(05-07-2019 04:28 PM)professorbum Wrote:  Another news story on sham attendance figures. For the life of me, I honestly don't know why conferences like the MAC or MWC don't beg schools like NDSU to join, given that they have a real fan following who actually attend games. You need actual fans to generate excitement. Someday the conferences will realize this, but it will be too late to save G5 football. Schools like NDSU will not want to join a G5 version of Big East Football-in-its-final-death-throes.

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/nati...-divisions

How would adding NDSU help attendance at Miami-O? You might get some traveling from the Dakotas, but not a great number. And NDSU isn't going to make a Miami-O game more attractive for a local.

Add in the bloated travel costs to Fargo, not a solution.