(11-09-2018 08:54 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote: (11-09-2018 02:42 PM)AZcats Wrote: (11-09-2018 12:23 PM)DavidSt Wrote: (11-09-2018 09:52 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote: Simon Fraiser, Central Washington, and Azusa Pacific are all in a tight spot regarding their D2 football.
Ideally the last 4 teams in GNAC would get invited to another D2 conference for football but if they can't maybe FCS wouldn't be a bad option.
Both Simon Fraser and Minot State are looking to join D1 for men's hockey.
Does anybody know why Colorado Mesa just listed their Men's Hockey as an emerging sport? They play as a club team. Could they going upgrade it to D1 varsity and add a women's team? Colo. Mesa already sponsor 23 sports.
Has there been any new press about Minot State and Simon Fraser adding varsity hockey since the purely speculative USCHO article over 2 years ago? Has D1 changed their rules yet to allow international membership?
If you would provide the link to what you are asking about then maybe you could get an answer. Based on the primary source, which would be the school's athletic website, Men's Ice Hockey is a standard club team and a member of the ACHA.
And, what does this have to do with WAC bringing back FCS football?
David thinks that because they form a club hockey team means they are looking at D1 for football.
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I am looking at this because some of the sports listed as club but are under a different organization like the skiing and rodeo are not NCAA sports. Those athletes do get scholarships which are not under NCAA rules. Some schools like Central Washington sponsors both men and women's rugby. That is an emerging sport for NCAA to look at in the future. On another site and not CMU, did not have men's hockey as an emerging sport earlier this year. There have been talks about schools who have club hockey going varsity. There had been several women's club hockey teams already went to varsity the past couple of years. Women's wrestling was listed last year for CMU as an emerging sport, and CMU added it earlier this year as a sport for number 23. If CMU do add men's hockey as a varsity sport? Colorado Mesa also have men and women's rugby listed as an emerging sport.
As for CWU? I do think WAC could actually sponsor rugby once NCAA makes it a championship sport. You could actually get into Title 9 compliance since rugby cost less than golf or tennis, and you could fill a large women's team.
CWU sponsors 13 sports, but men and women's rugby is not sanction yet for the NCAAs.
CWU's offer:
Men's:
baseball
basketball
cross country
track
rugby
women's:
basketball
cross country
rugby
soccer
softball
track
volleyball
Looking at what they could add?
M/W golf
men's hockey
W LAX
W swimming and diving
W tennis
W wrestling
beach volleyball
W water polo
They do have options.
WAC schools that have rugby teams?
Men's:
Grand Canyon
Utah Valley
New Mexico State
UMKC
add:
Colorado Mesa
Azusa Pacific
Western Washington
Central Washington
Dixie State
(UMKC could go back to Summit League for rugby and all sports.)
affiliates:
Western Oregon (grandfather in.)
San Francisco
San Diego
St. Mary's
Pacific
Gonzaga
D2 schools in the WAC footprint.
Angelo State
Chico State
Colorado Mines
Humboldt State
Midwestern State
Regis
San Francisco State
Sonoma State
Big West, Big Sky and WAC could grandfather the men's rugby as a single sport in the west.
Women's:
Seattle U.
Now if we combined all the west coast women's teams outside of the PAC 12, you will get this.
Air Force MWC
BYU WCC
Fullerton State Big West
Long Beach State Big West
Northridge State Big West
Colorado State MWC
Denver Summit
E. Washington Big Sky
Fresno State MWC
Idaho Big Sky
Idaho State Big Sky
Montana State big Sky
UNR MWC
Portland State Big Sky
Sacramento State Big Sky
Seattle U. WAC
UC-Davis Big West
UC-Irvine Big West
UC-Riverside Big West
UC-San Diego Big West
UC-Santa Barbara Big West
San Francisco WCC
Utah State MWC
Weber State Big Sky
Wyoming MWC
Central Washington D2/WAC
Chico State D2
Colorado Mines D2
Humboldt State D2
Colorado Mesa D2/WAC
Western Oregon D2
Western Washington D2/WAC
You could split the Western Women's Rugby into regions.
Northwest-Washington/Oregon/Nevada
California-California
North-Idaho/Montana/Wyoming
Rockies-Colorado/Utah future Arizona/New Mexico/West Texas/UNLV
This could get WAC be a front runner for Rugby when it becomes a NCAA sanction sport.