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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Butler expressing interest in Atlantic 10 per ESPN's Andy Katz
« on: May 02, 2012, 04:27:02 PM »
Indy, just a few more thoughts.
The "waiver" period is indeed wonderful. There is no need for the conference to make a rash decision.
Didn't Oakland build a new, but small, gym while we were still in the Mid-Con? Didn't think it was 5,000. Might be wrong.
I have zero fear that the Horizon League will splinter. Despite the delusions of fans at several schools, these institutions have nowhere to go. Obviously, Butler is the first basketball-driven movement in the past decade. That opportunity came only with their amazing run and their location in talent paradise. Delusional fans can't seem to grasp that college athletics is football-driven and that their school ain't got the goods.
If the Horizon League really wants to save baseball, it could adopt this draconian measure. Make it a mandatory sport. The new rules would look something like this, with a large participation team sport offered during each season of the academic year:
For the men, offer soccer or non-league football in the fall, offer basketball in the winter, offer baseball in the spring.
For the women, offer soccer (or volleyball) in the fall, offer basketball in the winter, offer softball in the spring.
Detroit, Cleveland State, Loyola, and Green Bay would be livid about the baseball requirement. But where would they go? To the Summit League?
The "waiver" period is indeed wonderful. There is no need for the conference to make a rash decision.
Didn't Oakland build a new, but small, gym while we were still in the Mid-Con? Didn't think it was 5,000. Might be wrong.
I have zero fear that the Horizon League will splinter. Despite the delusions of fans at several schools, these institutions have nowhere to go. Obviously, Butler is the first basketball-driven movement in the past decade. That opportunity came only with their amazing run and their location in talent paradise. Delusional fans can't seem to grasp that college athletics is football-driven and that their school ain't got the goods.
If the Horizon League really wants to save baseball, it could adopt this draconian measure. Make it a mandatory sport. The new rules would look something like this, with a large participation team sport offered during each season of the academic year:
For the men, offer soccer or non-league football in the fall, offer basketball in the winter, offer baseball in the spring.
For the women, offer soccer (or volleyball) in the fall, offer basketball in the winter, offer softball in the spring.
Detroit, Cleveland State, Loyola, and Green Bay would be livid about the baseball requirement. But where would they go? To the Summit League?