FB: American Southwest Conference

[Etchglow]

Updated the commitment tracker.  Getting to be a good number of kids coming in:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IC2_OyngCpyyrQ3pjQd0-_SPzQQY_ga1Z5znH-Q4Rg8/edit?usp=sharing

[D3fanboy]

UMHB will open at Rowan this season.  Hopefully that will quiet the critics for a minute (ha!).

two former D3FB powers going at it, who could possibly hate that?

[TheChucker]

Looks like TX Wesleyan is off the board for any future ASC membership. Going D2.

https://x.com/ramsports/status/2026437467163808221?s=46

[Mavchamp]

Looks like TX Wesleyan is off the board for any future ASC membership. Going D2.

https://x.com/ramsports/status/2026437467163808221?s=46

That's pretty interesting.... that leaves Wayland, Texas College, and Nelson as the only Texas teams in the Sooner Conference for football.

Travel costs have to be stacking up for all of them when you consider several trips to Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and even Arizona....and that's just for football.

Schools like Wayland, Nelson, and Louisiana Christian are islands all alone with no one near them.

You get into the other sports and you not only have the road trips to Oklahoma ....but you add in trips to Kansas and Missouri as well.

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I would suspect that Texas College and Arkansas Baptist would either stick with the SAC since they have multiple HBCU's in the conference.  If not....there are several other conferences they could easily slide into seamlessly and remain in NAIA.

But you have to wonder if MAYBE Wayland and Nelson would at least lend an ear to the ASC.  You would think having all your conference opponents in Texas would be appealing.

I think they both offer the right number of sports to transition to D3.

The bigger question might be.....IF they were to decide to make the plunge to D3.....would they chose the ASC or the SCAC? 

[Ralph Turner]

IMHO, Wayland and Nelson are closer to the ASC in mission and vision. Texas Wesleyan was D2 in the 1990's. They spent 1 year in the ASC about 2000-2021, but needed to add sports at that time. They moved to NAIA shortly from there, about 2001. (I think that my comments on the old message board.)