Good CSUSM will have basketball in 2011, it wouldn't make sense to go D-II without it.

_________________

WRANGLERS 153-55-1 CVFL CHAMPS '04 '05 '09 '12

NFL CHAMPS '29 '30 '31 '36 '39 '44 '61 '62 '65 '66 '67 '96 '10

BW/WAC/MWC CHAMPS '77 '82 '85 '88 '89 '91 '92 '93 '99 '12
['08 NCAA BASEBALL CHAMPS]

FresnoStAlum.thanks for the post.

Article out of Flint discussing recent feasibility study done for UM-Flint indicating that it could be possible to add sports to that school in the future.Article discusses that the likely sports conference would be the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference in the NAIA.Link at http://www.mlive.com/sports/flint/index ... ity_o.html

Article out of Ohio discussing past and present AMC members who are trying to join the NCAA and start a new NCAA D-2 conference to be named,All-Ohio.The new NCAA D-2 members for this year should/could be announced later this week.Link at http://www.news-herald.com/articles/200 ... 135101.txt

NCAA announcement that NAIA member Simon Fraser University's NCAA D-2 membership application has been accepted.
There should be an announcement later today regarding the other NCAA D-2 applicants that have been accepted from this year's group.
Link at http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?key=ncaa/n ... _ncaa_news

Article out of Dayton reporting that NAIA member Cedarville's application has been accepted by NCAA D-2.Link at http://www.daytondailynews.com/dayton-s ... 99751.html

Official list of NCAA D-2 membership committee changes for 2009 to include the acceptance of 7 new membership applications with several current NAIA members.Link at http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?key=/ncaa/ ... _ncaa_news

Article discussing Lambuth financial situation and NAIA/NCAA status at http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20090 ... -D-II-move

Another article regarding Lambuth financial and NAIA/NCAA status at http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20090 ... 40320/1006

Article out of Fresno discussing meetings between the NAIA and the NCAA regarding future cooperation and possible future conference movement.Link at http://www.fresnobee.com/sports/story/1553558.html

Article out of Georgia with report that NAIA schools Berry and Covenant have been granted provisional NCAA D-3 membership starting in 2009-2010.Berry will temporarily maintain membership in the SSAC.Link at http://www.romenewswire.com/index.php/2 ... vision-iii

Article out of Chattanooga with report that Covenant,along with Berry and Penn State-Abington have been granted provisional NCAA D-3 membership starting in 2009-2010.Link at http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_155617.asp

Article out of Ashland Ohio discussing gradual but steady push by NAIA schools to move to NCAA divisions II and III.One of the reasons is access to NCAA championship travel reimbursement money from NCAA BB tourney funds.Apparently D-2 gets about 4.37% of the total revenues while D-3 gets about 3.51%.Link at http://www.times-gazette.com/news/article/4636686

Article with update regarding Lambuth transition and financial situation at http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20090 ... /907310321

Article out of the Dakotas discussing the DAC situation at http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD= ... =461&rfi=9

There seem to be 4 NAIA conferences that seem ripe to do some kind of shuffling.
There appear to be enough teams for 3 conferences, and everybody is looking toward each other to see how to orchestrate the moves, so that each school winds up grouped with whom they want to be.

Those 4 conferences are:
Midwest Collegiate (MCC) 7 Iowa, 1 Wisconsin
Dakota Athletic (DAC) 4 North Dakota, 3 South Dakota
Great Plains Athletic (GPAC) 2 South Dakota, 2 Nebraska, 4 Iowa
Midlands Collegiate Athletic (MCAC) 4 Nebraska, 2 Kansas, 1 Missouri, 1 Oklahoma

In addition, I believe National America U. (South Dakota) is an NAIA Independent

It seems like the MCC is somehow the stable one, and the Nebraska teams are all talking about migrating to it.
Frankly I see the GPAC as most vulnerable.

The DAC could start the ball rolling by inviting the 2 GPAC South Dakota members + Independent National American U.
That would get the DAC to 10.
The 4 Iowa GPAC members could petition the MCC to allow them to join, which would take that conference to 12.
Finally the 2 Nebraska GPAC members could move to the MCAC, which would take that conference to 10.

I think those numbers might provide some stability.

Long term, however, the MCAC may lose members / bust apart as Ozarks (Missouri) might explore moving to the Heart of America Conference, and Oklahoma Weslayan might prefer one of the three primarily Texas - Oklahoma conferences (I'm suggesting the reducing travel costs might the motivation for them to do this).