Re: Great West To Include UTPA And become All Sports Conf?
Go Ed!!! I'd love it if this happened and the UxDs joined in. That would mean a couple of things (good IMHO):
1) While I believe eventually we may wind up playing USD in football, it would mean we wouldn't be in a basketball league with them and wouldn't have to play in the Dakota Dump and listen to (and see) the filth of their fans.
2) The coverage of their teams when they play away would disappear from the 10 p.m. news and the morning coverage of the Argus.
Finally, given the travel costs (which are going to zoom for all of us, but would impact them even more) they might have to travel by stagecoach to the away games!
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Great West To Include UTPA And become All Sports Conf?
Read It Here:
http://www.championshipsubdivisionne...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
"EDINBURG - The University of Texas-Pan American is looking west in its decade-long search for conference affiliation.
Great West Commissioner Ed Grom said Tuesday he’s been working with UTPA and several other independent schools for six to eight weeks on adding an all-sports division under the umbrella of his conference, which is a five-team Football Championship Subdivision-only league.
Such a move would include several of UTPA’s existing sports and would not entail adding football or guarantee the NCAA will recognize the new Great West conference - even if it meets all the longterm requirements.
“Right now it’s just an idea of turning the Great West into an all-sports league, and (we) just threw out some ideas to people and different schools out there to see if there’s any interest in doing that,” Grom said. “That’s as far as it’s gotten at this point.”
The University of Texas System Board of Regents is holding a special meeting Friday in Austin, and one item on the agenda indicates UTPA is seeking “authorization to accept an invitation from the Great West Conference” and to finalize terms for membership therein"..... Read More
What do you think since it could concern a team to the south of you guys and a team to the north of us. I can't even imagine the travel costs for that conference. The other schools that expressed interest (or know about it) are NJIT, Utah Valley State, Longwood, Chicago State.
Flame On
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