(11-30-2017 05:09 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(11-30-2017 04:01 PM)jacksfan29 Wrote:  

(11-30-2017 03:03 PM)Mister Consistency Wrote:  

(11-29-2017 10:16 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  It's about the same distance to Cleveland from Fargo as it is to Missoula.

Yeah, but that deflates the whole conspiracy. Not nearly as fun once you start factoring actual geography and travel miles into it.

Occam's Razor applies: this is two groups of remote schools who struggle to get good home games in non-conference working together to remedy that. All of the schools on the Summit League side are playing multiple non-DIs this year; NDSU is playing THREE. You don't get better by playing that many DII, DIII and NAIA schools.

I like these, personally. I hope they become more common. SoCon/OVC, Big South/A-Sun, MAAC/America East. Might not help SOS as much for the higher-end teams, but you're getting guaranteed home games, which is just as important at this level.

The bold item nails it. SDSU and NDSU care deeply about RPI and both of the schools, due to past success have a very hard time getting good teams to travel to our home court. We played a home and home with Idaho, last year in out of conference. We did the same with UND a few years back. Filling our home OOC schedule with D1 schools is not easy.

As for who was included. Again, it has a lot to do with who has a harder time getting good non-conference games and the philosophy behind scheduling.

NoDak's theories read like a crazy spy novel. They make for good reading, but they are all fiction.

Knew you aren't ambitious for SDSU except for the Summit tourney in Sioux Falls and that DI autobid. The Summit tourney would rotate among different locations, so SDSU fans are almost all against anything that would threaten it. Maybe Sioux Falls can have a permanent hold on the women's bb. Billings, Spokane, and even Bismarck would provide sellout crowds for a Summit mbb tourney.

Ah yes, someone calls your crazy ideas out and the attacks begin. And you wonder why no one will listen to your nutty ideas?

SDSU will end up where we end up. What I can guarantee, we will continue to be far more successful then UND. Of course that isn't really that difficult. We can be in the Summit, or your mythical Great Northern, we will still account for 70% of the crowd and we will still be winning the auto bid. That's how we roll at SDSU.