(04-04-2017 04:52 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  UAH or University of Alabama @ Huntsville has hockey.

If Denver does not want to go? These schools might be interested.
Colorado Christian (Denver suburbs)
Colorado Mesa (club hockey)
Colorado Mines (Denver area)
Colorado State-Pueblo
Colorado @ Colorado Springs
Fort Lewis (Durango)
Metro State (Denver)
Regis (Denver)

University of Illinois @ Springfield
University of Indianapolis (football could be in the MVFC
Southern Indiana (Evansville)

Upper Iowa could go into the Summit. Football into the MVFC.

Newman in Wichita
Washburn (Topeka)

Bellarmine (Louisville)
Kentucky State (Frankfort) (football in Big South)
Kentucky Wesleyan (Owensboro) (football in Big South)

Michigan schools in heavy populated areas.
Grand Valley State
Michigan Tech
Northern Michigan (Marquette)
Wayne State
Ferris State
Davenport (Grand Rapids)

concordia- St. Paul (Minneapolis)
Mankato State (outside of Minneapolis)
Minnesota-Duluth
St. cloud State

Drury (Springfield Missouri)
Lincoln Missouri (Jefferson City Missouri)
Lindenwood (St. Charles Missouri, St. Louis tv market)
Missouri Southern (Joplin)
UMSL
Rockhurst (Kansas City)

Montana State @ Billings

Le Moyne (Syracuse)

University of Mary (Bismarck)

Ashland (Ohio)
Cedarville
Ohio Dominican (Columbus)
Lake Erie

Cameron (Lawton)
Central Oklahoma (Edmond, OKC tv market)
East Central (Ada)
Northeastern Oklahoma (Tulsa tv market)
Oklahoma Christian (OKC)
Rogers State (Tulsa tv market)
Southeastern Oklahoma (Durant)
Southern Nazarene (Bethany, OKC suburbs)
Southwestern Oklahoma (Weatherford)
Oklahoma Baptist (Shawnee)

Christian Brothers (Memphis)

Dallas Baptist
Angelo State (San angelo)
Lubbock Christian
Midwestern State (Wichita Falls)
UTPB-Odessa
West Texas A&M (Amarillo tv market)

Shepherd (Shepherdstown West Virginia)

Wisconsin-Parkside






You could plug any of these schools into MVC, Horizon, and Summit. Football playing members could find homes in MVFC, Big South, Big Sky and Southland.

I'm not going to speak on any other portion of this post, but the bolded area is just ridiculous. Grand Valley and Wayne State are the only two that could even come close to moving up, and, as someone said above, they won't. Davenport will have a hard enough time at the DII level when they move up from NAIA and join the GLIAC. Davenport in a multi campus and online school that has about 7000 students.

I really think it's hilarious that DavidSt included Ferris State, Northern Michigan and Michigan Tech as heavily populated areas. That just isn't remotely correct. Big Rapids, where Ferris State is located, has about 10,0000 people and an even lower density county. It's not close enough to either Grand Rapids nor Traverse City to make any impact. There's just not enough people that live north of a line going from Flint to Grand Rapids to make any meaningful media difference. Northern Michigan and Michigan Tech is even more laughable. Marquette, where NMU is located, is the center of the UP with a population of about 25,000 people. Houghton, where MTU is, has 7,000. The entire UP has around 375,000 people in an area that would make it larger than nine US states. Not quite a heavily populated area.