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Here is a funny (odd) little story about Utah Valley State. It is oddly writen and some of the facts seem a little off but it probably ties into what we are doing as far as finding a conference goes.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600118679,00.html
UVSC talking a new game
School officials are discussing formation of athletic conference
By Laura Hancock
Deseret Morning News
OREM — Top administrators at Utah Valley State College are meeting with NCAA officials and leaders at 10 colleges to discuss the possibility of forming a new athletic conference.
If the the early stage plan to create a new conference is realized, it would mean UVSC, which has been granted Division I provisional status, could cut short its probation period.
Among the proposal's challenges: The schools mulling the move are scattered throughout the country. Teams from Texas, California and Virginia would play Orem-based UVSC.
"It's a long shot, schools from that far apart. It's not cost effective, but at least we're trying," said UVSC Athletic Director Mike Jacobsen, who traveled with college President William Sederburg to Indianapolis to participate in the meeting.
UVSC must go to such great lengths because the school doesn't have a football team — the big reason it's been so difficult to earn an invitation to join a NCAA Division I conference.
"These schools that we're meeting with, there's four schools that have football — out of 11," Jacobsen said.
Sederburg and Jacobsen traveled by plane to Indiana Monday night. They are scheduled to meet with the other colleges and NCAA officials today and return to Utah tonight.
While UVSC officials pursue the possibility of a new conference, they also continue to court representatives of the Mid-Continent Conference, of which Southern Utah University is a member, and the Big Sky Conference, of which Weber State University is a member. Both conferences are division 1-A for football, however.
UVSC is in the third year of a seven-year provisional period the NCAA has mandated.
Normally, the provisional period is five years, but UVSC, which previously competed against junior colleges, was given an extra two years of probation. . . .
Students and school boosters have pushed for a football program at UVSC several times.
This year is no different. Jared Sumsion, UVSC's new student body president, said during the campus campaign that he wanted to start looking at ways to establish a gridiron program.
Utah's Board of Regents, which oversees all tax-supported colleges and universities in Utah, has nixed the idea in the past, saying it was too expensive.
For now, the college is focusing on developing other sports. Jacobsen, however, doesn't dismiss the idea that UVSC will never have a football team.
"That's not just a priority right now," he said.
The next step in UVSC athletics is to add women's golf and tennis teams, a move that officials hope will make it more attractive to the Big Sky Conference. In April, Jacobsen said he will know if money is available to start the programs next school year.
The Big Sky Conference has discussed allowing one school without football because it could accommodate the schedule, Duckworth told the college's Board of Trustees on Thursday.
A negative side of being part of the Mid-Continent Conference is location.
Go State! ;D
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600118679,00.html
UVSC talking a new game
School officials are discussing formation of athletic conference
By Laura Hancock
Deseret Morning News
OREM — Top administrators at Utah Valley State College are meeting with NCAA officials and leaders at 10 colleges to discuss the possibility of forming a new athletic conference.
If the the early stage plan to create a new conference is realized, it would mean UVSC, which has been granted Division I provisional status, could cut short its probation period.
Among the proposal's challenges: The schools mulling the move are scattered throughout the country. Teams from Texas, California and Virginia would play Orem-based UVSC.
"It's a long shot, schools from that far apart. It's not cost effective, but at least we're trying," said UVSC Athletic Director Mike Jacobsen, who traveled with college President William Sederburg to Indianapolis to participate in the meeting.
UVSC must go to such great lengths because the school doesn't have a football team — the big reason it's been so difficult to earn an invitation to join a NCAA Division I conference.
"These schools that we're meeting with, there's four schools that have football — out of 11," Jacobsen said.
Sederburg and Jacobsen traveled by plane to Indiana Monday night. They are scheduled to meet with the other colleges and NCAA officials today and return to Utah tonight.
While UVSC officials pursue the possibility of a new conference, they also continue to court representatives of the Mid-Continent Conference, of which Southern Utah University is a member, and the Big Sky Conference, of which Weber State University is a member. Both conferences are division 1-A for football, however.
UVSC is in the third year of a seven-year provisional period the NCAA has mandated.
Normally, the provisional period is five years, but UVSC, which previously competed against junior colleges, was given an extra two years of probation. . . .
Students and school boosters have pushed for a football program at UVSC several times.
This year is no different. Jared Sumsion, UVSC's new student body president, said during the campus campaign that he wanted to start looking at ways to establish a gridiron program.
Utah's Board of Regents, which oversees all tax-supported colleges and universities in Utah, has nixed the idea in the past, saying it was too expensive.
For now, the college is focusing on developing other sports. Jacobsen, however, doesn't dismiss the idea that UVSC will never have a football team.
"That's not just a priority right now," he said.
The next step in UVSC athletics is to add women's golf and tennis teams, a move that officials hope will make it more attractive to the Big Sky Conference. In April, Jacobsen said he will know if money is available to start the programs next school year.
The Big Sky Conference has discussed allowing one school without football because it could accommodate the schedule, Duckworth told the college's Board of Trustees on Thursday.
A negative side of being part of the Mid-Continent Conference is location.
Go State! ;D
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