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A school that seems to have officially pre-announced its DI move in 2012 is Central Oklahoma.. They are going to have to compete with Tarleton, Oklahoma City, UTPA, Houston Baptist, and maybe even W Tex A&M for a Southland or Summit bid. Not sure how UCO's vision was worded prior to August 11th, but hard timelines in public documents like this one just add further fuel to Division I's attempts in keeping schools out.

Taylor has been quoted within the past year as not wanting to schedule UND because of "academic standards" for DII football programs. That is one of the most laughable statements ever, considering Lennon's recruiting standards and the limited JC-athletes on UND's team relative to NDSU. The excuses go on from both standpoints. IF UND / NDSU had signed a four year contract, NDSU would have dumped us as soon as they got in the Gateway. Nobody wants to come out and state that the football programs are competitors in the marketplace: UND would have been insane to help NDSU "one-up" them, and NDSU isn't going to help UND move up.

I was referring to the conference situation. It would take two teams to leave the Gateway before UND likely gets in. For football, UND's future is either intertwined with UC-Davis / Cal Poly or with the Big Sky (or both).

Especially like this part: It's also apparent that most of these freshman are not only athletic, but quality students. Lennon does seem to be raising the bar even higher. UND Football Roster by Class

Not sure a formal scheduling of that size would work, just because there are so many conflicts. Seven or eight could probably agree, but not 15. Also, the central time zones schools could possibly work with both coasts, but Longwood vs Bakersfield or NJIT vs Seattle routine scheduling is less likely. For example, CSU-Bakersfield has issued a very strong men's BB schedule, GoRunners, which shows minimal reliance on independents/transitioning schools. With the WAC, MWC, Big Sky, and now Big West all at nine schools, each of those conferences have holes to fill during the conference season. Bakersfield took advantage of those gaps. Conference-wise, Bakersfield's only real option is the Big West, but other Big West schools (namely the UC'- s) probably really want a school like UC-San Diego. Ironically, other than Pacific and Davis, CSU-B would probably have the best fan support. New Haven, now that Bryant is moving up, may be able to take Bryant's DII NE-10 slot. UNH motivation was to find a football conference, and if DII provides, they might stay. America East seems a step above either Bryant or NJIT, while the Northeast Conference already has 11 members. Perhaps there will be a domino effect if the Patriot adds a school. NCCU is likely for the MEAC, but that brings the MEAC to 13. The only option Chicago State really has is the MEAC (Chicago is a closer trip than Tallahassee or Daytona Beach for many of the schools). By adding NCCU, Chicago St, as well as Savannah St and Tennessee St, the MEAC could split and gain twice as much revenue. Savannah may drop back to DII, though. Longwood might be in for a long independent ride, with the Big South choosing Presbyterian over them. Houston Baptist and UTPA will be partners in scheduling. The Southland and the Summit are their only real options. By offering fertile recruiting grounds, Houston Baptist might actually stand a chance getting into the Summit, especially with Centenary and ORU. The Summit would likely be forced to take UTPA, for maintaining core membership requirements, if Southern Utah somehow gets into the Big Sky. SIU-E goes either to the Summit or to the Ohio Valley. Seattle really only has the WCC option, unless the Big Sky takes in a non-football school. Utah Valley has no natural options, unless the Summit or BSC relents. I had been a believer that UND was destined by a western conference (BSC), but it may be that only football will look west.

There's hope! A Bison fan that thinks rationally!! Agree 100% - each school has their own interests that they are pursuing.

UND, NCAA head back to discovery - No Settlement? We have so much confidence in Mr Paulsen representing UND's interests.

Comparative scores are always interesting, but the downside is often neglected, like this score from 2006: DIII Wisconsin-Lacrosse 17, South Dakota State 3 By the NDSU/SDSU result, UWL should be capable of beating NDSU, Ball State, and Michigan. Clearly, NDSU had a great season last year, and this year they may be even stronger. On average IAA football performs well above the level of the average DII team. Many IAA teams exceed IA teams not only on a given saturday, but during the course of a whole season. A IA label does not make a IA team. Agreed that a number of IAA teams were better than Ball State last year. An objective ratings system like Massey suggests that 12 IAA teams would have been favorites over Ball State on a neutral field last year, which agrees with your comment: Appalachian St N Dakota St Massachusetts Montana Youngstown St James Madison Portland St New Hampshire Illinois St Princeton Cal Poly SLO UC Davis But that same rating system lists four DII teams that would have been favored over Ball State, which is apostasy to Bison fans: Grand Valley St North Dakota NW Missouri NE Omaha In fact that same ratings system suggests that Grand Valley would have been a favorite over every IAA team including Appalachian St, while UND would only have been an underdog to ASU, NDSU, UMass, Montana, and YSU. UND beat UNI at their field, yet it seems every NDSU fan downgrades that victory as a fluke or excuses UNI as having a down year. Yet UNI beat the two strongest Gateway teams, Youngstown State and Illinois State, and barely lost to Iowa State by one point (just like NDSU lost to UMinn). Clearly, the bottom of DII is well below the level of IAA, but the top of DII can run with, and beat, the IAA boys.

NASA has had some notable failures that were largely attributed to a dysfunctional leadership and culture, and not to the engineers or scientists. One wonders how pervasive a dysfunctional culture is at the MNDOT, based on this letter:

The UBC was a scheduling alliance, not a conference in the true sense. But if six core members together for five years + one additional core member petition the NCAA for an autobid (and schedule a minimum number of sports), the NCAA must, by current rules, grant them a men's BB autobid. It would take a number of years (notice I said a remote chance). The Higher Ed article implies that the NCAA is concerned with lower level conference splits (i.e. The Summit going to 14, as Douple has proposed, or the MEAC going to 14 and then splitting in two later), which is more likely to happen than a UBC gaining an autobid. Either way, more autobids are formed. Revealing that the NCAA isn't alarmed at the prospect of the Big East splitting. With new requirements, the NCAA may just be sly enough to rewrite the basketball autobid rules, further endangering the Summit and the Atlantic Sun (which are the most vulnerable) The NCAA is acutely aware of the number of schools moving up as well as the independents. Why do you think they slapped a moratorium on move ups?

It's a shame a conference like the MAAC has a voice. They may have had influence in pushing the moratorium on single sport move-up, based on their recent behavior. This summer the MAAC was responsible for one of the most disturbing conference membership eviction in recent history. Le Moyne College, a DII school in Syracuse that played up to DI in the MAAC for 17 years in the sports of baseball and women's lacrosse, won the MAAC's autobid in both of those sports and performed well in the NCAAs. With LeMoyne becoming the power program, an apparently jealous MAAC pulled their associate membership with no notice. The MAAC's commissioners statements about schools focusing on basketball, when they just evicted a school performing well in baseball and lacrosse, is just further hypocrisy from a conference that is basically a DIII conference masquerading as a DI conference. MAAC Dumps Le Moyne

Varsity lacrosse is now within two states, with Carthage (a 2500 student DIII Lutheran college in Kenosha, WI) adding the sport. Their action perhaps opens the door for varsity lacrosse in Minnesota. Carthage College (Wisconsin) Adding NCAA Intercollegiate Lacrosse

[url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/15/ncaa]Inside Higher Ed: What

Not even for Sioux games. Guess you were abused.

While all of these might be true, there's other answers: 4) A redshirting freshman would never have an opportunity to be in the playoffs in his career, while a true freshman would only get a chance this year. It really is fairest to the freshman to play them this year. 5) By suspending some redshirting this year, the players work through the system faster, allowing better utilization of scholarships and faster transitioning on the roster to high IAA and low IA-level recruits (not that there aren't already some on the roster.)

Douple himself has said the Summit may go to 12 or 14 teams. The only candidates are now SIU-E, USD, UTPA, Houston Baptist, UND, and UVSC. Schools that have publicly stated DI ambitions like Oklahoma City, Tarleton State, Northern Kentucky, Wayne State, and Bellarmine can not by definition be candidates for at least four more years. Any talk of the GWFC gaining autobid status is seven years premature until at least one new member is added (e.g. like San Diego or possibly Pacific) and UND and USD are both active members for two years.

Report of the August 9th NCAA Division I Board of Directors meeting

These schools, which were all rumored or planning a move up, will now have to wait: W Georgia Valdosta St Tarleton St N Kentucky Bellarmine (Ky) Indiana Pa Wayne St (Mich) Harding (Ark) The moratorium also seems to prevent DI move from schools outside the NCAA, so these schools may also be affected: Oklahoma City U (NAIA) British Columbia It also prevents specific sport reclassification to DI, in sports such as hockey or lacrosse. This could spell doom for the CHA. It also prevents Texas State or Jacksonville State from moving to IA football.

The NCAA has been under pressure to stop the run of schools moving up to DI. These are the 20 schools that will be allowed to complete their transition. Exploratory year 2007-8 SIU-E UND USD Seattle Houston Baptist Bryant New Haven 4 more years: Florida Gulf Coast South Carolina- Upstate NC Central Presbyterian 3 more years: Cal State-Bakersfield Central Arkansas Winston-Salem St Two more years: Kennesaw St N Florida Utah Valley NJIT One more year: NDSU SDSU Already full members (but not core members): UC-Davis UNC Longwood

Division I Board enacts four-year moratorium on accepting new members

Sports Illustrated: Trouble in Montana's Paradise

Salman Rushdie to take part in UND Writer's Conference Salman_Rushdie Will a small minority of Muslim students offended by Rushdie stage a protest on UND's campus? Will BRIDGES, citing a small minority of Muslim students' offense at Rushdie's writings, protest Rushdie's appearance on campus, too?

If only because Bison fans were certain that they were locks for the Big Sky at the time. Apparently, with the five year commitment, I'm as guilty on UND's BSC prospects as Bison fans were about their school's BSC prospects. Yesterday Lennon commented that UND's 2008 schedule may be issued shortly, so scheduling appears to be going very well, even with limited "conference" games.

At my work group in the Deep South, about 30% of my fellow employees are black, some of whom have substantial Choctaw heritage. The whole issue of Native Indian imagery as oppression is laughable to them. When they see the Sioux logo on clothing, they want it for themselves. Just one generation from being an historically oppressed group, they can't imagine why anyone would be offended. By the standards you suggest, a white person wearing a Malcolm X or Martin Luther King t-shirt, a cornrow or Afro hairstyle, wearing African-inspired fabric, or happens to have a talent singing the blues, gospel, or jazz, or being a rap artist is oppressing black Americans, because those are icons of Black America, and only belong to Black America. Some black people do object to white people taking on their cultural attributes. So, Gothmog, by your reasoning, posessing these cultural icons by members outside the black community should be criminalized, as it oppresses and offends a small portion of the black community.

For a civilization to be functional, citizens must chose not to take offence when none is intended. NASCAR offends me, public flatulence offends me, low class Bison fans offend me, the NY Yankees spending offend me, cliques offend me, selfishness offends me, slow drivers offend me when I'm in a hurry, impatient driver's offends me when I'm looking for a turnoff, lazy people offend me, workaholics offend me: let's just ban them all so I don't get offended. After all, the world was meant to be centered around me.