Quote Originally Posted by UNDBIZ View Post
You don't believe the D1 move and the school expansion were related?
The athletic move was largely funded by alumni and other donors.

Making a university suddenly become large enough to accommodate 15,000 students is something completely different. It requires a lot of money to pay staff and expand or add academic facilities....some of NDSU's academic facilities were already in a state of disrepair. NDSU is still trying to catch up with the expansion that happened, there is a reason why NDSU has grown at a substantially slower rate ever since Chapman left.