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Post by knaveljm on Apr 29, 2009 11:51:33 GMT -5
It doesn't affect the MCC that much since schools from the conference don't typically play Sioux Falls, but they have applied for membership to NCAA DII. www.keloland.com/sports/newsdetail7981.cfm?Id=0,83883 Sioux Falls is an NAIA power in football and that's not good since the NAIA is already thin on football teams. |
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Post by Kyle Feller on Apr 29, 2009 12:19:38 GMT -5
The dominos continue to fall.
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Post by huisrealgood on May 4, 2009 23:42:33 GMT -5
If attrition continues at this pace will the NAIA be forced to fold in the next 5-10 years?
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Post by knaveljm on May 5, 2009 6:02:02 GMT -5
I don't know if the NAIA will ever be forced to fold. I think there are probably 150 or so NAIA schools that feel very strong about their affiliation with the organization. But just as the NAIA now is really a shell of what it was 15 years ago, it may look a whole lot different in another 5-10 years than it does now. That may be alright for those 150 or so schools that I think feel better about the NAIA than NCAA. The NCCAA is able to survive with something like 50 schools so there's no reason to believe the NAIA couldn't with 100-150 but it would look a lot different.
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Post by cowboy on May 5, 2009 9:17:57 GMT -5
I don't know if the NAIA will ever be forced to fold. I think there are probably 150 or so NAIA schools that feel very strong about their affiliation with the organization. But just as the NAIA now is really a shell of what it was 15 years ago, it may look a whole lot different in another 5-10 years than it does now. That may be alright for those 150 or so schools that I think feel better about the NAIA than NCAA. The NCCAA is able to survive with something like 50 schools so there's no reason to believe the NAIA couldn't with 100-150 but it would look a lot different. has a school ever dropped from NCAA back to NAIA? |
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Post by knaveljm on May 5, 2009 10:21:40 GMT -5
A few have. But it's very few. Certainly not 1/10th of the number that have left the NAIA for NCAA.
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Post by WesleyTheWildcat on May 5, 2009 10:27:55 GMT -5
I imagine some NCAA Division III schools have gone to the NAIA... After a presidential change or economic change. Certainly not the norm but it has happened.
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Post by foresterpride on May 6, 2009 10:59:34 GMT -5
Morningside is the most obvious to return to the NAIA. There are a number of NE schools that returned I think from DIII, Clarke College returned from DIII. Thats just off the top of my head.
I think a good many of the DIII's around the MCC would be interested in discussing a return as well as St. Joe's who still talks about winning the first NAIA football championship, which was actually a tie.
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