NorCalJack

Well Douple said that if the Summit wanted to add members that it could but to add members just because does not make sense. Here is what he said “We have a lot of options right now,” Douple added. “We could pick a number and we could do it tomorrow if we wanted to.” So there is no reason to add teams just for the sake of adding teams. By adding teams you water down the amount of money each team gets from the tournament. If a team leaves then we just add a team. Meanwhile maybe a better school will become available before a team does leave the Summit. Here is another quote from the article - "Douple said the key to his job is patience." So just because you think "the Summit should be desperate" that is far from reality. So in the words of John Wooden "Never mistake activity with achievement".

The railroads will fight against a pipeline vigorously. They will make sure they have enough trains available in the oil patch to make building a pipeline a moot point. My brother works for an ethanol plant in the Dakotas and he schedules the rail cars for his company. He is seeing a reduction of cars available to ship his product and the cars are being diverted to the oil patch.

It is not the same. The Summit League is a true Basketball conference, it has no football. The MVFC is a football Conference, it has no basketball. The xDSU's have the benefit of being in two conferences that focus on one or the other. The Big Sky in my opinion (don't jump on me for having an opinion either) is a football conference. All of the decisions the Big Sky makes are geared toward football. And for that reason basketball will suffer and is/has suffered for it. The MVC years ago recognized that football and basketball could not co-exist so they split out the football and made it its own conference. The MVC has flourished in basketball because it does not make decisions based upon football. I don't know why the Big Sky does not do the same thing and split off football into its own conference. That would allow the Big Sky to add teams like Denver, Oral Roberts, Wichita State etc. that does not have football. That was before Wichita State went to the Final Four. Gonzaga would have also been an option years ago, but the Big Sky would never consider anyone if they don't have football. But now the league has so many football programs that I can't see the Big Sky adding any more teams.

He is a pocket passer, tall at 6-5. He will challenge your secondary.

So what is going to happen to Fresno State. They are in the WAC and have football.