Summit Expansion?

[HerdBot]

[QUOTE=MN_Moose;635125]You guys may be on to som,ething here. Sounds like there is real progress in bringing football back to Wichita St.
http://www.ksn.com/news/local/story/...dMdx_XCEw.cspx

Shockernet is putting in their two cents
http://shockernet.net/forum/showthre...ocker-Football

You guys could hold them up. Let them in MVFC for your intrance in MVC all sports. Or, just cust the crap and make MVC a football conference also.

I think a lot of Summit/MVC expansion hinges on schools like Wichita St and Creighton. QUOTE]

This is going to have an effect on Midwest recruiting. Whenever you have a team offer 85 full ride scholarship players its going to water down the talent. I assume they are going to hit Nebraska and Kansas up pretty hard. Enjoy recruiting Nebraska while the opportunity is still there.

[Hammersmith]

You guys may be on to som,ething here. Sounds like there is real progress in bringing football back to Wichita St.
http://www.ksn.com/news/local/story/...dMdx_XCEw.cspx

Shockernet is putting in their two cents
http://shockernet.net/forum/showthre...ocker-Football

You guys could hold them up. Let them in MVFC for your intrance in MVC all sports. Or, just cust the crap and make MVC a football conference also.

I think a lot of Summit/MVC expansion hinges on schools like Wichita St and Creighton.

This is going to have an effect on Midwest recruiting. Whenever you have a team offer 85 full ride scholarship players its going to water down the talent. I assume they are going to hit Nebraska and Kansas up pretty hard. Enjoy recruiting Nebraska while the opportunity is still there.

Would you explain your point? A guy at Wichita State is trying to start a club team. How is that going to affect scholarships?

[Tatanka]

Would you explain your point? A guy at Wichita State is trying to start a club team. How is that going to affect scholarships?

LOL you think there's a point...

[Grizzled]

This thread is funny to read nearly a year later. A year ago some (zoopara) thought the Summit was stable and "maybe" only Oakland was gone. I thought the WAC was dead. I was wrong, even if it is a patched together mess it still has an autobid. No one saw the Catholic 7 forming thier own league and the huge trickle down effect it was going to have on the Summit.

I wonder what things will look like another 11 months from now.

[NorthernBison]

The ultimate "Reality Check" is when you remind yourself that the Summit is a place most schools still look to get OUT of. (That includes NDSU, SDSU, etc)

It gets downright depressing when you consider the apparent fact that NDSU is not really near the top of anybody's list for future invitees to their conference.

[zooropa]

A year ago some (zoopara) thought the Summit was stable and "maybe" only Oakland was gone. I thought the WAC was dead.

Yeah, well, I guess both of us underestimated the stupidity of UMKC's administration.

The sad thing for the WAC is that UMKC gives them credibility.

[ndsubison1]

They would not add 'a lot' to the conference.

Their Summit sports aren't that great and neither school would add to the stability of the conference.

True, they would add a measure of prestige, but it would come along with a significant increase in travel costs and no appreciable gain in membership stability.

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[zooropa]

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That comment was directed primarily at AFA, which struggles in most Summit sports. Between the AFA & Denver there is only one decent Summit League program: Denver's basketball program.

[ndsubison1]

Air force mens basketball would be a contender in the summit. No idea about the other sports. Hard to believe they wouldn't be a good addition at all though when you look at the teams in our conference

[zooropa]

Air force mens basketball would be a contender in the summit.

Meh. 180 in the Sagarin ratings, that's not awful, but it's wouldn't exactly boost the Summit's profile.

If Denver's a long-term member of the Summit, maybe you look at adding another school out there, but you wouldn't want to add a school near Denver, and then lose Denver to another conference and be stuck with some otherwise marginal school that's way out there (it would be comparable to adding UVU to pair with SUU, and then losing SUU to the Big Sky)