Another big domino falls for the 3rd straight summer. Wow.
BCPanther, you were right.
ColonialBulldog wrote:I'm watching two dominoes with the same name as far as relevance to MVC basketball - SDSU. The Fargo Forum has really been pushing an NDSU and SDSU to the Mountain West to replace San Diego State.
The WCF Courier suggests that St. Thomas would be the first candidate to "replace" ndsu/sdsu in the MVFC. Obviously that's clear speculation, but the small town newspaper journalist made some solid points on why that move makes logical sense. I would assume an invite for all sports to the mvc would accompany that move.
All of the above is 90% speculation. But it seems the most obvious path towards expansion that would affect MVC basketball.
racernation wrote:Conference mergers or conference extinctions are coming. The days of 32 conferences are coming to an end.
BCPanther wrote:racernation wrote:Conference mergers or conference extinctions are coming. The days of 32 conferences are coming to an end.
I agree with this.
Here are my best guesses for this round if this is the true blowing up point (don't hold me to them )
--Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon, Washington, UConn to the Big 12. Oregon and Washington have a handshake agreement with the Big 12 that they are leaving as soon as the Big Ten comes calling so that we don't have a Texas with wandering eyes situation. The Big 12 is at 18.
--The remaining PAC schools (Cal, Stanford, Utah, Wazzu, Oregon State) keep the PAC name and invite Fresno State, San Diego State, Colorado State, SMU, Boise State, UNLV and Tulane to form the new PAC 12.
--The AAC grabs Air Force and Texas State to stay at 14 football and 15 basketball.
--The remaining MW schools (Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose, Utah State, Wyoming) after being turned down by multiple Sun Belt members, add Montana, Montana State, North Dakota State, South Dakota State and Idaho as all sports members.
--The Sun Belt finally unseals the envelope and invites Missouri State to replace Texas State.
--UNI and Illinois State desperately look for an FBS life raft but don't find one and remain in the Valley after the MAC says no and CUSA says all sports or nothing.
--The Valley realizes that St Thomas isn't ready. Kansas City and Omaha haven't changed since the last time and there aren't any viable alternatives. The league reluctantly adds Oral Roberts to get back into Tulsa.
--The Summit is unable to convince anyone other than Augustana to jump and loses all of its autobids and folds.
--The Summit leftovers scatter. St Thomas to the Horizon. Denver, Kansas City and Omaha to the WAC. The Horizon reluctantly takes North Dakota and South Dakota to get to 14 and goes with a hard east/west division split (West: North Dakota, South Dakota, St Thomas, Green Bay, Milwaukee, IUPUI, Purdue Ft Wayne/ East: Cleveland State, Detroit, NKU, Oakland, Robert Morris, Wright State, Youngstown State)
--The Big Sky is down to 7 and is on life support. They call up Western Washington to get back to 8 but it's just a matter of time until Northern Arizona decides it doesn't want to be in a NW league anymore.
Kyle_Saluki_17 wrote:BCPanther wrote:racernation wrote:Conference mergers or conference extinctions are coming. The days of 32 conferences are coming to an end.
I agree with this.
Here are my best guesses for this round if this is the true blowing up point (don't hold me to them )
--Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon, Washington, UConn to the Big 12. Oregon and Washington have a handshake agreement with the Big 12 that they are leaving as soon as the Big Ten comes calling so that we don't have a Texas with wandering eyes situation. The Big 12 is at 18.
--The remaining PAC schools (Cal, Stanford, Utah, Wazzu, Oregon State) keep the PAC name and invite Fresno State, San Diego State, Colorado State, SMU, Boise State, UNLV and Tulane to form the new PAC 12.
--The AAC grabs Air Force and Texas State to stay at 14 football and 15 basketball.
--The remaining MW schools (Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose, Utah State, Wyoming) after being turned down by multiple Sun Belt members, add Montana, Montana State, North Dakota State, South Dakota State and Idaho as all sports members.
--The Sun Belt finally unseals the envelope and invites Missouri State to replace Texas State.
--UNI and Illinois State desperately look for an FBS life raft but don't find one and remain in the Valley after the MAC says no and CUSA says all sports or nothing.
--The Valley realizes that St Thomas isn't ready. Kansas City and Omaha haven't changed since the last time and there aren't any viable alternatives. The league reluctantly adds Oral Roberts to get back into Tulsa.
--The Summit is unable to convince anyone other than Augustana to jump and loses all of its autobids and folds.
--The Summit leftovers scatter. St Thomas to the Horizon. Denver, Kansas City and Omaha to the WAC. The Horizon reluctantly takes North Dakota and South Dakota to get to 14 and goes with a hard east/west division split (West: North Dakota, South Dakota, St Thomas, Green Bay, Milwaukee, IUPUI, Purdue Ft Wayne/ East: Cleveland State, Detroit, NKU, Oakland, Robert Morris, Wright State, Youngstown State)
--The Big Sky is down to 7 and is on life support. They call up Western Washington to get back to 8 but it's just a matter of time until Northern Arizona decides it doesn't want to be in a NW league anymore.
Why would UNI and Illinois State look for an FBS life raft when the MVC appears to be the most stable conference in all of this “plan”?
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