A good Drake team will win the Iowa Confernce handly.  Ask Coe about how good a football team UW-Platteville is?  UWP blasted Coe last year in the intersquad.  In 2006 when UWP was terrible, they still competed with the Kohawks in the intersquad.  That aweful 2006 1-9 UWP team rolled Dubuque 26-0, the same year UD beat Loras.  The 2007 5-5 UWP team ran the football and beat UD handly, the same year UD beats Wartburg.

You underestimate how many good non-scholarship(D3 players) that Drake has has in it's quality program.  They would be in the IIAC race annually, and be mid-to-upper pack of the WIAC.  The IIAC in not what it was in the 70's, 80's and 90's    

Oh, get off your high horse.  Southern Oregon (NAIA) was negotiating with UW-WW for weeks waiting for an answer.  Plinske was nervous about SOU blasting Azusa this past fall and ended the talks. 

Drake put millions into the stadium and a new building for visitors locker rooms.  Much inproved, but there will only be 1,500 people at the game