(06-18-2017 05:22 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  

(06-18-2017 03:11 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Would the Big Sky welcome additional WAC football programs into their 2 FCS conference scheme?

If Azusa Pacific for instance came up would they put them with the other Cali schools, N Arizona, and S Utah? What if an existing WAC school like GCU wanted to.

The Big Sky and WAC could have pulled the trigger had North Dakota stayed, as there would have been 12 full members playing FCS football, and 2 affiliates:

Big Sky - Montana, Montana State, Idaho, Idaho State, North Dakota, Northern Colorado (non-football members: UMKC, UTRGV, NMSU)
WAC - Eastern Washington, Portland State, Sacramento State, Northern Arizona, Southern Utah, Weber State (non-football: Seattle, CSU Bakersfield, Grand Canyon, Utah Valley)

You could basically flip a coin for where to assign UC Davis and Cal Poly, and even have it setup to rotate every two years so the Big Sky gets two trips to California every four years.

Since there would only be six conference games, there could be an agreement setup to where each of the full members get two non-conference games versus the other side of the Big Sky/WAC alignment. If there were three interlock games, there could actually be permanent rivalries, with schools rotating through the other opponents once every three years.

I do not think the Montanas are interested in the Texas schools. Plus, they are not interested with schools that do not have football.

Eastern Washington/Central Washington
Portland State/Western Oregon
Idaho/Idaho State
Montana/Montana State
Southern Utah/Dixie State
Northern Arizona/Grand Canyon (adding football)
Weber State/Utah Valley (adding football)
Northern Colorado/Colorado Mesa (travel partners)
Sacramento State/Humboldt State
Cal-Davis/Cal. Poly
Cal.-San Diego(adding football)/Azusa Pacific
UTRGV (adding football)/West Texas A&M

Big Sky Conference:
Eastern Washington
Central Washington
Portland State
Western Oregon
Weber State
Utah Valley
Idaho
Idaho State
Montana
Montana State
Northern Colorado
Colorado Mesa
Simon Fraser
Seattle might be an acceptance to be number 14.

WAC:
Cal.-Davis
Cal. Poly
Sacramento State
Azusa Pacific
Humboldt State
Cal.-San Diego
Cal. Baptist
Cal. State-Bakersfield
Southern Utah
Dixie State
Northern Arizona
Grand Canyon
New Mexico State
West Texas A&M
UTRGV

Bye bye Chicago State and UMKC.