(05-24-2016 10:24 PM)DavidSt Wrote: (05-24-2016 10:05 PM)NoDak Wrote: (05-24-2016 09:15 PM)North Ala Supporter Wrote: DavidSt
How about only listing only the ones that are being mention since the NCAA announce that large entrance fee of over a million dollars in 2011. I'm sure some that were thinking about it 10 years ago completely changed after that entrance fee was announced.
Think the bigger issue is that schools need a conference invite first.
All the Dakota schools moved up without an invite and that cost them a heck of a lot more than one million to be independent. A conference inviting a DII loses a lot of money as they have to schedule them but don't get much benefit until their playoff eligible. Only prime DII schools for a regional conference will get invited now.
I am surprise that the D2 California schools have not been invited yet. They have a large student body of undergraduates. Plus, by creating new D1 conferences could help add more schools in the right place.
Central Arkansas main old rival is Arkansas Tech. Now, basketball is now considered exhibition and nothing else.
DavidSt You said "creating new D1 conferences could help add more schools in the right place."
You Can't just start a New D1 Conference with absolutely new members
20.02.5 Multisport Conference. A Division I multisport conference shall satisfy the requirements of this
section. (Adopted: 1/15/11 effective 8/1/11)
20.02.5.1 Minimum Number of Members. A multisport conference shall be composed of at least seven
active Division I members. The member conference shall include at least seven active Division I members that
sponsor both men’s and women’s basketball. (Adopted: 1/15/11 effective 8/1/11)
Active Members are Currently Members that are Fully Qualified D1 Members that are a Member of a Current Conference or Independents.
As I understand the NCAA Rules NO D1- can formed a new conference with D2 Schools.
To form a New Conference at least 7 or more D1 Basketball playing schools would have to leave their particular conference to start a new conference. It could take anywhere from 6 months to a year to establish conference by-laws, pick a name for the Conference, name a Commissioner, Get Approval from the NCAA and start to hire a staff.
Only after it is approved from the NCAA could they approach a D2 or a D2 could approach them. Remember to move from D2 to D1 you have got to get an invitation from an Official D1 Conference and that approval cannot come before that New Conference become Official.
At that time the New Conference MAY or May Not offer an invitation to a D2 School.
Then a New Conference will not have AQ for a least two years and maybe longer.
So unless the rules are changed there will not be many new or additional D1 Conferences.