(01-24-2017 08:36 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(01-24-2017 08:22 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  MVFC schools have the most balls to try to go FBS as one by using WAC's FBS status. Several members were already FBS at one time from 1978-1981 with New Mexico State.

As much as I would enjoy an FBS MVFC I am highly skeptical that this is what they have in my mind. Many feel that it would be an incredible stretch to inteprete that the WAC has a mandate to sponsor FBS let alone a conference that sponsored FBS a few decades ago and technically have FB administered as a separate league.

NDSU, SDSU, Mizz St, and Y'town St probably have the means and support to play at that level. I don't know that UNI, USD, UND, Illinois St, WIU, SIU, and Indiana St do.

UND has a far bigger budget than any of them, including Wichita State, as part of our ticket sales doesn't even see the light of day, as 2/3 of ticket sales goes directly to a charitable trust that isn't part of UND athletics yet. With nearly 250 k ticket saless just for hockey, America's hockey leader for years running, that is much more revenue than most G5 schools see. Students even have to pay for their hockey tickets, as they aren't free for them.