Best DI Football Team in the Tri-State Area - AGAIN
Subsidize? You mean like playing football in a city-owned facility? Guilty. As is NDSU.
And a city loan that'll be paid back resulting in a facility that'll be used by UND, GF Schools, and GF Parks.
The gross athletic budgets are nearly identical over the last five years. UND has hockey which is claimed here as a pit. What pit is NDSU throwing money down? Could some be used better to get the red out of academics?
President Bresciani was tone deaf on a lot of items and didn't do much over his tenure to move the University forward. The current budget predicament was created under his leadership. I'm not sure I would use his opinion on this matter as a bellwether for the future. He didn't do anything terribly negative but he sure as hell wasn't someone that I would label as "visionary". So forgive me if I don't put much stock in that opinion.
I think the remaining PAC schools pick off the best of the MWC before that happens.
All the bad things will happen to the new schools in this round of expansion too; no exit fee participation, entrance fee, uneven revenue distribution. They will all say yes to move up a tier, including NDSU.
New PAC10: Stanford, Cal, WSU, OSU, Boise, SDSUr, SMU, CSU, Fresno, UNLV (Maybe Rice and Tulane if you want 12)
New MWC: Air Force, Wyoming, NDSU, SDSUb, New Mexico, UTEP, Hawaii, USU, Nevada, SJSU, Montana, Montana State
I think the Pac will stay at the 10 they have now.
Maybe San Diego State goes to the Big 12 but that seems unlikely.
However, who knows.
As for your New MW. AFA would leave for the AAC, Hawaii would go independent, New Mexico would join with UTEP in CUSA, Utah State would likely go to CUSA as well. I don't know about San Jose State but Nevada could go AAC or just drop football and concentrate on basketball and baseball in the WCC.
Nobody is going to hang in there with 4 FCS schools coming on board either..