(01-14-2017 12:50 AM)NoDak Wrote: The WAC can offer FBS
This is a wild a__ guess. No one knows if it would actually work. Most likely, it would be shot down.
(01-14-2017 12:51 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: At least NMSU and Chicago State will not be in this league in 3 years. Bank on it. This conference remains extremely unstable.
Well that would obviously be Chicago St. Even three years might be a stretch.
(01-14-2017 03:31 PM)ManleyPointer Wrote: It's true that Denver left the WAC for the Summit. But UMKC went the opposite direction shortly after, leaving the Summit weaker & fortifying the WAC.
Leaving the Summit weaker? Please. What has UMKC done for any conference it has been in the last 10-15 years?
(01-14-2017 03:51 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: I think they thought the Summit was the conference in danger and picked the wrong place to jump to.
Correct. It was a really stupid move, that I'm sure they regret.
(01-14-2017 05:24 PM)Phlipper33 Wrote: Several people have mentioned GCU's for-profit status as an issuer for many schools, but I remembered Grand Canyon trying to become a non-profit university not that long ago.
That was a scam.
They were just trying to set-up a shell game, for the sake of making GCU appear to be a non-profit school. And only because they thought that would look better, not because they had any interest in education.
GCU is a glorified, for-profit Christian bookstore.
(01-14-2017 06:59 PM)NoDak Wrote: UVU's President said they will be an announcement after bball season.
If he wasn't simply mistaken on the timing of Cal Baptist being added, then at most what this would be is Chicago St leaving the league.
(01-15-2017 09:02 AM)chargeradio Wrote: Could Northern Colorado be in play for the WAC? If the MVFC is North Dakota's next destination, Northern Colorado going to the WAC and MVFC puts the WAC, Big Sky, Summit, and MVFC all at even numbers.
I'm struggling to see how that would benefit UNC, even if it were possible. They don't win much in the Big Sky now, so playing in the MVFC would just be worse. Don't think that arrangement could possibly save much travel costs.
Only thing you could possibly say is that UNC's DII glory days happened when they were in the old North Central Conference, with the Dakota schools. So maybe rekindling that old connection would cheer up UNC football boosters? Who knows.
(01-15-2017 09:02 AM)chargeradio Wrote: Summit Football - UND, NDSU, USD, SDSU, WIU, UNC
Valley Football - MSU, Ill St, So Ill, Ind St, UNI, YSU
I'd rather have "divisions" within the MVFC. In quotations because there wouldn't be (and couldn't be) a championship game between division winners.
Though it would still require the old Gateway Conf members to travel out to the Dakotas each season, which they don't like doing. So not sure how the divisions would help much.