UNO athletic program staying in Division I

Published: Wednesday, March 07, 2012, 3:41 PM Updated: Wednesday, March 07, 2012, 3:44 PM

UNO President Peter Fos will announce Thursday that the school's athletic programs will remain in Division I, according to sources. The Privateers had announced last year that they were dropping Division I sports.

We'll update as more details become available.

I hope they do, and apply to get back in the Belt, and the Belt takes them back. I thought we had a pretty good rivalry with them, and I enjoyed going to New Orleans occasionally.

So if the SBC takes UNO back I bet we keep the east-west divisions (we're back to 12).

Ray Tucker will be happy

(03-07-2012 09:26 PM)TroJams Wrote:  So if the SBC takes UNO back I bet we keep the east-west divisions (we're back to 12).

Ray Tucker will be happy

That's my only problem. I had looked forward to the double round robin. I suspect most of the coaches want to keep the divisions. Without the divisions, Shields wouldn't have much to show for his nine years here. I suspect we'd be without a bunch of those banners we've been hanging the past few years.

I could tolerate the divisions if we would play each team in the opposite division twice like we do those in our division. I just think it makes everything fair to play everyone twice.

(03-07-2012 09:33 PM)LRTrojan Wrote:  

(03-07-2012 09:26 PM)TroJams Wrote:  So if the SBC takes UNO back I bet we keep the east-west divisions (we're back to 12).

Ray Tucker will be happy

That's my only problem. I had looked forward to the double round robin. I suspect most of the coaches want to keep the divisions. Without the divisions, Shields wouldn't have much to show for his nine years here. I suspect we'd be without a bunch of those banners we've been hanging the past few years.

I could tolerate the divisions if we would play each team in the opposite division twice like we do those in our division. I just think it makes everything fair to play everyone twice.

I can't see them coming back for a couple of years. I know all their DI basketball players and their head coach left. I assume that was true for all their sports. How could they just come back to DI and compete right away?. They'll have to gradually work their way back to the DI level. If this is true, this makes the idiot(s) who decided to move them down for DI look like even bigger idiots.

looks like they are pulling an ORU: " In 1971, the Titans moved up to Division I. From 1979 until 1987, the Titans were a member of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. In 1989, they became an NAIA school. In 1991, they returned to Division I [changed nickname to Golden Eagles shortly thereafter]. The team joined the Mid-Continent Conference (now The Summit League) effective 1997." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Robert...es#History

(03-07-2012 09:33 PM)LRTrojan Wrote:  

(03-07-2012 09:26 PM)TroJams Wrote:  So if the SBC takes UNO back I bet we keep the east-west divisions (we're back to 12).

Ray Tucker will be happy

That's my only problem. I had looked forward to the double round robin. I suspect most of the coaches want to keep the divisions. Without the divisions, Shields wouldn't have much to show for his nine years here. I suspect we'd be without a bunch of those banners we've been hanging the past few years.

I could tolerate the divisions if we would play each team in the opposite division twice like we do those in our division. I just think it makes everything fair to play everyone twice.

I totally agree that we should play every team in the conference home and home each year. Then you really have a true representation for the conference champion. What do other leagues do in our situation? Do most play everyone twice, or not?