(06-23-2017 01:27 AM)AZcats Wrote:  

(06-22-2017 05:52 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Colorado Mines is a pier to the Montana schools since they are R2. That school does have a long history playing ball with the D1 schools in the west including Montanas. I think they are considered #3 Colorado public school not counting Air Force.

I do see schools from large populated areas could be a target from D2. I do not think they want Dixie State just yet. Could the Big Sky target Azusa Pacific to go along with Sacramento State? They do have football, but not much to choose from D2 California schools since many of them dropped football around the same time the Big West California schools dropped football.

A rating does not make them a peer. That long history with D1 schools lasted about 30 years and for the most part ended 80 years ago. Colorado Mines football never played Montana (never a RMAC member) and played Montana State 10 times from 1925 to 1956. Easy to research, try it. Just no to Azusa Pacific and Dixie State.

Tell me why I was correct about these schools that I had as rumors on moving up?
Old Dominion, back in 2012-2013, I predicted them to go to C-USA and in a few years, they got invited.
Around the same time period, I said that Appalachian State and Georgia Southern going to the Sun Belt, and boomed, they got invited. Back in 2011 to January of this year, North Alabama will become a D1 school? And they got an invite to join the A-Sun and and Big South.
I also predicted that Utah Valley, Grand Canyon, Cal. State-Bakersfield, Seattle and UTRGV would be invited to the WAC, and they got an invite.

People like you scoffed at me for posting these things, and they come true.