Northwood Exit and Expansion Discussion

[UFOILERFAN]

It's been rumored that Madonna is prepping for a move, they have been pumping of money in to scholarships lately, and have gone from nobodies to somebodies in a few sports. As for the others:
Lawrence Tech is nowhere right now athletically.
Siena Heights doesn't have the funding to join D2.
CUAA merged with CU-Wisconsin (DIII) a few years ago. CU campuses have had trouble financially lately, I don't see them moving this campus to D2. If anything, I think its more likely they go the otherway.

With Northwood joining, Madonna would be a great add for the G-MAC.

[KleShreen]

What is the rest of the GLIAC being the best at? Getting their ass kicked by Grand Valley in everything? It's amazing the amount of arrogance the GLIAC has accumulated up there in Michigan. The GLIAC deserves everything its about to get.

lol. "The GLIAC is having too much success because of GV, they deserve to be destroyed" is quite the take.

What a defeatist attitude. "We can't beat this one school, they're too good, so we gotta go beat up on these other schools so they can think WE are the Grand Valley of the conference instead" lololol

[unc4life]

So being the best is now bad for everyone else? So the other teams should just be glad they able to field a team at all? Maybe it is a good thing Ashland and Northwood are leaving if thats the thinking behind them. I hope GVSU does not fire the track coach cause they win too much. Charming.

What is the rest of the GLIAC being the best at? Getting their ass kicked by Grand Valley in everything? It's amazing the amount of arrogance the GLIAC has accumulated up there in Michigan. The GLIAC deserves everything its about to get.

[stealth]

I wanted to bring this aspect of the Northwood leaving discussion up in a separate port. If the GLIAC were to act quickly and add the any of the (or all) or the 4 Michigan NAIA football schools (Madonna, Lawrence Tech, Siena Heights, and Concordia-Ann Arbor), would there be any chance Northwood pulls out of their exit plan?

It's been rumored that Madonna is prepping for a move, they have been pumping of money in to scholarships lately, and have gone from nobodies to somebodies in a few sports. As for the others:
Lawrence Tech is nowhere right now athletically.
Siena Heights doesn't have the funding to join D2.
CUAA merged with CU-Wisconsin (DIII) a few years ago. CU campuses have had trouble financially lately, I don't see them moving this campus to D2. If anything, I think its more likely they go the otherway.

[KleShreen]

So being the best is now bad for everyone else? So the other teams should just be glad they able to field a team at all? Maybe it is a good thing Ashland and Northwood are leaving if thats the thinking behind them. I hope GVSU does not fire the track coach cause they win too much. Charming.

They can't even take pleasure in their own success. Ashland men's track and field has won the last two outdoor national championships. But yet they still have the mentality that they can't compete with GV, apparently? Yikes.

[MrsThortonMelon]

So being the best is now bad for everyone else? So the other teams should just be glad they able to field a team at all? Maybe it is a good thing Ashland and Northwood are leaving if thats the thinking behind them. I hope GVSU does not fire the track coach cause they win too much. Charming.

[KleShreen]

It's lonely at the top, isn't it?

Not really. All the championship trophies in the lobby keep everyone company.

[UFOILERFAN]

So instead of getting better, the schools take their ball and go run to a lesser conference? Wheeeeeeee!

It's lonely at the top, isn't it?

[KleShreen]

So instead of getting better, the schools take their ball and go run to a lesser conference? Wheeeeeeee!

[unc4life]

[UFOILERFAN]

Nopity,, nope, nope, nope.

[aldpeter]

[Uindy18]

Ya, I was not sure on Saginaw or Wayne State. I feel like both of them are the borderline between FSU/GV and the rest of the conference.

[Gliac_fan10]

I feel like GVSU and FSU have the budgets to still be able to fill their schedules with longer trips out to RMAC/LSC/GSC schools etc. I really feel that it will be Davenport, Saginaw, Wayne State, MTU, NMU who will face to more significant scheduling problems and probably starting scheduling the NAIAs more.

[Gliac_fan10]

It won't happen but the ultimate strongest move, IMO, would be to merge GLIAC and GMAC into a super conference with North and South divisions. With crossover games and 1-2 OOC, the possibility of failing to qualify for the PO would be eliminated. Since football is really the only sport facing the problem of not qualifying, it possibly could be one sport conference. Crazy but really a better option than trying to fill the schedules of GVSU and FSU with NAIA