Re: A new and better FBS thread
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MWC
All of those schools spent time in a conference that hasn't sponsored football for 17 years..Most of these school knew in advance that football was likely to end soon. Boise and NV, in particular, saw this as the opportunity to move up despite the fact the whole thing was obviously collapsing.
You folks here are quite confident that your school is upper level G5 caliber now.
I am not advocating for you to join CUSA but no matter where you go, the good programs eventually get better opportunities. If you are as great as you claim, CUSA is not a dead end..It is a bridge.
Either you believe you are destined for the big time or you don't..
Lol worked out for Idaho. And NDSU obviously has fewer connections with MWC schools than Idaho did.
CUSA in its current state is not a better place for NDSU than the MVFC/Summit. Maybe someday it will be, but there's more urgency on CUSA to get itself to proven viability than there is urgency on NDSU to accept an offer to a conference that is all but DOA at FBS. We'd be lucky to land back in the MVFC with our program intact. Very hard to recover from that, just ask Idaho. I'd rather convince the top halves of MVFC and Big Sky to move up together and just call ourselves FBS. That might be what happens anyways.
Thinking NDSU would be a strong G5 program is not the same thing as thinking NDSU should throw their lot in with just whoever. In fact, SHSU, JSU and whoever else probably joined CUSA because they aren't confident they're going to be a strong G5 program.
Mountain West, hope for the best.
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