Belmont Announcement to come?

[bw12]

So the men's soccer schedule was released and lists Belmont as a conference opponent. Guess we have a new team this year!


Fri, Sep 26   at Belmont *   Nashville, Tenn.    7:00 p.m.


# = Exhibition; * = Conference; Home Games Shaded; All Times Central

[bw12]

Nevermind my fault for being an amateur. I just saw the posts from last August. 

[valpotx]

See the below announcement, as it is only for soccer:

http://www.horizonleague.org/blog/belmont-university-to-join-horizon-league-as-affiliate-member.html

[crusadermoe]

Wow,......"affiliate"....that seems to be a lot more than a small foot in the door for Belmont and the Horizon.

[VULB#62]

Maybe.... 

They have no FB program and the OVC is FCS scholarship --- and we all know that, when FB is scholarship, it rules the athletic budget and the conference mentality.  Morehead is the only non-scholarship FB school and SIU-Edwardsville is the only other non-FB school period among the 12 schools.  IMO affinity-wise, they are in the wrong conference.

Personally, I'd like to see another private university in the HL mix.  But we've  ... 

[wh]

Just noticed this on the Milwaukee board:

...the UWM Panthers Men's Basketball program Facebook page posted "The Horizon League welcomes the Belmont Bruins Men's Basketball team to the 2014 - 2015 Season"

I went to their Facebook page and there it was, bigger than life:

https://www.facebook.com/uwmmensbasketball

Interesting...

[valpotx]

I think that one of their fans misread the article about their soccer team joining the HL...

[wh]

I think that one of their fans misread the article about their soccer team joining the HL...

I was trying to see if someone would bite on this, but you took all the fun out of it. 

[a3uge]

Can we just switch out UWM and Belmont this year now that UWM is ineligible?

[LaPorteAveApostle]

[valpotx]

Haha, he is technically correct