JMU fans rubbing ndsu noses in it all week. argh
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
anyone who thinks going FBS would costs 20 million dollars more a year needs to be institutionalized.
Somehow, Teams like JMU, SHSU, GSU, JSU, App state, ODU, Kennesaw, Marshall, and now likely EKU and Tarlton didnt have to increase their budget 20M overnight, but as yall keep reminding me, these problems are apparently unique to NDSU. No other program has ever had obstacles like "what about paying for more scholarships?" and "what happens if our plane rides are 30 minutes longer now?" and "what if we have to pay coach $500k more?"
Damn... it sucks that all of these only apply to NDSU. a real shame. There are simply no case studies we can look at that to show how these obstacles can be addressed. welp, I guess we'll just be #FCSForever. nothing that can be done, better give up! Every other program is just smarter and wealthier than NDSU. I mean sure, they're actually worse in most every way and have less community support, and less money flowing in their athletic department, but still. we're just to f*cking stoopid to figure out what dozens and dozens of programs with less resources, history, and success have figured out.
"In a town of a quarter of a million people (including the entire Fargo-Moorhead metro area) you can only raise so much money and I think we're probably getting near that point, so it's not as simple as, 'Well, you'll raise more money if you're FBS.' I don't know that that's the case," Bresciani said.
"We'd have to find an affiliation that didn't bankrupt us," Bresciani told the radio station.
"A lot of FBS programs are in real trouble on the cost of the program not being sustained by the revenue that is produced by it. So it would, for us, would require a league in that the television revenues were substantial, that our fans could still go to away games, that our fans would recognize the schools by name and reputation and that the cost would be minimal, of any at all, at the end of the day."
(from Bison 1660 interview transcribed in/by ForumComm)
Bresciani left the road map. And he served on the NCAA Transformation committee. You have to trust that.