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#1
La Crosse and St. John's were scheduled to play each other, but I heard they were already supposed to play each other outside of the GLI, so the matchups will most likely change.
#2
General football / Re: D3 Football Map
Last post by Ralph Turner - Today at 09:47:11 PM
I have always wondered about Colorado College's persistence in D3. They have "grandfathered" men's ice hockey and have scholarship women's soccer, so "Scholarship" athletics is not an anathema. It seems travel would be much easier if they went D-2 and played in the Rocky Mountain AC.
#3
"Boozer was Assistant Superintendent of the Alabama State Banking Department and a member of Governor Ivey's Study Group on Gambling Policy. On October 1, 2021, Governor Kay Ivey appointed Boozer as State Treasurer to complete the remaining term of John McMillan who resigned to serve as the executive director of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission."

So yes, he was appointed.  He has since been re-elected in 2022 into the same position, again. 

As far as not contacting the school once the decision was made, a phone call or an email would have let them know a week earlier then they found out.  Does it change the outcome, no, but it shows disrespect from the treasures office towards the school. Professional courtesy would have been to contact the school through modern methods to let the school know in this high profile of a situation. 

Other than that, unfortunately I can't disagree with your response. What does bother me about these schools is when they wait until they are about to close the doors before they begin raising the money they need.  BSC should have begun years before with an attempt to rebuild their endowment.  I saw more effort in the last 12 months than the previous 4 years in trying to connect with alumni, and that includes the football program.  Some of the players from those first teams should have been honored at some point during the past 3 seasons.  I say three because 4 seasons ago was messed up due to Covid. 

When a business closes that has been around for 160+ years, it affects a lot of people.  This directly effects 1000 people in students and employees.  It also effects the neighborhood as well as the businesses near the campus. BSC is/was a part of that community, and now that is over, hopefully another school can fill that void and take over that property as it currently sits.   

#4
Quote from: tomt4525 on Yesterday at 10:43:34 PM
Quote from: Greek Tragedy on Yesterday at 10:14:03 PMhttps://twitter.com/GreatLakesInvt/status/1773152427094462752?t=_BOzEra79fjGfu0wyQjTQQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/GreatLakesInvt/status/1773152507058880655?t=d_RYnywbSNtmG-GtaoQsNA&s=19

Pretty hard to criticize a great D3 event like the Great Lakes Invite, but La Crosse gets paired up with St. John's, who they seem to play every other year and a host of other MIAC teams, and Marietta, who they just played in the 22-23 season. I would've like to see the Eagles go up against JHU, JCU or Emory. 

I do plan on making the trip depending on who Point has at their 4-team tournament the same weekend, I believe.

On top of La Crosse's opponents...which like you said, would have been cool to see them playing teams they didn't just play...but why would La Crosse get the 1 pm time slot on both days?  They kind of got the shaft on that one.  I get them having the earliest game once, but not twice.

Someone on Twitter posted that they are actually already playing each other before the GLI schedule came out. Now, the organizer of the event is changing the schedule again, I believe.

Regarding the scheduling, I guess they don't want the late game participants playing an earlier game the following day. I suppose they are just trying to keep the rest periods the same? Obviously the hosts are going to get the prime time games.
#5
Looks like umhb also lost their wr coach this year:

https://twitter.com/WCAthleticDept/status/1773435386867372270?s=19

A lot of turnover in the coaching department
#6
Quote from: ziggy on Yesterday at 07:50:47 AMWe will get some scheduling news for next season when the 2024 Great Lakes Invitational matchups and schedule is announced tonight at 8 PM ET: https://youtu.be/uMQvyLC98bw

John Carroll and Marietta will be joined in the eight-team field by Calvin (host) Emory, Hope, Johns Hopkins, Saint John's and UW-La Crosse.

Carroll will play Emory and Johns Hopkins and Etta will play Hope and UW-Lacrosse.
#7
not knowing much about Northland College, I checked out their basketball programs performance this past season.  Combined 0 - 47. That is a lot of futility. 
#8
Very little of that makes sense. Firstly, yes, the Governor did voice opposition to the idea of using public money to bailout a private institution. The executive branch routinely denied BSC's requests/pleas for State money from the various funds the State has set up to support its own educational institutions in the event of an emergency, as they would be expected to do. However, the Governor did sign the bill once passed by both the House and Senate, so there is nothing you can say about her level of cooperation in this effort. There's certainly no reason to say she signed it but directed others to stand in BSC's path thereafter unless you're just trying to cope with disappointment. If BSC is so conservative (which I disagree with, but that's not important here), I don't understand their shock that the conservative government of a conservative State is not inclined to risk giving (because that's what it would be after bankruptcy) money to a failing school, and a private one at that. It is against the very tenets of fiscal conservatism. Finally, the Governor does not appoint the Treasurer - that is a State-wide elected office. Kay Ivey is done after this term, yes, but the Treasurer is not. He is on his third term now and the only restriction I am aware of is he cannot have more than two consecutive terms, which he has not. I am not aware of any upper age restrictions on that office either.

We can complain about how long it takes to implement a program which never existed prior to last year, but we would look stupid in doing so. It's part of the bargain for relying on the State for something you're supposed to be able to do yourselves. I certainly can't fault a Constitutional Officer for attempting to be as thorough as possible when it comes to lending out money that BSC impliedly says they can't get from their alumni or borrow from a bank, or finding out whether the State would actually get any of the assets put up as collateral. Imagine if he issued the loan, the school later defaulted, and when the collateralized assets were sold all that money went to the other banks and the state got left with nothing because the Treasurer wasn't thorough enough...People in government go to jail for things like that.

As for the complaints about timing, BSC did that to themselves. They are the ones that described the loan program as their last resort. "When" they found out they were denied has no bearing on what their fate was going to be after denial...they are the ones who are apparently unable to borrow anything else from ServisFirst. And they are the ones whose education program is one of the top ten that "leads to graduate school", which is another way of saying "leads to more tuition payments, more student debt and less disposable income for our alumni to donate back to us in the short term". I also don't get what you mean about the Treasurer's office not contacting the school but placed a letter of denial in the mail...that is just contradictory.
#9
Quote from: Pat Coleman on Today at 01:28:57 PM
Quote from: Inkblot on Yesterday at 05:21:14 PM
Quote from: Ron Boerger on Yesterday at 04:41:45 PMThe people who make the conference decisions are the school presidents, though it helps if the AD and coaching staffs are in agreement.  It's hard to say what Austin might think about a move - @Jekelish is a supporter of their program, if he happens to see this, he can give a much better perspective.

The previous moves of the 'Roo football team were because they didn't have a home conference option, so they had the freedom to find a best fit.  I don't think the SCAC is going anywhere (especially after swallowing half the ASC) but with only six teams to play football and no Pool A bid for several years still (clock starts two years after they have six-2026 if Schreiner follows their current plan, so 2028 for a bid?) AC might at least think about it if they get an invite.

Hasn't the waiting period been eliminated for existing conferences adding a new sport? I know the Landmark got a Pool A immediately.

Agreed -- if the SCAC has six full members with a sport, then it can get an automatic bid right away. If an affiliate member is required to get to six, that's when the two-year waiting period is triggered.

I see, so it would be necessary in this case since Lyon is an affiliate.
#10
Quote from: KnightSlappy on Today at 01:59:22 PMThe other commit I have seen for Calvin is Luke Michmerhuizen from Holland Christian

https://twitter.com/lenny_padilla/status/1761907589493731641

Thanks! - updated my post above to include him