Summit Expansion?

[BigLakeBison]

If the Power schools do break from the NCAA I wonder if Mankato, Duluth, and St Cloud will be allowed to join D1. Mankato already has significantly higher enrollment than NDSU. With the North Star program the other 2 will probably catch up too. All 3 already sponsor more than the D1 minimum number of sports.

Mankato is the only one of those three that would be able to make it work. SCSU is struggling to maintain their D2 athletic budget and Duluth, albeit better than SCSU, is no where near Mankato in terms of facilities and investment. The Mankato campus is really quite nice and I would say is every bit on par with the NDSU, SDSU and UND. It some aspects even better. They could make it work. Question is would the UofM allow it?

[nodak651]

Mankato is the only one of those three that would be able to make it work. SCSU is struggling to maintain their D2 athletic budget and Duluth, albeit better than SCSU, is no where near Mankato in terms of facilities and investment. The Mankato campus is really quite nice and I would say is every bit on par with the NDSU, SDSU and UND. It some aspects even better. They could make it work. Question is would the UofM allow it?

Location is probably best for the league as well, as they're a road trip for every Summit League member except ORU and Denver.

[The_Sicatoka]

Mankato is the only one of those three that would be able to make it work. SCSU is struggling to maintain their D2 athletic budget and Duluth, albeit better than SCSU, is no where near Mankato in terms of facilities and investment. The Mankato campus is really quite nice and I would say is every bit on par with the NDSU, SDSU and UND. It some aspects even better. They could make it work. Question is would the UofM allow it?

Mankato jumped at the chance to be "Minnesota State" (no hyphen). They're running with the mindset.

[taper]

https://thesummitleague.org/news/202...r-in-2025.aspx
Surprised this hasn't been posted yet. Delaware is joining for men's soccer. This gets the Summit back to good standing with the NCAA for number of teams/sports.

[NI4NI]

Wait, when did men start playing soccer?

Dammit. We go for only two years without winning the FCS title and men start competing in soccer.

[The_Sicatoka]

Dizzo said it; do we believe it?
https://twitter.com/DomIzzoWDAY/stat...22259484516782

[The_Sicatoka]

Golf expansion in Summit.
https://twitter.com/TheSummitLeague/...20456290312571

[ndsubison1]

Would be great to have them for the Summit League. MVFC too.

[HerdBot]

Would be great to have them for the Summit League. MVFC too.

We need an even number of teams and a better southern footprint. Makes sense