Isn’t the MWC spread out already? Geography is always a challenge for western schools.

There is a lot of oil money in Fargo. They can fund FBS.

NDSU mens basketball is pretty good too. They made it to the NCAA tournament 4 times in the last ten years. They even won tournament games in two different years one against #5 seed Oklahoma.

The your comment about ability to compete at the FBS level week in and week out is an opinion and cannot be proven or disproven.

The only point you made that is correct is that the MWC may not bring up an FCS program but do remember NDSU has won either 8 of 9 or 9 of 10 FCS titles. This isn’t the same as when Marshall moved up. Marshall was a good FCS team like JMU. NDSU is dominant.