School in limbo with regard to new conference affiliation.
BLUEFIELD, West Virginia — Don’t think football controls college athletics at every level?
Just look at the blight of Bluefield State College, which still doesn’t have a place to call home 11 months after the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference began to implode.
The primary reason: Bluefield State hasn’t offered football since 1981, and there are no plans to do so in the near future.
“Day one it was football driven and took us out of the loop,” Bluefield State Athletic Director Terry Brown said. “We were not a consideration, but as time goes on, things change so once they change now we are back in the hunt.”
Eight members of the WVIAC formed what would become the newly-created 12-team Mountain East Conference. One of those schools was fellow WVIAC program, Wheeling-Jesuit, which was added a month or so later as the only non-football playing school in the league.
It was that move that continues to give Brown hope that the fledging Division II circuit will also accept Bluefield State as a member.
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