The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

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PMWinSTP said:
I could have been more clear...assume moving up will give them a bump in recruiting quality, which will most likely lead to losing more players to Power teams. May then impact the level of $$ they can attract.
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Their 2027 class is about on par for past classes. Top FCS teams generally recruit against and very often win recruiting battles against bottom rung FBS teams. I don't think NDSU's recruiting will change much at all unless someone dumps an enormous amount of money into NIL. There may be a tad bit more exposure for their players, at least for a few years while the whole Fargo thing is still cute. Eventually they'll just be another bottom rung FBS school, though, and as relevant as Georgia Southern.
 


swede2 said:
Their 2027 class is about on par for past classes. Top FCS teams generally recruit against and very often win recruiting battles against bottom rung FBS teams. I don't think NDSU's recruiting will change much at all unless someone dumps an enormous amount of money into NIL. There may be a tad bit more exposure for their players, at least for a few years while the whole Fargo thing is still cute. Eventually they'll just be another bottom rung FBS school, though, and as relevant as Georgia Southern.
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I think you are spot on. When I look at the Bison's 2027 commitments they have a good chunk of Minnesota kids, as always. I think their first year in the MW we will see them in the middle of the pack and they will climb from there
 

swede2 said:
Their 2027 class is about on par for past classes. Top FCS teams generally recruit against and very often win recruiting battles against bottom rung FBS teams. I don't think NDSU's recruiting will change much at all unless someone dumps an enormous amount of money into NIL. There may be a tad bit more exposure for their players, at least for a few years while the whole Fargo thing is still cute. Eventually they'll just be another bottom rung FBS school, though, and as relevant as Georgia Southern.
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Since when Bohl got there over 20 years ago -- and obviously before then as well, but it's tough to compare to then because it was DII days in the old NCC conf -- NDSU has always gotten the majority of its starters from North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.

Coaching up two star type guys into their system of running Power (with a capital P, a specific type of running play) offense and 4-3 base defense. Allowing them to take advantage of the ability to attrach and develop linemen from this North Central part of the country. The same systems that SDSU copied whole cloth to then have their own success.


I don't see this changing in the Mountain West, but I guess we'll see. I don't think they'll ever have "success" recruiting nationally, but I don't think they need to.
 

Denver_Gopher said:
I think you are spot on. When I look at the Bison's 2027 commitments they have a good chunk of Minnesota kids, as always. I think their first year in the MW we will see them in the middle of the pack and they will climb from there
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Not even, there are only maybe couple MW schools right now who will beat them. Guess we'll see
 


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