Summit Expansion?

[El_Chapo]

i wanna be in the MVC > summit. argh.

[abc123]

Once again proving that TV market is apparently all that matters.

To a point, but I think you are understating the recruiting angle appeal that comes along with those big "TV markets", which coincidentally also tend to be much more fertile recruiting grounds.
They are a lot easier to go into when you're already playing there and then when you can sell the thought of playing "back home" a couple times through your career, it is just another arrow in the quiver. Being able to into Chicago, Kansas City and Dallas-Fort Worth carries some weight.

[Gully]

The private schools are going to run that conference into the ground. They want markets to build their enrollment, nobody in KC knows UMKC exists.

This. Honesty, the Summit can pass the Valley in time. It's going to take awhile for the brand to catch up, but in terms of results it can easily happen.

[Professorbum]

This. Honesty, the Summit can pass the Valley in time. It's going to take awhile for the brand to catch up, but in terms of results it can easily happen.

The MVC brand will be trash if they add UMKC, UIC and UT-Arlington. All three are commuter schools. No athletic following at all. Seriously, people will lose all respect for the MVC if they add these schools... which, if we are going to stay in the Summit, is fine with me.

[HerdBot]

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Once again proving that TV market is apparently all that matters.

Makes me wonder if anyone is actually capable of any thought beyond just the most basic, surface view. Few in KC actually watch or care about UMKC.

Good riddance and the Summit League is on it's way to becoming better than the MVC. UMKC is about a relevant in Kansas City as Minnesota State Community & Technical College is in the Fargo-Moorhead market

It's to the point now where if the MVC offered, I would say no and laugh.

[IndyBison]

To a point, but I think you are understating the recruiting angle appeal that comes along with those big "TV markets", which coincidentally also tend to be much more fertile recruiting grounds.
They are a lot easier to go into when you're already playing there and then when you can sell the thought of playing "back home" a couple times through your career, it is just another arrow in the quiver. Being able to into Chicago, Kansas City and Dallas-Fort Worth carries some weight.

I bet this is a huge factor. It's also why NDSU probably would prefer the MAC over the MEC if they had a choice. It's closer to their recruiting footprint. If the Bison joined MWC they could still recruit Minnesota but probably have a harder time recruiting Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska. They would have to shift to Colorado, Washington, California, etc. Could be done but need to establish new connections.

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[bruinbison]

With Loyola Chicago leaving the MVC for the Atlantic 10, I’m hoping that helps the Summit League keep St Thomas in the conference. Perhaps the MVC will be less tempting without a fellow Catholic University, right down the road in Chicago, in the conference.
If the MVC picks up those other schools, so be it……

Does any of this make Northern Iowa more poachable???

[TAILG8R]

I bet this is a huge factor. It's also why NDSU probably would prefer the MAC over the MEC if they had a choice. It's closer to their recruiting footprint. If the Bison joined MWC they could still recruit Minnesota but probably have a harder time recruiting Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska. They would have to shift to Colorado, Washington, California, etc. Could be done but need to establish new connections.

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I agree with the reasoning of wanting to have your conference footprint be in your recruiting footprint but is NDSU really playing games in Wisconsin, Nebraska and Iowa that often now? Yet they are recruiting within those states.

[NDSUstudent]

With Loyola Chicago leaving the MVC for the Atlantic 10, I’m hoping that helps the Summit League keep St Thomas in the conference. Perhaps the MVC will be less tempting without a fellow Catholic University, right down the road in Chicago, in the conference.
If the MVC picks up those other schools, so be it……

Does any of this make Northern Iowa more poachable???

Considering they might go to 14 with this expansion, UST might be in the Summit until the MVC loses another team.

[ByeSonBusiness]

summit league 23rd ranked BB conference > D1 hockey. bahahaha

Idk how this is amusing. I would hope a Division 1 athletics conference is a better job than a single sport conference.