(07-23-2017 04:53 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  The enrollment issues are not just with Chicago State. EIU got killed by the state budget crisis and saw their enrollment drop 13% this past year and their freshman enrollment drop by 25%. EIU in May was considering dropping four sports. No decision was made, but because they have men's soccer in the Summit, they could make a financial decision to drop men's soccer and that puts the Summit below six in men's soccer. I think it is obvious that Fort Wayne wants in to the Horizon. That league is made for them from a travel standpoint. If that happens, then who goes to the Summit (back to the Post Subject)? Does Denver and Oral Roberts start looking around?

Very interesting regarding EIU. So in essence, the Summit is on it's deathbed if it loses EIU men's soccer, or IPFW, or WIU, or Omaha, or ORU or Denver. No baseball or men's soccer team are available within two years, as DII transitions take longer then that.

One sport can save them and that's football, if it adds from the west. But there are so many posters here that would absolutely deny that logical answer. UND didn't join to be in a deathbed conference.