To everyone on this board from both sides of the isle, this is totally about NDSU and their marketing strategy. I am a UND fan but understand exactly why NDSU doesn't want the game to happen. The Bison's only cash cow is fcs football, it sustains their sports programs, having 6 home games a year is one more chance to gain needed revenue plus they don't have to give up their yearly money games with a regional fbs opponent. They really have nothing to gain and everything to lose. If you want to know what I mean, if they beat UND, they should, if they lose it hurts them in regional recruiting with UND and ends their mystic in the fcs football realm in the state of ND. If they really wanted to play GT would have scheduled them early on while NDSU has the upper hand coming off of a NC and before UND improves into a playoff type BigSky program which I think will eventually happen. They could play now when the outcome is probably not in doubt, not in a few years when a loss could set them back. UND has and always has had D1 hockey to provide the revenue, NDSU doesn't, and never will, that is why they have to protect the football programs success at all costs. I would like to see the game happen as well, but don't think it will. Remember we have a NC in D2 Football and 3 in D2 womens basketball just like NDSU does, albeit not as many as them. But we have 7 D1 Hockey titles they will never have. And the fact that they have an FCS NC sets them apart from UND, for now. If we were to beat them or win a NC at the FCS level in Football it would take away the only thing they have in their back pocket that we don't. They at NDSU have always taken a back seat to UND on the academic level because they don't offer the same professional colleges like Law and Medicine that UND does. FCS football has changed their image of being an ag school to that of a recognizable state institution both regionally and nationally just like hockey and aviation have done at UND. I personally don't blame them at all for not wanting to play, like I said before they have nothing to gain and literally everything to lose!