(06-09-2021 10:15 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  

(06-09-2021 08:54 PM)TexanFan Wrote:  

(06-09-2021 07:31 PM)coogkat14 Wrote:  

(06-09-2021 06:56 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  The WAC is going FBS in five to eight years. Yet the incoming Texans wanted no part of a division with Chicago State, even for only one year? Y'all are something else.

According to who? The “incoming Texans” aren’t even member yet and won’t be voting members until July first. Our presidents literally just had their first meeting with other WAC members today. Any decisions made by conference as it relates to current members leaving “due to travel” concerns were made by current WAC presidents which includes your universities president.


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I don’t know who all voted, but the SHSU president was at the meeting based on a tweet posted on the board. I am assuming at least the other Texas schools’ presidents were there as well. Don’t know about SUU. I don’t know if any voted, but their voices were heard.

Also the executive board has three members, all presidents, NMSU, UVU and new member Tarleton.

See the link Itinerant posted

Cal Baptist interim Director of Athletics Ron Prettyman wrote to Moccia, “Can we move Chicago State to the Southwest region? They are Closer to to Texas than to CBU.”

Chicago State announced in January that it will leave the WAC in June 2022, meaning next season will be its last in the conference, when it will overlap for one season with the “Texas Four.” “Once again that was in these teams side deal not to be with Chicago State,” Moccia responded. “Would have been nice to know all these parameters BEFORE we struck a deal.”

“I was not aware of that either,” Prettyman wrote back. “Frustrating that we are bending over backwards for the new members with little reward for the ones of us that have been loyal WAC members. Oh well. I guess this was one way to save the WAC.”

The proposed conference basketball schedule obtained by Out of Bounds included Chicago State playing both home and away games against Stephen F. Austin, potentially suggesting that either concessions were made by Stephen F. Austin or that there was no other way for the conference to create adequate schedules for 13 teams. In the proposed schedule, Abilene Christian, Lamar and Sam Houston State each only have one regular-season game against Chicago State, with the games being played at home for Abilene Christian and Lamar, while Sam Houston State’s trip to Chicago State comes after a bye.

Sounds like before coming, the future Texas members had no stomach for playing in a division with Chicago State, even for just one year. Nice to see Stephen F. Austin playing nice. but the rest of them, ehh.

This. Why are you crying over a school that is a dead man walking in D1 Athletics?