Should the Summit extend invites to E. Illinois and UND?

[AKBison]

With Patty V's comment today about the interest of the MVFC to go to twelve, would the likely combination be UND and EIU? Now, I am not advocating this right now, but someday we need to bury the hatchet with UND. I am not done gloating yet as I would love to see them whither on the vine in a Montana-less Big Sky. However, in the interest of the state and region, it makes sense to be in a conference with UND for the long term.

[WYOBISONMAN]

With Patty V's comment today about the interest of the MVFC to go to twelve, would the likely combination be UND and EIU? Now, I am not advocating this right now, but someday we need to bury the hatchet with UND. I am not done gloating yet as I would love to see them whither on the vine in a Montana-less Big Sky. However, in the interest of the state and region, it makes sense to be in a conference with UND for the long term.

Hell no, keep them in the SKY....

[lakesbison]

Amen wyo. Sum of u are nuts!!

[NDSUstudent]

That means we would have to add EIU to the Summit, I don't want an 11 team all-sports conference.

Really I think the Summit is very strong at 9, there is no dead weight. UND and EIU would add a lot of dead to weight for men's basketball, both programs are worthless.

[NorCalJack]

With Patty V's comment today about the interest of the MVFC to go to twelve, would the likely combination be UND and EIU? Now, I am not advocating this right now, but someday we need to bury the hatchet with UND. I am not done gloating yet as I would love to see them whither on the vine in a Montana-less Big Sky. However, in the interest of the state and region, it makes sense to be in a conference with UND for the long term.

When did Patty say the MVFC was interested in expanding to 12 teams? I have not read that anywhere. If you have a link I would appreciate it.

[99Bison]

When did Patty say the MVFC was interested in expanding to 12 teams? I have not read that anywhere. If you have a link I would appreciate it.

The comment was more along the lines that 10 isn't real good, 11 is bad, but 12 would be fine... Not that 12 is desired, actually 9 is the desired number. But YSU is likely going in the near term, thus back down to perfect 9 again.

[DIBISON]

I've heard UNO once they make the move, much better travel for both conferences than UND woud be. Why would the Summit want to extend an invite to UND?

[BlueLiner]

The comment was more along the lines that 10 isn't real good, 11 is bad, but 12 would be fine... Not that 12 is desired, actually 9 is the desired number. But YSU is likely going in the near term, thus back down to perfect 9 again.

Where did you read YSU is getting out of the MVFC?

[johnson]

When did Patty say the MVFC was interested in expanding to 12 teams? I have not read that anywhere. If you have a link I would appreciate it.

She said that they were talking about a 12 team conference with 2 divisions back in august and that she is still open to the idea on Kolpack and Izzo's show yesterday morning. Tom Douple said that UNO is asking very serious questions about the move up. The show might be available to download on WDAY's website.

[EndZoneQB]

Where did you read YSU is getting out of the MVFC?

Villanova of the CAA is heading to the Big East in football now too. They were already a member for other sports and football only for CAA. YSU is the outlier in the MVFC. They could keep their Horizon affiliation and move to CAA for football without much of an issue...in direct replacement of Nova. You KNOW this was a big factor in adding USD.

I've heard UNO once they make the move, much better travel for both conferences than UND woud be. Why would the Summit want to extend an invite to UND?

They are going to have to work very hard to move up. The Nebraska constitution specifically states that there can only be ONE D-1 university in the state. I'm surprised that hasn't been mentioned more.