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Fire away - tell me I've gone completly nuts.
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I may have gone of the deep end.
Do you think there was ever a plan for two new private school D2 conferences, not just one? Here's what got me thinking. The G-MAC is essentially turning into the All-Ohio D2 conference that was envisioned 10 years ago. Its the same group schools. KWC and TNU knew about that vision, knew how many OH schools were possible, yet joined anyway. They also knew that there is a severe lack of current D2s in between them and the Ohio schools. So, there weren't and still aren't a lot of expansion targets in their area.
Much like the NAIA AMC conference schools had a plan to go D2 and re-create their conference in D2, is it possible that the TN/KY NAIA schools had the same vision? TN schools TNU, Union, and Lee recently transitioned from NAIA to D2. Shorter (GA) did too and is just over the TN border. We know that MSC schools G-town and Cumberland applied. Quite a few of us thought that others would likely follow them, as the MSC more or less imploded. If you add all those schools up (and include KWC and maybe Christian Brothers), you get a really nice group of smaller, private, mostly faith-based TN/KY schools. Its a southern version of the G-MAC. Instead of private schools temporarily being in the "big school" GLIAC, you have private schools temporarily being in the "big school" GSC.
The schools who originally started creating the G-MAC (CU, UC, NDC and Urbana) were in a holding pattern until the conference was set up and the private GLIAC schools were ready to leave the GLIAC. I'm staring to wonder if TNU was in the same holding pattern - and the G-MAC was prepared to sponsor/"hold" schools from both OH and KY/TN (including TNU, Cumberland and G-town) until all the pieces were in place.
I wonder if the only thing that halted the plan was the G-town / Cumberland denials.
Union, Lee, Christian Brothers, Shorter, Cumberland, TNU, KWC, Georgetown, Campbellsville, L-W, Cumberlands, Pikeville, etc?Last edited by BlueBlood; 04-04-2017, 01:28 PM.
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Obviously the mention of Ashland during the Mark Elliott radio show was the attention-grabber . However, he also mentioned that the G-MAC would like to set up divisions and that divisional play would greatly minimize TNU's excessive travel. When I look at potential division breakdowns, I just don't see how they will get much relief. If you go with EAST/WEST divisions, TNU still goes to NW Ohio and Michigan. If you carve divisions NORTH/SOUTH, TNU still goes to WV (Interestingly, N/S divisions would basically be "Old G-MAC" / "New G-MAC"). Unless the G-MAC is adding a couple schools decently close to TNU, I just don't see where they get much relief. They are reducing the Cleveland trips (in half, presumably) - that's about it.
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Originally posted by UFSwimDad View PostThat's pretty damn funny!
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Originally posted by Wabbott9 View PostRe: GLVC News. Whatever happens on that front might not be found out for a while. I've yet to see evidence that the GLVC knows St. Joe's is closing.
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Re: GLVC News. Whatever happens on that front might not be found out for a while. I've yet to see evidence that the GLVC knows St. Joe's is closing.
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This article makes it sound like the schools come from only two conferences. In reality, the MSC and the Sun both had a bunch of associate members, so the teams are from a couple different conferences.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/spor...ague/80950984/
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Originally posted by ctrabs74 View PostIsn't one of the NAIA's conferences close to 20 teams?
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Originally posted by UFSwimDad View PostI couldn't imagine a 20 team league. If the big boys aren't going for it then neither should D2. I am with you I think in basketball you should play everyone in conference. Now with football I can see maybe having something like what the big ten. We play 6 in division and two outside. And I think they rotate the two games other than the rivalry game
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I couldn't imagine a 20 team league. If the big boys aren't going for it then neither should D2. I am with you I think in basketball you should play everyone in conference. Now with football I can see maybe having something like what the big ten. We play 6 in division and two outside. And I think they rotate the two games other than the rivalry game
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Originally posted by kwcpantherfan View Postif they went the route the GLVC went (maybe still does?) and not every team plays each other during the regular season.
I'm personally not impressed with this setup, largely because we will always have 2 games with the toughest team in the league, whereas other teams get easy travel partners. And I love the rivalry it creates, but it really makes it difficult to compare records at the end of the season to determine division champions when the entire division doesn't play the same schedule.Last edited by schnautza; 04-03-2017, 03:21 PM.
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I've said it before on the board, but just my own opinion on the conference size question is that ideal is around 12 ... 16 at the most. I'd be fine with 16 plus Ursuline so there's 17 on the womens' side. IF the conference was to grow bigger than that my biggest complaint would be if they went the route the GLVC went (maybe still does?) and not every team plays each other during the regular season. So if we did have 20 schools, then my preference for basketball scheduling would be that everyone plays everyone else once. Maybe if you needed to add another game or two you would do either travel partners play home/home each year, or rotate who plays whom 2x but I strongly dislike the concept of having teams in the conference that you don't even play every year.
Obviously football would work a little differently since you don't play 19 conference games (not that every school has football, but you get my point) so that's a different animal. But specifically for basketball I don't like the concept of leagues that are bigger than 12-16.
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