new conferences?

[Knightstalker]

I grew up less than an hour from both schools, it used to take me about 2 to 2.5 hours to get to Salisbury from my parents house on my drive back to Norfolk VA.  That is what I was basing my driving times on.  For Kean it would be smart to take the turnpike to the Del Mem bridge.  From WPU it would be better to take 23 to 287 to 295 down to the Del Mem bridge.  If they took the turnpike it would add about 45 minutes.

[PA_wesleyfan]

Frostburg St. is a long drive. I would estimate close to at least 6 hrfs from North Jersey

[Knightstalker]

Not much worse than Bport or Buff State for Rowan or TCNJ.

[old ends]

They just dropped the speed limit on the Jersey pike to 55. May have to add that into the equation

And will give you a $100.00 fine in caught talking or typing messages on your cell phone.. That could erase the above negative speed equations and make it a wash.

[Knightstalker]

They just dropped the speed limit on the Jersey pike to 55. May have to add that into the equation

And will give you a $100.00 fine in caught talking or typing messages on your cell phone.. That could erase the above negative speed equations and make it a wash.

Where the Speed limit is 55 it just means everyone goes 75 instead of 85.

[Ralph Turner]

NCAA story on the UMAC as a full member new conference.

Anticipate AQ in Fall 2010 in soccer, volleyball and hoops.

[Ralph Turner]

Iowa Conference Expansion

Thanks to Alfredeneumann on the IIAC Football board for this note.

No names mentioned, just the desire to expand to an even number of schools.  Here is the content of the URL above just in case the URL is deleted. 

Radio Iowa Sports
Iowa Conference exploring expansion
Monday, February 9, 2009, 8:53 AM
By Todd Kimm

The commissioner of the Iowa Conference says the league is looking at the possibility of expanding. The conference has had nine members since Upper Iowa announced in 2003 that is was leaving to join the division two ranks.

Commissioner Chuck Yrigoyen says they'd like to be at an even number for scheduling purposes, and he says they've been discussing the issue to see what they can do.

Yrigoyen says any new member to the conference would need to be the right fit. He says they are fortunate to be a strong group academically, and they want to be sure that any new addition to the league would also have to be strong academically.

[Gregory Sager]

Waldorf, maybe? It only has 500-something students, but it has D3's requisite ten sports already (which is fairly unusual for a small NAIA school), plus it has football -- a mandatory sport as far as the IIAC is concerned.

It's also located in the north-central part of the state, which makes it a reasonable drive for the Luther/Coe/Wartburg triad to the east, Buena Vista to the west, and Central and Simpson to the south.

[Ralph Turner]

William Jewell to D-II.

[Just Bill]

I'm pretty sure Grinnell would join the IIAC at the drop of a hat if invited, but the IIAC has spurned them so many times I don't think that will happen.

[Warren Thompson]

I'm pretty sure Grinnell would join the IIAC at the drop of a hat if invited, but the IIAC has spurned them so many times I don't think that will happen.

Why has Grinnell been "spurned" by the IIAC?

[Warren Thompson]

Waldorf, maybe? It only has 500-something students, but it has D3's requisite ten sports already (which is fairly unusual for a small NAIA school), plus it has football -- a mandatory sport as far as the IIAC is concerned.

It's also located in the north-central part of the state, which makes it a reasonable drive for the Luther/Coe/Wartburg triad to the east, Buena Vista to the west, and Central and Simpson to the south.

Waldorf is another Lutheran venue that in recent years became a four-year institution, along with all those Missouri Synod Concordias. (QUESTION: are there any Lutheran two-year colleges still in operation?)

[Just Bill]

I'm pretty sure Grinnell would join the IIAC at the drop of a hat if invited, but the IIAC has spurned them so many times I don't think that will happen.

Why has Grinnell been "spurned" by the IIAC?

You'd have to ask the IIAC, but Grinnell has applied for admission at least twice in the last 8 years and been turned down.  One time the official reason was they had an even number of teams and didn't want to make an odd number.  I don't kow the reason on the other one.  The only thing I've ever heard from anyone from the IIAC is that Grinnell "doesn't fit" with the other IIAC teams, whatever that means.

[Ralph Turner]

I'm pretty sure Grinnell would join the IIAC at the drop of a hat if invited, but the IIAC has spurned them so many times I don't think that will happen.

Why has Grinnell been "spurned" by the IIAC?

You'd have to ask the IIAC, but Grinnell has applied for admission at least twice in the last 8 years and been turned down.  One time the official reason was they had an even number of teams and didn't want to make an odd number.  I don't kow the reason on the other one.  The only thing I've ever heard from anyone from the IIAC is that Grinnell "doesn't fit" with the other IIAC teams, whatever that means.

Wow!!! That surprises me.  Does the IIAC sponsor a sport or two that Grinnnell does not wish to add?

[hickory_cornhusker]

My guess would be wrestling. Every school in the IIAC has it and Grinnell doesn't.