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The EIU Club Hockey tweeter says his tweet was about Illinois moving up to NCAA DI, not EIU. With the Big Ten paying out $2 mil per season per team, any new Big Ten hockey team is almost immediately in the black. U of Illinois is renovating its State Farm Center (formerly Assembly Hall) for $140 million. Bet it includes ice capability when it is done in 2016. http://www.dailyilli...19bb30f31a.html Bet U of Maryland will also announce a B1G hockey team within a few years. Its former basketball home, Cole Fieldhouse already has the dimensions for hockey / arena football, but is currently standing empty. Maryland dumped a bunch of its non-revenue sports before it joined the B1G. With a lot of depth and the backing of Under Armour, Maryland is going to be pushing for more revenue generating sports. http://en.wikipedia....ouse_INSIDE.jpg Still believe that DU and Omaha are working behind the scenes to help fortify the Summit. Any of Minn St-Mankato, Duluth, or St Cloud would be mutually beneficial, especially if football is dropped to non-scholarship.

DU and Omaha only see the Big Sky working in concert with the WAC to dismantle the Summit. They also see only NDSU from the Summit having a real chance of a Big Sky bid. Interesting rumor of UConn and Cincy going to the Big East, but forming a mini-league with Boise St and BYU in football, with those four getting a Big 5 invite.

Larry Scott, Pac12 Commissioner, against Pac12 schools scheduling FCS teams: http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_23735227/college-football-pac-12-commissioner-larry-scott-says Washington and Utah would have to buy us out.

It does, but adding baseball teams is even more difficult and distasteful (NJIT wants a full invite plus NYIT). The whole Summit League - not just Taylor but DU and Trev Alberts - has to be livid at Faison for delivering UND baseball to the WAC. Neither DU or UNO want to join that league, but UND's baseball move could almost force that. Threatening with hockey is practically the only cards they have left to play. DU and USD aren't adding baseball. Ironic aint it? The Summit depending on hockey for its future survival. If NDSU would just bite the bullet, it could save the Summit League itself.

The tweet says its about NCAA DI hockey. EIU is ACHA DII but that's not really relevant to first to be ACHA DI to go NCAA DI. Could well be a big hoax, though. https://twitter.com/EIUHockey The Summit only has four full members for men's soccer, but has ORU and E Illinois as affiliates in that sport so the NCAA views them as having six members. (Omaha when it is fully DI will make it seven). Right now, baseball is sitting at four (UND going to the WAC in baseball was a huge blow), with Omaha qualifying after next season. But the NCAA is demanding the Summit be at six baseball teams by next July 1st, otherwise the Summit loses their autobid unless it somehow adds another team. If the Summit could pull in six hockey team (at least four Summit members plus 2 others), the NCAA would view hockey as the Summit's way of satisfying sponsoring a third men's team sport (basketball, soccer, and hockey rather than baseball). A Summit Hockey Conference Denver Omaha (fully DI in hockey) E Illinois N Dakota (either as affiliate or full member) Minn St-Mankato (as full member - hockey would count immediately as full DI) St Cloud St (") Mn-Duluth (") Colorado College (as affiliate, they have to stay attached to DU) Miami O (affiliate) W Mich (affiliate) If Omaha, DU, and CC pulled out, the rest of the NCHC would either have to join or go to the WCHA. The MVFC would have to take both E Illinois and UND as football members and probably go to divisions, which would save on travel. Faison and Kelley would not allow UND to be forced into the Summit for all sports - that's out of the question. But the Summit could still add Mankato and E Ill as full members and accomplish its goals. There has been some rumblings with the PAC12 of sponsoring hockey - especially with the PAC12 network having launched last year. That would be a better monetary, academic, and media deal for UND than the NCHC. But a lot of "things" would have to happen for it to take place. Imagine a league of Washington, Oregon, Stanford, USC, Utah, Colorado, North Dakota, and maybe an Arizona school or two. UND could just bide its time in the WCHA until a new western league could be formed. The two pushers for a Summit Hockey conference would have to be Trev Alberts at UNO and Peggy Hoops-Bradley at DU. Think both are very capable people and would be the movers and shakers behind the scene out of necessity to save in part of their own hides: the Summit League. Douple would be like just a fat *ss figurehead that would mostly be in their way and would be very fortunate to have them on his team: otherwise he's out of a job when the Summit plug is pulled.

The Summit is worth a lot more $'s to them than the NCHC, because of NCAA dance money. What Denver and Omaha might be trying to do is slip the Summit cover on top of the NCHC - all the same teams plus E Illinois. The two schools that the Summit has always wanted are E Illinois and UND. Hockey might be the weapon they use to get it. What would really suck is that no "name" school - Iowa St, Colorado, Utah, etc - would demean its good name under that Summit conference name for hockey only. Miami and W Michigan might take Bowling Green and add Robert Morris, Canisius, Mercyhurst, Niagara, UAH and start their own new league: a new CCHA.

Maybe Douple's revenge to rip UND out of the Big Sky? Denver and Nebraska-Omaha may be in with Douple just to save their own conference hide (and essentially sacrifice the NCHC ), with a byproduct that UND wouldn't have a hockey league unless they joined the Summit. Doubt E Ill has the resources to start hockey, but waving hockey affiliation with Denver and Omaha in front of them might be enough for E Ill to move back to the Summit from the OVC. Denver and Omaha would have to be total Benedict Arnold's toward the NCHC though. http://forum.siouxsp...chc-to-survive/

Could see some NDSU fan ordering just to cause trouble.

NDSU can't take a chance it won't end up with a larceny or assault situation.

Very weak non-conference home schedule. Used to have H/A with multiple A10 or even Big East teams. Nothing but NAIA, DII, and NDSU (which might as well be an NAIA team now). USD actually is pretty good.

Guess it was a lot of little guys, but not as many big gifts as expected. Even with his divorce (lost half of his holdings) and giving UND $10 mill, Harold Hamm isn't doing too badly. His company keeps raising projections of how much oil (and how many wells) is in the Bakken / Three Forks. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=CLR+Interactive#symbol=clr;range=5y;compare=;indicator=split+volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

Still no sign that the IPF has received city approval: http://gfplanning.weebly.com/ Sounds like there is finally money to redo the Bison Sports Arena. As impatient as we were for the IPF, the fund raising for the SHAC took forever in comparison. Thought after all the football success, bison fans were thinking bison big wigs would flip all kinds of coin to the SHAC in celebration. Plenty of coin, but all pennies, apparently!

Doing a google news search with the words "North Dakota, basketball, Schedule, " there are hits, but mostly NDSU. Nothing new to report. A lot of higher level teams have already issued their schedules. Wisconsin has so far released six non-conference games, but not a UND game. Hopefully, UND can get in a decent tournament. Sure there will be three NAIA teams for home games, just like NDSU. Think UND may be in the RPI range now where it might be a potentially dangerous team (especially with becoming senior laden and with front court depth) that 150-20 range teams no longer consider a sure win, and where UND really doesn't want to schedule less than 250 RPI (it already sees too many in the Big Sky). Getting home and home games are never easy.

Seems as if Arizona, Arizona St, Colorado, Colo St, Oklahoma, and C Oklahoma are ramping up hockey a bit. http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2013/06/arizona-joins-western-collegiate-hockey-league-062613

http://blog.seattlep...ive-in-seattle/ Would love to see the Washington Huskies in the NCHC. Would at least increase regional exposure.

2012 Fl A&M: 199 RPI Tulane: 287 Tx Southern: 297 With 330 teams, not exactly stellar competition but a good weekend to work on reserves. Tulane's campus is really nice, or so I heard. But have fun in N Orleans and stay safe!

And this year, NDSU is practically pulling girls off the street to field a team.

Hope the med school (as well as Wal-Mart west of I29) leads to other businesses investing in Gateway Drive redevelopment. The traffic flow around N Washington and Gateway should warrant it.

Don't worry. NDSU, won't win a set.

The second away tournament this year will be pretty weak: Tulane, Tx Southern, Fl A&M. With a good first weekend, they have a reasonable chance of going through the non-conference season undefeated. Next year's home tournament will likely be: South Dakota, Tulane, Middle Tennessee St. Not nearly as good as this year's Iowa St, Tx A&M, and SDSU.

With the injury track record, we need all the bigs we can get. With Troy's cousin coming aboard in the second half, this team should make major strides toward the top of the Sky.

Good. At least his assistants' pay won't exceed his.

You and Bison Danny boy really need to invest in some extra panties when UND makes the dance. Bisonville's meltdown will be epic, and Saul will likely be tarred and feathered if he isn't dancing too. UND sports sure has some interest on that board.

Exactly. If anyone gets offered a job for $150 k if you're in a $50 k job, seriously, are you going to turn it down? If Shay's input into a game plan and recruiting could be the difference that beats Weber St and then Montana, sending us to the dance. If we have our coaches in demand elsewhere, that will attract other good assistants and build the program. NW Florida JC has been reloading every year with high level DI recruits, and Shay and Forbes have had that JC in the national championship games since they have been there. No easy feat. Think Shay could bring in recruits from that JC league and elsewhere that we would never been able to touch. http://www.nwfdailyn...etball-1.169925 http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/steve-forbes-become-first-assistant-bruce-pearl-final-184849967.html

Jason Shay was formerly lead scout for Bruce Pearl and "one of the best X's and O's minds in the business", but made untouchable by others in DI because of his association with Bruce Pearl. http://masseybasketb...in-florida.html http://www.cbssports.../story/15650956 http://www.utsports....ay_jason00.html Didn't realize there was already a thread on this. Please merge if possible.