(02-10-2018 02:50 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(02-10-2018 12:05 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  The delay of two years is primarily for UND to avoid exit fee penalty from the Big Sky. It's all about reducing expenses, which is why they have dropped Baseball and Women's Hockey recently as well. The increasing costs of playing at D-I level, combined with flat revenue (student growth spurt is over ... their primary funding is via tuition and fees not gate) has led to several cost cutting measures.

Paying an exit fee (don't remember how much exactly but somewhere between $250K and $500k) would run counter to reducing expenses. The math must work out such that the travel cost differential of playing 4 road games in the Big Sky for two years is considerably less than paying an exit fee. Hence the wait until 2020 for Football.

Sure, that's the "logical" explanation, but doesn't it make more sense to come up with an outlandish conspiracy theory?

There has been documented political blocking of schools all over, but you reject that when you have absolutely no clue about the local politics. Makes zero sense, but all righty then. The Fargo media is the only one that matters in the state for college sports and some have their interview privileges blocked by Ndue when they ask questions that the NDSU President doesnt want asked. He delated emails against the law after all in violation of the FOIA.