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OT: WAC News. Dixie State University joining the WAC.

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On 1/9/2019 at 12:44 PM, UNLV2001 said:

Dang this gives the state of Utah 7 D-1 programs .........that's a lot for a state with 2.3 million people 

Wonder if Dixie is eyeing the Big Sky for FB?? That would give the state 3 BSC teams like Idaho had back in the 1980's 

3.1 million people and growing at a 14+% clip and 40% of the population under 18. It's current size is similar to the state of Mississippi, which also has 3 FBS programs (Ole Miss, Miss. St., Southern Miss) and 3 FCS programs (Mississippi Valley, Jackson St., Alcorn St.)...but Mississippi isn't growing like Utah and has older demographics.

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9 minutes ago, YNot said:

3.1 million people and growing at a 14+% clip and 40% of the population under 18. It's current size is similar to the state of Mississippi, which also has 3 FBS programs (Ole Miss, Miss. St., Southern Miss) and 3 FCS programs (Mississippi Valley, Jackson St., Alcorn St.)...but Mississippi isn't growing like Utah and has older demographics.

Utah sort of has a built in growth program few other states have 

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2 hours ago, renoskier said:

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32 minutes ago, YNot said:

3.1 million people and growing at a 14+% clip and 40% of the population under 18. It's current size is similar to the state of Mississippi, which also has 3 FBS programs (Ole Miss, Miss. St., Southern Miss) and 3 FCS programs (Mississippi Valley, Jackson St., Alcorn St.)...but Mississippi isn't growing like Utah and has older demographics.

22 minutes ago, UNLV2001 said:

Utah sort of has a built in growth program few other states have 

If current growth rates continue, within 15-20 years Utah will surpass Connecticut, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Alabama and will be about the same size as Wisconsin.

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51 minutes ago, YNot said:

3.1 million people and growing at a 14+% clip and 40% of the population under 18. It's current size is similar to the state of Mississippi, which also has 3 FBS programs (Ole Miss, Miss. St., Southern Miss) and 3 FCS programs (Mississippi Valley, Jackson St., Alcorn St.)...but Mississippi isn't growing like Utah and has older demographics.

30 minutes ago, YNot said:

If current growth rates continue, within 15-20 years Utah will surpass Connecticut, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Alabama and will be about the same size as Wisconsin.

Oops. That 14% growth rate is since the 2010 Census. The annual growth rate is closer to about 2% per year. So, at current growth rates, Utah will be the size of Oklahoma in about 10 years and will surpass 4 million in about 15 years. 

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On 1/9/2019 at 12:23 PM, #1Stunner said:

Here is a look at Dixie's basketball arena.

Burns_Story_Size.jpg

 

Nice looking floor. Not overdone with graphics like ours is at SJSU. Kudos to the WAC. A lot of people wrote them off when they dropped football, but they've adapted. 

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Couple of things:

1.  Stunner keeps mentioning the rate of growth of Washington county.  That's correct, but there is a problem.  They're running out of water, and there's no reasonable alternative source.  The growth won't go on forever, and in fact, will have to stop soon.

2.  As has been mentioned, Utah's demographics skew young.  There are more college age Utahns than you would expect from the total population.

3.  As has been mentioned, Dixie probably draws some out of state kids from Nevada and Arizona, probably LDS kids who want to be closer to home, but still go to college in a majority LDS environment.

4.  BYU only kinda, sorta counts as a Utah D1 program, since a significant fraction of the students come from all over the US.

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32 minutes ago, LKGates said:

Couple of things:

1.  Stunner keeps mentioning the rate of growth of Washington county.  That's correct, but there is a problem.  They're running out of water, and there's no reasonable alternative source.  The growth won't go on forever, and in fact, will have to stop soon.

2.  As has been mentioned, Utah's demographics skew young.  There are more college age Utahns than you would expect from the total population.

3.  As has been mentioned, Dixie probably draws some out of state kids from Nevada and Arizona, probably LDS kids who want to be closer to home, but still go to college in a majority LDS environment.

4.  BYU only kinda, sorta counts as a Utah D1 program, since a significant fraction of the students come from all over the US.

 

 

(1).  Utah moving forward with a billion dollar water pipeline from Lake Powell to St. George Utah.   We'll see how soon it happens.  

(2)   Washington County has 160,000 residents but is projected to exceed 500,000 residents by 2065.

(3)   Dixie State University's growth will be interesting to watch.    If growth continues, it might impact some of Utah's cold weather schools. 

(4)  35% of BYU's students are from the State of Utah.  30,843: undergraduate students x .35 = 10,795 Utah undergrads.    In comparison, USU's undergraduate enrollment is 16,184.  Dixie's is about 9,000.

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In response to the pictures of the WAC arenas shown, the RGV recently opened the Bert Ogden Arena for the the G-League Vipers and UTRGV has played at least a game there (Oklahoma).  UMKC was playing at the historical and beautiful Municipal Auditorium until this season when they went back to their much smaller on campus arena (pictured).  Seattle is playing in the Redhawk Arena this year, their on campus gym.  The jury is out on whether they will play in the new Key Arena when completed or if they will get a new on campus arena (that's the rumor).  Cal Baptist just opened their arena last year.

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On 1/9/2019 at 1:29 PM, #1Stunner said:

Agreed.  The WAC is looking like a decent basketball conference.  

Membership would probably soon look like this:

1---Grand Canyon

2---Cal Baptist

3---Utah Valley 

4---Dixie State 

5---Seattle

6---UTRGV

7---New Mexico State.

SJSU????

 

8---Chicago State

9---UMKC

Also rumors that the WAC might add 1 or 2 additional Texas schools.

West Texas a&m maybe?

You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

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I’m up here in St George, and up on the hill where their ‘D’ for Dixie was, they have a huge ‘D1’ all lit up. It’s awesome, lol. 

Btw, my son made an observation today.... the girls here are ‘pretty’..

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1 hour ago, 4UNLV said:

I’m up here in St George, and up on the hill where their ‘D’ for Dixie was, they have a huge ‘D1’ all lit up. It’s awesome, lol. 

Btw, my son made an observation today.... the girls here are ‘pretty’..

I took a picture of it but don’t know how to post pictures so I didn’t save it, lol

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38 minutes ago, Cheek Patch said:

I took a picture of it but don’t know how to post pictures so I didn’t save it, lol

we were past it before i thought of taking a pic, lol. It's just so perfect, there is just nowhere else that would have worked.

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On 1/10/2019 at 2:51 AM, UNLV2001 said:

True that BB is easier to fill with players than FB - Just don't see many smaller population states with this many D-1 programs is the thing - not that it's any right or wrong, just unusual in a trivial sense 

Louisiana has about 50.

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2 hours ago, bigd said:

https://roadrunnersathletics.com/news/2019/3/18/msu-denver-staying-in-division-ii.aspx

Metro State turned down the WAC, and decides to stay D2.

 

It would've been nice to have a team in the Denver market where the conference is headquarted.

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