You guys are in the LaLa land of make believe that an FCS championship run is better than moving up. Ask Boise St how it worked for them. Other than your teams fans nobody cares about FCS football. The Bison could pull it off like Boise did. I don’t see many of the BCS teams wanting to drop down for a championship run! It’s about exposure not minor football championships. As for the costs of the football program I think the students are footing most of the bill to pay for football at YSU. If that was taken away we would be another Butler.
Boise is the very rare exception to the rule and has twice the population of Fargo to boot. Ask Marshall, Georgia Southern, Appy or Western Kentucky when was the last time they were top ten FBS. I doubt that 1 person out of 10 could tell you the conference these schools are in. So much for exposure.
Is an obscure minor bowl any better then a minor football championship? Most schools already in a power 5 conference, get very little exposure.
The separation between the Power 5 and the FBS pretenders will continue to grow and at some point there will be a break. That is when YSU must be ready to take advantage. YSU, Akron, Kent or NDSU will never make the FBS play-offs. NDSU would be crazy to move up, they have a great thing going.
I have very little interest in our current league, great conference just no interest in most of the schools. At some point YSU will be playing in a league with some of the current MAC schools, just a matter of when and at what level.