Now that the FBS expansion has ended, it is the FCS's turn

[SJHornet]

Now that the FBS crazies are more or less over with, And we have a few years to get ready for the next round, its time to get down with the crazies that are affecting the FCS.

North Dakota is now being seriously considered for Summit League membership, and South Dakota is already in. The two schools are also actively seeking a new football conference in either the Missouri Valley or a new Summit League football conference. If they go to the MVFC, the California schools and Southern Utah are the odd men out. I guess the Cali schools could be included in a new Summit football conference, but even scenario makes it costly for travel.

I can see the California schools and Southern Utah absorbed into the Sky with all the hoopla going on:
1. It can give the sky a conference championship game
2. It gives us and Northern AZ closer rivals and the 2 divisions will help cut down on travel costs for all schools
3. If/when the WAC does raid the Sky, they will already have a compliment of schools to fall back on and not need to scramble to expand (Lets face it, either, Montana, Portland or us are going to go FBS someday).

I don’t know how attached Poly and UCFE are to the Big West, but it would certainly make sense for them to join for football reasons. I think it would make the conference a whole lot better and more respected too. I don’t see why the Sky wouldn’t now go after these schools. The BWC is only really known as a baseball conference nowadays anyway. The Sky should be seen as a step up.

Elsewhere in the FCS, UTSA looks like it’s going to be kicked out of the Southland, The Louisiana schools in the Southland are all broke and there are rumors some may close, Rhode Island looks like its leaving the CAA in football, possibly taking Maine and even New Hampshire with them causing the conference to consider another expansion, and the other conferences will be scrambling in light of it all.

It sure makes the off-season more interesting.

My 2cents

 

[superhornet]

The big question about all of this is whether or not the National Corrupt Association of Athletics would then allow the Sky to begin the season early enough to allow for the conference championship game. The only other possible moves would be to say NO conference championship but the two division champions get autobids or the Sky jumps to FBS en masse. I don't see any of these being likely.

I see Montana as being the most likely to be immediately successful, but the most likely to get the first invite will be Sac. Why? We have no internal state politics (i.e. Boise-Idaho) that would require us to jump in tandem with another school that is likely to be a colossal FBS flop (Montana would likely be required to move with the Kitties).