To expand a little on my past post, I think many UND people have (incorrectly, IMO) gone on the defense that what NDSU has done isn't really relevant because "FCS isn't true Division I football." While there is some truth to that, I would certainly rather have UND with 8 FCS national championships than NDSU. And maybe the flamboyant Bison fans really try to cram down people's throats how good they are at Division I football which has given UND people a bad taste in their mouth. I don't remember people thinking what the Bison did in the '80s in Division II as irrelevant. It's been a tough go for UND football, really ever since NDSU moved up and we didn't. Between the nickname fight, UND's intense focus on hockey (including women's hockey for a while), the loss to U of Sioux Falls, the Bison's dominance, and the Fargo media, it's just nice to look to the future and see the light at the end of the tunnel.