Should Jamestown be accepted into the NSIC?

[Stanger86]

The wait is over!

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[zimmy21]

So, I usually follow the PSAC. But, I thought that Jamestown was already invited and accepted?

I know nothing about them. Were they any good in their last conference?

I believe they were waiting on approval to move forward to year 2 of the transition from the D2 Membership committee

[Purple Mav Man]

Jamestown has yet to be added to the NSIC homepage header as well. I thought this was supposed to get cleared up this week?

Maybe the NCAA overlords did the dirty work for us and denied Jamestown *fingers crossed*

Here’s to hoping 😬

[Purple Mav Man]

So, I usually follow the PSAC. But, I thought that Jamestown was already invited and accepted?

I know nothing about them. Were they any good in their last conference?

I’d offer you ~2400 posts (pretty much) on that topic.

TLDR: Jamestown is in as of July 1, 2025 and they weren’t good in their previous conference except for women’s volleyball. Basically finishing 7th annually in their all sport standings. And they have ALL sports.

[Tdobson]

So, I usually follow the PSAC. But, I thought that Jamestown was already invited and accepted?

I know nothing about them. Were they any good in their last conference?

[zimmy21]

Jamestown has yet to be added to the NSIC homepage header as well. I thought this was supposed to get cleared up this week?

Maybe the NCAA overlords did the dirty work for us and denied Jamestown *fingers crossed*

[Purple Mav Man]

Men's volleyball is still a growing sport, so this is still the best case scenario for their program. Next closest sponsoring conferences would've been either the MIVA, which stretches into North Carolina, or the MPSF on the Pacific Coast.

Jimmies men's soccer is definitely independent, at least for this year. Their schedule released a week or two ago

Growing sport or not, that’s got to be awfully difficult to run the program even close to break even. That’s a lot of travel and very little revenue (other than of course the tuition from the bloated roster).

Although their recently completed schedule was all over the map too. And they went 7-20

[Finchwidget]

Average bus ride nearly 12 hours. No word on Men's Soccer though.

Men's volleyball is still a growing sport, so this is still the best case scenario for their program. Next closest sponsoring conferences would've been either the MIVA, which stretches into North Carolina, or the MPSF on the Pacific Coast.

Jimmies men's soccer is definitely independent, at least for this year. Their schedule released a week or two ago

[Finchwidget]

https://glvcsports.com/news/2025/7/8...olleyball.aspx

This was posted on the Moving Day thread, but I figured it belonged here as well. Jimmies men's volleyball has found a home

[vikingfaithful]

Bash Crookston all you want but they at least have their women's soccer and volleyball schedules updated. Jamestown, nothing.

Golden Eagles have had a salty baseball program as well, they always play Augie and Mavs well.

[CollegeFBGuy]

Wonder if they are waiting for the official announcement...but maybe I'm giving too much credit.

What official announcement would they be waiting for? Their football schedule is up and in the article where they hired their old HC as ST coach, the NSIC stuff is all over it. Maybe some other announcements?

[Stanger86]

Bash Crookston all you want but they at least have their women's soccer and volleyball schedules updated. Jamestown, nothing.

Wonder if they are waiting for the official announcement...but maybe I'm giving too much credit.

[oldyellaHer69]

Bash Crookston all you want but they at least have their women's soccer and volleyball schedules updated. Jamestown, nothing.

1-0 vs the Eagles on the football field

[SW_Mustang]

That's fine and dandy but again there is nothing forcing Bowling Green to vote in the D2 schools favor at this point anyway. Is Bowling Green's vote going to be meaningful if the other conferences decided to vote against D2 schools best interests? I just don't get the fear here.

This might be a tough pill to swallow - but all that matters in hockey is making the NCAA Tournament. It's not a participation trophy sport like basketball where everyone holds hands and sings campfire songs. Winning is the only thing that matters. BGSU doesn't win, so they don't matter.

What you are advocating for would push MSU back in hockey by two decades. Sure it would weaken the NCHC a little, but it still wouldn't get MSU out of an autobid situation. Sorry- but NSIC DI hockey makes absolutely zero sense.

[SW_Mustang]

I keep having a hard time with your take of ‘forcing’ Duluth and St Cloud into an NSIC hockey conference. St Cloud and Crookston were allowed to stay after dropping football, so the NSIC has already shown themselves to be powerless and afraid of making a move.

IMO - the more I read his posts, the more I think he enjoys the beaurcracy of college sports more than the college sports itself. An NSIC DI hockey conference would be absolutely awful - nobody that watches college hockey wants that. Jeopardizing the future of your program just to boss around UMD and SCSU is a pretty wild take.

Now - I'm all for the NSIC running an independent hockey conference for the DII schools to take advantage of the CHL avalanche, but even then the conference would struggle to run it.