The Fargo INFORUM has posted a follow-up article yesterday regarding the future of North Dakota NAIA programs..seeing as they look like they don't have a conference in the immediate future. It would seem there's been some chats in ND about the idea of them heading towards D2 and reforming the Dakota Athletic Conference, to some extent. The DAC had SD Mines and Black Hills..along with Minot, Mary, Jamestown and the NAIA schools in question..Mayville State, Valley City State, and Dakota State (SD).
I've subscribed to the Fargo paper to keep up with this ongoing story..as their content is otherwise behind a paywall. While I'm not going to blanket-post the entire article, I will detail key segments here.
McFeely's Tip Sheet: There is momentum for Dakotas schools to rebuild old DAC
One source said imagine a league with Valley City State, Mayville State, Dakota State, Bellevue, Minot State, Mary, Jamestown, Dickinson State, Black Hills State, South Dakota School of Mines and perhaps Montana-Billings (a Division II school that is a member of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference that stretches into British Columbia and Alaska).
"Minot State, for sure, and maybe Mary wouldn't mind getting out of the NSIC because they are sick of not being competitive. And everybody is looking at finances and how to save money, so getting those old schools back together would make sense in a lot of ways. Especially travel," said one NSIC source.
There's a growing sense of haves and have-nots in Division II, just as there is in every other NCAA division. Schools in a re-formed DAC would only have to compete against similar institutions to get to the postseason, instead of Minnesota State Mankato and Colorado School of Mines, for example.
I've subscribed to the Fargo paper to keep up with this ongoing story..as their content is otherwise behind a paywall. While I'm not going to blanket-post the entire article, I will detail key segments here.
McFeely's Tip Sheet: There is momentum for Dakotas schools to rebuild old DAC
One source said imagine a league with Valley City State, Mayville State, Dakota State, Bellevue, Minot State, Mary, Jamestown, Dickinson State, Black Hills State, South Dakota School of Mines and perhaps Montana-Billings (a Division II school that is a member of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference that stretches into British Columbia and Alaska).
"Minot State, for sure, and maybe Mary wouldn't mind getting out of the NSIC because they are sick of not being competitive. And everybody is looking at finances and how to save money, so getting those old schools back together would make sense in a lot of ways. Especially travel," said one NSIC source.
There's a growing sense of haves and have-nots in Division II, just as there is in every other NCAA division. Schools in a re-formed DAC would only have to compete against similar institutions to get to the postseason, instead of Minnesota State Mankato and Colorado School of Mines, for example.
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