I completely understand the "who would we rather have" conversation and recognize that several people on here are quite clear they aren't interested in adding Augustana to the Summit League.
My question, as I made reference to in my previous comment from last night, is have ANY of these other schools (NMSU and GCU specifically, and to a degree UMKC) expressed a legitimate interest in joining/re-joining the Summit?
People could sit here and say, "I'd rather see Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Creighton, Iowa, or Iowa State join the Summit than see Augie join it," but the reality is those schools aren't interested, aren't expressing interest, and have made no indication they will be interested anytime soon. If GCU and New Mexico State have suggested they want to join the Summit, then saying "I'd rather see NMSU and GCU join the Summit" makes sense. But if they haven't, then I don't get why it keeps coming up as a preferred option...because if they haven't indicated interest in the Summit, it's kind of not an option at all.
If the point is that the Summit should be actively/aggressively pursuing those schools, then that's a different conversation. But I don't get any indication that the Summit is doing that either. To be clear, I'm very open to being corrected on that, as there are probably people on here who have solid connections to Summit League officials or their own schools' administrations that would be able to weigh in with info I'm not aware of.