NSIC to go to 16 teams?

[bisonmike2]

http://www.argusleader.com/article/2...ORTS/909230324

Why don't they just absorb all of D2? 16 teams in a conference sounds ridiculous.

[gotts]

My thoughts on divisions if a 16 team conference. Travel sucks no matter how you map it out, really.



North
Minot State
University of Mary
Northern State University
Minnesota State University-Moorhead
University of Minnesota-Crookston
Bemidji State University
University of Minnesota-Duluth
Saint Cloud State University

South
Concordia St. Paul
Minnesota State University-Mankato
Winona State University
Upper Iowa University
University of Sioux Falls
Augustana College
Wayne State University
Southwest Minnesota State University

All I know is that a potential bus trip from Fayette to Minot wouldn't be the most exciting one...

[bisonmike2]

Scheduling should be easy.

Week 1 - 1st round of the NSIC football tournament
Week 2 - 2nd round of the NSIC football tournament
Week 3, etc, etc.

[Bison bison]

16 teams works great.

You break the conference up into four quadrants....

(see the WAC circa mid-1990's).

[bisonmike2]

16 teams works great.

You break the conference up into four quadrants....

(see the WAC circa mid-1990's).

Cool did not know that. I pulled this info from wikipedia:

"In 1996, the demise of the scandal-plagued Southwest Conference set off a chain reaction that affected conferences nationwide and the WAC was no exception. Rice, TCU, and SMU from the disbanded SWC were admitted into the WAC, along with San José State and UNLV from the Big West Conference as well as Tulsa from the Missouri Valley Conference to bring WAC membership to sixteen universities in two divisions.

To help in organizing schedules and travel for the farflung league, the members were divided into four quadrants of four teams each, as follows:
Quadrant 1 Quadrant 2 Quadrant 3 Quadrant 4
Hawaiʻi UNLV BYU Tulsa
Fresno State Air Force Utah TCU
San Diego State Colorado State New Mexico SMU
San José State Wyoming UTEP Rice

Quadrant one was always part of the Pacific Division, and quadrant four was always part of the Mountain Division. Quadrant two was part of the Pacific Division for 1996 and 1997 before switching to the Mountain Division in 1998, while the reverse was true for quadrant three. The scheduled fourth year of the alignment was abandoned after eight schools left to form the Mountain West Conference.

The division champions in football met from 1996 to 1998 in a championship game at Sam Boyd Stadium (also known as the Silver Bowl) in Henderson, Nevada. ABC televised all three games.

Increasingly, this arrangement was not satisfactory to most of the older, pre-1990 members. Five members in particular (Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, Utah and Wyoming) felt that WAC expansion had compromised the athletic and academic excellence of the membership[1]. Additional concerns centered around finances, as the new league stretched from Hawaiʻi to Oklahoma and travel costs became a concern. In 1999, those five schools, along with old line WAC schools New Mexico and San Diego State, as well as newcomer UNLV, would split off and form the Mountain West Conference, depriving the WAC of most of its competitive strength and almost all of its history (in addition to its 4 remaining charter members). Only UTEP and Hawaiʻi would remain from the WAC's "golden age," and UTEP ultimately ended up leaving the WAC as well."

[TheBisonator]

My thoughts on divisions if a 16 team conference. Travel sucks no matter how you map it out, really.



North
Minot State
University of Mary
Northern State University
Minnesota State University-Moorhead
University of Minnesota-Crookston
Bemidji State University
University of Minnesota-Duluth
Saint Cloud State University

South
Concordia St. Paul
Minnesota State University-Mankato
Winona State University
Upper Iowa University
University of Sioux Falls
Augustana College
Wayne State University
Southwest Minnesota State University

All I know is that a potential bus trip from Fayette to Minot wouldn't be the most exciting one...

Heh, imagine that Fayette, Iowa to Minot road trip... Yikes.

[Tatanka]

Heh, imagine that Fayette, Iowa to Minot road trip... Yikes.

No offense, but imagine that <insert any location here> to Minot road trip... YIKES.

[Ferd]

No offense, but imagine that <insert any location here> to Minot road trip... YIKES.

And Bismarck isn't much better!

[ndsubison1]

this has got to be half of D2

[gotts]

No offense, but imagine that <insert any location here> to Minot road trip... YIKES.

I've been to Fayette more times than I care to remember. Once was too many for me....