Northern Colorado to the Summit and MVFC. They would be the travel partner with Denver in the Summit and the 12th member of the MVFC which would split into two divisions of 6 teams.
There is no way Western is leaving for the OVC. We are an original, the SL/MVFC is in a fantastic place after years of difficult expansion. Plus we see a regional school in the STL area that is move up ready. Lindenwood; they offer great baseball, private to join DU & ORU, awesome facilities, metro area, easy travel, commitment to sports, and they should be our travel partner. It would offer another like school with hockey (D1 Women's) that fits the footprint and I could see them adding men's. They were top 5 last year in D2 commissioners cup. Online enrollment will allow them to spend on anything needed for the transition. They were an NAIA monster for years. They are less than 3 hours away from us, all 4 lane.
UMKC needs to return and this addition would help that. Also, we would welcome UNC with open arms, Greeley has grown like crazy in the last decade and we would be out of our minds not to lock down the SL in Colorado. Chicago State will eventually return to NAIA imho. They do not belong with us, their enrollment is so terrible I suspect they may merge with Governors State in the Chicago metro. Pray that IL can legalize weed and fully fun higher education, literally. I believe Western will not join a conference with Grand Canyon, as a for Profit model we will never be able to compete with schools like that. DU doesn't believe they are ethical either, the entire PAC12 had a scheduling ban on GCU as well recently. Denver is not alone in how they feel.
Western needs to implement their facility plan for football which is coming. The locker room isn't amazing but we have upgraded into respectability recently from something that always made me cringe.
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Edit: I believe IPFW will end up elsewhere.
UNC/DU UND/NDSU USD/SDSU Lindenwood/Western UMKC/Omaha ORU/open. Travel partners are a must please.
Last edited by Western4Life; 09-27-2017 at 03:53 AM.
UNC would be great.
"It's important in this life to dream big" - Brock Jensen during one of Kolpack and Izzo's pregame shows of the 2014 season.
"If you quit now, you quit for the rest of your life" - Chris Board 8/17/16 in the forum article.
Northern Colorado would be great. Not sure if they'd be for it though.
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