THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: NIC’s latest move triggers lots of questions
Mark Nelke.
Does anybody really care anymore that North Idaho College is planning to return to the NJCAA after seven years in the Northwest Athletic Conference — even though the Cardinal athletic programs don’t have a guaranteed landing spot yet?
Are you thrilled at the prospect of watching your beloved Cardinal teams competing against many of the top junior college players and teams in the country, trying to get its teams to nationals?
Or, have you gotten used to seeing NIC play in the more regionally based NWAC, where the conference championships are the end of the road, maybe more local kids get to play, and that’s good enough these days?
Or, are you just wondering, given the current circus that is the NIC school board, if NIC is even going to continue to be an accredited college — in which case, who would come to NIC and play if they knew their credits were not going to transfer?
YOU HAVE to admit, there was more of a buzz when NIC played in the Scenic West Athletic Conference, especially when the College of Southern Idaho came to town — especially in basketball, but also in volleyball....
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