tcbison said:
NDSU offered UND a home and home 4 year agreement back in 2003 but your AD refused to play and publically critized NDSU for moving to DI. Then a few years later NDSU offered a home and home agreement every other year and your AD refused again because he wanted it to be played every year. Now NDSU has offered a single game in Fargo in 2015 and your AD refuses again. The Weber State game worked perfectly because of the 12 game season next year and NDSU still gets 6 home games plus a FBS game. As far as Montana goes, who doesn't want to play the Griz with a home and home agreement. Those will be some of the most highly anticipated games in all of FCS and will likely come with good tv exposure for both schools.
That offer was the biggest joke ever. You wanted opponents to schedule in your transition, so you offered that for four years and four years only. At the time, the games would have counted against us because DII didn't recognize IAA games. DII would have punished us for playoff qualification. Now they don't. As soon as you were done with the transition, Taylor had every intent to dump us. You had 63 schollie vs 36 so you were damn and determined to beat us by hook and crook.
UND had an informal offer from the Big Sky for some time and was patient as Fullerton wanted. NDSU tried to force its way in, and barely had any conference that wanted it. Many Big Sky schools are leery of NDSU's admin, as they should be.