Missouri Valley to look at NDSU???

[Tatanka]

Anyone else spot this on the mo valley board? These are in dollars, not pesos. Notice a difference between conferences?

Mens basketball coaches salaries
Creighton $1.35M
Wichita $900k (incentives pushing to $1.5m)
Bradley $700k (incentives pushing to $1m)
UNI $500k
ISU Red $375k
SIU $300k (but were paying Lowery $750k IIRC)
Drake $274k
MSU $241k
ISU Blue $219k
Evansville $180k


Endowment of candidates, salary of head coaches
Denver $380m; $300k (in 2008; probably significantly higher now)
Loyola $385m; salary undisclosed (but I can't imagine it's more than $300k)
UIC $181m; $300k salary
Valpo $141m; salary undisclosed (but they gave Drew a contract extension and he's sticking around so it must be significant)
Belmont $76m; $728k salary
UMKC $1.2b (system-wide so misleading); $250k salary

[HerdBot]

The Horizon has Butler $$$.

It makes no sense for the Summit to subsume the Horizon.

I think you meant to say HAD

[Bison"FANatic"]

The credits stay with the conference I believe and are good for a extended period of time.

[NorthernBison]

The credits stay with the conference I believe and are good for a extended period of time.

yes. they go to the conference and it is big money.

[tjbison]

it's clear the MVC will ever be a reality, so time to move on and get all our sports in 1 conference. it's really funny how Loyola who has been in the sub 200 RPI and less than 2500 butts in the seats is considered a good addition, wonder what the football schools think of this, as its clear they ave no intention of trying to preserve the integrity of the FB conference. Basically ths takes away any hope I Had of unifying the MVFC and possible whole conference jump to FBS should the door open to that in a couple years

[silkamilkamonico]

The MVC football and basketball conference are separate entities.

Clearly our location is an issue with the MCV basketball conference.

I am beginning to wonder about moving all our conferences into 1 sport as well. Is this where the Big sky comes in? It sucks, the Big Sky is the only viable conference for this. It will clearly affect our football recruiting and I think will be a bad thing for our fooball program (AND basketball), but at least it solidifies our conference issue if it comes to it.

[tjbison]

The MVC football and basketball conference are separate entities.

Clearly our location is an issue with the MCV basketball conference.

I am beginning to wonder about moving all our conferences into 1 sport as well. Is this where the Big sky comes in? It sucks, the Big Sky is the only viable conference for this. It will clearly affect our football recruiting and I think will be a bad thing for our fooball program (AND basketball), but at least it solidifies our conference issue if it comes to it.

yes they are but still carry th name, officers, but different commissioners.

wonder what Indiana St, Illinois St, UNI, Misery St and Southern Ill would do if YSU left for the CAA, NDSU SDSU USD left for another all sports conference? have to think th OVC would look at WIU

I love th Valley by far better type of Football over track meet style Big Fluffy but if they are going to focus on Basketball only it's not the right fit

[BisonNation11]

yes they are but still carry th name, officers, but different commissioners.

wonder what Indiana St, Illinois St, UNI, Misery St and Southern Ill would do if YSU left for the CAA, NDSU SDSU USD left for another all sports conference? have to think th OVC would look at WIU

I love th Valley by far better type of Football over track meet style Big Fluffy but if they are going to focus on Basketball only it's not the right fit

Which teams are currently upgrading their football facilities in the MVFC? Obviously NDSU and UNI are pretty stuck with what they have, but why spend the money on improving football facilities if they weren't looking to use them to make money or possibly move up?

[NDSUstudent]

I will say it is funny that NDSU has had more winning seasons since joining DI than Loyola has had in the past 25 years. Not exactly sure why the MVC picked that school, the private schools are driving that conference right off a cliff.

I also think the MVC is a bit foolish to not go to 12 schools.

[IndyBison]

I will say it is funny that NDSU has had more winning seasons since joining DI than Loyola has had in the past 25 years. Not exactly sure why the MVC picked that school, the private schools are driving that conference right off a cliff.

I also think the MVC is a bit foolish to not go to 12 schools.

Conferences aren't only going to select teams with a history of winning. Someone has to be at the bottom. There are a lot of other factors to consider.