FBS move fans. Here's a good read

[silkamilkamonico]

Once again where are the resources?? You have to at least give the answer to this. If you can't, then it's kinda hard to move on.

Strongman doesnt have an argument for this unfortunately.

[AjaxTheMighty]

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.

[1st&TennBison]

I still love the way these move to the FBS now lovers have not addressed the most simple but necessary facts in this whole idea. First off, where are you going to come up with close to 25 million for the increased athletic budget(on top of the 16 million we have now). Where do I get that number from, well it is easy, you guys want to be like Boise St (I have seen the posts about being the next Boise St and doing like they do). Well their budget is in that 40 million range. Unless you want to operate like Wyoming who has done NOTHING in the MWC and operate on something like 21 million budget and be a bottom feeder in a bottom level conference. So please do tell us where we are going to come up with 2 1/2 times increase in the budget. That MAC and MWC TV contract is not even going to scratch the surface. That was point #1.
Point #2 what conference are you guys assuming we are just going to have Gene Taylor call up tomorrow and tell them we are joining. You assume because of location that the MAC and MWC are the ones (Big 10 never going to happen). Well so far not one of those conferences has shown any interest in us and since we need to be invited to join them that makes it a problem right. All you are doing is assuming they would want us, or even thinking that they need us, which so far they don't. If the money they are making in those conferences is so good, why would they want to share it with us.
So until at the very least those two points, which are the biggest hurdles in this FBS move talk are addressed (and there are others to address as well) there is no point acting like we are/should jump up any time soon.

[1st&TennBison]

Strongman doesnt have an argument for this unfortunately.

They don't have an argument for anything, they just think they can snap their fingers and everything is going to fall into place like magic.

[MNLonghorn10]

I hope GT's phone is buzzing today with invites. make the move now, mean Gene!


40K seat stadium

ESPN weekly

noteworthy opponents!

no more wooden bleachers at Coughlin Alumni

no more getting laughed at for embarrassing field conditions for its title game!


NDSU deserves better.

[1st&TennBison]

I hope GT's phone is buzzing today with invites. make the move now, mean Gene!


40K seat stadium

ESPN weekly

noteworthy opponents!

no more wooden bleachers at Coughlin Alumni

no more getting laughed at for embarrassing field conditions for its title game!


NDSU deserves better.

Just keep avoiding the issues, snapping fingers trying to make it happen.

[MNLonghorn10]

Strongman doesnt have an argument for this unfortunately.

strongman has absolutely hit the nail on the head this thread. he see's it clearly, as does lakes. Lakes advocating for the big move only means big things lying ahead for this tradition proud program.

[1st&TennBison]

strongman has absolutely hit the nail on the head this thread. he see's it clearly, as does lakes. Lakes advocating for the big move only means big things lying ahead for this tradition proud program.

Really, how much money has he donated to the cause then??

[1st&TennBison]

strongman has absolutely hit the nail on the head this thread. He see's it clearly, as does flakes. Flakes advocating for the big move only means big things lying ahead for this tradition proud program.

fify ^^^^^^

[unbison]

Really, how much money has he donated to the cause then??

Really? How much have you gave?