SiouxVolley Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Hampton is holding a press conference tomorrow to announce the it will join the Big South and leaving the MEAC. Big South football will survive for the time being. Hampton has eyes on the CAA so this move is just getting used to a non-HBCU conference. Howard could be a CAA team too, but Howard has much more academic credentials. So if schools are positioning themselves for the CAA, some movement will take place in the CAA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxVolley Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Presbyterian is not moving to the Pioneer until at least 2021. They have too many big payout games scheduled. The school is also adding Pharmacy and Physicians assistant majors and a Health Sciences school, so they have money from somewhere. And they will be adding sports, likely man and women's wrestling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxVolley Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 So EWU is really unhappy with the New Big Sky. They won't get a guaranteed game against Montana now as their annual rivals are now Idaho and Portland State. The EWU AD wants formal divisions or the Big Sky North to split off so they get Montana and Montana St annually. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/oct/04/big-sky-athletic-directors-pondered-options-with-c/ Just gat the Montanas, Idaho and EWU to move to the Summit and everything will be dandy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darell1976 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 19 minutes ago, SiouxVolley said: So EWU is really unhappy with the New Big Sky. They won't get a guaranteed game against Montana now as their annual rivals are now Idaho and Portland State. The EWU AD wants formal divisions or the Big Sky North to split off so they get Montana and Montana St annually. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/oct/04/big-sky-athletic-directors-pondered-options-with-c/ Just gat the Montanas, Idaho and EWU to move to the Summit and everything will be dandy. I don't think they would like the travel. They didn't care for the flight to play us. Just think of playing all four Dakota teams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxVolley Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 21 minutes ago, darell1976 said: I don't think they would like the travel. They didn't care for the flight to play us. Just think of playing all four Dakota teams. Guess the Big Sky is a bus league then? Montana to Flagstaff, Cedar City, Greeley and Sacramento are easy bus rides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxVolley Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Richmond is considering the Patriot League for football: http://www.richmond.com/sports/changing-football-landscape-could-be-among-john-hardt-s-challeges/ When JMU and Delaware go FBS, Richmond wouldn't want to stay CAA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodak651 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 34 minutes ago, darell1976 said: I don't think they would like the travel. They didn't care for the flight to play us. Just think of playing all four Dakota teams. It wouldn't actually be that bad, though. When they travel to the dakotas, UND/NDSU, and USD/SDSU are very short and easy drives between games. Omaha/Denver wouldn't be so bad either, with cheap flights into and out of Denver. Frontier currently has flights to Omaha for 68 dollars. If Northern Colorado and UMKC were added, NoCol to Denver and UMKC to Omaha are also easy drives. These aren't really any more difficult than SUU and NAU road trips for the Montana Schools. Baseketball would be Very competitive in a merged league, especially if Weber comes along. This league would compete with the new MVC, imo. Take football from the MVFC and force UNI to make a big decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison73 Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 40 minutes ago, darell1976 said: I don't think they would like the travel. They didn't care for the flight to play us. Just think of playing all four Dakota teams. Where do they bus to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxVolley Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 As part of the breakup of IPFW into a PFW and IUFW, only the PFW will still sponsor athletics and will be changing its colors to Purdue's black and gold from white and blue. Hopefully, PFW gets invited to the Horizon in the next few months, as it's an eastern time school. When that occurs, the sh** will hit the fan because PFW is the sixth school sponsoring baseball and men's soccer, and the Summit needs six to have an autobid for men's basketball. http://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/schools/20171109/color-scheme-change-part-of-ipfw-rebrand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxVolley Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Sounds like UCSD will get a DI offer and join the Big West. UCSD is the highest rated academic school in DII and even above the vast majority of DI schools, but was voted down by the Big West last year. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sd-sp-ucsd-expected-to-join-big-west-20171125-story.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWSiouxMN Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 WAC problems Sound the alarms 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxVolley Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 1 hour ago, SWSiouxMN said: WAC problems Sound the alarms UCDavis and Cal Poly probably just put in notices that they will move for football reasons, as the Big West at 11 does not make much sense.. The WAC needs to take Sam Houston St, Lamar and SF Austin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNDBIZ Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Interesting group 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 1 minute ago, UNDBIZ said: Interesting group Beat me by a minute. Great combination. I have a feeling that football ends up doing the same. if they don't play in the same league Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNDBIZ Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 2 minutes ago, Smoggy said: Beat me by a minute. Great combination. I have a feeling that football ends up doing the same. if they don't play in the same league Think the big sky is still upset with USD? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 2 minutes ago, UNDBIZ said: Think the big sky is still upset with USD? As they should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIOUXFAN97 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 1 hour ago, UNDBIZ said: Interesting group am i missing something here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNDBIZ Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 1 hour ago, SIOUXFAN97 said: am i missing something here? Probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWSiouxMN Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 This is an interesting group... Eastern instead of Weber? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxVolley Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 4 hours ago, UNDBIZ said: Interesting group Those eight plus USD and Denver have already started a relationship. A new Summit will be just a continuation and cementing of the existing relationships. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiouxVolley Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 My bet is ORU moves to the WAC next. The WACneeds more schools, and such a move would set off a crisis in the Summit, as it would be on course for losing its autobid as ORU sponsors key sports like baseball and men's soccer. The Summit sponsoring football and inviting the Montana Idaho four would set the Summit on firm ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sicatoka Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 Those eight (UND, NDSU, SDSU, UNO + UM, MSU, UI, EWU) seem like an interesting consortium. I see 7 FB, 8 BB. What would be better for scheduling would be 9 FB (for 8 conference games) and 10 or 12 BB. The (semi-)obvious would be Weber State (west) and USD (east). That'd get it to 9 FB, 10 BB. After that, two BB only schools ... hmmm ... Denver and someone to balance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdub27 Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 16 hours ago, SiouxVolley said: Those eight plus USD and Denver have already started a relationship. A new Summit will be just a continuation and cementing of the existing relationships. The ACC and B1G play a basketball challenge somewhat similar to this as do the Big 12 and SEC, I suppose those conferences are merging in some fashion as well? Those Big Sky teams have no real benefit in looking east and therefore no desire in doing so. This is a helpful scheduling alliance that gets some guaranteed home games for teams that have some issues getting them due to location. The conferences helped facilitate it and at least they did a bit of work unlike the MVFC/Big Sky challenge that they decided to latch onto after the games were scheduled, though that idea was probably a small catalyst for this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWSiouxMN Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 I’d like to see a similar idea explored for WBB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sicatoka Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 How did UNO get that MBB Challenge Series slot and not USD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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