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Here’s another UTRGV recent fb article. https://www.themonitor.com/sports/utrgv_vaqueros/article_2aa53d18-9aba-11e8-9d46-1ba23372cff8.html There are suggesting the following: 2018 Announce FB 2019 Hire staff and finalize facilities planning 2020 Practice year 2021 FCS independent 2022 FBS transition They are not recommending FCS for UTRGV’s size and research status but they include that as an option. It’s bizarre that the FBS Sun Belt would even look at them as the Belt tossed them out more than a decade ago when they were the smaller UTPA. Some consulting firm must be psycho to recommend FBS for a school like UTRGV if it needs another conference invite. But lo and behold there are a member of the WAC which by rules can elevate schools to FBS. UTRGV got the answers in print that it paid for. The WAC can give out golden passes to FBS and it would be foolish not to use them. But all the schools getting them have to be well prepared. The consulting firm is not even recommending FCS as UTRGV is too large and FBS fits because UTRGV wants to grow research. The timeline is a year behind my projections, but still my same projections without the date. My prediction on UND going to the Big Sky was the biggest running joke on bozoville for years, but suddenly it happened and bozoville became apoplectic. Same thing will happen again. The coming gold rush to get the WAC is to qualify for the bigger CFP pot coming in 2025. Any Unversity FCS President was figuring out how to participate for some time now.

Ten fans will be quite the mob. Another example to actions taken by a FCS President that will open up $’s for FBS. Have projected that women’s lacrosse would be added for Title IX for FBS and join the MPSF. Remarkably, the women’s soccer field was elevated and given new grass turf. But it’s all just coincidence.

Grass fields are much preferred for soccer.

Claimed like 50 different decisions and events, not two, with the meter all pointing in the same direction which is FBS. Obvious that you don’t have vision that encompasses everything or at least awareness that decisions aren’t made in a vacuum but with a long term goal in mind. Your arguments are so pedantic, like a child having temper tantrum. Spending on FCS is not worth it if it only begots local interest and awareness of what already occurred in D2. There will be a tidal wave of schools leaving FCS shortly because their Presidents are just too aware that FCS is a money suck hole. Better to spend that kind of money on something that will bring much more national awareness, like FBS. Yeah, the whole Big Sky is not going FBS, but more than half.

On the Shockers official release, it says the goal is to grow the band to 200 members. That’s kind of difficult on a basketball court. A Munchkin band? https://www.wichita.edu/about/wsunews/news/2018/07-july/shocker_sound_machine_marching_band_story.php Wichita State can’t officially announce a WAC affiliate invite yet, the same issue as UTRGV, but they have to proceed with the band, because it’s needed to raise enrollment and generate excitement for football.

Gonna be interesting what formations the Wichita State band will have with more than 200 members on the basketball court. The band members will have to mighty tiny to even fit, not to mention move around to different formations, Maybe they are planning a band of munchkins, as the Wizard of Oz was based in Kansas. You could probably qualify, Siouxphan. My mistake as Colorado College is in the Mountain West now for women’s soccer.

CC is Division I in women’s soccer and an affiliate of CUSA in that sport. Makes sense that they upgrade for that sport too as it can be a Title IX issue. Since they are DIII in all other sports, it would take almost 13 years to be eligible for FBS if they started last July 1st.

A minor league team for the Houston Dynamos is adding on to their stadium not far from UTRGV. That eliminates great facility cost. A UTRGV indoor practice center just needs a roof to protect them from the sun. One of the reasons that UTSA didn’t have trouble financing an FBS team is they had the AlamoDome and 40 k students to pay for increased athletic fees. UTRGV is remarkably similar. Missouri St has grown tremendously in the wake of the Mizzou scandals and has already built an FBS capable stadium. Mo St needs to move to FBS to take its rightful place on the Missouri and national sports scene. The Sun Belt has begged them to move, but Belt basketball isnt what the Mo St aspires to. The western CUSA or the American would have to invite before they would leave the MVC, but they need to be FBS first. They don’t give a damn about the MVFC as there isn’t money in it. FCS to FBS moves are not performance based, as bison squawkers would have you believe. Those FCS to FBS decision are entirely financial decisions and having a credible regional academic conference, but granted a proper fan base and media base helps. NDSU doesn’t have the money too entertain the MWC or the MAC and both of them wouldn’t consider them even if they had the money.

A Freedom of Information request to UTRGV confirms that UTRGV will start FBS, but not FCS. First, they will need a FBS conference invite. They are already a WAC member and there has been persistent rumors from other media and WAC sources that the WAC will make FBS invites to FCS schools, like Sam Houston St, Lamar, Cal Poly, UCDavis, and Sac St as members. Wichita St and Mo St can go FBS as affiliates. https://www.brownsvilleherald.com/premium/utrgv-football-feasibility-study-reveals-benefits-pitfalls/article_66307f29-b1f7-571d-bb39-8632add3ab8c.html?mode=jqm There has been a delay in releasing the study, and a spokesman says there are several reasons for that. Have said for some time this was coming, but mostly got jeers for being so ridiculous in trolls and other posters minds.

For women’s basketball, non conference games are usually much easier to get. But visiting schools like to hedge their bets by playing two road trip games against schools against different conferences. NDSU being in the same one potentially hurts now. URI maybe is a potential future game. UNI hasn’t shied for coming here too. The A-10 and MVC would not do that in men’s, but women’s has no big cash payout, so there is much less for them to lose. The 3-game tournament at Stetson practically demands a return by Stetson.

That was the same reaction that came from you when I posted that Wisconsin and Minnesota could be forced from the WCHA to Big Ten hockey. There are almost 30 med schools under development right now and about 20 have been created this decade. Some are standalone, but Western Michigan, Central Michigan, NMSU, Illinois, have recently opened new schools plus many in Texas, Florida, Arizona and just near me are Lincoln Memorial, Liberty, and Virginia Tech. Osteopathic schools seem to be increasingly popular. The demand for more trained doctors is almost insatiable. U of Sioux Falls has merged with four schools in its history. One more merger could bring savings and much greater course offerings.

There have been all kinds of college mergers and buyouts. Here is a list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_university_and_college_mergers_in_the_United_States UND merged or bought adjacent Wesleyan College, which used to be Red River College of Wahpeton. This is only a rumor, but Sanford just loves to through money around in Sioux Falls. The Med School part he would love, but USD’s Med School is already named Sanford. University of Augustana at Sioux Falls to differentiate from other Augustanas could be an agreeable name.

So your stupid azz thoughts are Idaho would have stayed in the Big Sky if they had offered the Dakotas. So Idaho would not have wanted to keep up with Boise St because you said so. That’s a real load of sh*t from you. Boise St was ten times the Idaho rival compared to Montana then.

There are rumor on the D2 board that Sanford will start a med school for Augustana and buy out USF, which is near Augie.

Slow on the uptake again for all to see. Boise St. and Idaho left the Big Sky in the same year, 1996. Northridge St came in the next season That is the only time a Southern California team came into the league, because Boise St and Idaho left. idaho was a better program than Boise St then. Boise St had big plans to grow and enlarge their stadium. Idaho didn’t have any facility plans except to keep playing at Boise’s level. The Big West was not that big of an FBS jump as it was the only league that would take either of them then. Boise St took off from there, after a few years. For Delaney talking about Idaho and the four Dakota schools, it has to be projecting circumstances to the present. Delaney probably knows details of Montana’s plans than posters here.

That was the most retarded comment possible. But what can one expect from a troll? The hatred of those two is comparable, except on a smaller people scale.

Boise St is effectively an “AAA” FBS school. The P5 won’t look at them. Idaho is at best a Single A FBS and it doesn’t have an MWC option, because there are no single A or “AA” options left in th West. Never ever compared it to Boise St. You did, Your historys of A&M/Texas and Boise St/Idaho relationships are severely lacking.

You simply have no idea about history. A&M left the Big 12 because they were tired of being the second wheel with Texas, the SEC had offered them 20 years before, Texas was flirting with the PAC12 at the time (even suggesting A&M) and A&M decided that they would actually take the SEC up on the offer. Missouri left after months of studying and hem and hawing. The Big 12 wasn’t unstable until Colorado said it would join the PAC12 (might have been the PAC14 or PAC16). Idaho and Boise St did not become FBS until 1996 and Idaho has every reason to be FBS with similar academic institutions, like Montana, Montana St, NDSU, UND etc. Idaho and those schools are is better institutions than almost all of the Sun Belt schools. There was a nasty replacement process for Idaho, Boise St and Nevada left for Big West FBS. The Big Sky expansion which didn’t yield a credible athletic program, because the California and Portland fans simply don’t care about a lower level DI school. Evidence by the Big Sky waging a huge bet on Cal St-Northridge and they subsequently dropping FB and going Big West. Why would Delaney suggest Idaho as part of a Dakota expansion, if he wasn’t talking about the future?

There is no logic there. Zippo.

So you are saying Texas A&M didn’t regret going to the Big 12 when the SEC had offered them and Houston spots? 20 years later they took the SEC spot because their was so much regret. No question, the Montanas would prefer Boise St and Nevada, but that simply wasn’t possible anymore. Idaho left at the same time as Boise and Nevada, so he seems to be projecting that those seven are ideal partners. Cal St-Sacramento, Cal St-Northridge and Portland St added nearly nothing of consequence to the Big Sky and in fact degraded the Big Sky and the Montanas have regretted that moronic decision ever since, rather than going east.

Mick Delaney, former Griz fb coach, has major regrets that the Montanas didn’t reach out to all four Dakotas and take them with Idaho and form a division years ago. He says California schools haven’t worked out at all. He is more in the know than any poster or troll here. As a former AD too, he must realize the significance of those words. https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/sports/2018/07/19/sunday-conversation-retired-life-good-mick-delaney-montana-grizzlies-great-falls-high-scott-mansch/804309002/

Chaves had to authorize that trip. Another recruit in Latvia. Lithuania is just a short drive, and it has had tons of US college and NBA players.

Guess DIII has slammed the door shut on any single sport moveups to DI after RIT did it. https://www.uscho.com/2012/03/20/rits-push-for-ncaa-legislative-change-opens-the-door-for-women-to-move-to-division-i/ The Eau Claire rumor included a DIII waiver, as there might be a mindset change, or Eau Claire could go DII and join the UW-Parkside in the GLIAC. But UWEC would probably have to drop football in that case, because there seems to be resistance to allowing any UW branch to have football above the DIII level by the Badgers. The UW branches above DIII, Parkside, Green Bay and Milwaukee, don’t have football.

DIII allows schools to play DI, but it doesn’t allow scholarships unless they are grandfathered in. As far as I know, that is not subject to even a waiver. Union College won the NCAA DI championship without athletic scholarships and has several players in the NHL, as a lack of scholarships it is not an insurmountable obstatacle. The players still get plenty of aid. Union and RIT should apply for a waiver if athletic scholarships were an option. Perhaps the WIAC gives a waiver to allow to play DI, as they just granted M/W hockey memberships for the coming year to Northland College of Ashland, WI. Getting UW-EC and Augustana would seem like a big win for the WCHA, especially for Bemidji St and Mankato St.. Really solidifies them in the region, and with first class rinks. Have to see if it happens.

Mbb plays at Marquette in December.. https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2018/7/31/17633226/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-basketball-home-non-conference-dates-bethune-cookman-north-dakota