(05-19-2023 04:53 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(05-19-2023 02:04 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(05-19-2023 01:58 PM)nodak651 Wrote:  How much does Milwaukee really like the Horizon now that there isn't a Chicago team? Would they consider leaving if the Summit League forwarded WIU's million dollar buyout over to them? Milwaukee has Soccer and Baseball.

You still have Green Bay (2 hours), IUPUI, IPFW (5 hours), Detroit, Oakland, NKU (6 hours)

Other than St. Thomas (5 hours), all the rest of the Summit are much further away.

Only D2 schools close enough to a large population that The Horizon would hope someone invites up before they snatched them are UI-Springfield, Lewis in Romeoville in the Chicago tv market and Roosevelt who is now transitioning to D2 out of Chicago.

You are seriously trying to push Roosevelt University to D1 when they are not a NCAA member at all. It will take them 8 years to be eligible to apply for D1. That makes it the year 2031 at the earliest provided nothing goes wrong and them being accepted to D2 in July. Their undergrad enrollment is about 2,600; do they have the finances to allow that type of move.