(06-23-2017 07:25 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(06-23-2017 05:22 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  

(06-23-2017 01:11 AM)NoDak Wrote:  

(06-23-2017 12:30 AM)SDHornet Wrote:  

(06-22-2017 07:39 PM)NoDak Wrote:  The Governor of ND just was just profiled by Forbes as the politician who best understands the entrepreneurial worls. He started an accounting software firm in Fargo and sold it for billions to Microsoft. He resigned from several high tech boards to begin his political career. He is attempting to make state government and education must more accessible and communicative by using apps and other software. The future government blueprint may well be North Dakota, which is become very business and consumer responsive. The President of UND is a former congressman and business leader who is fully on board and dreams big. Cuts were necessary to show that government and education can become leaner and more efficient and even friendlier and less bureaucratic.

And a Dakota cabal FBS conference centered around a region with zero media markets, limited recruits, and limited fans while significantly increasing the athletic expenses fits that ideal?

Ok. You sold me.

By going FBS, the Dakotas and Montana show their no longer backwater regions that aren't with the times, like the Sacramento region, which cow tows miserably to the Bay Area. The Dakotas are growing for the first time in a century, their incomes have expanded more than other states this century, and they want more entertainment and other amenities that most of the US has.

Many of the majority Minnesotans at the NoDak schools stay in the state because it still has so many good paying jobs. Going FBS will only improve the schools stature.

Sorry, but this is hilarious, the Dakota schools just got out of D2 a few years ago. They are doing well in FCS, but over time in FBS, they would get destroyed.

The NoDaks had entertained DI for 40 years as DII teams. The Big Sky blocked us, other than the Montanas and UNI left us for greener pastures of DI, and none of the other Midcontinent teams wanted us either. It wasn't by choice that we were consigned to DII.

That is incorrect

Happen till about 10 years ago you did not need a conference invite go to Division I

Look at the coders could've chosen to go division one at any time in their existence no school was blocking them


To the coaches had a choice would northern Colorado with division one without a conference invite they could have joined them probably got in Omaha at the same time and maybe one of the Minnesota or South Dakota private schools to go in the north-central could've gone up as a unit and you would've had an automatic bid within two years

Decision not to go to the vision one was purely North Dakota's decision You are lying when you say otherwise