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Re: Huge Mid-Con news
Fred's words - As for the future, recent additions to Division I competition such as IPFW, North Dakota State and South Dakota State would like to join Valparaiso and IUPUI in the league. With CSU out, optimism for expansion is up.
But SDSU athletic director Fred Oien, like everyone else, knows that nothing official can be done until the summer when the university presidents from the conference meet with conference commissioner Tom Douple.
"How this will affect anything for us is ultimately up to the Mid-Con," Oien said. "I don't think we're going to assume anything."
On Thursday the Mid-Con office said there is no comment at this time regarding expansion.
SDSU is already an associate member of the Mid-Con in men's and women's swimming and diving.
"We would be a strong member in any conference that would see fit to have us," Oien said. "We'd be very honored to have that opportunity. (The Mid-Con) has institutions that are like ours. We will watch carefully." .
My observations - Mid-Con is better for Rabbits because they sponsor tourney in all but wrestling, football, and equestrian that SDSU sponsors. For NDSU, I was unaware that they've dropped swimming. Shame, because they had a nice pool, very similar to State's HPER. Wrestling, and Football all that's missing for Bison in Mid-Con.
In Big Sky, add baseball, wrestling, equestrian, swimming to not in that conference activities. The only thing added is a super football conference. But IMHO, the Great West can be right there with Big Sky, we just need about 1-2 more schools with schollies to join us.
Fred's words - As for the future, recent additions to Division I competition such as IPFW, North Dakota State and South Dakota State would like to join Valparaiso and IUPUI in the league. With CSU out, optimism for expansion is up. But SDSU athletic director Fred Oien, like everyone else, knows that nothing official can be done until the summer when the university presidents from the conference meet with conference commissioner Tom Douple.
"How this will affect anything for us is ultimately up to the Mid-Con," Oien said. "I don't think we're going to assume anything."
On Thursday the Mid-Con office said there is no comment at this time regarding expansion.
SDSU is already an associate member of the Mid-Con in men's and women's swimming and diving.
"We would be a strong member in any conference that would see fit to have us," Oien said. "We'd be very honored to have that opportunity. (The Mid-Con) has institutions that are like ours. We will watch carefully." .
My observations - Mid-Con is better for Rabbits because they sponsor tourney in all but wrestling, football, and equestrian that SDSU sponsors. For NDSU, I was unaware that they've dropped swimming. Shame, because they had a nice pool, very similar to State's HPER. Wrestling, and Football all that's missing for Bison in Mid-Con.
In Big Sky, add baseball, wrestling, equestrian, swimming to not in that conference activities. The only thing added is a super football conference. But IMHO, the Great West can be right there with Big Sky, we just need about 1-2 more schools with schollies to join us.
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