The sad thing is Wright was pretty good and a decent person. I'm a Bearcat but it's getting hard to like some of the crap they are pulling. Some of that is coming from tjeerdsma with the president.
Read on another message board that UCO is looking at going D1. That might scare Dorrel back to Maryville since it went so poorly for ACU. Maybe that is what has already been in the works?
I don't think any team in D2 can remain a dynasty type power in the era of the portal. Honestly, the more successful the program the more likely the kids get poached every year now.
The path to D2 dominance isn’t as outrageous as one thinks.
If you had an NIL collective that covered full tuition and some spending money for top athletes and a program with state of the art facilities you would remove the incentive for the top D2 athletes to jump ship.
Think through all the walk on D1 kids who If they can get free college and some extra spending money and get to play for 4 years would be wayyy better off long term than tackling dummy at a P6 program.
Also, I’m more convinced then ever a kid nowadays can go from any school to the NFL if they can play.