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Post by GoYotes on Oct 1, 2014 12:02:44 GMT -6
This post on the SDSU message board indicates that UMKC will announce sometime this school year that they are returning to the Summit League. Granted it is only a message board, but the person who posted it has a pretty good track record.
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Post by Yotes on Oct 1, 2014 16:00:55 GMT -6
If the Summit were in any position to be picky UMKC wouldn't even be able to get Douple on the phone. Reality is we are just a couple defections away from losing our postseason auto bids, so getting a full D-1 member would help the health of the league. At the same time, this is rather disappointing as UMKC is going to do all they can to lower the level of competition in a league that has been pushing it's way towards the upper echelon of mid major conferences.
If true, who is ready to be in a conference that includes New Mexico State and other Great West defects? I do believe that if the WAC loses any of their full D-1 members they will no longer be eligible for autobids, and collapse VERY quickly. Any guesses where those teams would go? Probably to the conference that will take anyone just for the sake of survival, the Summit League. The commissioner would have the ability to pick and choose who can join, since no other conference will want most of these teams, and I could easily see this conference ballooning to 12 teams in the event of UMKC pushing the WAC to its demise.
All in all, I hope this isn't true.
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Post by fargobison on Oct 1, 2014 17:18:27 GMT -6
UMKC is paying their basketball coach $250k(who they hired last year), they are trying to elevate their game. They are a good geographic fit as well and it gets the Summit to 10 schools which is the perfect number for a basketball conference.
Outside of NMSU, UMKC is the only WAC school I would want to add.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 20:03:59 GMT -6
I heard this around the same time last year when we found out ORU was rejoining. Everything I've heard is that UMKC is back, although I haven't heard about it for a while.
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Post by jacksfan29 on Oct 4, 2014 8:56:20 GMT -6
If the Summit were in any position to be picky UMKC wouldn't even be able to get Douple on the phone. Reality is we are just a couple defections away from losing our postseason auto bids, so getting a full D-1 member would help the health of the league. At the same time, this is rather disappointing as UMKC is going to do all they can to lower the level of competition in a league that has been pushing it's way towards the upper echelon of mid major conferences. If true, who is ready to be in a conference that includes New Mexico State and other Great West defects? I do believe that if the WAC loses any of their full D-1 members they will no longer be eligible for autobids, and collapse VERY quickly. Any guesses where those teams would go? Probably to the conference that will take anyone just for the sake of survival, the Summit League. The commissioner would have the ability to pick and choose who can join, since no other conference will want most of these teams, and I could easily see this conference ballooning to 12 teams in the event of UMKC pushing the WAC to its demise. All in all, I hope this isn't true.  ?? This is a really odd post. SL ready to lose auto bid? You must be spending time on Whiouxsports.com. Outside of NMSU or UMKC there are no WAC schools who will be in the SL anytime soon. |
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Post by GoYotes on Oct 27, 2014 17:31:01 GMT -6
Per Jeremy Hoeck via Twitter, "Herbster is heading to Chicago this week for Summit League meetings". Could a UMKC announcement be around the corner?
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Post by GoYotes on Nov 15, 2014 11:56:38 GMT -6
UMKC men beat the Missouri Tigers 69 - 61 in their 2014-15 season opener
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Post by Yotes on Nov 15, 2014 12:07:01 GMT -6
Wow! I know Missouri hired a new coach in the offseason, and it was quite questionable since he had zero D1 experience. That's just the worst way to start off your tenure.
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