Quote Originally Posted by MNLonghorn10 View Post
we have. the money is too good to pass up. regular season games actually have meaning. the less watched bowl games are more watched than the FCS championship.

look, frisco is fun and everything...but NDSU deserves so much better than this. they deserve to play on the biggest stage. there were probably 18000 fans at the game. FCS is for Towson, Furman and CC.

if it was CC vs Towson, thered be probably 4000 tops??? NDSU is too good for this.
1.) money? What will that money bring in? Championships? Better coaches?
2.) I argue those FBS regular season games have less meaning. Boise doesn't play for anything. They play a perpetual meaningless schedule with the hopes of playing an Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl once every 20 years for a non-championship trophy. Every sport except FBS college football plays for a championship. BCS schools play for a championship, they are the top tier and NDSU is NEVER getting a piece of that. EVER. Imagine how more meaningless the bowl games become when the BCS schools are in a playoff.
3.) Your hopes and dreams are to increase viewership of Bison games from 925,000 to 1.2M viewers? Awesome. That is a hell of a goal.
4.) the biggest stage: just what do you consider the biggest stage? Auburn and FSU are playing in it if that is what you are talking about. Is that what you are talking about? Because Central Florida vs. Baylor isn't the biggest stage.
5.) 18,000 fans were at the game. Isn't that what our venue holds? It will be 30 years before a new one is built. That is reality bub. Time to come to grips with it.
6.) lastly and most importantly, none of your reasons for moving up will improve my Bison experience, or any others experience for that matter. Watching NDSU in a bowl game in Shreveport doesn't improve the fan experience in any way.

NDSU isn't going anywhere for a long time and it's sad to watch our own fanbase have such disdain for the football team because of where they play. Enjoy what we have. A hell of a team regardless of level. I choose watching the Bison play football possibly 15 games a year (9 home games) over the pride-filled fans who want to beat their chests just to say we play at the highest level (even though we never will). That is a pride issue. I'm not talkin about school spirit pride either.