Roger Thomas, the former football coach and athletic director at the University of North Dakota, said a desire to continue recruiting local players was one factor in UND’s decision not to follow NDSU to Division I-AA. The Grand Forks school has 39 players from North Dakota on its 107-man roster this year, 36 percent of the team.

“You’re trying to play at a different level – I wouldn’t say higher, just a different level of competition – and we’re in a sparsely populated area, and to find the number of players you need to do that, you’d have to expand the recruiting area,” said Thomas, now commissioner of the Division II North Central Conference, of which UND is a member.

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the man is an idiot