(04-12-2017 10:55 AM)Rube Dali Wrote:  

(04-12-2017 10:15 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  As was already noted, Minnesota only has one DI school for the whole state.

But it has several DII schools in the Northern Sun Conf, and also several well supported DIII private schools in the MIAC conference. Both are nationally competitive at the DII and DIII levels respectively in many sports.


Truth be told, when you look at the profile of many of these schools, they're really not all that different from other schools around the country who are in DI. Just the desire and will to move to DI, several decades ago, by those schools.

(04-09-2017 10:29 AM)Rube Dali Wrote:  No need to do anyone else because none will ever move up to D-I.

Duluth could move to DI, if it dropped football and possibly W Hockey. There would be no attempt to block it by the MN government or the U of Minn board, and there are already other state's with the same precedent in the Big Ten.

Again, it's a total lie that Duluth would move up if women's hockey and football were dropped. There is no support for any school to move up.

With as much grief as UND is still getting for dropping women's hockey, Duluth and Minnesota generally would see open civil strife if that ever happened there. Duluth spends a veritable fortune on the sport.