July 1 - Moving Day 2023

[laker]

This didn't take long to start the "new" year. D3 Clarks Summit to close.

[Finchwidget]

This didn't take long to start the "new" year. D3 Clarks Summit to close.

On that note, NAIA Bacone, which has been on shaky ground for at least a few years now, recently filed for bankruptcy and is suspending operations for one year. This presumably means all athletics are gone, at least for the time being, as they've been scrubbed from their conferences website.

[UCObluejay]

On that note, NAIA Bacone, which has been on shaky ground for at least a few years now, recently filed for bankruptcy and is suspending operations for one year. This presumably means all athletics are gone, at least for the time being, as they've been scrubbed from their conferences website.

Which conference? Bacone has been out of the RRAC for a while.

[laker]

Which conference? Bacone has been out of the RRAC for a while.

Continental Athletic Conference
NAIA independent schools - Wikipedia

[Bballfan]

Looks like Clarks Summit had less than 400 students and awful athletic teams. But nothing like closing about 8 weeks before the start of the fall semester.

[laker]

I see that the new 2024 thread is up!

[UCObluejay]

Continental Athletic Conference
NAIA independent schools - Wikipedia

I would hardly call that a conference (not meant to sound snarky to you, but rather the NAIA/the old NCAA ECACs). I like the access it gives these independent teams. It is interesting that they had a website. I don't forsee Bacone lasting without major tribal support. There honestly could be if enough outreach is achieved. I am against gambling in all forms, but the tribes use the revenue for a lot of good for the state. Muskogee isn't a backwater compared to other towns in Oklahoma. It has a sizeable population and has a turnpike that connects it with Tulsa and I 40.

[Finchwidget]

I would hardly call that a conference (not meant to sound snarky to you, but rather the NAIA/the old NCAA ECACs). I like the access it gives these independent teams. It is interesting that they had a website.

Yeah, I use the term "conference" lightly here. Not really a better name for it though without getting technical-- as you mentioned, they DO have their own website, along with their own conference championships, players of the week, and all-conference teams, so if the shoe fits...

[UCObluejay]

Yeah, I use the term "conference" lightly here. Not really a better name for it though without getting technical-- as you mentioned, they DO have their own website, along with their own conference championships, players of the week, and all-conference teams, so if the shoe fits...

Do they have standings or a scheduling alliance? I would call it more of an "association" but that also is problematic when you have conferences (MIAA) for starters that have that title.

[Purple Mav Man]

Continental Athletic Conference
NAIA independent schools - Wikipedia

Lots of “closed in ….” for the schools no longer associated.

[Inkblot]

It was the Association of Independent Institutions until they decided to start calling it a conference three years ago.