(02-02-2017 12:13 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  OK for all you NCAA rule savants, riddle me this: how is the MVC surviving, then??????

Check it out: the MVC only has two men's team sports where at least six MVC members sponsor the sport, basketball and baseball. Men's soccer is only sponsored by five MVC teams, with two affiliates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_V..._by_school


The MVFC is a separate conference and not part of the MVC, so the MVC can't use the exception for sponsoring football.


By the letter of the law, the MVC is in violation of the requirements of a DI multisport conference.



So how are they doing it?????

The third men's team sport can have an affiliate. The other two must be full members.

Summit men's soccer used to have two affiliates: ORU and Eastern Illinois. That means baseball was their second team sport that must have six members. Now it's OK to use men's soccer because ORU came back to give it six full time teams.

The MVC has an easy solution if it falls below the team sport requirements: add NDSU and / or SDSU and incorporate the MVFC into the MVC which would also subtract two baseball teams from the Slummit.

That is one of the reasons that I think Slummit membership is short sighted for UND.

In Canada, men's volleyball is rather big and in Illinois, so that a viable option for us.