(06-09-2018 01:25 PM)teamvsn Wrote:  

(06-09-2018 01:16 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  Simmons College has a LONG way to go to achieve NAIA status.Very small.A lot of competition.Maybe someone who lives in Louisville can add some facts.Enrollment only about 200.

You are correct but not because of enrollment size. There are a few NAIA schools of that size, and if they expanded their athletics program they could quickly grow to 300-350 while at the same time strengthening their financials.

The big issue with Simmons related to the NAIA is that they aren't regionally accredited. They only have Bible school accreditation. They can't even apply to the NAIA until they are regionally accredited.

From what i read of the school. They used to have an athletics program. They dropped the sports it seems. Maybe they lost their accreditations, and slowly coming back out of the hole. The school seems to be one of the oldest. Established in 1879. If they get regional accreditation? They may go for NAIA. Good location to join the other Kentucky schools in the NAIA. One of the schools that is not a fake one like College of Faith and University of Faith. I was one of the people notified the legal department of the NAIA with a list of schools that they added to their banned list to not play.