Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
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NDSUstudent
The Horizon likes big markets...So IUPUI, Denver, Omaha or maybe IPFW. That said the question with the Horizon is how many do they add?
I would hope they go with fort Wayne and iupui... Can't lose Omaha or Denver. Would screw up the footprint
Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
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Originally Posted by
HerdBot
I would hope they go with fort Wayne and iupui... Can't lose Omaha or Denver. Would screw up the footprint
be awesome to replace them with Utah Valley and Grand Canyon, or CSU Bakersfield
Going to Suck if we dont get a shot, and the Summit gets raided by the Horizon
Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
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Originally Posted by
tjbison
be awesome to replace them with Utah Valley and Grand Canyon, or CSU Bakersfield
Going to Suck if we dont get a shot, and the Summit gets raided by the Horizon
If the teams in our conference suck compared to Horizon or MVC why will those conference come to the Summit to poach teams?
Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
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Mr Meaty
If the teams in our conference suck compared to Horizon or MVC why will those conference come to the Summit to poach teams?
Stability... conferences aren't always looking for the best team
Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
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Originally Posted by
Mr Meaty
If the teams in our conference suck compared to Horizon or MVC why will those conference come to the Summit to poach teams?
The Horizon doesn't exactly have a ton of options. They poach their teams from either the Summit/Midcon or OVC or maybe ASun. That is just where they are at on the food chain.
The Summit takes from DII or the WAC.
Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
Spitballing some strange scenarios got me thinking. Which would be better for all participants long term, after the short term pain of realignment and contract resigning is complete:
NDSU and SDSU join MVC minus WSU
or
UNI and ISUr joins the Summit as is?
Also consider WIU may be forced to have drastic budget cuts including dropping football due to the State of Illinois's severe budget problems.
Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
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Originally Posted by
taper
Spitballing some strange scenarios got me thinking. Which would be better for all participants long term, after the short term pain of realignment and contract resigning is complete:
NDSU and SDSU join MVC minus WSU
or
UNI and ISUr joins the Summit as is?
Also consider WIU may be forced to have drastic budget cuts including dropping football due to the State of Illinois's severe budget problems.
RE: the football part, just think how perfect the league would have been if WIU dropped football and the MVFC wouldn't have added UND *sigh*
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Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
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Originally Posted by
tjbison
be awesome to replace them with Utah Valley and Grand Canyon, or CSU Bakersfield
Going to Suck if we dont get a shot, and the Summit gets raided by the Horizon
If we get rid of Fort Wayne and IPFW... it would make it easier to expand west or further south. Tough sell to something more west when you have outliers in Indiana
Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
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HerdBot
If we get rid of Fort Wayne and IPFW... it would make it easier to expand west or further south. Tough sell to something more west when you have outliers in Indiana
Assuming you mean IUPUI and Fort Wayne? My God I don't care what 'market' you are in, if you can't get 1000 people to go to your games, you bring zero financial benefit to a conference... I've never understood why conferences pull in a no-name school from a big city. Remember when the WAC stole UMKC because they were in a major market? I'm not even sure UMKC is Division 1 anymore
Re: Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?
If Murray State is added, I'll bet they bring football to the MVFC. The OVC isn't going to keep Murray State as football only. Murray State will set that as a condition to joining the MVC.
Do you see NDSU objecting to adding Murray State? Or have we already used up our chips by cramming UND down everyone's throat? There would be great irony if it turns out that our support for UND enabled Murray State to join the MVC/MVFC and thereby undermined our own chances of getting into the MVC.