Re: Summit Expansion?
Originally Posted by
Hammersmith
Yep. I think we were just coming off our first 10-1 season when the discussion was happening. MSU and a couple others were not thrilled with adding another strong program to the conference. I believe one of the others was WIU. YSU may have been against us because of geography. They were willing to add one Dakota school, but a Dakota trip every year was not that appealing to them. SDSU's president tipped the scales when he said both or nothing. (It still took a couple days for them to make up their minds and get MSU on board.)
Thank god for that. I for one am completely in support of standing by SDSU in future conference moves. Assuming they dont fall into complete ruin.
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