UND Fan

Again, I fully agree with your comments -- as they apply to football! However, we would need to go DI in all sports. And, unfortunately, I think it would be disastrous for all other sports - including women's basketball and both M & W swimming where we are national DII powers. All of our other minor sports programs are respectable or better. I think we could kiss them good bye - because 1) we couldn't compete and 2) we couldn't afford to fly our baseball, volleyball, soccer teams around the country to play other DI teams! Thanks fo rincluding the picture of MY HERO.

Your post of September 7 was well-written and I can not disagree with many of your points. However, it specifically pertains to football. I don't think that there is any question that UND or NDSU (not sure about SDSU) can compete at the I-AA level. However, I would be curious about your perception as to how all the other sports would be affected by the move. Recruiting DI quality basketball players to the plains and winters of ND is not very realistic plus I am not sure how our baseball, volleyball, swimming, track, etc. programs could afford to continue (our recruit better athletes). Your thoughts?