(07-31-2019 09:34 PM)AZcats Wrote:  Anchorage is the better place for the teams to be located.

I wasn't just pulling out locations purely at random when I said M Hockey (F), co-ed rifle (F) and M/W skiing (F), though two of those are more solid than the other two. Fairbanks hockey is better supported (though being marginally more successful may be part of that), where Anchorage has moved from their former rink to a small capacity on campus rink, I presume because it's cheaper and certainly a better atmosphere to have hundreds in a rink that can only hold hundreds than to have hundreds in a rink that can hold over a thousand.

And rifle is a Nanooks program ... if its possible to raise the money to retain it, they are going to be much more successful raising money to support the existing program than they are in raising money to shut down the existing program and start a new one in Anchorage.

MBB, WBB, Women's Volleyball and Women's Gymnastics are all arena sports, so put them in Anchorage.

Anchorage has the bigger track program, so let them keep the cross country program.

Add M/W skiiing (if Alaska can get a two-season exemption for Alaska) and you have a program. 2M/2W team, 5M(/co-ed)/5W sports. The question then is where to put M/W skiing. I still think Fairbanks.

If track has to be added for three season sport compliance, I'd expect that would be Anchorage, since they already have a program.