(01-31-2020 04:22 PM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  

(01-31-2020 04:17 PM)AZcats Wrote:  Currently, four schools are reclassifying to D2. Three of them came from D3 and the other one came from D1. All four schools who became full members in July 2019 came from NAIA making February 2016 the last time, to date, that a NAIA school applied for D2 membership. The SIAC offered an invitation to NAIA member Edward Waters College but it's not known IF or when EWC might accept.

you and vsn know the NAIA best. Do they want to move?

I have no idea. At the time of the SIAC invite, EWC had not done a D2 study and I haven't followed any possible progression since. They do have some sort of football scheduling agreement with the SIAC. It's mostly to help the west division teams fill their schedule due to that division having fewer teams than the east division.

EDIT: link to SIAC invite