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Idaho to Big Sky for Non-Football Sports

Oct 19th, 2012 | By | Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, WAC Expansion & Realignment

A move that has been in the works for months is now official: Idaho will be joining the Big Sky for non-football sports in 2014. The WAC, which recently added Utah Valley and CSU-Bakersfield, will now be down to 5 members with New Mexico St., Seattle and Denver rounding out the membership. The WAC will [...]

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Big Sky Considering WAC Takeover?

Jul 19th, 2012 | By | Category: Big Sky Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, WAC Expansion & Realignment

Over the past few weeks, all eyes have been on Idaho and the possibility of them joining the Big Sky. But in recent days, some interesting points have been made. First, Idaho AD Rob Spears, has made it clear that Idaho and the Big Sky have indeed had discussions, but they involved Idaho joining the [...]

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Big Sky Expansion: Southern Utah & North Dakota Expected to Join Big Sky on Monday, South Dakota Could Follow

Oct 30th, 2010 | By | 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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More Potential Big Sky Developments, SUU Announcement?

Oct 26th, 2010 | By | 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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Big Sky Expansion Rumor: Southern Utah, South Dakota, North Dakota

Oct 23rd, 2010 | By | 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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Source: Cal Poly & UC Davis to Join Big Sky for Football

Sep 7th, 2010 | By | 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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Big Sky Cuts Costs

May 21st, 2009 | By | 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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Big Sky Update…NAU developments

Feb 4th, 2009 | By | 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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Big Sky to Lose a Football Member?

Jan 29th, 2009 | By | 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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Big Sky Closer to Expanding to 10 – Denver Under Consideration

May 24th, 2006 | By | 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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