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The spin off was mentioned in the article.

What used to be PS Doors, which is now PS Industries, has grown from 5 to 120 employees in manufacturing since 1994. https://www.grandforksherald.com/business/manufacturing/4565391-PS-Industries-look-to-continued-growth-and-expansion

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This NCAA report says they are reviewing the rule not allowing DIII’s to DI without a stop in DII. (g.7) https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/committees/d1/council/Jun2019D1Council_Report.pdf st Thomas would need five years then to be a fully DI school. Justin Sell of SDSU is on that committee.

Some lawyers on CSNBBS said this. Am not a lawyer and won’t go searching for legal documents. The Summit has said nothing about needing ORU back to get in compliance as retuned both sports to six conference members after a two year grace period. It was a bigger deal than their fans know about. The American East currently sponsors three team sports: lacrosse, baseball, and men’s soccer in addition to having hockey and football and of course basketball teams. Maine and UNH don’t sponsor lacrosse, Vermont and UNH don’t sponsor baseball, and Maine dropped men’s soccer. It takes into accord the tact that losing one men’s team sport won’t be disastrous as it still sponsor three men’s team sports. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_East_Conference

So according to you, the Summit just needs to add the NCHC with Arizona St (making six DI members) and call it a day if Northern Colorado joins for baseball only. The NCAA has ruled on affiliate members for a conference to maintain its autobid. America East now requires lacrosse for new members for this autobid reason as they don’t sponsor football, although schools within have football in the CAA. This all could have been avoided if the Summit required UMKC to add baseball as they promised before they left for the WAC. Call it a failure of Douple if you want. But sure the Summit Presidents know more than any on this board do. A second male team sport could be volleyball, which needs only four scholarships and is a spring sport. So in your world, the two male team sports are ice hockey and volleyball.

This says PFW will save half a million annually on travel. http://www.journalgazette.net/sports/colleges/local-colleges/20190807/pfw-joining-horizon-league ”Some of those schools were big flagship schools in football, with huge alumni bases.”

UND at Montana Dec 6th https://www.montanasports.com/sports/big-sky-conference/montana-grizzlies/montana-grizzlies-announce-2019-20-mens-basketball-schedule

Liberty moving to FBS actually disputes that. A conference is so much easier financially to move up because they wouldn’t have to pay major prices to other FBS teams to transition. Liberty got the exemption because if it went to court, Liberty would have won with major $’s because it’s an antitrust violation. There were some proposed rules passing around, and may have thought they were final.

There was a rule allowing any conference that used to be FBS grant FBS membership that was perpetual. This rule was put in after 2012. The WAC is the only conference that it would apply to, as the MVC and Big West and Ivy were not officially FBS in the 70’s. FBS only came into affect later. This set of rules doesn’t look up to date.

So discounting as a future member Western Illinois which is very financially stressed, looks the the Summit needs three football teams (look west) or two baseball and men’s soccer teams (take from the WAC) or force UND and USD to add men’s soccer and baseball and the requisite women’s sports.

When I got in an argument with Hammersmith that the Summit needed three male team sports, he insisted I was wrong. At that time, the third team sport was listed elsewhere in the rules, but it was there. Perhaps it was the old rules rewritten for clarity. Looks like men’s soccer is in trouble too, and no possible add includes them except WAC schools. Can you check that the WAC can still make FBS invites?

There was legal precedence from another conference.

The NCAA rules state that two male team sports must be offered from full members in the conference. And then a later section states that conferences without fb must offer a third male team sport too. This is the one that can have an affiliate member to satisfy the six teams.

The simplest solution is to invite back Chicago St. They have the correct sports and would be a good travel partner for Western Illinois. But the Presidents will never go for them. Chi St and WIU will be forced down to DII rather soon ( years).

At least one of baseball or men's soccer must be six full members. Eastern Illinois is right now a men's soccer school so baseball must have six full members.

NMSU wants a Texas-California based conference for enrollment purposes. They would never consider a Dakota based one and still want an FBS conference, which the WAC can patch together. UNC has moved beyond a Dakota conference, as even a Big Sky smaller one is to their liking. Denver probably doesn't want them in the Summit. On a bizon radio program, GCU was said to be rejected by all the Dakotas based on USD's AD.

Baseball or men’s soccer won’t be an issue because the new football schools won’t have either. Men’s soccer is nearly a crisis right now at six, and that with Eastern Illinois as an affiliate. Add football schools to get rid of both headaches. Reserve the right for NDSU to add it if the trolls insist.

The Summit didn’t try to test the NCAA the last time. When ORU left the first time, the Summit then only had five baseball teams. But suddenly, the Summit got ORU to come mysteriously back after only two years there were six teams again. The penalty for not sponsoring three men’s teams, or two with football, is the loss of your auto bid. The grace period was and is two years.

Here is puck swami's take on Fort Wayne leaving. Although he includes the Montana schools as options, he doesn't take it too the next level in competition. He also says baseball need six teams. https://letsgodu.com/2019/08/06/purdue-fort-wayne-announces-summit-league-departure/

There are rumors that UST will build a 6000 seat arena for DI hockey near its campus. http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=4550.93375

Northern Colorado wouldn’t stabilize the Summit with football. WIU wants the MVFC so they join the Horizon, leaving the Summit still short of six football teams.

Augie does nothing either. Full DI members are needed. But Augie is planning a move, so current DI members must be coming.

Don’t have any faith in the Dufus Douple. The Summit Presidents have the vision to vote in proper new members.

That makes things worse because DII schools wouldn’t qualify for five years.