Conference realignment (and school movements)

[R.B.J1]

Lecrone has raided the Summit League so many times, that there is nothing left for him there except IPFW.

[titanmac]

+1 rbj

[Commissioner]

Long article on Grand Canyon's thriving basketball program. http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... ter-desert

Grand Canyon would have immediately boosted the HL Conference RPI and average attendance; given us a program of rapidly growing hoops prestige rather than another Summit also-ran; guaranteed players and potential recruits around the league a game a year in front of 7500 fans in conference play, and a trip to the Grand Canyon. Sadly, the Horizon missed the boat on whatever chance it might have had to add Grand Canyon.

[DetroitHoopsFan]

Agree that GCU would have been a fun school to add, Commish, but how would that make sense geography-wise? All the current schools in the league are bunched up in the midwest, and then you'd just have one random team in the Mountain time zone? Woulda been interesting, for sure. More than the add of IUPUI.

[Tacitus651]

Grand Canyon finally reverting to nonprofit status after a series of hiccups. Good news for them. Complicated stuff, as they will rely heavily on online degree programs for revenue. Purdue is similarly creating Purdue Global (buying Kaplan and renaming it) which will offer sub-par online educational programs and diminish the degrees of all of its real alumni.

[Rogobob77]

No realignment news to report per se, but saw that frequently mentioned possible Horizon expansion candidate IPFW has officially rebranded as Purdue University Fort Wayne:

http://wboi.org/post/purdue-university- ... o#stream/0

Link to the website for “Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons” athletics:

http://www.gomastodons.com/news/2018/6/ ... eased.aspx

[Rogobob77]

In a move with implications for Titan lacrosse, the MAAC announced today that St. Bonaventure is joining the league as an associate member for that men’s sport:

http://detroittitans.com/news/2018/6/18 ... s-lacrosse

[Rogobob77]

The University of St. Thomas, a Catholic college of approximately 10,000 students located in St. Paul, MN, looks to be headed to D-1 and the Summit League:

https://www.inforum.com/sports/4705409- ... n-approval

[NC Titan]

No realignment news to report per se, but saw that frequently mentioned possible Horizon expansion candidate IPFW has officially rebranded as Purdue University Fort Wayne:

http://wboi.org/post/purdue-university- ... o#stream/0

Link to the website for “Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons” athletics:

http://www.gomastodons.com/news/2018/6/ ... eased.aspx

By extension, should we expect IUPUI to rebrand as Purdue University of Indianapolis?

[Rogobob77]

No realignment news to report per se, but saw that frequently mentioned possible Horizon expansion candidate IPFW has officially rebranded as Purdue University Fort Wayne:

http://wboi.org/post/purdue-university- ... o#stream/0

Link to the website for “Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons” athletics:

http://www.gomastodons.com/news/2018/6/ ... eased.aspx

By extension, should we expect IUPUI to rebrand as Purdue University of Indianapolis?

Purdue Fort Wayne administratively severed its association with Indiana University a year or so ago, but that is not the case with IUPUI.