The Sicatoka

Depends on who you ask. I always thought if you could see the KTHI (now KVLY) or KXJB (now KRDK) tower from your school on a clear night you should've been in the Tall Towers.

The Tall Towers Conference was better.

I thought Aneta was the Wildcats pre-Dakota Prairie.

Finley-Sharon was the Raiders Hope was the Hustlers Page was the Panthers And yes the FSHP coop is the Spartans.

Um, with exactly what money? It's so bad their president bailed last month (three months early before planned retirement). https://www.google.com/search?q=wright+state+athletics+budget&oq=wright+state+athletics+budget&aqs=chrome..69i57j0j69i60.7464j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I'd qualify your statement to be "top 30 NCAA DI WIH programs in the country." There are (were) 35 DI and 62 DIII and some of those DIII are pretty good. http://mratings.com/chw/ncaa-d1/ratings http://mratings.com/chw/ncaa-d3/ratings http://mratings.com/rate.php?s=chw2017&sub=291738

If the Montanas are comfortable in the BSC, why'd Idaho have their entry contract to the BSC include the "easy out" clause that if the Montanas and UND weren't in the BSC on their scheduled date to join they could walk away. That says to me Idaho was worried that the Montanas might not be in the BSC on 7/1/2014 (their join date).

Being a DI indy is not preferred. It's expensive. You're racing to make a complete schedule every year. That's why many are skeptical that NMSU will survive as an FBS indy. (Idaho chose to drop back to FCS rather than try to be an FBS indy.) Liberty has a shot because they're in a part of the country where there are more teams close by and available to play (and they have some wealthy folks bankrolling their gambit).

Losing Valpo and UWMilw takes them to eight; lose UWGB makes seven and a conference can't live long at seven.

Championship as defined as: almost became the school’s first NCAA Division I qualifier has not won a national championship, (but) they were well on their way (as most of us are surely on our way to our goal weight) At least the author got this much right:

Wouldn't that trigger a Horizon run at IUPUI and IPFW?

To my eye, everything south of 320 Cambridge from Cambridge to Hamline disappears. Seems like primo real estate on University across from the Union.

Anyone know which buildings they got approval to take down? KFGO reported that 5 of the 8 were values under $250k and tearing down these (unused eyesores?) would save a million dollars annually from the operations budget.

At the April 2017 meeting the ND SBHE: signed off on the demolition of eight buildings on the UND campus renaming its old medical school tabled a resolution to officially sign off on the creation of a UND center focused on autonomous vehicles research. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4257972-higher-ed-board-approves-name-change-old-und-med-school-terminates-ndsu-program

Given the impact this group has on UND, I'm surprised this thread hasn't existed before now.

Wright State has significant budget issues right now. Some quarters are claiming one option is elimination of intercollegiate athletics. Should that happen, and Valpo and Milw, the Horizon would need to go shopping for three, and the logicals again are IUPUI, IPFW, and Robert Morris. However, historically, Bobby Mo has looked east for conference.

The speculation I'm seeing out in other forums is that the MVC will go to 12 (add 3) and that the preference order right now is: Murray State, Valpo, UW-Milw, Omaha. There's a claim in one place that the UNO visit did not go well and UW-Milw became preferred. If the MVC pulls two from the Horizon (Valpo, Milw) I still see the Horizon back filling from within their footprint and from the Summit (IUPUI, IPFW).

The Dakota 4 and the Montana group are a random group of schools just like the rogue's gallery that is today's WAC. In the eyes of the NCAA that's reality. Never forget that. SV's point in the past was that if the Dakotas and Montana group wanted to go FBS, ever, they needed the vessel called the WAC. You had to have a bona fide invite from an FBS granting conference to go FBS. The WAC had retroactive power to invite teams to FBS as that conference (forget who's in it today) was, and retains power as, an FBS conference at one time. Since then, the world has changed: Liberty got permission from the NCAA to go FBS without a bona fide invitation from an existing FBS conference. Thus, the WAC is no longer needed as the vessel, the portal, to FBS. The NCAA has set precedence. They waived Liberty through to FBS without that FBS conference invitation. Now the dream of a "Great North" conference no longer needs to consider how to wrest control of the WAC (and it's magic FBS granting power) away from that group of rogues. Liberty saw to that. Now, in this post Liberty decision world, this consortium of the Dakota 4 and the Montana group can form up and then make the same request Liberty did at the time of their choosing.

And there are no fewer than three full "season threads" in that tally.

Just in passing. The real ones go in Mafia's iPod.

Don't worry about it until I start losing arguments with myself.

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