SDHornet wrote:Unless the CA schools get an extra home conference game (which is fine by me) it will only be 3. I was assuming 8 conference games, 4 home (3 interdivision, 1 cross division) and 4 away (3 interdivision, 1 cross division). Unless I am still seeing something wrong, I see 1 available home cross division game per CA school for a grand total of 3 cross divisional games in CA.
Highly doubt the Dakota schools will ever make it in to the Big Sky. Same argument applies as it did for NDSU and SDSU. You're talking about doubling the size of the conference by adding UND and USD (distance from Bozeman to Grand Forks or Vermillion is the same distance as Bozeman to Portland). These schools bring no benefit to the Big Sky either. As one of the EWU posters said, many of the Big Sky schools recruit on the west coast, not in the Midwest. It is a better fit, somewhere in the future, to bring in the western DII schools (Western Oregon, Humboldt State, Central Washington and Dixie State) instead of doubling the conference footprint. Most Big Sky schools schedule these DII schools anyway, more often than UND and USD. Also, the finances of the Big Sky western schools are already stretched pretty thin, it would be financial suicide for a few to force them to replace a potential money game with an out of the way Dakota school.
