Conference changes

[gordonmann]

Bump

Provisional Pipeline for 2019-2020
First year full members: Belhaven (confirmed)
*4th year provisional members: Brevard (confirmed), Dean (confirmed), Pfeiffer (confirmed)
*3rd year provisional members:  None
2nd year provisional members: SUNY Delhi, Johnson and Wales (Col.) (confirmed)
1st year provisional members: Pratt, University of St Thomas (TX), Mississippi University for Women.
Exploratory: Bob Jones, Warren Wilson
*Games against Year 3 and 4 provisional members count the same as games against full-members for regional-ranking and tournament selection purposes

Conference Changes Starting in 2019-2020
Alfred State leaves the ACAA for the AMCC
UC-Santa Cruz joins the ACAA
Frostburg State leaves D3 for D2
Manhattanville leaves the MACF for the SKY
New Rochelle (IND) closes
Newbury (NECC) closes
Penn State-Harrisburg leaves the CAC for a return to the NEAC
Southern Vermont (NECC) closes
Staten Island leaves D3 for D2 (CSI will still honor its CUNYAC schedule but is a provisional D2 member)
Stevens leaves the E8 for the MACF
St. Elizabeth leaves the NEAC for the CSAC
Texas-Tyler leaves D3 for D2
Thomas More leaves D3 for the NAIA

Side note: Simmons discontinues its women's program

Conference Changes Starting in 2020-2021
Arcadia shifts from the MAC Commonwealth to the MAC Freedom
Cazenovia leaves the NEAC for the NAC
Eastern shifts from the MAC Freedom to the MAC Commonwealth
Dean leaves the NECC for the GNAC
Franciscan leaves the AMCC for the Presidents' Athletic Conference
Keuka leaves the NEAC for the E8
Lycoming shifts from the MAC Commonwealth to the MAC Freedom
Suffolk leaves the GNAC for the CCC
SUNY Cobleskill leaves the NEAC for the NAC
SUNY Dehli leaves the ACAA for the NAC
SUNY Poly leaves the NEAC for the NAC
Valley Forge leaves the ACAA for the CSAC
York (Pa.) leaves the CAC for the MAC Commonwealth

Conference Changes Starting in 2021-2022
Mary Baldwin will add men's program, begin play in the USA South (tentative)
St. Norbert leaves the MWC for the NACC
St. Thomas involuntarily removed from MIAC, will go to

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Lindenwood-Belleville was approved for exploratory membership then decided to withdraw, but the membership committee voted to keep them on the exploratory list until at least September 1st (tomorrow).  It probably makes sense for us to not have them on the list.


Also, according to the membership committee minutes from June, Dean was also approved to skip Year 3.

[Gregory Sager]

Lindenwood-Belleville was approved for exploratory membership then decided to withdraw, but the membership committee voted to keep them on the exploratory list until at least September 1st (tomorrow).  It probably makes sense for us to not have them on the list.

Lindenwood-Belleville doesn't exist anymore. The campus was shut down for everything but evening classes back in May, including campus housing, student services, and the athletic department.

Who knows why in the world the D3 membership committee voted to keep a defunct school on the exploratory list.

[WUPHF]

Lindenwood-Belleville is open through May 2020. 

They are fielding teams in each sport as planned.

[hopefan]

From Lindenwood Belleville site:

"After much deliberation and discussion around potential enrollment strategies for the Lindenwood University Belleville, Ill., campus, the university's Board of Trustees has voted to consolidate the daytime undergraduate academic programs from its Belleville campus to the St. Charles, Mo., campus following the 2019-2020 academic year."

BUT, unfortunately

"Just weeks before the opening kickoff of the year, the Lindenwood University-Belleville administration has elected to cancel the 2019 football season.

Chris Duggan, a spokesperson with the school, confirmed on Friday that because of a lack of depth at some positions, university administration determined that going forward with the season would be unsafe for the remaining athletes."

Indeed, Men's and Women's soccer and women's volleyball have already had games this past week...

[Gregory Sager]

Sorry about that. The initial report I had read last spring was that the school was going to close at the end of the school year.

I'm a little surprised that they've lame-ducked the athletic department for an extra year, but I suppose that they feel an obligation to their athletes to honor their athletics scholarships.

[hopefan]

Sorry about that. The initial report I had read last spring was that the school was going to close at the end of the school year.

I'm a little surprised that they've lame-ducked the athletic department for an extra year, but I suppose that they feel an obligation to their athletes to honor their athletics scholarships.

Greg another interesting quote from Lindenwood-Belleville.. though it doesn't go into detail..

"The university in May announced it would continue to honor athletic scholarships and afford Belleville athletes preferred tryouts with Lindenwood teams, without the guarantee of a roster spot. "

[WUPHF]

I'm a little surprised that they've lame-ducked the athletic department for an extra year, but I suppose that they feel an obligation to their athletes to honor their athletics scholarships.

When every student is a student-athlete...

[WUPHF]

Also, I don't think you will find a report that has the school closing in 2019. We all make mistakes. 

[y_jack_lok]

I'm a little surprised that they've lame-ducked the athletic department for an extra year, but I suppose that they feel an obligation to their athletes to honor their athletics scholarships.

When every student is a student-athlete...

Or, when every sthlete is also a student, whether or not they get to play their sport.

[Gregory Sager]

Also, I don't think you will find a report that has the school closing in 2019. We all make mistakes.

Could be. I've certainly made my fair share.

[smedindy]

Did Lori Loughlin's kids transfer to Lindenwood - Belleville? 

[Gregory Sager]

From an online article published today about the Loughlin/Giannulli case:

Vlogger and beauty influencer Olivia Jade, 19, is worried she won't be able to rebuild her brand, and it's left her "resentful," says the source.

I'm curious. What D3 schools out there have majors applicable to careers in the beauty-influencing field, and do any have courses specifically tailored to address the problems of personal-brand rebuilding?

[GU1999]

I think that Most B-schools would just wrap this into their digital media marketing programs.  I think that many d3 schools would have concentrations or even majors in this area.  Interestingly, when I googled digital media marketing major, Elmhurst was one of the schools to appear on the first page of search results.  They call their major - Digital Marketing Communication.   As for the personal brand rebuilding part Olivia Jade may just need to take a nice cross section of liberal arts core courses.

It would surprise me if there were many serious universities which didn't taking the subject of social media influencing seriously in the context of business/marketing are programs even if they haven't yet packaged a major/concentration.   

[hopefan]

just wanted to check...SUNY-Delhi is listed (in Gordon Mann's post of Aug 30) as going to the NAC in 2020-21............ They are not included as a member of the Men's ACAA conference for 2019-20 on the ACAA site (they are not in the 2019-20 standings nor in the ACAA Men's Season-long Schedule), though their women are listed as WBB members..  So is SUNY Delhi an Independent in 2019-20?   I just want to make sure I'm not missing something....