(12-30-2022 09:14 PM)cottager Wrote:  

(12-30-2022 07:27 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  D2 MIAA Looking To Expand To 20 Teams


They are also looking into states that they are not even in to go to 20. They might look to D3 and NAIA Iowa schools, D2 GAC Arkansas schools, UAFS out of Lone Star, any schools in Illinois, a school in Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Texas and Christian Brothers out of GSC.

Here is the quote from the article that David has used to inspire his fanfic posted above.

“We certainly look first to institutions in our current footprint - with football or without football," Racy said. "There may be a day where we need to move into different states, new states and continue to grow the MIAA.”

Yeah, there is no bloody way in Hades any school in Montana will join the MIAA. D2 is about cost containment and that's not happening when you're flying to every conference contest with the obvious exception being Alaska and Hawai'i. The MIAA will be lucky to get 1 D2 school to move so any expansion would come from D3 and NAIA.