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Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it's FCS and it's a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.

Football is football; I don't care if you're doing it in Division II, NAIA, or in the SEC or anything in between.

It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.