(11-08-2018 12:59 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(11-07-2018 06:29 PM)TardisCaptain Wrote:  

(11-07-2018 05:19 PM)Lopes87 Wrote:  https://cwuobserver.com/12487/sports/opi...-the-gnac/

Interesting. I wonder what the school thinks? Would they only want to join a conference with Eastern Washington?

CWU and the rest of GNAC football schools could be talking to the WAC if there are any interests if they could join as well. There could be a cooperation between the Big Sky and the WAC for scheduling agreement in football. The three Big Sky football schools would love to have Azusa Pacific and Dixie State to play against in football. EWC would have CWU and Simon Fraser for football partners. WOU and Portland State would be football partners as well. They could try and get U. of San Diego to add scholarships for football as well as an affiliate.

And how are they going to finance up to an additional 45 scholarships at each school just for football. Does San Diego have the ability to finance 63 new scholarships. Central Washington and Western Oregon don't have enough sports for D1, how do they finance the cost adding teams to meet D1 requirements? Will the WAC require the schools to add specific sports at an additional cost? How are they going to finance all the other costs associated with the move. The WAC needs 6 schools for football, who are those 6 schools? Can the WAC guarantee that they will get those schools and that none of them will back out of the deal? Adding 6 schools will make the WAC a 14 team league (after CSU Bakersfield leaves) and that will cause the men's NCAAT money to plummet to crumbs with the WAC now usually a one-and-done one-bid league. They "could" do this or they "could" do that but it takes money; it all comes down to the money. Answers to that question are needed before you list the "cans" and "coulds". Then, of course, Simon Fraser is an international school and not allowed in D1. To fix that, you'll ask the NCAA to ignore their own rules and grant another waiver and rewrite the rule book to allow SFU in D1. Not to mention that Simon Fraser's football stadium currently has 0, zero, zip, nada permanent seating with plans to install only 1,800 seats by 2020. CWU just updated their stadium but it still seats only about 4,500 and WOU stadium is at 2,500 seats. Azusa Pacific plays in a 10,000 seat stadium but they don't own it.