(07-15-2020 06:42 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Good luck to them. Didn't deserve to be shart on by their former conference (MIAC?) like they were. That was appalling.

What NoDak means is that St Thomas may have been in on things. The MIAC wasn't comfortable with St Thomas, and St Thomas wasn't opposed to a DI move, but they didn't want to deal with the DIII to DII move followed by a DII to DI move. That 12 years or so is a killer. But if their conference kicks them out, suddenly everyone(including the NCAA) are sympathetic to them. That could lead to a waiver to skip the DII part of the move(which is what happened). So because of the publicity of getting kicked out, everybody wins.

At least that's the theory. I doubt anyone involved will ever admit to it if it's true; there's too much bad publicity at stake if it officially came out.

edit: dbackjon beat me to it


It's actually a little similar to the backroom deal some of us believe happened between UND president Robert Kelley and Summit commissioner Tom Douple over membership in the Summit and the retirement of the Fighting Sioux moniker. That one didn't end well.