Ironically, Jacksonville and Jacksonville State both spent some time together in the Atlantic Sun.


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(04-26-2016 04:10 PM)LUSportsFan Wrote:  

(04-25-2016 11:49 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(04-24-2016 08:23 PM)Wedge Wrote:  The WAC will continue to exist for awhile in its current zombie form, because it serves the purpose of providing a D-I conference for some schools that have no other conference options. IMO, even if Chicago State pulls the plug on D-I sports and even if NMSU finds another conference, the NCAA will find a way to allow the WAC to continue - because that purpose will remain.

The NCAA might even try to keep the WAC viable by quietly discouraging other conferences from inviting WAC members to join -- if that "discouraging" is even necessary, given that there is little or no genuine evidence that any conference is going to "raid" this version of the WAC.

I'm not aware of a case where the NCAA leaned on anyone to get them to not invite someone, but with rumblings out there of the WAC and Summit potentially losing members would Mark Emmert pull out an old play that Dick Schultz ran as president of the NCAA? After the Sun Belt was gutted and down to Jacksonville State, South Alabama, and Western Kentucky with Arkansas-Little Rock set to join, the league was about to make a run at a handful of schools to try to save itself.

Schultz called the Sun Belt and American South commissioners (Sun Belt was AState, LaTech, UL Lafayette, New Orleans, TX-Pan Am, Lamar and Central Florida) and proposed that if the two leagues would merge that the NCAA would allow the merged conference to retain all units earned in the new entity.

Now the WAC has walked up to the cliff with 9 full member departures in the immediate wake of Boise State leaving (and a 10th soon after) but the first time the WAC went to that point there were a number of independents floating about in the water, that is no longer the case.

Good point, but a little correction: The Jacksonville was Jacksonville University; not Jacksonville State. The Jacksonville State Gamecocks were in the Division II Gulf South conference in 1991.

Man can't believe I did that. Thanks!