Conference Realignments - Take 2

[Goon]

8 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

bc FCS is on life support....

That might be, but there's no other option. 

[nodak651]

9 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

bc FCS is on life support....

Or Fargo media wants more clicks (and ego boost). 

[Goon]

1 minute ago, nodak651 said:

Or Fargo media wants more clicks (and ego boost). 

I think Dom is a bit of a fan boy sometimes. They should give him pompoms in the announcers both. I actually miss KVLY's team for football. I was listening to their Football broadcast and I had to turn down the volume. 

[The Sicatoka]

The PAC will settle their media deal first, long before they go shopping for schools. Frankly if the PAC deal isn't better than the Big XII deal with pro rata the four corners could still leave the PAC. 

And I still can't believe UC-Berkeley would allow itself to be in the same conference with a "State" school (like San Diego State). 

Remember, reports had UW/UO in the B1G the week following USC/UCLA. Still hasn't happened. 

[SWSiouxMN]

How much stock are we taking in people saying that there will some attempt to prevent UCLA from joining the Big 10?

[SiouxHawkGuy]

Yeah the 4 Dakota schools should be in the MAC or something 

[SIOUXFAN97]

10 minutes ago, SiouxHawkGuy said:

Yeah the 4 Dakota schools should be in the MAC or something 

waaaaay to far away....zero chance

they are a bus league masquerading as a FBS conference.....

[SiouxHawkGuy]

5 hours ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

waaaaay to far away....zero chance

they are a bus league masquerading as a FBS conference.....

The FCS is lame

[zonadub]

6 hours ago, SiouxHawkGuy said:

Yeah the 4 Dakota schools should be in the MAC or something 

Missed the opportunity when the C-USA got hit during the last round. Should have banded together and been a northern (but autonomous) division of C-USA with the Montanas, Idaho, …

[SWSiouxMN]

Greatest conference revival ever... if this get pulled off 

[SWSiouxMN]

Allow me to recycle a joke I made a few years ago.

*Holds envelop on head

Cockroaches

Twinkies

The WAC conference

*takes envelope off of head, opens envelope

Name three things that could survive a Nuclear Weapon. 

[jdub27]

18 minutes ago, SWSiouxMN said:

Greatest conference revival ever... if this get pulled off 

Kind of a key point in their plan:

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One obstacle is that current NCAA legislation doesn't contemplate the scenario of a new FBS league being formed. There is not a known mechanism in place for the NCAA to approve or deny a new FBS league.

 

Whatever FBS status the WAC had appears to have long since expired.

That being said, there's a group of upper Midwest schools that need to also be looking into this.

[The Sicatoka]

They have some major hurdles:

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The process of becoming the 11th FBS league is not certain because there is currently a moratorium in NCAA Division I on single-sport conferences. To end that moratorium, it would require a vote from the NCAA Division I board of directors or a creative solution for league affiliation.

And as a single-sport they won't be recognized as an FBS conference. They won't meet 20.02.9 of the 2022-23 DI manual. 

[The Sicatoka]

Where's @SiouxVolleyat a time like this? Using the WAC as a vessel to FBS was one of his visions. 

RIP @SiouxVolley

[The Sicatoka]

3 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

That being said, there's a group of upper Midwest schools that need to also be looking into this.

Yup. 

[jdub27]

14 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Where's @SiouxVolleyat a time like this? Using the WAC as a vessel to FBS was one of his visions. 

Yes, but no.
He was convinced the WAC held eternal FBS exemptions. That's clearly not what is going on. Teams that have happened to join the WAC are joining with teams in the ASUN to create a completely new, football only conference.

 

13 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Yup. 

Mainly because what team in this group moves the needle at all? And good luck being the highest G5 ranked team after running through that powder puff conference schedule unscathed.

Stephen F. Austin
Abilene Christian
Utah Tech
Southern Utah
Tarleton State
Austin Peay
Eastern Kentucky
Central Arkansas
North Alabama
UT Rio Grande Valley

[The Sicatoka]

Quite the rogue's gallery, and not in a good way. 

[The Sicatoka]

16 minutes ago, jdub27 said:

He was convinced the WAC held eternal FBS exemptions.

Many at the CSNBBS reclassification/reorganization forum point out that alleged "WAC eternal" loophole was closed a couple years ago. 

[The Sicatoka]

Haslam at Montana gives his views on FBS.

https://406mtsports.com/college/big-sky-conference/university-of-montana/montana-grizzlies-are-staying-in-the-big-sky-for-now-and-ad-kent-haslam-explains/article_539a1396-77f2-11ed-b132-9b9ce3fd41bc.html 

[SIOUXFAN97]

so who had utrgv to fbs before ndac?

location location location dom

[SWSiouxMN]

14 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

so who had utrgv to fbs before ndac?

location location location dom

I could have sworn SiouxVolley fortold this one

 

[nodak651]

4 hours ago, SWSiouxMN said:

I could have sworn SiouxVolley fortold this one

 

Not far off.

 

[SIOUXFAN97]

https://www.therinklive.com/mens-college/ccha/record-75-million-gift-makes-on-campus-st-thomas-hockey-hoops-facility-a-reality

where the hell is fenton!!!!!!!!!!???????

[jdub27]

24 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

https://www.therinklive.com/mens-college/ccha/record-75-million-gift-makes-on-campus-st-thomas-hockey-hoops-facility-a-reality

where the hell is fenton!!!!!!!!!!???????

He already has them in the Summit League?
What are you yelling about?

[SiouxHawkGuy]

35 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

https://www.therinklive.com/mens-college/ccha/record-75-million-gift-makes-on-campus-st-thomas-hockey-hoops-facility-a-reality

where the hell is fenton!!!!!!!!!!???????

You mean patty for football?