(04-16-2018 11:51 AM)teamvsn Wrote:  

(04-12-2018 04:16 PM)teamvsn Wrote:  

(04-12-2018 03:45 PM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  

(04-12-2018 03:12 PM)teamvsn Wrote:  

(04-12-2018 02:02 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  I hope that the basketball divisions do get combined. Each division had a 32 team tourney. I don't think it made that big of a difference between the two divisions. It would be a good to get the tourney to the familiar 64 team model that NCAA has. I wonder if they may just keep the 11 scholarship max.

Of the 20 conferences in the NAIA, there was pretty much an even split between the 2 divisions. I don't think there is enough schools/conferences to warrant such a split. If the combine does happen we may see some movement of some schools to different conferences. One for instance could be Eastern Oregon and College of Idaho joining the Frontier Conference for all sports (Frontier is a D1 conference while EOU & C of I was D2). Southern Oregon could remain a football affiliate but stay in the CCC for all other sports as traveling up I-5 is a lot easier than getting across the state to play EOU and CofI.

I've written a series of articles on the possible merger. 3 so far, the last installment will be tomorrow.

http://www.victorysportsnetwork.com/Clip...isions.htm

http://www.victorysportsnetwork.com/Clip...pation.htm

http://www.victorysportsnetwork.com/Clip...format.htm

I also hope they keep it at 11. There's very little competitive difference between DI and DII already so the higher limit won't hurt the DII schools. But from what I've heard they are looking at 8.

So what do you say, is it going to happen. NAIA under 1 Bball umbrella? Will we see conf. changes from schools if this happens. Aren't there a couple that are D-I indy or were just for bball but in their "D-II" conf. for other sports

I suspect it will happen. But if it doesn't, I think it will be because of uncertainty over the scholarship issue.

I do think there will be conference changes as a result within 5 years or so. The conferences will get smaller footprints with less overlap. I could still see the GSAC and the CalPac remaining mostly as-is because of the difference in athletic commitment among schools in those two conferences. But there are others where there's a lot of geographical overlap but not much difference in quality between the members.

There used to be some schools that were just basketball but the NAIA has changed their rules and I can't think of any that remain. One was Life, who expanded sports, and another was Mountain State that closed. There were also some that were DI independent basketball and DII everything else, but I can't think of anyone like that anymore either. One was Robert Morris Chicago and another was WV Tech; both are now all DII. There are very few DI independents at all. There are a lot more DII independents, and a few of them might join a DI conference if the distinction were to be dropped. Maybe Ozarks (Branson MO) and Crowley's Ridge (AR) to the AMC, and Stillman to the Gulf Coast. (DavidST, don't reference this as a rumor! It's just idle speculation)

It passed:

http://www.victorysportsnetwork.com/Clip...isions.htm

The first year this will be effective is 2020-21. I'm trying to find out the timeline for when the scholarship and tournament format issues will be decided.