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Nice article by Kolpack in the Fargo Forum today. Here is the link and a quote.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/ind...223§ion=Sports
"The point is this: Fargo has every right to consider itself a Division I town. If there is enough money to support it, then this area warrants a mid-major Division I program. You don't have to be Las Vegas.
The process has flaws. The transition will be brutal for some programs and there will be problems for the next several years that are only imaginable right now. The ills of this reclassification are not in the size of the city but in a lack of a conference and the ability to fund a program so it has a chance at success.
If there is a hang up from residents whose reasoning is this town isn't big enough, then it is because of an inferiority complex fed by past North Dakota attitudes.
Brookings, S.D., is the greatest example of this paranoia. Many residents are not in favor of the D-I move. But South Dakota State's athletic upgrade is not about the town, it is about the school and the entire state. There's no reason a state that has Mount Rushmore can't chisel a D-I program. This move, in fact, could put Brookings on the map of familiarity."
Haven't we been saying this all along?? Don't let the FES morons get you down. Socrates, Newton and Einstein dealt with the same criticism, resentment and even hatred (I dare say), but they kept the greater goal in mind. The current paradigm is DII, time for us to shift it to DI. It won't happen overnight and it won't be without great sacrifice. In the end the reward will be sufficient to justify these sacrafices.
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/ind...223§ion=Sports
"The point is this: Fargo has every right to consider itself a Division I town. If there is enough money to support it, then this area warrants a mid-major Division I program. You don't have to be Las Vegas.
The process has flaws. The transition will be brutal for some programs and there will be problems for the next several years that are only imaginable right now. The ills of this reclassification are not in the size of the city but in a lack of a conference and the ability to fund a program so it has a chance at success.
If there is a hang up from residents whose reasoning is this town isn't big enough, then it is because of an inferiority complex fed by past North Dakota attitudes.
Brookings, S.D., is the greatest example of this paranoia. Many residents are not in favor of the D-I move. But South Dakota State's athletic upgrade is not about the town, it is about the school and the entire state. There's no reason a state that has Mount Rushmore can't chisel a D-I program. This move, in fact, could put Brookings on the map of familiarity."
Haven't we been saying this all along?? Don't let the FES morons get you down. Socrates, Newton and Einstein dealt with the same criticism, resentment and even hatred (I dare say), but they kept the greater goal in mind. The current paradigm is DII, time for us to shift it to DI. It won't happen overnight and it won't be without great sacrifice. In the end the reward will be sufficient to justify these sacrafices.
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