Quote Originally Posted by Twentysix View Post
People who aren't alumni or don't live in North Dakota/western minnesota will never care about ndsu. Ndsu could be the big ten champion for 20 years straight and they will still never care. Know your audience and work with it. Don't imagine some audience that will never exist.

You know how I know this? If montana state became fbs I wouldn't give a shit. I don't watch georgia southern or app state or even smu/baylor. It's really really really hard to invest time into watching a team that you don't have a significant attachment too.
North Dakota is different though. When i go on a trip people are always very curious about this place they have never been and will never be to. NDSU does see decent ratings comparatively as an FCS even when playing FCS on the bigger channels.

College football fans are already aware of the football program and people from all over are genuinely curious what it could do in FBS and would be rooting for success. There is a strange connection- and people want to see this clean program that runs the ball doing it old school. With a bunch of ND MN SD kids.

They want to bandwagon and be the guys telling their kids and grandkids how they were watching the Bison beat big boys when they were still small timey. People would continue to push for growth to a P5 with success.

Plus Gopher fans/UN_ think its foolish and would really hate it. Tells me all i need to know. If app state/georgia southern were getting games with florida/florida state/georgia in non-con and winning consistently people would care. The non-con scheduling would need to be and stay aggressive.

If covid/virus style mandates ever do go away it is going to be an easy excuse to drop tickets for EVERY program. People just needed an excuse to save some time and bucks to watch more in their mancave. Attendance will drop everywhere. NDSU could a jump to maintain 19k and have competitive attendance along with the old cameron indoor cool to be small thing going.

Have there been any FOIA requests to figure out if conferences have contacted? ECHCH8O? Loaf is running most of this behind closed doors anyway. VERY confident there is a conference home available for NDSU and there has been for a while.