(02-01-2022 10:14 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-25-2022 02:04 AM)AuzGrams Wrote:  I’m so sick of the DII move ups as of late. Just gonna kill off DII until the bottom level of DI is DII.

It already is.

I do think there are some schools that should be at D2 since they are small, and there are larger schools that should be D1.

(02-02-2022 03:27 AM)jdgaucho Wrote:  

(02-01-2022 09:31 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(02-01-2022 09:18 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  

(02-01-2022 09:05 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  Once again, the Horizon added NKU with one year left on their D1 transition, so unless the bylaws have been changed since, they won't necessarily wait until 2024 to add Bellarmine.

Granted, they only completed 3 years. But even that is 2023 for Bellarmine. And I don;t think it's a given that the Horizon is in a rush, or the Bellarmine is in a rush, if they are even interested.

Because the big question is, does Bellarmine want to align with a Great Lakes single bid conference, or do they see their future aligned in the South? Nobody seems to be asking that question. Middle Tennessee saying no to the MAC is an example of South over North alignment.

Well, let's investigate that question with some basic googling.

From: https://www.bellarmine.edu/news/facts/

Quote:Geographic Origin of Undergraduate Students
Kentucky: 1,684 (71%)
Indiana: 278 (12%)
Ohio: 86 (4%)
Illinois: 62 (3%)
Tennessee: 44 (2%)
Missouri: 28 (1%)
California: 25 (1%)
Other States/International: 149 (6%)

So Bellarmine isn't drawing a whole lot of students from more than a 2-hour drive away (assuming that the bulk of the Indiana students are from metro Louisville or Indianapolis and not predominantly from Chicagoland, and that the Ohio students are from the Cincinnati-Dayton area and not Cleveland or Toleo).

Positioning yourself to be THE Catholic school for the South is a viable lifestyle for the future though. There are plenty of Catholic universities serving the Great Lakes area, not so many serving the Old Confederacy.

What enticed the California kids to attend Bellarmine, and how many of them are athletes? That's what I'd like to know.

There are a lot of high school graduates in California. Some might have a connection, such as a parent who went there. Perhaps they have a priest who previously served in Louisville.

Bellarmine stresses that 100% of graduates receive some sort of financial assistance.