Why not NDSU/SDSU if you are taking Oakland?
god knows the summit league will suck without oral roberts and oakland, PUKE!
personally, i'd rather see NDSU in the MVC.
It is going the wrong direction Lake. Nothing personal, but it is very hard for us to draw fans to the home football games (vs. the Dakota schools) as it is ...let alone a sport that has even less of a draw ..in a football town. When you have some free time, take a simple child's compass, and stretch it from Youngstown to Terre Haute (our closest conference rival) ...then make your circle. You will find 16 I-AA/FCS colleges (probably more now, with all the new east coast teams since the last time I did this myself. Of those 16 colleges, none of them are in the MVFC. The circle encompasses schools from the CAA, OVC, NEC, Pioneer & Patriot in I-AA ...and schools from the Big-10, Big East, ACC, CUSA, and MAC in IA.
Now we realize that it takes time to develop knowledge and rivals. We also realize that we are a very isolated city ...in terms of full-scholarship I-AA/FCS. It is easy to put people in the stands for NDSU in 2012, as you have a national championship ...but that enthusiasm will fade in another year (assuming no repeat). People in Youngstown consider this the northeast ..maybe Midwest; but certainly not the plains.
I do agree that ORU and Oakland are the top team in the post-Valpo Summit League.