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Bits and pieces from an Argus article dealing with schools moving up a level with in the NCC and SDSU's move up. Mick actually writes a good article about the move up and other challenges we faced.
In NCC meetings at the time they were considering a move to Division I, SDSU administrators encouraged other NCC members to consider a conference-wide jump for the same reasons the prospect would be enticing to NCC schools now considering the jump. A Division I NCC would have given the members an opportunity to cut travel costs associated with Division I and also regulate scholarship levels within its membership.
"It would be the best of everything," SDSU's outgoing president Peggy Miller said in 2003. "It's our hope that we can make sure (the NCC college presidents) get the real facts and figures. We can keep the rivalries at a price we can all afford. "We just have to convince the presidents of that."
Three years later, the search for a conference for a majority of SDSU's sports continues, though prospects have never looked brighter. The Mid-Continent Conference, a non-football league made up of mid- to lower-level Division I schools in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Oklahoma and Missouri, will visit the SDSU campus in August for purposes of reviewing the Jackrabbits' suitability.
As forecast by SDSU administrators, the men's and women's basketball teams have been able to schedule road games with prominent major programs, garnering lucrative paychecks in the process. In addition, because of a boost in scholarships, SDSU will soon be eligible to play Division I-A schools in football. The Jacks will play the University of Minnesota in 2009, for instance, in Minneapolis.
Competitively, the SDSU women's basketball team has been the program's jewel, maintaining an extremely competitive profile while playing an independent Division I schedule. Men's basketball, however, has suffered in the transition both competitively and at the gate. Attendance for home games has dropped
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs...607090333/1002
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs...607090328/1002
Bits and pieces from an Argus article dealing with schools moving up a level with in the NCC and SDSU's move up. Mick actually writes a good article about the move up and other challenges we faced.
In NCC meetings at the time they were considering a move to Division I, SDSU administrators encouraged other NCC members to consider a conference-wide jump for the same reasons the prospect would be enticing to NCC schools now considering the jump. A Division I NCC would have given the members an opportunity to cut travel costs associated with Division I and also regulate scholarship levels within its membership.
"It would be the best of everything," SDSU's outgoing president Peggy Miller said in 2003. "It's our hope that we can make sure (the NCC college presidents) get the real facts and figures. We can keep the rivalries at a price we can all afford. "We just have to convince the presidents of that."
Three years later, the search for a conference for a majority of SDSU's sports continues, though prospects have never looked brighter. The Mid-Continent Conference, a non-football league made up of mid- to lower-level Division I schools in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Oklahoma and Missouri, will visit the SDSU campus in August for purposes of reviewing the Jackrabbits' suitability.
As forecast by SDSU administrators, the men's and women's basketball teams have been able to schedule road games with prominent major programs, garnering lucrative paychecks in the process. In addition, because of a boost in scholarships, SDSU will soon be eligible to play Division I-A schools in football. The Jacks will play the University of Minnesota in 2009, for instance, in Minneapolis.
Competitively, the SDSU women's basketball team has been the program's jewel, maintaining an extremely competitive profile while playing an independent Division I schedule. Men's basketball, however, has suffered in the transition both competitively and at the gate. Attendance for home games has dropped