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Honestly, I don't think one can or should rationalize anyone moving up to D1 by the actual costs. One reason is the way the funds are counted. Even then, there's all those intangibles that push one to moving to the D1 level. If it was money, there would only be a handful of D1 schools out there and many schools would move down from D1. We know that ain't happening. And again, when it comes to the athletes.. (and their parents), most will take a less successful D1 school over a moderately successful or even championship D2 school.
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Originally posted by bigmrg74 View PostLast I checked, GVSU still needs to get themselves a new arena for basketball/volleyball, and at least a new pool as well, as I believe they've been using a local HS pool for meets instead of the on campus pool.
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Originally posted by Redwing View Post
I don't know about the pool, but the current arena isn't any more lacking than some other schools. Not saying that it can't be larger, but believe it or not, it there are D1 schools with similar sized arenas.. Oakland Univ for one. And there is still Van Andel.
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Originally posted by bigmrg74 View Post
True about Van Andel, but how often are we going to come close to filling a 10,000 seat arena for men's basketball in say January. A match-up with Sparty or Michigan would draw a crowd there, but there's not much in the GLIAC or the Horizon league. Plus then there's always the scheduling issue with the Griffins and the odd concert that goes there.
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Originally posted by bigmrg74 View PostLast I checked, GVSU still needs to get themselves a new arena for basketball/volleyball, and at least a new pool as well, as I believe they've been using a local HS pool for meets instead of the on campus pool.
The last time GVSU swam a non-championship home meet at a high school pool would have been when they hosted Michigan State at Jenison. They have however hosted the GLIAC meet (or co-hosted it) at Jension or the Holland Aquatic Center in recent years. This is not uncommon as only SVSU has hosted the GLIAC meet at their facility in the last decade. The majority of the time it has been at a facility like a high school (Jenison or Waterford Kettering when WSU hosted), or CSU or Spire Institute when Ashland was the host. Now that they use co-hosting duties, it is likely to be at non-college facilities more than on campus (2022 will be at SVSU)
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This is arguably one of the most fun threads in the country right now. It's incredible to see where the GLIAC was 10 years ago vs. now. In 2011, I'd say across the board, it was one of the top, if not THE top, conferences in the country. Now, it seems safe to say the future of the conference is in serious jeopardy, although obviously the top dogs (FSU, GVSU, WSU to some extent) are still very good members. With Ashland and Northwood both gone now (essentially), and rumors of GV going Division I on the "Horizon" ...league(see what I did there :) ), where else does the GLIAC go? Michigan is pretty well tapped unless they can convince some NAIA or D3s to make the jump. But, who wants to come into a league with gigantic state schools when they have their comfort zones in their current conferences. Like a Concordia Ann Arbor, geographically, great. But athletically, phew, not good. And you can't really go west or south. It just really feels like that league has a clock and it's counting down faster than the commissioner can handle (which, crazy to think about the timeline of when the previous commissioner left and the new one began and how that correlates to the league's downturn).
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Originally posted by Gliac_fan10 View Post
Jim I can back you up here (assuming the rumblings you heard are what I have just had passed along to me). Things could get interesting.2021 D2Football Fantasy Champion
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