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Oral Roberts
Topic Started: Dec 5 2013, 08:26 PM (146 Views)
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ORU has announced that its second year in the Southland Conference will be its last. They will return to the Summit League on July 1, 2014.

Disappointing. They have a historically, and currently, strong basketball program. I was very much looking forward to playing them regularly.
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Steve
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Are we, Houston Baptist, Incarnate Word, and Abilene Christian taking this personally?

Bummer. Down to two non-football schools in the SLC.
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Odd. That league is now IUPUI, IPFW, Denver, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Western Illinois.

More travel distance (everything north of them; mostly into smaller, so more expensive, travel markets), all public schools (except for DU) so they're not a better fit that way, (no offense, but) weaker basketball league.

Maybe it's just the smaller conference and the greater possibility for making the NCAA tournament (they went in 06, 07, 08, and Oakland, who went twice since then, is gone). They'll make it 9 members, so while travel in the Dakotas is likely more expensive than flights to New Orleans and Houston, they'll have a few less mandatory games.

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com...league-in-2014/

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ORU was a member of the Summit League for 15 seasons, from 1997 to 2012, before deciding to make the move to the Southland Conference with the idea being that the new home would help lower travel costs. But with the Southland growing to 14 members (and adding more football-playing members, a sport ORU doesn’t have), the powers that be at ORU felt that their goals regarding travel and cultivating new rivalries would be tougher to reach. Hence the move back to the Summit League, where their men’s soccer program has remained a member for the last two years.

“ORU is excited about returning to The Summit League and its distinguished member institutions,” ORU Director of Athletics Mike Carter said in the Summit League release. “We look forward to renewing the rivalries we developed during our 15 years in the conference and to continuing the proud tradition of The Summit League.”


6 of the 8 members of the Summit have joined since 2007! So, the established rivalries he's talking about must be with Western Illinois and IUPUI. <_<
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Was it because it didn't fit their travel? They were disappointed in something?

I know leagues change every year but it sure is hard for schools to have hard rivalries when they don't play the same teams every year for more than 1 -2.

Imagine if that happened to the saints with Atlanta or Carolina? I know we're talking 2 different animals here but..........
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