(10-29-2018 04:02 PM)RobtheAggie Wrote: The issue with Dixie St is the same one that quite a few DII potential schools would have, what to do with football. Unless a whole group of schools were to jump at the same time and create a WAC FCS league, that could then transition into FBS, it will be slim pickings.
Have posted this before.
An FBS WAC will be coming back.
Metro St and Dixie St will be in the Big Sky.
WAC West
Sac St - UC Davis
Cal Poly - Cal Baptist (non fb)
NMSU - GCU ( non fb)
WAC East
UTRGV-Incarnate Word ( SF Austin or other Southland teams may be possible but a San Antonio article said IWU was looking at FBS.)
San Houston -Lamar
ORU - UMKC (both non fb)
Wichita St (FBs only) - Mo St (FBS only)
Seattle and UVU will be to the new Big Sky for closer opponents.
Big Sky
Port St - Seattle (no FB)
CWU - EWU
Idaho St - UVU (no fb)
No Colo - Metro St (no fb)
SUU - Dixie St
NAU - Azusa Pacific
The Big Sky travel partners mostly make sense for cost savings. DII call up may take time as they have some restrictions in the first year.
Weber St, Montana St, Montana, and Idaho will join the flagship Summit League schools and also go FBS.
Don’t post any more on the realignment board because there are so many snowflakes there. They just can’t deal with mass changes.
The WAC is too valuable for its right to give FBS bids. Inviting DII teams just throws that away and then UCDavis, Cal Poly the Montanas, Idaho, Sam Houston, Lamar and others that have looked at FBS would be tossing it away. Those schools always wanted to be FBS since the old FBS WAC went away but they missed the CFP payout by a couple of years. They will be a line for the next one.
Wasn’t wrong, but just too early.
Feel free to have a hissy fit and melt down like a good snowflake.