July 1 - Moving Day 2023

[laker]

NAIA to add Carolina U and Bismarck St. With the North Star dissolving, where will the Mystics go?

NAIA Announces Membership Additions - NAIA

[laker]

I'm allergic to cats and Ted Nugent.

Were you a high school or college coach or both?

I coached Little League baseball for one season (filling in for my brother in law who hurt his back). We didn't win a lot of games (6th place out of 8 teams) but I made sure all of the kids played in every game whether their skill level hurt or helped the team win. Some of the players parents didn't like it, but all of the players did. This was a long time ago before fairness practices were implimented.

Played four sports in HS, football in junior college. Way too light to play at Mankato, now I have the opposite problem. Started coaching 5/6th while in college and did summer rec locally two years. Was an assistant football coach my senior year in college. Coached football, basketball and baseball- one year of softball and track. Glad that you were a trend setter- you never know when some kid who can't do anything at that age blossoms into a star later. Rotating them around is more likely to keep their interest.

[crixus]

Only four legged cats here. And I have a twelve gauge in case anyone molests them. None have Cat Scratch Fever. All have been fixed.

I'm allergic to cats and Ted Nugent.

Were you a high school or college coach or both?

I coached Little League baseball for one season (filling in for my brother in law who hurt his back). We didn't win a lot of games (6th place out of 8 teams) but I made sure all of the kids played in every game whether their skill level hurt or helped the team win. Some of the players parents didn't like it, but all of the players did. This was a long time ago before fairness practices were implimented.

[laker]

If the Kat Ranch is anything like the Mustang Ranch outside of Reno I think I'll pass. I'm afraid of catching something. LOL

Only four legged cats here. And I have a twelve gauge in case anyone molests them. None have Cat Scratch Fever. All have been fixed.

[crixus]

My brother wrote a book about the effect of railroads in the Civil War. You can have a free copy if you ever show up at the Kat Ranch. I did write an article for Winning Hoops about an offensive set when I I was coaching at Nicollet. They paid me $100. A few years later when I was coaching at the Wisconsin GBB camp a coach from Milwaukee who was my roommate said- "I read your article!" I wish I could find the articles that I wrote dealing with history and geography. They seem to have gotten lost after I retired.

If the Kat Ranch is anything like the Mustang Ranch outside of Reno I think I'll pass. I'm afraid of catching something. LOL

[laker]

You should write a book. Seriously, you've seen some serious college sports action and have a story to tell. I don't know a lot about Iowa, but those D1 schools should definitely have baseball.

My brother wrote a book about the effect of railroads in the Civil War. You can have a free copy if you ever show up at the Kat Ranch. I did write an article for Winning Hoops about an offensive set when I I was coaching at Nicollet. They paid me $100. A few years later when I was coaching at the Wisconsin GBB camp a coach from Milwaukee who was my roommate said- "I read your article!" I wish I could find the articles that I wrote dealing with history and geography. They seem to have gotten lost after I retired.

[crixus]

Yesterday I was at Drake to watch them play Evansville in softball. This makes 253 D1 schools that I have watched in person. Also the 27th D1 venue that I have watched a game at. (Places like MSU and St Cloud who are D1 in hockey are counted as D2 schools since the majority of their sports are in that class). I walked through the football stadium where the Drake Relays are held. As I was watching it came to me that three DI schools in Iowa don't charge for softball games- Drake, Iowa State and Northern Iowa- and they don't sponsor baseball either. That seemed odd.

You should write a book. Seriously, you've seen some serious college sports action and have a story to tell. I don't know a lot about Iowa, but those D1 schools should definitely have baseball.

[laker]

I was hoping you were kidding, but one never knows. Well, with me you do because that's all I do. Thanks for coming out, hope you liked the show. Goodnight everybody.

Yesterday I was at Drake to watch them play Evansville in softball. This makes 253 D1 schools that I have watched in person. Also the 27th D1 venue that I have watched a game at. (Places like MSU and St Cloud who are D1 in hockey are counted as D2 schools since the majority of their sports are in that class). I walked through the football stadium where the Drake Relays are held. As I was watching it came to me that three DI schools in Iowa don't charge for softball games- Drake, Iowa State and Northern Iowa- and they don't sponsor baseball either. That seemed odd.

[SW_Mustang]

I was hoping you were kidding, but one never knows. Well, with me you do because that's all I do. Thanks for coming out, hope you liked the show. Goodnight everybody.

Couple of ice cold chocolate milks will get the jokes rolling when Laker is around.

[crixus]

I know, just being silly.

I was hoping you were kidding, but one never knows. Well, with me you do because that's all I do. Thanks for coming out, hope you liked the show. Goodnight everybody.

[laker]

Ferrum is a private college in Virginia (D3).

I know, just being silly.

[crixus]

Is Ferrum any relation to Ferris?

Ferrum is a private college in Virginia (D3).

[SW_Mustang]

I may wrong here but if I recall coprrectly. Iread the min stadium size for FBS is 30,000 seats,
where as FCS is no minimum. Mercyhurst FB stadium capacity is 2300 maybe 1700 seats.
There biggist draw is cross town rival Gannon.

I'd have to look but I think that's attendance and not stadium capacity, though they would go hand-in-hand.

I think the rule is a team has to maintain 30,000 fans (or whatever the level is) on a rolling 2 year period - like two out of every three years or something.

The NCAA does not enforce this rule though.I think Charlotte is the most egregious offender.

30,000 is a good number. I live in a town of 20,000 that also consistently drew 20,000 at their home games (FCS) last year - so asking FBS schools to do something similar is okay.

[SW_Mustang]

This is just silly. If you're rooting for the Super League breakaway, just say that. But these are completely unrealistic standards for D1 at large.

It's silly to want standards for the top division of competition? Huh?

I am very pro SuperLeague. I'd love to finally be able to watch a basketball tournament that has the best teams, and I don't have to sit and google 20 schools who got in on a technicality. It's asinine.

Good luck to Mercyhurst. They weren't going to win anything of note in D2 anyway.

[ctrabs74]

They're planning to destroy Aloha Stadium in 2025 and build a new one holding 35K. The area around the stadium will also include entertainment venues, retail stores, restaurants, housing, hotels, recreational sites, cultural amenities, and a green space. It will be constructed on the site of the current Aloha Stadium.

Minnesota-Duluth has a better chance of joining the Summit League than the Aloha Stadium complex has of being completed by 2030 (and even that seems like an impossible task at this rate). The planning and political maneuvering has been such a disorganized mess, the planners of the California High Speed Rail scheme is laughing at them.