Quote Originally Posted by MNLonghorn10 View Post
lakes has done studies and ran the numbers...NDSU in a down year would still have 20k+ fans. When NDSU is down, theres still potential of having a BCS school come to fargo for a game for a 2 for 1 contract.

that almost trumps anything FCS.

NDSU at its peak(we know what it is for FCS) but for FBS is unimaginable. NDSU would help any of the lower conferences out almost instantly for BCS relevance.
You keep forgetting the purple. They just talked about this very thing on the Jack Michaels show today. Maybe lakes should listen to someone who knows what they are talking about, no way that NDSU should even think about a move right now, not for at least 5 or more years.
Stadium- not big enough and building another dome that holds 30k would cost 400-500million where do you think that money is going to come from? Outdoors stadium, ok , it's a little cheaper, but you not going to get 20k-25k Bison fans to sit outside during a snow storm or 5 below temps, look at the makeup of the fans that go to games now and you will see why.
Athletic budget- the budget for all sport in total will have to double from 16 million to about 30 million or more, travel goes up, coaches salaries, scholarships, schedule to bring teams in for ooc games in all sports, the list goes on.
National Championships- forget about having a shot at one of those cause it isn't going to happen, were not going to get into a BCS conference so forget going to the 4 team playoff or even a 8 team one if they expand it. And who wants to go to some meaningless bowl game that has no meaning to it and only pays the school 700 k but costs us a million or more in the end. Yeah we travel well in the playoffs to the NC game, but would struggle to get 6-10 k to a bowl that is low level and means nothing after it is over.
Even Gene Taylor gave it away how far off we were from FBS when he said he knew Wyoming was going to go after Bohl and there was NO WAY we could compete with what they were going to offer him. Yeah the move is for football to go FBS, but it drags the other sports in the school into a new conference but puts the whole athletic program under a lot of strain. To manyother reason to go into tobut those are some of the most important ones as to why it is wrong to think of going for a while, if at all.