NKU wants to go D-I

[LakeJack]

Saw this link on TV's twitter

http://www.local12.com/news/local/st...cnYr5G4EQ.cspx

[LakeJack]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...sey=nav%7Chead

[rabidrabbit]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

Not that the Summit is looking, but this could be the addition in the east to make the IN/MI/IL schools happier.

Non-football school. Would enjoy Eastern IL and UND added, but would need to be addition to the MVFC also.

[jacksfan29]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...sey=nav%7Chead

I doubt very much they will be allowed into the Horizon, a top ten league based on RPI. No way the Horizon offers a transitioning D2 school. The OVC and Summit are their only options.

[joeboo22]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

I think if the Summit could find another team in the region they would offer, because with the resent western expansion the League would like to help out the Eastern block with adding two teams.

[filbert]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

I haven't looked lately to see if Chicago State has gotten their act together. They'd be perfect, if you could trust them to be a competent program (which was why they were booted from the Mid-Con in the first place, although they would tell you that they were angling for the Horizon . . . "as if!")

Metros in the approximate Summit footprint not currently hosting a Summit school (in 2010 metro population order, over 250,000) include:
Chicago
Minneapolis/St. Paul
St. Louis
Cleveland
Cincinatti
Columbus
Milwaukee
Louisville
Oklahoma City
Dayton
Grand Rapids
Akron
Toledo
Little Rock
Wichita
Madison, WI
Des Moines
Lansing-E. Lansing
Flint
Lexington-Fayette
Canton-Massilon
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island (arguably served by W. Illinois)
Springfield, MO
Peoria, IL
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR
Evansville
Ann Arbor
Rockford
South Bend-Mishawaka
Kalamazoo-Portage
Green Bay
Duluth
Fort Smith, AR
Lincoln, NE

("Footprint" being the current Summit states - Utah + Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas, and Arkansas

[LakeJack]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

http://www.thenortherner.com/?p=10956

Interesting that the two school that talk to in the story are both Summit League schools

[Theee Catrabbit]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

Not that the Summit is looking, but this could be the addition in the east to make the IN/MI/IL schools happier.

Non-football school. Would enjoy Eastern IL and UND added, but would need to be addition to the MVFC also.

It's good to see they could get "Wayne" in there for some advice and someone from "Souther".

[Grizzled_Jack]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

Not that the Summit is looking, but this could be the addition in the east to make the IN/MI/IL schools happier.

Non-football school. Would enjoy Eastern IL and UND added, but would need to be addition to the MVFC also.

Is Eastern unhappy in the OVC?

[filbert]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

Is Eastern unhappy in the OVC?

I don't think so, but every once in a while it crops up because people seem to think that they would want to be in the same league as WIU, or some such thing. If I were EIU I think I'd be fairly content in the Ohio Valley Conference, but then who knows? If I were Mizzou I'd want to stay in the Big 12 rather than go to the SEC meat grinder.

[Prairiehaas]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

Wouldn't Mizzou be a power in SEC BB?

[LakeJack]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

Not a great story but more about NKU's D-I move

http://www.thenortherner.com/?p=11181

[filbert]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

Wouldn't Mizzou be a power in SEC BB?

A factor, maybe. Not a power. Not in a league that's already got Kentucky and Florida.

[Prairiehaas]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

I'd completely forgotten about Kentucky in the SEC. That after three trips to TN this fall. In the area I travel to there can be only one of three answers to the question, "Who ya for?" Can I be forgiven due to Alabama/Auburn/TN overload?

[LakeJack]

Re: NKU wants to go D-I

http://collegesportsinfo.com/2011/04...ion-1-upgrade/