(08-12-2019 09:32 PM)NMSUPistolPete Wrote:  

(08-12-2019 09:11 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  

(08-12-2019 09:08 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(08-12-2019 06:58 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  

(08-12-2019 06:32 PM)NoDak Wrote:  The WAC also has to comply with the three male team sport rule. At least six WAC members need to be sponsoring baseball and men’s soccer and all basketball. The Summit will be less that six members in men’s soccer and baseball when PFW leaves, making it necessary to get more schools. Men’s soccer and baseball are not common in that part of country, and most of them are needed by the MVC or the Horizon League.

The Summit has been below six all-sports members in men's soccer for a number of years. They use Eastern Illinois for the 6th member. As you said, the Summit will fall to five baseball schools in 2021. They will need a waiver from the NCAA for baseball. The WAC will have 10 in baseball and 11 in men's soccer in 2020. They will be fine.

My understanding is that a league satisfies those three male team sports if it has men’s basketball with seven members, one with six, and one with five with one affiliate. The Summit will go out of compliance when PFW leaves.

It should go back into compliance with seven FCS schools, which eliminates the need to sponsor the other two sports.

Are you saying that the Summit is going to add football?

From what I gather, he thinks the Montana schools are going to leave an established FCS conference to create a new Summit FCS football conference with the Dakota schools, Western Illinois, and FOUR non-football playing schools (Oral Roberts, Denver, UM Kansas City, UN Omaha).

ORU and UMKC will go to the WAC. WIU will go to the OVC. The Montanas, Idaho, EWU, and Weber St to the Summit so it will have a western division with Denver.

ORU left the Southland after two years when the Summit ran out of grace period after ORU previously left. It was critical that the Summit got back a baseball and men’s soccer team or lose their autobid.