CatGrad-UMGradStu
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cmtgrizzly said:CatGrad-UMGradStu said:Knowing for a fact the Dakota schools are never going to abandon their Summit and Missouri Valley affiliations, I'd really like to see our two schools, the Idaho schools, Weber, EWU, perhaps Central Washington with the understanding they upgrade their venues and merge with the West Coast Conference for all nonrevenue sports.
I personally would appreciate seeing baseball, rowing and crew, soccer, wrestling, and a number of other sports such as lacrosse added to the opportunities for the college kids. Hell, we could even have skiing, rifle teams, bring back handball...
I like your teams as long as CW can be truly competitive. In general I am kind of a Pacific NW oriented person and though I have nothing against the Dakotas I would rather travel West for games. Does Oregon have a team that has FCS potential?
Actually, I'm not seriously thinking about small college football. It would be nice to see what kind of athletes we could get here and in Bozeman were there to be twenty more kids playing football and all the other nonrevenue sports. I don't know if Oregon cares about any schools other than phil knight college and Oregon State.
As a pipe dream and in actuality could you envision the Washington Group building more here in Missoula and dragging both MSU and EWU up facility wise? Principles of leadership apply in that the followers need a foe, real or imagined. UM gets another long and storied rival member back in Idaho next year.
Boise hit the perfect storm and both Missoula and Bozeman are on the cusp of becoming much larger destination locations and Spokane really is in a football vacumn that Cheney and Ellensburg could fill with decent facilities. Anyway, the next twenty years will be interesting to watch.
And lets get real again. Who the hell wants to go watch Northern Colorado, Southern Utah, Sacramento State, Cal Poly, Davis and even Portland State? I like going to games in Portland but that's because there's nice places to go there.