(12-11-2017 02:41 PM)jacksfan29 Wrote:  

(12-11-2017 02:17 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(12-11-2017 01:56 PM)jacksfan29 Wrote:  This may be the dumbest thread of all time. ...

There is no benefit, financially for any of the four schools mentioned to move up. Costs will increase dramatically while revenues stagnate. All for a shot at playing in the Potato Bowl?

All four administrations will sit back and wait things out. None are going to sign up for an FBS move right now, there are just too many question marks as to the future of G5.

Tell me why then have 10 schools moved up in ten years but only one has tentatively moved down?

FCS is expensive for what one gets out of it. FBS is the less costly choice if facilities are available and a coherent conference for the school is available. There are innumerable studies that show FBS is a better choice, just for national advertising and awareness, but the same posters choose to stick their heads in the sand.

And most of those move ups have talked about how they are struggling financially, and, all are located in populated areas. South Dakota and North Dakota are both pretty isolated.

JMU could move, so could Sam Houston. Both are in populated areas and both could have moved years ago. But not under current circumstances. TV money is drying up. National advertising/exposure? Seriously? 1.1 million watched the Potato Bowl last year. Almost 2 million watched the NDSU v SDSU playoff QUARTERFINAL last year. If NDSU v SDSU happens in Frisco this year expect close to 3 million to watch the game. Very much on par with mid-level bowls.

I'll take the exposure NDSU, SDSU get over the exposure the MAC, CUSA or SBC get playing weeknights. Unless you are at the top of the AAC or MWC, you are not getting a lot of exposure playing G5 football.

Get used to UND playing FCS for a while. Maybe, if UND builds stronger program you can begin to compete with the other Dakota schools. The day may come when NDSU and SDSU move up to another level, as of right now, neither are going anywhere. And neither is UND.

Frisco has a bowl game now. The new US Bank stadium in Minneapolis would love a bowl with a Dakota school vs the MAC.

Nothing ever stays the same here on earth, but you always believe they will.

SDSU was an also ran in at the D2 level in football forever. UND, No Colo and Omaha dominated NDSU and SDSU for more than a decade. That changed when they went FCS.