Raven Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 The NCAA's annual convention kicked off Thursday in Nashville, but Monday is the day several Canadian institutions and their current governing body, CIS, will be paying close attention to. That's when NCAA Division 2 members are to vote on potentially groundbreaking legislation that would allow Canadian institutions to begin the membership process. Both the University of B.C. and Simon Fraser University have expressed interest in seeking NCAA membership under a 10-year pilot program approved last year by the NCAA executive. http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sports/story.html?id=0fd529b1-153f-4c6a-b153-65902a1e44bd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 quote:Originally posted by Raven The NCAA's annual convention kicked off Thursday in Nashville, but Monday is the day several Canadian institutions and their current governing body, CIS, will be paying close attention to. That's when NCAA Division 2 members are to vote on potentially groundbreaking legislation that would allow Canadian institutions to begin the membership process. Both the University of B.C. and Simon Fraser University have expressed interest in seeking NCAA membership under a 10-year pilot program approved last year by the NCAA executive. http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sports/story.html?id=0fd529b1-153f-4c6a-b153-65902a1e44bd The vote happened today and Canadian schools are going to be allowed in. No word re: soccer. I suspect that women's soccer is possible, but I sort of doubt there is a big priority on men's soccer. Hockey, football, basketball, and baseball are likely more important to UBC for example. Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM2 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 The issue here is that schools might want to pick and chose which sports go NCAA-2 and which stay in the CIS. The CIS could say screw you, no duel membership, either take all your sports to NCAA-2 or stay with the CIS for all sports. Also NCAA would have much stricter eligibilty rules. No TFC developmental players would be allowed to play in the CIS finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 UBC and SFU already play in both the CIS and NAIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finchster Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 This is good for all Canadian sports at the university level. At least canadian talent will not have to go south of the boarder to achieve in baseball, soccer, basketball or any other sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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