Montana rivalries = tapping wealth from the Bakken?? Rejected because of distance, and the only reason UND is in the BSC is the Montana's burned once with some conference members for rejecting NDSU and SDSU threaten to jump conferences. If UND had an AD half as successful as Mr. Taylor during and after the transition you'd be down there kissing too. Anyone can thrown enough sh*t against the wall and sometimes it sticks.