(12-01-2023 10:22 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Could University of Albany buy them out? It could be a merger.

Siena would be a better option. Catholic schools should be consolidating as they close, no matter the different founding organizations.

From D1.ticker:

Chicago State is set to join the NEC, bringing the league's full membership to eight, starting July 1, 2024 per CollegeAD. An official announcement is expected today.

(12-05-2023 08:13 AM)unalions Wrote:  From D1.ticker:

Chicago State is set to join the NEC, bringing the league's full membership to eight, starting July 1, 2024 per CollegeAD. An official announcement is expected today.

Congrats to Chicago State and the NEC.

(12-01-2023 10:22 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Could University of Albany buy them out? It could be a merger.

There actually is some speculation from informed Danes fans on the America East board that Albany might be interested in the real estate. That wouldn't be a merger of the school or anything. Just buying the buildings. Saint Rose would still be dunzo.

(12-05-2023 08:13 AM)unalions Wrote:  From D1.ticker:

Chicago State is set to join the NEC, bringing the league's full membership to eight, starting July 1, 2024 per CollegeAD. An official announcement is expected today.

I think that would be temp home.

Dickinson State returns to the Frontier Conference.

https://fcsports.org/news/2023/12/11/fro...ember.aspx

This shouldn't be a surprise. Dickinson was a part of the NAIA Dakotas conference before it disintegrated, and went to the Frontier for 2012-14, before going back to the reconstituted DAK, named the North Star conference. Now that conference is falling apart with the closure of Presentation, and of Iowa Wesleyan before they could complete their joining process, the exit of Jamestown to the GPAC, Viterbo to the Chicagoland and Waldorf to the GPAC. And the Frontier was getting mighty thin with the departure of Lewis-Clark State.

This brings the Frontier to 7 full time members, and the North Star next year will be at 5, including one year member Jamestown, who got booted from the GPAC on their way to NCAA D2.

I am wondering when Bismarck State finally pull the trigger to go to 4 year, and join the NAIA?

(12-12-2023 06:29 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  I am wondering when Bismarck State finally pull the trigger to go to 4 year, and join the NAIA?

https://bismarckstate.edu/news/BSC-stude...e-center-/

(12-12-2023 05:18 PM)teamvsn Wrote:  Dickinson State returns to the Frontier Conference.

https://fcsports.org/news/2023/12/11/fro...ember.aspx

This shouldn't be a surprise. Dickinson was a part of the NAIA Dakotas conference before it disintegrated, and went to the Frontier for 2012-14, before going back to the reconstituted DAK, named the North Star conference. Now that conference is falling apart with the closure of Presentation, and of Iowa Wesleyan before they could complete their joining process, the exit of Jamestown to the GPAC, Viterbo to the Chicagoland and Waldorf to the GPAC. And the Frontier was getting mighty thin with the departure of Lewis-Clark State.

This brings the Frontier to 7 full time members, and the North Star next year will be at 5, including one year member Jamestown, who got booted from the GPAC on their way to NCAA D2.

I take it this is a signal there is not even a potential plan to try to maintain the North Star. I get Viterbo leaving because it was always a stretch because of distance. Waldorf to the GPAC was an opportunity that they could not pass up.

But Dickinson making this move tells me the end of the North Star is here. They’ve already joined and left the Frontier once, so I don’t think they would make this move again if there was some slim hope of the North Star being maintained on some level within a short time, dependent on having them as a part of it. In other words, even Bismarck potentially joining won’t be enough because there aren’t any/enough others.

This is definitely a loss for the NAIA as it takes another chunk out of the country where there is simply no conference to join.

With the “merger” of Jessup University with Multnomah University in Portland, I would say based on historical precedent, athletics, and most likely the entire campus in Portland will be short lived.

A lot of these “mergers” (I put that in quotes because the mergee is typically facing closure in short order without the merger) last for a few years and then the campus of the failed college is permanently closed. Or in these cases, they often sell it as “consolidating” to the main campus of the stronger institution.

When Florida Christian merged with Johnson in Tennessee, the Florida campus of the new Johnson University remained open with dorms and athletics for several more years, before ultimately closing.

Same thing with Nebraska Christian and Hope International.

If the past is any indication, the Cascade Conference may be down a member in the next few years.

(12-14-2023 04:34 AM)Todor Wrote:  With the “merger” of Jessup University with Multnomah University in Portland, I would say based on historical precedent, athletics, and most likely the entire campus in Portland will be short lived.

A lot of these “mergers” (I put that in quotes because the mergee is typically facing closure in short order without the merger) last for a few years and then the campus of the failed college is permanently closed. Or in these cases, they often sell it as “consolidating” to the main campus of the stronger institution.

When Florida Christian merged with Johnson in Tennessee, the Florida campus of the new Johnson University remained open with dorms and athletics for several more years, before ultimately closing.

Same thing with Nebraska Christian and Hope International.

If the past is any indication, the Cascade Conference may be down a member in the next few years.

Wow! I don't know how I missed that little bit of news.

But from what I read about it, it's everyone's intent to keep Multnomah viable as a separate campus. Maybe simply an administration change and reduction of overhead will do the job. If it does close, my guess it will be at least 5 years down the line, maybe 10. Jessup is well managed enough to be on their way to NCAA D2, and Multnomah will remain in low cost NAIA. I think it will work out.

https://www.multnomah.edu/multnomah-univ...rtnership/

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/busi...and-jessup

Beacon College known as a new school for the disabled in Florida have been accepted for SACs accreditation. Now they can go to the NAIA soon.

(12-12-2023 06:29 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  I am wondering when Bismarck State finally pull the trigger to go to 4 year, and join the NAIA?

At this point the North Star will need Bismarck St and at least one other school if they are to be an NAIA conference past the 2024-25 season.

(12-12-2023 05:18 PM)teamvsn Wrote:  Dickinson State returns to the Frontier Conference.

https://fcsports.org/news/2023/12/11/fro...ember.aspx

This shouldn't be a surprise. Dickinson was a part of the NAIA Dakotas conference before it disintegrated, and went to the Frontier for 2012-14, before going back to the reconstituted DAK, named the North Star conference. Now that conference is falling apart with the closure of Presentation, and of Iowa Wesleyan before they could complete their joining process, the exit of Jamestown to the GPAC, Viterbo to the Chicagoland and Waldorf to the GPAC. And the Frontier was getting mighty thin with the departure of Lewis-Clark State.

This brings the Frontier to 7 full time members, and the North Star next year will be at 5, including one year member Jamestown, who got booted from the GPAC on their way to NCAA D2.

Kind of sounds like these small NAIA conferences need to merge, or at a minimum arrange a scheduling alliance.