This is meant to be a purely speculative post:

How does the rest of the MVFC feel about the Dakota schools and NDSU’s dominance?

If there was a rift present, I think they could nuke the MVFC and bring football fully in-house:

UNI
Illinois St
SIU
Mizz St
Indiana St
Murray St
WIU*
Youngstown St*

Plus they could poach any OVC as a fb affiliate that they wanted (SEMO? EIU?)

At that point, Big Sky football might finally get its 16 teams and pods of 4 they wanted in 2010.

If the Summit lost enough people, I think this would be really cool:
NDSU
UND
SDSU
USD
UM
MSU
UI
ISU
EWU

The Montana schools are not joining a league of Midwestern prairie schools on the Iowa and Minnesota borders.

Are you guys in North Dakota suffering cabin fever again? Hint, Fargo really isn't just a short afternoon drive to Malibu. But you can reach Minneapolis in 3 1/2 hours; pretty much the same for South Dakota State, and only an hour more for South Dakota and North Dakota. Montana is 14 hours drive from the North Dakota schools. And it's dinky airports with no direct flights.

There was a reason every school in the Big Sky wanted North Dakota out, including the Montana schools, and it wasn't about institutional fit. It was the impossible travel, and the lack of any recruiting value for either students or athletes.

As for the California football schools, they are very popular because this is a place Big Sky schools recruit athletes and students.

Whatever, the brain of NoDak seems to have risen from the grave. Or as Don Rickles would say