Bison Dan

100% Right - Fans want to see games that are competitive.

So all the presidents of the BSC secretly got together and told UND that they're in if they go DI? With no travel partner! Just UND all by it's lonesome, way out here.

Oh you forgot the best one - that UND will have a conference invite & money in hand before they announce they're moving up.

The fb team just beat Indiana by 40

You'll be doing more than dropping your pants to get into a conference.

Maybe the states attorney would be interested in this. I sure glad Mr. Lapointe is your guys problem.

Because at the time they were the only conference that was in a somewhat expansion mode.

I doubt it. The MidCon has 10 memebers why would they want anymore? It helps NDSU & SDSU in travel but adds nothing for the present members. Wishfull thinking.

Our attendance is counted as butts in the seat not like the alerus which counts paid attendance.

Your jealously is so obvious. But hell think what you want. I see that Northeastern beat the #1 team in DI-AA this weekend and Geogia Southern took the #2 team into 2 ot.

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy!

So what happened?

I've never seen anyone so hung up on fssn. Do you really think that Portland or E. Wash gives a rats ass about fssn. All they care about is their bottom line and flying to the midwest for all their conference games is expensive. How does fssn put a dollar in anyones pocket in the BSC? If W. Washington or C. Washington move to DI within the next 2 years who do you'll think they'll pick? Poor unc gets little or no support from the Denver market. It's location location location for BSC.

I have no doubt someone on Bisonville would say that but without anything to back it up. Like I said wishful thinking. I wonder what conference usd and auggie are hoping to get in, I haven't heard anything from them on conference. You better have deep pockets if your going to be an independent for very long.

No one was sure about the BSC - wishing and hopeful. As far as fssn is concerned - how much is that costing the rea? Any school can setup something like fssn if your willing to subsidize it. As far as the BSC is concerned who knows what they're thinking? The last time they looked at expansion geography and market were what the west coast schools in the BSC were looking at. I don't see any reason now why they would want to expand. Same with the Mid Con if they didn't have a couple of teams drop out, I doubt that they would have invited the SU's in.

What a great post - real logic in it.

I'm sure these faculty members have tenure. Too bad!

Actually UND is paying for both sides of the lawsuit. 100% on the one side and a much smaller % on the other.

Sounds good - get your check book out.

Insightful bincity - but I think UND will be in independent hell for many years before any conference comes calling. NDSU was there for 3 years, what's your plan if a conference invite doesn't happen for 5 -7 years. It can get pretty expensive living without a conference. Good Luck!

You sound just like someone who doesn't know the history of what happened in the ncc. Both SDSU and NDSU waited an extra year to try and convince the conference to move up as a whole. If you remember UNC moved first. It was your president that told the SU's to go and that the conference wasn't interested. Why the change now? Now DI is the hottest thing going? What conference are you hoping to get into? What's your dii budget now? around 4 million - your going to have to double that to move to DI. Good Luck!

This didn't seem to matter to UND in 2004!