Augie to the Summit?

[Jacked_Up]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

I don't recall a vote tally being disclosed for any recent league addition. Ultimately, I suspect, all elections become unanimous.

[BTownJack]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

I don't recall a vote tally being disclosed for any recent league addition. Ultimately, I suspect, all elections become unanimous.

I believe this is what happens. There needs to be a majority but they would only ever release a "unanimous" decision to the press.

[Grizzled_Jack]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

Does anyone think Augie would be voted out? Maybe by PFW, but they're looking to get out anyway, as Douple knows well. Like the ugly prom date in a class with fifteen boys and six girls, the WAC would be all over any rejection. Travel is getting to be a bigger issue in athletic costs (snickers for Augie's increased football costs which would probably wipe out any scholarship savings), and a school with decent facilities and a short drive down 1-29 should have no problems.

It seems to me that the WAC is actively courting move-ups, Dixie State, for example. They seem a lot more proactive than the Summit. More desperate with the likes of Chicago State in the stable maybe.

[BTownJack]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

Douple, at the SF Staters luncheon last week, was a little more forthcoming about his conversations with Augie. At the start of the Q&A session he got ahead of the question and came out and just told everyone that he's had "very little conversations with them." This is coming 2nd hand so if anyone that was there could better quote him that would be helpful.

[UWMandSDSU]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

Douple, at the SF Staters luncheon last week, was a little more forthcoming about his conversations with Augie. At the start of the Q&A session he got ahead of the question and came out and just told everyone that he's had "very little conversations with them." This is coming 2nd hand so if anyone that was there could better quote him that would be helpful.

He said as much on his radio interview on KWSN. He met Augie AD Morton at a Convention (for the first time) and has had a phone conversation w/ Herseth-Sandlin.

[sdsurulz08]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

Idk if anyone has followed Wolford but they are pretty good this year at basketball and have an enrollment of 1,500 so I would not count Auggie out in at least making it work in D1

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges...d-college-3457

[Jacked_Up]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

Idk if anyone has followed Wolford but they are pretty good this year at basketball and have an enrollment of 1,500 so I would not count Auggie out in at least making it work in D1

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges...d-college-3457

Wofford has done well. But nearly any viable college can compete in basketball. Competing in football and more than a dozen other D-1 sports for men and women will be the challenge. The more rumblings I hear about Augustana finances and related issues, the less convinced I am that the school will be able to succeed at the next level.

[Rabbit74]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

Wofford has done well. But nearly any viable college can compete in basketball. Competing in football and more than a dozen other D-1 sports for men and women will be the challenge. The more rumblings I hear about Augustana finances and related issues, the less convinced I am that the school will be able to succeed at the next level.

Wofford also made it to the second round of the FCS playoffs this year and finished 13th in the FCS rankings.

[FargoBison]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

Wofford is an established DI school in a state of 5 million people.

I have many concerns with Augie but first is if Sanford's CEO wasn't pushing for it, is the league thinking it needs Augie? I very much doubt it, not unless it was on its deathbed.

[Jacked_Up]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

Wofford is an established DI school in a state of 5 million people.

I have many concerns with Augie but first is if Sanford's CEO wasn't pushing for it, is the league thinking it needs Augie? I very much doubt it, not unless it was on its deathbed.

Exactly. It appears that roughly a half dozen people, including Augie's new president, are pushing the move, and the Sioux Falls sports media is lapping it up like the scoop of the decade.

[JACKGUYII]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

Exactly. It appears that roughly a half dozen people, including Augie's new president, are pushing the move, and the Sioux Falls sports media is lapping it up like the scoop of the decade.

It's going to happen regardless of what you, I or others feel about it.

[Nidaros]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

I can’t believe how many people think that enrollment is a factor in going D1. It is not. Rice in Houston has a very tiny enrollment and has been competing at D1 for many decades before SDSU even thought about it. It’s about $$$$ and Augie will need that to make this happen.

[slosho]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

It's going to happen regardless of what you, I or others feel about it.

I know I'm repeating myself a bit, but I'd like to see the Summit allow them (Augie) to prove they are a viable D1 university without the help of geographically advantageous summit league. Right now they need the Summit much more then the summit needs them. While that could change unless it does let them UND it in the Big Sky or something.

[Nidaros]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

While that could change unless it does let them UND it in the Big Sky or something.

I am not sure of what you are saying. Would you mind explaining it?

[slosho]

Re: Augie to the Summit?

I am not sure of what you are saying. Would you mind explaining it?

Unless the summit league needs them to keep the auto-bid let them try and make it without the summit like UND thought they could in the Big Sky. By the Time the Summit is in dire need of them they will be begging to join the summit or be relegated back to the NSIC