholly. That will ultimately make them not competitive against the scholarship teams. There isn't enough NIL money to entice a whole team of players to play for your school when they have options to get scholorships and NIL at other schools. That will ultimately be their limiting factor - unless they want to go to scholarship football.
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Drake put up 52 on them this season. They will probably have really good regular season records as long as they stay in the Pioneer, get the autobid, and lose in the first round most of the time. When they win, they'll go to a seeded team in the second and lose by 5 TDs.
Now if they move up to a scholarship conference, their ceiling gets quite a bit higher.