In reply to: Uh, that's a lot of flying there. posted by Wooderson
but it's probably the toughest conferences in FCS, so it would have made their on-field transition even harder, probably impossibly hard. I have no idea if the MVC would have had any interest in St. Thomas, but it seems like Northern Iowa and the Dakota schools would benefit by playing in the Twin Cities
and they would get destroyed by those schools.
Save the money on the 63 scholarships for a couple years and try to build a respectable Pioneer League program. Hopefully they can also gain some incremental revenue from basketball and hockey. If they could make the jump to the MVC eventually and start offering scholarships, many kids from the Twin Cities that normally fill the rosters of the Dakota schools would certainly have to consider staying home. I think we'll see that in hoops right away.
Villanova? St. Thomas. San Diego. Anyone else?
Dayton, Duquesne, Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Incarnate Word, Merrimack, Sacred Heart, St. Francis, St. Thomas, San Diego, Villanova
Maybe that's more in line with their caliber of play, but last I checked they were in the ACC.