Talk:Great West Conference

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According to this page, the capacity of Nottingham Field is 8,500. (6,500 plus 2,000 added at the start of 2005.)

Patrick 04:07, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Logo Removal
Ed, you are acting unilaterally in your interpretation of policy yet again. There is no consensus in support of the actions you are taking. You are well aware of the ongoing discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Logos. Johntex\talk 16:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Chicago State joined the Great "West"...
http://greatwestconference.cstv.com/index-main.html

It's the third article down... Apparently, they finally joined the conference... I don't know why they didn't join sooner... Oh well, if anyone wants to go ahead and add their info to the article, go right ahead... No need to update the pics of the states represented by the conference since Illinois is already highlighted on the map... Now, they just need to update the basketball independent page since Chicago State is no longer independent... Thanks... (BTW, this is the first post or whatever I've made on Wikipedia... I hope I did this right... Sorry if I didn't...) BTW, I don't think Seattle University is going to join, so I guess the "Seattle and Chicago State are two possible candidates" sentence can be deleted... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esperman (talk • contribs) 03:14, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Edit: Wait, is Seattle still considering membership? I thought they wanted to join the West Coast Conference... I know the WCC said they didn't want to expand, but Seattle seemed pretty sure that they wanted to get back into the conference even with that comment made... Kinda like how Savannah State was still planning to join the MEAC despite being offered membership in the GW and apparently other conferences as well... Seattle said that they could look to other conferences, but it seemed like they wanted to make sure that the WCC will literally say that they can't join before opting out of a WCC membership...

--Signed by Esperman (Oct. 23, 2008) <- Is there anything else I need? It was 12:07 AM when I made this edit according to my computer's time... (Oh, and it's 12:07 AM EST...)

Affiliates
I'm sorry, I don't understand the "affiliates" section of this article. Why are UC-Davis and Cal Poly listed as affiliates, yet their primary conference is the Great West according to the website? Doesn't that make them members? either way (talk) 04:32, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

^In response to "either way"'s discussion about Cal Poly and UC-Davis...
They're part of the Big West conference, an all California school conference... It's different from the Great "West"... Since they're part of the Big West for most other sports (And not football...), they're listed as affiliates, though I think the Great West goes too far when they include them as member schools on their websites... (Considering I haven't really seen any other full sport conference websites list affiliate members along with their full members...)

Proposal to make timelines more consistent
I noticed that conferences in List of NCAA conferences have articles, usually including a membership timeline. While some of the decisions made for each conference make some sense, there is a wide variety of styles for the various timelines, particularly involving color choices, but also other matters of style that could be more consistent.

for example, a school with a yellow bar means:
 * An associate member in one sport (if part of the BE)
 * A former member of the conference (in the SEC)
 * A future member of the conference (in the SEC and Big West)
 * A football only member (in the Sun Belt)
 * A team that has moved to another conference (in the WAC, NEC)
 * A full member of the Big Sky

Some graphs have captions, some do not, and none are centered. To see the variety of styles, review Current conference timelines

I think it would be worth discussing how best to provide some measure of consistency, recognizing that there may be legitimate reasons for some differences from a standard presentation (for example, some conferences show the name of the new conference for former members. In some cases, this makes sense, in other, it may not.)

I've produced a draft of how the timelines would look with some consistency added. Please see Draft proposal of conference timelines.

I propose a discussion to see if there is consensus on improving the consistency.

Because it would not be practical to have this discussion on each and every conference talk page, I suggest centralizing this discussion at the Talk page of Project College football SPhilbrick  (Talk)  01:54, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Standardize facility sections
See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College baseball.

Discussion about overview maps for US collegiate athletic conferences
A discussion on the Project College Football talk page has been created to discuss the proper format of the overview maps that are used for the US collegiate athletic conference pages.

If you're interested, please join the discussion here: Athletic conference overview maps and their lack of consistency. Mdak06 (talk) 00:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

College basketball navigation templates
Please join the discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navigation template for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco (talk) 09:09, 20 November 2013 (UTC)