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I too have been trying to get my brain around the logic of the Summit going after either Augustana or St. Thomas, one being a D-II school and the other being a D-III school. Frankly, I find the notion as being insane except for the fact that I listened to the podcast of the "Brakedown on Bison 1660 AM" posted in another thread on this Board. After listening to the commentator in that podcast I came away shocked. He was basically advocating that the Summit should go after Augustana and also acknowledged that the Summit had not only discussed with and vetted Grand Canyon University, the Summit then declined to extend to them an invitation to join the League. If this is so, what a shame. BTW, we were the school asking the Summit to invite GCU to join the League. Grand Canyon University up unto last year was and is a private Christian for-profit university located in Phoenix, Arizona. They have now gone for non-profit status. In the 2nd quarter of 2017 their net profit was a little north of $873,000,000.00. You read that right, as of the 2nd quarter in 2017 their net-profit was north of $873 Million. They have a little over 19,000 students on the campus and another 70,000+ enrolled online. Their men's basketball budget for 2017-18 was just north of $4,200,000.00, automatically making that what would have been the largest MBB budget in the Summit, even ahead of Denver and us, who have the next two highest MBB budgets in the Summit. Ours is around $3.2 million and Denver's is north of that. Grand Canyon just completed a facilities building project nicknamed "10 for 2" whereby they built or upgraded 10 sports facilities on campus spending over $200,000,000.00 in 2 years (2016-18). Their MBB HC is none other then 14 year Phoenix Suns star Dan Majerle. Their basketball arena was opened in 2011, seats 7,000 and regularly sells-out. They also have a separate practice facility which includes 4 full-sized courts. Their baseball facility was opened/renovated in 2018 and seats 4,000 rivaling most SEC facilities, not only for seating but amenities as well. And finally, their MBB record last year was 20-14 and Arizona State which is just across town refuses to play them. Therefore, I think you can understand how I am having a difficult time seeing the Summit supposedly passing on a team which would have instantly upgraded our League and instead supposedly is going after one of two other schools, neither of which even competes at the D-I level IN ANY SPORT. If this is true that we did not invite GCU but instead are pursuing either Augustana or St. Thomas, how small minded can the League get? If this is in fact so, how pathetic this League truly is.