Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?

[scottietohottie]

What ever conference NDSU is in will be the better conference.*

*I pressed the period button really hard.

[ndsubison1]

Few random thoughts:

I have a hard time believing the Horizon would be looking at adding Denver or Omaha. I also have a hard time believing Denver or Omaha would be interested in the kind of travel the Horizon would require.

IPFW and/or IUPUI make the most sense.

With the addition of UND, the Summit is at 11. We could lose 1 or even 2 and be OK. It was only a couple years ago we survived at 7. Losing up to 2 teams wouldn't be great, but we wouldn't be on the verge of imploding.

Horizon would probably stay in the Great Lakes region, the Indiana schools arent too appeasing but make sense geography wise. The Horizon also is filled with non fball schools other than Youngstown

[HerdBot]

I'm not sure Denver would support GCU or UVU joining the Summit, part of the reason why the joined the Summit was to get away from schools that are kind of questionable academically and GCU is a for profit school.

I have no idea what UMKC's deal is, there is an article out today saying they are hemorrhaging cash in the WAC because of travel and now want into the Valley to save money. They must think they are above the Summit since coming back was never mentioned as a possibility.

They are trying to put themselves on a pedestal to convince the MO Valley they are legit. Problem is they are not. They had a decent season last year but overall it's a pretty average program who fills a spot and is irrelevant in a big market ane draws 1200 fans most nights. Now New Mexico State would draw some fans

Leaving the Summit was a stupid decision. Maybe they didn't realize the wac had zero original teams and was the great west. It's a pig with lip stick.

[NDSU92]

They are trying to put themselves on a pedestal to convince the MO Valley they are legit. Problem is they are not. They had a decent season last year but overall it's a pretty average program who fills a spot and is irrelevant in a big market ane draws 1200 fans most nights. Now New Mexico State would draw some fans

Leaving the Summit was a stupid decision. Maybe they didn't realize the wac had zero original teams and was the great west. It's a pig with lip stick.

UMKC's Wikipedia page says that a major reason why they left the Summit was because the Summit wanted to call them 'Kansas City' and not 'UMKC'. Doubt it's true but it's still hilarious

[HerdBot]

UMKC's Wikipedia page says that a major reason why they left the Summit was because the Summit wanted to call them 'Kansas City' and not 'UMKC'. Doubt it's true but it's still hilarious

Yeah alrighty then. I'm sure everyone knows what UMKC stands for. /purple font. I think hearing Omaha and Fort Wayne sounds a hell of a lot more impressive than university of Nebraska Omaha or uno. Makes me think of the card game. Ipfw it took me 3 years to remember that one and I still occasionally mix them up with iupui that I'm pretty sure stands for Indiana university Purdue University Indianapolis... Or is it Indiana?

[NDSUstudent]

It is Indiana.

The U of Indianapolis is why IUPUI isn't able to call themselves Indianapolis.

[Hammersmith]

Yeah alrighty then. I'm sure everyone knows what UMKC stands for. /purple font. I think hearing Omaha and Fort Wayne sounds a hell of a lot more impressive than university of Nebraska Omaha or uno. Makes me think of the card game. Ipfw it took me 3 years to remember that one and I still occasionally mix them up with iupui that I'm pretty sure stands for Indiana university Purdue University Indianapolis... Or is it Indiana?

How can you get the two of them confused? They're both part of the same university system, they just chose to acronym their names differently.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne


Understandable to chose different acronyms as the other choices were worse:

IUPUI or IPI
IPFW or IUPUFW

[DePereBisonFan]

We we be smart to target someone closer to Omaha and Denver because they would be the geographic glue that holds the conference together. The further east you go you are just becoming a developmental league for the Horizon or MVC.

northern colorado?

[NDSUstudent]

If you go west NMSU is the team to add, I would love to trade the eastern flank for a western flank.

[ndsubison1]

New Mexico St is a must at this point. Not great geography wise, but Denver and ORU are down there. There's nobody better we could get (that's if they'd want to)