FB: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Gregory Sager]

I just don't see it that way. Wash U's associate membership in the CCIW isn't being revoked when the scoreboard hits 00:00 up in Sun Prairie a week from Saturday (if indeed the Bears end up repping the league in the Isthmus Bowl). It was revoked 14 months ago. It's just that the revocation doesn't take effect until Wash U's 2025 season ends. Think of it as being the football-conference equivalent of being given two weeks' notice in the business world.

Wash U's forced departure from the league has absolutely nothing to do -- nada, zero, zilch -- with how the Bears are actually faring on the football field against the rest of the CCIW. And if the revocation announcement back in September 2024 had included telling Wash U that it couldn't represent the CCIW in the Isthmus Bowl in 2025 because the Bears would no longer be in the league once the regular season ended, it probably would've struck most people as being ungracious and deeply unfair. If you earn the bid you should get the bid, regardless of whether you're going to be in the league next season or not.

[blue_jays]

I just don't see it that way. Wash U's associate membership in the CCIW isn't being revoked when the scoreboard hits 00:00 up in Sun Prairie a week from Saturday (if indeed the Bears end up repping the league in the Isthmus Bowl). It was revoked 14 months ago. It's just that the revocation doesn't take effect until Wash U's 2025 season ends. Think of it as being the football-conference equivalent of being given two weeks' notice in the business world.

Wash U's forced departure from the league has absolutely nothing to do -- nada, zero, zilch -- with how the Bears are actually faring on the football field against the rest of the CCIW. And if the revocation announcement back in September 2024 had included telling Wash U that it couldn't represent the CCIW in the Isthmus Bowl in 2025 because the Bears would no longer be in the league once the regular season ended, it probably would've struck most people as being ungracious and deeply unfair. If you earn the bid you should get the bid, regardless of whether you're going to be in the league next season or not.

Oh I agree with you on all counts. I just found UChicago's recent experience with the MWC amusing.

[ncc_fan]

Well then, why IS WashU soon to be a CCIW football excommunicatus?  I've never heard a good reason. 

[USee]

Well then, why IS WashU soon to be a CCIW football excommunicatus?  I've never heard a good reason. 

look harder....if you know, you know.

[CarollFan]

Someone in this article was proposing WashU go D1. There is a link in it to a separate counterpoint article.

https://www.studlife.com/forum/2025/10/23/point-time-to-hand-washus-identity-crisis-off-to-d-i-football

[Nitzermania]

Well then, why IS WashU soon to be a CCIW football excommunicatus?  I've never heard a good reason. 

look harder....if you know, you know.

Like NCC fan, I would love to understand this issue... where exactly could we look harder?  Could you point us toward a resource or just say it plainly?  I don't sense any strong grievance toward WashU football (unlike Normie-led Titan teams) from other CCIW schools.

[WUPHF]

Someone in this article was proposing WashU go D1. There is a link in it to a separate counterpoint article.

https://www.studlife.com/forum/2025/10/23/point-time-to-hand-washus-identity-crisis-off-to-d-i-football

The student newspaper has been publishing an op-ed for the school to go Division I every year since at least the 2008 and 2009 national championships.  Those are never written by a sports writer.

Instead, the sports writers universally love Division III and frequently publish editorials such as the following:

https://www.studlife.com/sports/2025/09/11/keep-supporting-washu-sports