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The Horizon now has almost all the Midwest major cities. Green Bay looks to be staying, so they have chosen their most famous coaches son.

Pointed out that in another forum, and my reaction was excorriated. Also, FBS teams that move to FCS leagues before they get FBS payments won't get new ones until their regualified. NDSU being is a league with NMSU, UNM, UTEP isn't easily happening

Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) Tweeted: Sources: Members of the NEC are expecting Robert Morris to officially join the Horizon League for the 20-21 season. Official announcement expected soon. https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/1271129553893810176?s=20

https://www.nhl.com/news/brandon-bochenski-elected-mayor-of-grand-forks-north-dakota/c-317143802

NJIT today announced that it is leaving the Atlantic Sun for the America East. NJIT added lacrosse a couple years ago to make them eligible.

NDSU is in the B1G region according to that writer, which will never happen unless a new 60k domed stadium is built and billions is added to it's endowment. He also lists UMass, UConn, Liberty, UTEP, Army and five other FBS memb asers as joining those two new FBS leagues. Thought it was required to bash any thought of a new FBS league here by NDSU fans.

Not often that Grand Forks gets international mayoral coverage. https://www.iihf.com/en/news/19478/from-kazakh-captain-to-grand-forks-mayor-in-a-year

https://pypeline.co/10-fcs-college-football-teams-that-could-become-fbs-schools/ A story where two new FBS leagues form.

Looks like lower oil prices are resolving the feud between District 1and 8 finally. The proposal is they merge and give their outlying land to other county schools districts. https://www.willistonherald.com/news/education/district-1-and-district-8-are-talking-about-reorganizing-what-happens-next/article_580b637c-a6a2-11ea-b51a-b7a247ccadc3.html

Bowling Green reverses decision to drop baseball after only days when money gushing in. https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/bgsu/2020/06/02/BGSU-reinstates-baseball-program/stories/20200602125

At least EWU, Sac St and C Poly could not go FBS this year because of budgeting limitations. https://www.swxrightnow.com/stories/2020/may/14/eastern-washington-athletics-faces-budget-cuts-of-/

Been saying that Lindenwood would go DI soon. Here is confirmation from Rick Zombo . https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/professional/ex-blue-zombo-is-st-louis-other-championship-winning-hockey-coach/article_c4424056-58ef-5d04-b770-6583452b527c.amp.html

Apparently, Robert Morris might get added to the Horizon this month and the MVFC might have to cancel RMU vs MVFC games.

Here's a tv report from Huntsville: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al.com/news/2020/05/uah-announces-hockey-will-return-after-private-funds-raised-to-support-program.html%3foutputType=amp As far as I know, UAH is still building an on campus rink.

UAH set out two stipulations before it accepted the gift; A. require the budget to have a meaningful philanthropic methods for subsequent fundraising, and B. have a conference by year five. UAH considered those both met. High Point, Liberty, Lindenwood must be preparing their skates.

They had actually resigned from the WCHA, so they weren't anticipating conference games. UAF and UAA are extremely expensive conference travel games so it's almost admitting the program would be shutdown to save the bleeding. If High Point, Liberty, and Lindenwood agree to start programs in two years there is at least possible 12 home and away games with double round robin scheding that are bussible when none before. The WCHA needed Arizona St, LIU and the Alaska's to continue as teams, and that isn't financially feasible without high travel budgets. UAH knew that an unaffordable couple years were coming and decided to cut the cord now and possibly bring it back like before.

MIAC gets a replacement team for St Thomas https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/6509072-St.-Scholastica-leaving-UMAC-to-replace-St.-Thomas-in-MIAC

There have been no additional reports that UW-Eau Claire will move to DiI either, although it must happen for both UWGB and UWEC CCHA hockey. Some friction in the Big Sky, as their dropping games in conference. https://www.google.com/amp/s/billingsgazette.com/sports/college/big-sky-conference/big-sky-conference-drops-four-games-from-mens-and-womens-basketball-schedules/article_adbf9cdb-384b-5962-b8d1-aa105a7f41b4.amp.html

CMU's dropping men's sports has endangered it's FBS program. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sentinel-standard.com/sports/20200520/cmu-cuts-mens-track-fbs-status-unclear%3ftemplate=ampart

Here are players that may suddenly be available in if UWGB drops DI tHtps://greenbayphoenix.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster Randall Herbst lost his job. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.greenbaypressgazette.com/amp/5210545002

There are reports on Twitter that UWGB will drop from DI. They have fired their MBB staff. Maybe there are looking at D2 and the CCHA?

Bowling Green drops baseball. Orel Herschiser pitched at BGSU. https://d1baseball.com/featured/bowling-green-first-to-cut-program-during-covid-19/ Used to think that BGSU was the FBS school most similar to UND and that is proving out over time. But BGSU only has $138 m endowment, while UND has almost three times that.

Wealthier schools like Stony Brook and Hofstra could have started a team right in the area but LIU was quicker. https://www.uscho.com/2020/05/15/106410/

Looks like LIU will be an Indy the first year. https://www.uscho.com/2020/05/11/looking-at-the-long-island-university-hockey-logistics-what-conference-will-the-sharks-join-in-2020-21/

NMSU will be discussing WAC FBS. https://omny.fm/shows/the-opening-drive/moccia-on-chris-jans-and-the-wac 19 min mark