Quote Originally Posted by UNDBIZ View Post
You're right. UND should've just charged into D1 without any money like ndsu did, that way we could go crying to the legislature about funding every 2 years like you guys do. Al Carlson, Fargo (ndsu) representative, did a lot more to prolong the name change than any UND admins did.
Al Carlson did what he did to get votes from the nickname supporters, they enabled him completely.

NDSU moving up to DI had nothing to do with our financial issues, those had everything to do with a president that tried to expand the school too quickly.