(05-08-2017 09:03 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  Sure, that is an important point ... particularly for the Summit League.

Adding Fort Wayne would give HL 8 baseball teams, and would drop Summit down to 5.

Thanks for the suggestion on the thread renaming.

Remember if Valpo goes that leaves the HL with 6 baseball teams. Adding Fort Wayne gives the league 7 again. Baseball is the second sport in the HL and UIC, Wright State and Milwaukee want to make sure that sport is secure. Based on that, the Mastodons would appear to have the upper hand.

As far as the medical/sciences, when IPFW split, Indiana-Fort Wayne now handles that part of the campus. Although they will become two separate entities, they both are still next to each other so I don't think that issue will affect a vote from the HL...if there is one.

I mentioned earlier that over the past 5 years, Fort Wayne has a better record, winning 110 games. At this point, I'm sure the HL wants to bring in a team or teams that will help the league...not bring down the conference RPI. Oakland and NKU were good pick ups. The league wants the next one, two or three to be triples at least, because I really don't see any homeruns!