I remember when the faculty at MSU-Billings (then Eastern Montana College) voted to drop football and then create a park on the football field so that football could never make a come-back. I have often thought that if they had kept football in Montana's largest city, they would now be part of the Big Sky Conference with a large enrollment
That would have had negative implications for UM and MSU. I have always been thankful for their short-sighted faculty and their decision (I think in the early 1970s). Presumably those faculty are all dead now or, if not, they should be run out of town.