Big Sky Expansion & Realignment
Oct 30th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
Multiple sources have reported that on Monday, the Big Sky will announce the additions of Southern Utah and North Dakota as full members. South Dakota will/has received a formal invitation as well, but it is not yet confirmed that they have accepted. North Dakota had a scheduled campus visit set for next week for Summit [...]
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Oct 26th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
There’s been some chatter of talks involving the Big Sky and North Dakota, South Dakota and Southern Utah. And while UND is also speaking with the Summit League, there is now talk that perhaps as soon as Wednesday, the Big Sky could be making a move involving Southern Utah. At the SUU Monday Coaches Luncheon, [...]
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Oct 23rd, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
There’s been some chatter this week that the Big Sky could be expanding as soon as next week. At this time, this is completely unconfirmed. The specifics of the type of membership is unknown as well. Southern Utah has long sought full membership in the Big Sky, to align themselves with nearby schools NAU and [...]
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Sep 7th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
Add two more schools to the Big Sky stable. A source has told me that the Big Sky press conference and the Cal Poly press conference will reveal that both Cal Poly and UC Davis will be brought in a football only members in the Big Sky, bringing it’s membership for that sport to 11. [...]
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May 21st, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
Big Sky Conference basketball teams will play league games on Fridays and Saturdays next season as members try to trim costs for the 2009-10 school year. The conference will also not allow air travel for road trips of under 450 miles and is reducing the Big Sky volleyball and tennis tournaments to four teams instead [...]
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Feb 4th, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
A quick followup to the previous article about the Big Sky. On the CollegeSportsInfo.com forums, we’ve been looking at some developments with one of the schools: Looks like NAU must submit a proposed list of budget cuts of about $22 million for FY09(this school year)to the Arizona BOR by next Monday.Unclear whether any athletic programs [...]
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Jan 29th, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
Our favorite CollegeSportsInfo.com forum member recently listed an article from the Idaho Statesman about the state of the Big Sky and finances and asks an interesting question: is the Big Sky set to lose a member? Article out of Boise discussing the financial problems for the state supported schools in Idaho.Apparently each one is looking [...]
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May 24th, 2006 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
Big Sky officials met on Tuesday with expansion a part of the agenda. Many have assumed that any Big Sky expansion would include I-AA football playing members as a primary focus. But after the recent meeting, it appears that the Big Sky is considering adding a single school in an attempt to help it’s basketball [...]
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Apr 28th, 2006 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Division Upgrades, WAC Expansion & Realignment
In recent weeks, there have been rumblings about the future of the WAC and a possible defection from the Big Sky by Sacramento St. Already an associate member of the WAC for baseball, Sacramento St. would need to upgrade football to I-A in order for the WAC to give them any consideration. The root of [...]
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Apr 19th, 2006 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News
Our friend Jeff Kolpack from The Forum recently spoke with Big Sky Commissioner Fullerton regarding possible expansion, amongst other things. It seems that there is some fear in regards to basketball scheduling with a 9 team league. He sees 10 being an option but 12 as perhaps the best fit. Schools that come to mind [...]
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