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Some St Thomas opines in the Star/Sickle: http://www.startribune.com/yes-have-st-thomas-leave-the-minnesota-intercollegiate-athletic-conference/508345132/ http://www.startribune.com/don-t-boot-st-thomas-from-the-minnesota-intercollegiate-athletic-conference/508345162/ Its no coincidence that St Thomas could step seamlessly into the NSIC when Augie abandons it. St Thomas admin adeptly used the anti Tommie sentiment at some schools to make them have no apparent choice, when they do.

The troll posters like to revel in their fantasies that eastern Midwest schools are always happy in an NDSU League because NDSU is so attractive an opponent and conference rival. History shows them dead wrong as nearly all the Horizon members are Summit alumni, but facts don’t matter. The Summit league has been a day care for the Horizon League, nurturing baby programs to adulthood and then nabbing them.

That was my point. Presbyterian can’t keep FCS scholarship fb with a $100 million endowment. High Point doesn’t even attempt non-scholarship DI fb with a $50 million endowment. CSP could possibly make it at DI if it dropped fb, but the Summit would be digging deep worse than the Big South

Considering that the concept of the Summit being in an existential crisis if PFW, WIU, ORU or Denver ever left hasn’t sunk into your skull yet after years of your posting, your comments are beyond meaningless, even for a bizzen. The Dakotas are not critical schools because they mostly don’t have the critical sports, which isn’t football at this time. Now if you acknowledged that NDSU may be forced to add men’s soccer and three other women’s sports for Title IX to save the Summit, you’d have shown evidence of actually getting the issue, but, you haven’t shown the least bit of proclivity.

St Thomas would be a short timer in the Summit if it ever happens. UST would soon get an invite from the MVC almost regardless of how they perform. The MVC would take them just because of the MSP market as they did for Loyola because of the Chi market. The Big East would be their maximum, and could be obtained through success. The Twin Cities market ensures that. If Creighton can reach the Big East, almost assuredly UST can. The MIAC is already a much more prestigious league than the Summit in academics and snobbery.. Their goal and vision has to be more than the Summit. The Horizon would want them too, so UST may choose them over the Summit. But in either league they would be a short timer for only the transition plus a few short years as the MVC has so much better payouts and respect. Would be interesting how them accommodate the mbb, hockey and other programs. Building or enpanding arenas and playing in the nearby Alliance Soccer field for a likely new sport like lacrosse. UST is the rich kid that has almost all doors open to them because of where they sit. If the Summit wanted a MSP school long term, they should offer Concordia-St Paul, which is a relatively poor endowment school (only $40 mill) and not nearly as respected academically (not saying its bad) but lower than Vaipo. CSP would need a sugar daddy to come forward.

In hockey you can as DII doesn’t exist. Going DII allows scholarship for all athletic varsity programs. There might be DII transition rules that limit the move of M/W Hockey to DI for postseason, but hockey would exist even for a little as an independent. Wrong again Shirley.

Your uneducatable as this comment again proves. The Summit is a major membership crisis, unless they know new members from out west are coming in, which you can’t get that bizen pea brain to understand.

Shirley, You probably don’t know that UST has three times of endowment of Providence and more than twice the enrollment and it’s located in a hockey mad city and state. But guess Providence is a basket case so we should defer to your vast knowledge base. The CBS Sports Network would vastly prefer Arizon St and St Thomas just based on the metros there are in over Mankato. Presidents follow the money and prestige.

Presidents of U’s and corporations can’t legally disclose some information, without running into major legal issues or giving major notice to competitors. This is one instance that that wouldn’t be a problem. Sid Hartman once mentioned years ago that UST should change their name to the U if St Paul and move up to DI and become like Marquette. The UST leadership has long known of there special standing in Minnesota to became the 2nd DI team in a DI starved state. Minnesota is unique because of it as it has the least DI precedence of any state other than Alaska.

So irritating that college Presidents have devolved into lying pieces of crap. St Thomas should be DI as is Loyola Chicago, Drake, Bradley, Creighton etc, but their President and MIAC ones concoct a scheme to cover their ambitions to move up for them. St Johns actually won the MIAC last year by huge scores and beat St Thomas by 40-20, but they both beat nearly every MIAC school except Bethel and Gustavous badly. If you can’t trust supposedly Christian college Presidents not to lie, why should we expect real news from the press? St John’s scores from last year: https://gojohnnies.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=274 St Thomas scores from last year: https://www.tommiesports.com/sports/fball/2018-19/schedule Lying will pay dividends as alumni will donate more out of rage and anger.

Just around here: The Johnson City Mall is largely thriving, as it is a good location with accessory superstores nearby, High schoolers don’t hang around in malls so much anymore. The Kingport Mall is nearly dead, but they have revived themselves with a major sporting goods store replacing a department store, and rumors that the torn down Sears part will be rebuilt as a major grocery chain, the vacant store fronts have been covered with some wonderful historical photos that was done very professionally. The 12 plex movie theater was remodeled by a new company and is a pleasure to go there again. The old Bristol Mall has been torn down but new major strip malls with a Bass Pro Shop is really enticing the retail sector there. A new major Mall has been proposed at the center of the Tri Cities for more than a decade, but investors don’t want in. Lowe’s and Home Depot have been relatively thriving even with e-commerce.

Kolpack hasn’t read the NCAA regs as a good Bizen. Schools aren’t allowed to jump to DI from any other classification but DII. Utah Valley moved from JC ranks, Houston Baptist moved from DIII ranks, and Belmont and Lipscomb moved from NAIA ranks, but that isn’t allowed anymore. Those schools would have to move reclassify to DII and stay there for a full five years as a full DII member, which would take eight years longer. Cal Baptist was an NAIA school just nine years ago, built a shiny new arena, and obeyed the regs so it is now a WAC transitioning member. https://www.inforum.com/sports/1000774-Kolpack-Its-time-to-boot-St.-Thomas-from-MIAC-to-Division-I

UND should be recruiting unheralded guards from Chicago suburbs: nearly everyone missed on Mooney and Konchar.

U of St Thomas hockey plays at the St Thomas Ice Arena in Mendota Heights, near St Thomas Academy. There is only seating on one side for 1400 and have no idea if that can be expanded. More on the DIII MIAC decision from footballscoop.com. http://footballscoop.com/news/division-iii-conference-reportedly-considering-kicking-one-members-successful/

When they formulated a way to get expelled out of the MIAC without outwardly using their ambitions. Their own fans can’t get mad. That scheme takes a lot of work. DII is way beneath them if they can’t stay in the MIAC or gain admissions to the UAA (which is AAU only) and the DIII Upper Midwest Conference (with Morris, Crown, Bethany etc ) is even further way beneath their own believed dignity. There is a new hockey school that would quickly gain favor amount the NCHC Presidents, pushing Mankato aside.

So St Thomas will be “forced” to go DII just when the NSIC needs a replacement for Augie. Quite the story by admin just so Macalester can go back to the MIAC. The WCHA and later the MVC will see them too. The DII transition is a couple years and potential DI must stay for 8 years as a full DII member. The MVC needs a spot in MSP. Duobt that St Thomas would go scholarship football in DI though. They want to emulate Creighton, Marquette, Loyola, and Drake

According to all the trolls and other disbelievers that the Montana and Idaho aren’t sliding over, there are two schools looking to move up near the Indiana portion of the Ohio River: Southern Indiana and Bellarmine. All those trolls and disbelievers should be on their hands begging and pleading for them to join the Summi to keep PUFW happy as they both have baseball. http://www.seedyksports.com/2019/04/01/and-then-there-were-but-four/ near the bottom of the column https://www.courierpress.com/story/sports/college/southern-indiana/2019/04/03/hickey-if-usi-wants-regularly-fill-its-new-arena-should-choose-division-one/3351914002/ USI denies it, but a school doesn’t put tens of millions into an arena if it’s goal isn’t DI (see NKU, Belmont, Lipscomb)

Why can’t something like curling happen organically at the colllege level? Very few colleges have on campus curling rinks is the reason. The Ralph hosted the 2008 World Curling Championships to great accolades, but anything less is frowned upon. Miami O is the only school that sponsors a varsity, not club, synchronized skating group and they annually win the club championship. Ms McGarry may be against collegiate curling championship at the Ralph, and that makes her closer to being right? UND and the Ralph would be a top notch curling club if it just used the Olympic rink. UND would get the top curlers in the region if it had a varsity team. Again, tennis is very expensive as foreign scholarships are used. Why not have an on campus sport that actually attracts students and spectators rather than a perennial alsoran?

Congrats, Faith! https://mobile.twitter.com/CobberSID/status/1113193167183069185?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1113206997837590528&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocial.siouxsports.com%2F

Long been a proponent of sponsoring relatively low cost sports like curling (or X-C skiing or synchronized skating), which the Olympic Arena could host, rather than tennis, which needs expensive foreign scholarships and an off-site facility in order to be even remotely competitive. http://www.collegecurlingusa.org/ A local school just won the most recent club championship. https://www.bemidjipioneer.com/sports/4583120-curling-kelliher-curler-wins-national-title-ndsu Of course, the NCAA is so slow and schools are even slower to respond to an opening.

Minot St won another ACHA title, this time over Iowa St. This has been talked about before, but Minot St seems like a natural replacement for the WCHA if it loses Mankato. They also have women’s club program to complement an impending No Mich program, so it seems like a perfect fit. http://www.minotdailynews.com/sports/local-sports/2019/03/minot-state-mens-hockey-tops-iowa-state-for-a-second-national-title/ Of course, money would be a problem, but DII never made sense for them if DI hockey wasn’t a possibility. If Bemidji can take their DII hockey program DI, why not Minot?

The state should sponsor a museum in Dickinson about this soon to be famous site in Bowman, ND. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died I’m a creationist, but this all meshes with the flood story. The Book of Genesis says there was a firmament of water above as well as below. That water above, which might have been ice crystals, would have shielded the earth from cosmic rays at creation, suddenly producing all kinds of radioisotopes (like C-14), making the earth seem millions of times older, as preflood there would not be many isotopes numerically as there are now. The asteroid destroyed the firmament, creating the flood. Suddenly, people and animals live a shorter lifespan because the earth’s environment is much less hospitable. A rainbow was never seen by Noah except after the flood, so something changed in our Sky. A firmament also enables everywhere on earth to become a tropical climate, even where sunshine was rare.

The Summit has a team in Vermillion, why not Yankton too? https://ktiv.com/2019/04/02/mount-marty-college-announces-addition-of-football-program/

CHN interviewed Ariz St’s AD Ray Anderson, who stated some PAC12 teams in the Northwest, close to Canada, might be next to take the plunge. https://www.collegehockeynews.com/news/2019/04/01_QA-With--Arizona-State.php Thought of Washington and Oregon. Is the Seattle NHL team building a practice facility near UW? Nike gives Oregon money? Thought Utah and one of the LA schools would have been next. Edit: Seattle NHL does plan on building a three rink facility with the largest seating being 1000. Not big enough. Maybe practice with the Everett rink as a possibility. https://arenadigest.com/2018/10/08/nhl-seattle-ice-centre-plan-unveiled/

Only you are stupid enough to be Griz bait. All the realignments that have been spun around here still result in the Summit being dead by NCAA rules, except the one by yours truly. The Summi can’t stay alive if it needs baseball and men’s soccer so it must start sponsoring football. Didn’t think a bushels of rocks could be so stubborn and dumb as you’ve shown.