NCAA Approves Membership for Canadian Schools

[tornado]

This applies only to Division II currently, but schools from Canada are now eligible to apply for membership to NCAA D-II.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3196028&campaign=rss&source=NCAAHeadlines

Can it be long before they allow those D-II's from outside the US to make the jump to D-I?
Will this open the door to schools from Mexico, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and China?
Will the day arrive that we see Oxford and Moscow U. competing at Cameron Indoor Arena and Carver Arena?

[BradleyBrave]

You would have thought the NCAA learned from the Glasnost Bowl that the NCAA should limit its events to American soil. I'm still waiting for my Glasnost Bowl t-shirt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost_Bowl

[Beninator]

Will the day arrive that we see Oxford and Moscow U. competing at Cameron Indoor Arena and Carver Arena?

Probably not at Carver T. But maybe we can get the Oxford rowing team to compete here against BU at the Illinois River.

Anyway Cambridge is a much cooler university. The Oxford campus is too interwoven with the city.

[tornado]

Maybe we can get Oxford to join the MVC and we'd have some pretty awesome road trips!

[BradleyBrave]

The NCAA never ceases to amaze me. They are finding new and creative ways to start excluding teams from Division I, yet they want to add schools from out of the country to their organization.

I think it would be hilarious if they screwed a European team on Selection Sunday and caused an international incident. Then perhaps they'd finally get what's coming to them.

[tornado]

The NBA has had its eyes on Candian and now European and even Chinese expansion for years.
I guess I don't see why the NCAA wouldn't or shouldn't follow suit.
Eventually the colleges of those other countries might rival US Division-I in quality of play, and who better than the NCAA to supervise and police them?
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[IlliBraves]

The NBA has had its eyes on Candian and now European and even Chinese expansion for years.
I guess I don't see why the NCAA wouldn't or shouldn't follow suit.
Eventually the colleges of those other countries might rival US Division-I in quality of play, and who better than the NCAA to supervise and police them?
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I just doubt that athletics are really up to par with anybody in the U.S. Plus, most US schools couldn't fit it into the budget to play these schools on the road. Besides, it's called the National Collegiate Athletic Association, not the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Association with Europe, Canada and Asia.

[ph]

Darn, we really needed a pre-season Canadian roadtrip to help gel our new guys this year. If all the Canadian schools went NCAA DII then would those trips still be possible?

As far as travelling to Eurpoe, there seems to frequently be cheaper fares to London than Hawaii. More than one trip a year would start to impact academics, unless the entire team was taking an official study abroad..

[tornado]

Given that Canadian colleges are now going to apply for NCAA membership, look soon for the NCAA
to change its name to the International Collegiate Athletic Assocation (ICAA)

[BradleyBrave]

Given that Canadian colleges are now going to apply for NCAA membership, look soon for the NCAA
to change its name to the International Collegiate Athletic Assocation (ICAA)

I can't wait for the NCAA to try and enforce their arbitrary edicts on the Canadian schools. I can just hear the NCAA's 'exception' for Canadian schools having Native American nicknames, stating something like 'Canada doesn't have a national history of persecuting Native Americans, so it's OK if they call themselves the Warriors, Savages, Yukons, Manitobas, etc.'. Oh boy, let all the Canadian schools in...and let the lawsuits fly!

[Beninator]

Maybe we can get Oxford to join the MVC and we'd have some pretty awesome road trips!

I take it that you like your beer at room temperature?

[Guinness]

T, what is all this you're talking aboot?