SIOUXFAN97 Posted February 27 Posted February 27 49 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said: MAC + UMass ... up next ... Delaware. your saying delaware is gonna pull a "Landry" on cusa? Quote
The Sicatoka Posted February 27 Author Posted February 27 4 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said: your saying delaware is gonna pull a "Landry" on cusa? Like Tyler Roehl going to Tennessee State ... Quote
nodak651 Posted February 28 Posted February 28 On 2/26/2024 at 5:13 PM, SIOUXFAN97 said: https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/39605350/sources-umass-set-become-13th-member-mac-25-26-season Where's Fenton and a new soccer school Nobody thought the MAC had UMass lined up until the school presidents voted on it. Likewise, Fenton isn't going to broadcast anything that isn't official. Is anything lined up? We will find out. Quote
Popular Post Yote 53 Posted February 28 Popular Post Posted February 28 23 hours ago, SiouxHawkGuy said: Any G5 would be lucky to have us The only path to G5 for the Dakota schools is a few Summit schools merge with the Big Sky schools in Montana, Idaho and a few others creating an entirely new conference. Throw out the NCAA rules about establishing an FBS conference. Take them to court and you'll win on anti-trust grounds. They've lost every court case they've been challenged on lately. The MAC is not moving this far west and CUSA is way too stretched out. The best idea is the most obvious, that similar schools with similar goals in a similar geographic region (West) get together to form their own conference. 5 2 Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted February 28 Posted February 28 10 minutes ago, Yote 53 said: The only path to G5 for the Dakota schools is a few Summit schools merge with the Big Sky schools in Montana, Idaho and a few others creating an entirely new conference. Throw out the NCAA rules about establishing an FBS conference. Take them to court and you'll win on anti-trust grounds. They've lost every court case they've been challenged on lately. The MAC is not moving this far west and CUSA is way too stretched out. The best idea is the most obvious, that similar schools with similar goals in a similar geographic region (West) get together to form their own conference. I've been thinking this myself for a long time. Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted February 28 Posted February 28 Potential Division I G5 Conference UND NDSU SDSU USD Montana Montana St. St. Thomas Northern Iowa Denver Omaha -Eight teams with FB, two without. -Seven game conference FB schedule. Plenty of room for G5 non-conference games and P5 money games. Travel partners for MBB and WBB: -UND/NDSU -SDSU/USD -Montana/Montana St. -St. Thomas/Northern Iowa -Denver/Omaha Thoughts? 1 1 Quote
Nodak78 Posted February 28 Posted February 28 50 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: Potential Division I G5 Conference UND NDSU SDSU USD Montana Montana St. St. Thomas Northern Iowa Denver Omaha -Eight teams with FB, two without. -Seven game conference FB schedule. Plenty of room for G5 non-conference games and P5 money games. Travel partners for MBB and WBB: -UND/NDSU -SDSU/USD -Montana/Montana St. -St. Thomas/Northern Iowa -Denver/Omaha Thoughts? That is a great group. 2 Quote
dmksioux Posted February 28 Posted February 28 1 hour ago, fightingsioux4life said: Potential Division I G5 Conference UND NDSU SDSU USD Montana Montana St. St. Thomas Northern Iowa Denver Omaha -Eight teams with FB, two without. -Seven game conference FB schedule. Plenty of room for G5 non-conference games and P5 money games. Travel partners for MBB and WBB: -UND/NDSU -SDSU/USD -Montana/Montana St. -St. Thomas/Northern Iowa -Denver/Omaha Thoughts? As nice as it would be to have UNI, they won’t leave the the MVC. St. Thomas will move on to a bigger profile Bball conference also. Probably need two more western teams to get the Montana’s to bite. Most likely Idaho/Idaho St. Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted February 28 Posted February 28 32 minutes ago, dmksioux said: As nice as it would be to have UNI, they won’t leave the the MVC. St. Thomas will move on to a bigger profile Bball conference also. Probably need two more western teams to get the Montana’s to bite. Most likely Idaho/Idaho St. Wyoming? 1 Quote
The Sicatoka Posted February 28 Author Posted February 28 50 minutes ago, dmksioux said: As nice as it would be to have UNI, they won’t leave the the MVC. St. Thomas will move on to a bigger profile Bball conference also. Probably need two more western teams to get the Montana’s to bite. Most likely Idaho/Idaho St. and Weber State FYP. 1 Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted February 28 Posted February 28 Here is another version: Potential Division I G5 Conference 2 UND NDSU SDSU USD Montana Montana State Denver Omaha Wyoming Colorado State -Eight teams with FB, two without. -Seven game conference FB schedule. Plenty of room for G5 non-conference games and P5 money games. Travel partners for MBB and WBB: -UND/NDSU -USD/SDSU -Montana/Montana State -Wyoming/Colorado State -Denver/Omaha Thoughts? Quote
Kab Posted February 28 Posted February 28 41 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: Here is another version: Potential Division I G5 Conference 2 UND NDSU SDSU USD Montana Montana State Denver Omaha Wyoming Colorado State -Eight teams with FB, two without. -Seven game conference FB schedule. Plenty of room for G5 non-conference games and P5 money games. Travel partners for MBB and WBB: -UND/NDSU -USD/SDSU -Montana/Montana State -Wyoming/Colorado State -Denver/Omaha Thoughts? Mountain west schools will not go for this 1 1 Quote
SIOUXFAN97 Posted February 29 Posted February 29 2 hours ago, Kab said: Mountain west schools will not go for this maybe just maybe wyoming if they get totally left behind but no way csu....... Quote
The Sicatoka Posted February 29 Author Posted February 29 Among the non-CA/NV MWC schools, MWC haves: Colo St, Air Force, Boise St MWC have nots: Wyo, Utah St, UNM Should* the MWC splt it'll be along that line. *do not expect as they have poison pill exit fees Quote
SiouxHawkGuy Posted February 29 Posted February 29 On 2/27/2024 at 10:31 AM, Kab said: With St. Thomas location they have a better chance at g5 conference I still maintain ndsu would need to move all sports, not just football The problem with UST is right now they are non-scholarship football team playing in a DIII stadium. 1 Quote
The Sicatoka Posted February 29 Author Posted February 29 I see UST following a Creighton, Marquette, DePaul, et al "Big East" (Catholic schools, no football) path down the road. Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted February 29 Posted February 29 1 minute ago, The Sicatoka said: I see UST following a Creighton, Marquette, DePaul, et al "Big East" (Catholic schools, no football) path down the road. Then why don't they just dump FB now? Quote
The Sicatoka Posted February 29 Author Posted February 29 12 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: Then why don't they just dump FB now? And risk backlash during the BB/Hockey arena funds campaign? All in good time. Quote
SiouxHawkGuy Posted February 29 Posted February 29 18 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said: I see UST following a Creighton, Marquette, DePaul, et al "Big East" (Catholic schools, no football) path down the road. Well there goes their Summit Hockey invite 2 Quote
The Sicatoka Posted February 29 Author Posted February 29 21 minutes ago, SiouxHawkGuy said: Well there goes their Summit Hockey invite Arizona State on line one for you. If UST was in the BEast, the NCHC (someday Summit Hockey) would fiind them a slot, just like they did for ASU. Quote
Yote 53 Posted February 29 Posted February 29 Was thinking more along these lines: Potential Division I G5 Conference 2 UND NDSU SDSU USD Montana Montana State Denver Omaha Idaho Idaho State Weber State UNC 10 team football conference playing a 9 game round robin schedule. 12 team conference for all other sports. Nice geographic fit on two sides with the I-29 corridor on the East and decent fit from Denver to Missoula in the west. 1 Quote
The Sicatoka Posted February 29 Author Posted February 29 @Yote 53, that makes sense but the Montanas lose their CA exposure for recruiting. That's a non-starter. 1 Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted February 29 Posted February 29 7 minutes ago, Yote 53 said: Was thinking more along these lines: Potential Division I G5 Conference 2 UND NDSU SDSU USD Montana Montana State Denver Omaha Idaho Idaho State Weber State UNC 10 team football conference playing a 9 game round robin schedule. 12 team conference for all other sports. Nice geographic fit on two sides with the I-29 corridor on the East and decent fit from Denver to Missoula in the west. Not bad. Not bad at all. Questions I have are: Would Idaho want to move back into FBS? They dropped down to FCS because they were winning 1 or 2 games each year in FBS. Would Idaho State want to move up to FBS? They might be willing, but could they afford it? Would Northern Colorado be able to upgrade their programs to compete at the level of the others? They have been a non-factor since they left Division II. Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted February 29 Posted February 29 2 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said: @Yote 53, that makes sense but the Montanas lose their CA exposure for recruiting. That's a non-starter. Nothing is preventing them from recruiting California if they were to do this. And as FBS programs, they'll be recruiting California and a lot of other areas anyway. Quote
Yote 53 Posted February 29 Posted February 29 I included the Idaho schools because they are State schools and a conference that looks like that, a conference of peer schools, they may be more inclined to move to FBS for that. May have a good point about UNC. I included them solely based on location. They would be interchangeable with somebody else, maybe EWU or NAU. Quote
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