North Dakota State to the Mountain West

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Mountain West money is big money to those teams. These Div II teams will dominate that conference. They play good football up there and more money will open more doors.
 
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Moving from a small pond where they’ve been rulers to a slightly bigger pond to check the waters.
 
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UTwild82 said:
The move is going to cost NDSU over $15M.

Seems expensive to me to play UTEP, Wyoming, San Jose St, etc.
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They’ll be making somewhere around $3.5M-$4M each year just from the conference’s TV deal payout…they’ll make it back in a few years just from that alone.
 
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Living here in MVC land this was rumored to be happening for awhile and now it appears to be coming true. Look for FCS powers like Soth Dakota State and Illinois State to jump the MVC also within the next year or two.
 
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TNinSC said:
All that money to be back to back cure bowl or potato bowl champions
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Way to show your ignorance about what NDSU is. As an FCS program they were already going toe to toe with P5 programs, they’d stuff probably 60% of FBS into a locker. They are on a different level to the rest of FCS.

Not unreasonable at all to expect them to compete for the G5's CFP spot regularly. That’s well worth paying any fee.
 
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HeuperDrive said:
Way to show your ignorance about what NDSU is. As an FCS program they were already going toe to toe with P5 programs, they’d stuff probably 60% of FBS into a locker. They are on a different level to the rest of FCS.

Not unreasonable at all to expect them to compete for the G5's CFP spot regularly. That’s well worth paying any fee.
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I wouldn't go that far lol.

Easy to get pumped up for that one game a year vs a team who could actually beat you vs having to go to war on a weekly basis.

Big difference in the quality of athletes who regularly walk through the door also.

NDSU is gonna have some growing pains for a little bit making a jump like that
 
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TrueOrange said:
They’ll be making somewhere around $3.5M-$4M each year just from the conference’s TV deal payout…they’ll make it back in a few years just from that alone.
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Now that the decent teams have left, I wonder what their next TV deal will look like?
 
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UTwild82 said:
Now that the decent teams have left, I wonder what their next TV deal will look like?
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Probably not great, my guess is they'll get something like a CW contract then like a 3rd rate ESPN or Fox deal.

Personaly I kinda dig the MW, they had continued the whole "Pac 12 After Dark" vibe. I'm a night owl so it's cool for me to wind down a day of Saturday football by watching San Jose St. playing Fresno St. at 12:30 AM, or for the real hardcore watching a Hawaii home game that ends about 3:00 AM. And during basketball season cool to be clicking around and "oh hey, Nevada is playing Colorado St." at 11:00 PM.
 
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Hoosier_Vol said:
Living here in MVC land this was rumored to be happening for awhile and now it appears to be coming true. Look for FCS powers like Soth Dakota State and Illinois State to jump the MVC also within the next year or two.
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I also live in MVC land and am an MO State alum. I was surprised when MO State made the leap to CUSA instead of some of the more successful MVC teams, but they did fairly well in their first year. I think quite a few MVC teams could hold their own in G5 conferences.

Also, something worth mentioning is that by moving from FCS to G5, these teams get to expand their scholarships from 63 to 85. I think that 85 scholarship limit is expanding soon but that may be just the roster size.
 
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give_him 6 said:
I also live in MVC land and am an MO State alum. I was surprised when MO State made the leap to CUSA instead of some of the more successful MVC teams, but they did fairly well in their first year. I think quite a few MVC teams could hold their own in G5 conferences.

Also, something worth mentioning is that by moving from FCS to G5, these teams get to expand their scholarships from 63 to 85. I think that 85 scholarship limit is expanding soon but that may be just the roster size.
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I'd say 3/4 of the MVC and atleast top 4 or so of Big Sky could do well at G5. NDSU holds 10 of the last 13 FCS natty's.
 
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They have a big problem as far as crowd size—small dome that gets filled, but I don’t think can be expanded up to even Carrier Dome level.With the bitter weather, doubt they want to build a new outdoor stadium.
 
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