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Well done.

Im a Mizzou fan so its weird to no longer be the sole FBS team of the state. I honestly hope MO State really climbs quickly somehow and develops into a solid in state rival. It does have the making of the classic city school vs rural school as most of the state including St. Louis and Kansas City would stick with Mizzou while the rural southwest, ozark, and maybe bootheel would be drawn to the Bears.

Much praise for the amazing amount of detail you put into this!! It is very impressive to look into all the little details on what factors into adding and not adding a school to a conference! I'll add my two cents to the expansion question: I fully agree as the best option is Northern Kentucky. Opens the Valley to the Cincy market, they have a strong basketball brand, and a financial profile that would fit in with other Valley schools, plus travel isn't as bad as I previously thought. Wright State and UW Milwaukee are decent choices too, but I understand and see how their barriers of entry would hinder them. One thing that should be taken into account is the MVFC question. With MO State leaving both the Valley proper and the football conference, that would leave both at 11 programs. Not to mention the ever-present chance of North Dakota State and South Dakota State going FBS. That is where I think St. Thomas will come into play. All their Olympic sports are in the Summit, just like the Dakota schools, and I don't see the Tommies leaving that league at the moment. However, football does compete in non-scholarship football in the Pioneer League, which shares offices with the MVC and MVFC and is led by the same commissioner as the MVFC. And given their commitment to football, its' financial backing and football's competitiveness, a jump to scholarship football will definitely be a much easier proposition for them than most other programs. So TL;DR: Northern Kentucky to the MVC, St. Thomas to the MVFC

Hockey is a heavily overlooked college sport so it is nice that it has its own conference

My friend thank you for uploading all these hockey league history videos over the past few weeks so interesting. Great stuff!

Let's go Force!

Y'know its nice seeing you get back to hockey leagues while the Re-Alignment stuff seems to have finally calmed. Although I think this is your 1st pro hockey league right?

Add NDSU. Already MVFC member, upset Oklahoma in NCAA tournament, and CBS is a MUCH better network than what the Summit has with CBSSN.

Bros been dropping hockey realignment for 2 weeks and I DIDN'T GET ONE NOTIFICATION, come on youtube!!!

Great video! Do you work with a D1 athletic department?

Weeeell done! Great depth on the breakdown. Hard to find anything like this on mid major moves. Would love to see something for the Mac with umass joining now that we’re at 13, especially if we try to go to 16 schools

As a UTA alum, I would love to see the Mavericks in the MVC. UTA is a sleeping giant in basketball and this might be the move that wakes us up

Do the Big 10 hockey teams next!

You forgot Holy Cross joining for women only in 2018 and UConn was a women’s only from 2002-2014

Nice regional conference warms the heart after all the recent football craziness

I really appreciate this video. Thank you for putting it together. The Sugar Bears are awesome, the cheer squads are awesome, the band...

Good stuff! very informative.

The USHL is now on par with the CHL leagues, albeit below the OHL and WHL. There needs to be further expansion out west and towards the northeast. Try again in Columbus and throw some teams from Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Boston, Philly, and Denver

I live two minutes away from the Green Bay Gamblers arena, go Gamblers!!

Ohio Jr. Bluejackets become a team because the GM had his son on the team. Next slide Ohio Jr. Bluejackets fold because the GM was fired. These are so good. Love reading the old article grabs.

Aside from the atrocious pronunciation of "Sudbury", this is super-well researched and well-presented!

Do one for the ahl, you would be a hero

Go Otters!

amazing work, kudos

Cool to see you branch out with something different in Canadian junior hockey re-alignment history. Just waiting now for the spin-off D2 360 channel haha

Very interesting video

Awesome video man, I've gone down the wiki rabbit hole of qmjhl and chl relocation/ expansion in general, they've had a lot of teams haha

Three of the 8 D1 schools you named would have to add a men’s sport for D1. But they would also have to add a women’s sport for Title IX! While Metro and West Texas, are clearly not interested. Would they have to add a men’s sport if they ever wanted to move to D1?

I know they're not an HBCU but I could have imagined them going to the MEAC.

The valley needs to get off espn and on fox sports. Would be much better for rankings.

The stadium has a long way to go to not be considered rock bottom in C-USA. Big money is needed.

Damn good call on the WCC additions! SU and GCU both get invites. GCU was a slight surprise because of their for profit profile. Surprised only two D2 schools are moving up Mercyhurst and West Georgia. WTF is taking Indy so long? To be fair there are 18 days left until June 30.th.

I would like to see UCO move up. I don't think it will happen though.

With all this chatter about UT Arlington possibly jumping to the Missouri Valley Conference, I'm not sure how viable the WAC is long-term.

If the WAC stay together after the 2024-25, and adds a ton of D2 schools they have to go through 4 more years of waiting for those D2 schools to be active members. If at anytime from now until 2029, a schools leaves, they could be in trouble to maintain their conference status. But, I think the NCAA will grant a waiver/extend the grace period until the D2 schools finish their reclassification period. Yes, even a 2 year extension. So, if the WAC adds 5 D2 schools who start their reclassification in 25-26, but the WAC but loses CBU or any other schools in 25-26, the NCAA won’t shut them down as a conference. Obviously, the question is, can the WAC find 5 schools? I picked 5 so, the WAC would be 12 schools if no teams left. They can’t just add one or two schools 25-26 1st year grace period 26-27 2nd year grace period 27-28 waiver by NCAA 28-29 waiver by NCAA

“An all Texas conference” Translation: the lone star conference (which is all but two Texas teams)

Blessed with a fourth drop in two days 🙌

No TCU ..?????

You forgot about Pace

I would love to see a breakdown of those expenses. How does coaches salaries, scholarships, equipment and travel equal $70 million per year?

that was a surprise that TSU had the best ranking in the OVC and Big South. They should be doing better football wise.

Interesting, seems as there are tiers based on the conferences. 5 in tier 1, 4 in tier 2, and everybody else. Not shocked that the top 2 tiers likely make up most of the schools that make the big dance

It's highly doubtful that the Big West would take CBU according to a friend of mine who calls basketball in the BW. Also remember that for this academic year Seattle and GCU are still in the WAC. They don't depart until '25-'26.

From what I understand, Southern Utah rejoining the Big Sky is a non-starter due to how they left a few years ago. Idk if any leadership changes have occurred since then that may have warmed relations a bit more though

Not sure of the direction the WAC wants to take. Since moving their conference headquarters from Denver, CO to Arlington, TX it seems that there will be a larger emphasis on the state of Texas schools (namely the Lone Star & to an extent the Southland). Keep in mind the Southland may have a leg up on the WAC on that front. As the WAC was merging with the Great West Conference and the level of play was down it was discussed (in message boards and forums) that Caly Poly - SLO, UC-Davis, & Sacramento St would be appropriate to join the conference since they were associate members of the Big Sky. On the Metro State side, there was chatter (among message boards and other forums) to bring in Drury & SIU-Edwardsville to accommodate UM - Kansas City & Chicago St respectively. From a personal perspective, throughout all of this, I thought that a WAC - GNAC merger would have done the trick before the Texas schools came on the scene. Yes West Texas A & M would be a nice fit (and hopefully E. New Mexico Univ).

And this is why the power conferences want to increase the size of the basketball tournament. They are tired of these smaller conferences who get poached trying to lure D2 schools in to stay alive and taking up auto bids. One, in the hopes that one of their teams will be the next 15/16 seed to shock the world against an overseeded 1/2 seed or a 1/2 seed who forgets how to shoot that night. Two, they are luring these D2 schools because the commish will do whatever it takes to avoid being rendered obsolete. Only Kliavkoff of the Pac12 has been rendered obsolete.

The WAC does need to learn how to schedule better.