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RE: The Big Sky and Summit schedule a crossover challenge series with select schools
(02-08-2018 04:49 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  
(02-08-2018 10:06 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  
(02-05-2018 05:59 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I've said it on here before: once UND becomes a full member of the Summit the move we are going to see is Northern Colorado to the Summit.

It's a win for the Big Sky because they drop to a managable 10 full/12 football model.

Denver gets a travel partner.

The Summit takes over the MVFC, having 6 of the members.

The voting block of the Dakota 4, UNO, and Denver control the league. PUFW and WIU step up efforts to get out.

I'm not sure if you're just playing along with the conspiracy theorist, but what possible motivation could there be for the 4 Dakota schools to leave the MVFC, one of the best FCS conferences, for an FCS Summit League with the bare minimum of football schools? And if UNC joins but WIU leaves, they'd be back to 5 FB schools. The Summit can't "take over" the MVFC. It would only have 5 out of the 11 members (and just 4 if WIU leaves).

The only parts of this that seem even vaguely realistic are UNC joining the Summit (it would still have to park its FB program in the Big Sky though) and WIU and Fort Wayne desiring to leave the Summit. I doubt the MVC would want either WIU or FW, so they'd do better to aim for the Horizon or even the OVC.

So maybe we see:

Big Sky: Cal Poly*, EWU, Idaho, Idaho State, Montana, Montana State, NAU, PSU, Sac State, SUU, Weber, UC Davis*, UNC*

Summit (NFB): Denver, NDSU, Omaha, ORU, SDSU, UNC, UND, USD

Horizon (NFB): Cleveland State, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Green Bay, IUPUI, Milwaukee, NKU, Oakland, UIC, WIU, Wright State, YSU

* = FB-only

It would be Summit League football but they'd also take in the MVFC schools to make a 12 school league.

This is not plausible. You'd have YSU in the same conference as Northern Colorado? And how exactly would the Summit "take over" the MVFC? As noted, the Summit has only 5 schools out of the 11 MVFC schools. If Northern Colorado joins the Summit and the MVFC foolishly takes in their FB program, that's still only 6 Summit schools among 12 MVFC schools. They're not taking over the MVFC that way.
02-08-2018 05:18 PM
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