Wichita State to the American Athletic Conference?

[Mayville Bison]

JD, this is common sense; be careful.....

It's common sense until you ask UNI, ISUr, ISUb, and MSU to give up all those tournament shares. If tournament shares were equal, you could probably get ISUb and MSU on board. I think ISUr and UNI would rather go anywhere else than to be on the same level (in basketball) as all those schools. They want you to believe they are closer to the WSUs than the xDSUs. Being in the same conference shatters that reality.

[THEsocalledfan]

It's common sense until you ask UNI, ISUr, ISUb, and MSU to give up all those tournament shares. If tournament shares were equal, you could probably get ISUb and MSU on board. I think ISUr and UNI would rather go anywhere else than to be on the same level (in basketball) as all those schools. They want you to believe they are closer to the WSUs than the xDSUs. Being in the same conference shatters that reality.

Like UND joining the MVFC you mean?

[Mayville Bison]

Like UND joining the MVFC you mean?

If we had a 2x budget than them and paid our head coach 4x what their coach is getting paid, then yes, that would be about the right comparison.

[Son of a Bison]

It's common sense until you ask UNI, ISUr, ISUb, and MSU to give up all those tournament shares. If tournament shares were equal, you could probably get ISUb and MSU on board. I think ISUr and UNI would rather go anywhere else than to be on the same level (in basketball) as all those schools. They want you to believe they are closer to the WSUs than the xDSUs. Being in the same conference shatters that reality.

What UNI reality does looking at the garage wall and counting playoff football appearances rather than national championships shatter?

[AKBison]

The easiest thing for them would be to just add NDSU and SDSU. It doesn't kill off the Summit causing a mess and allows the MVC to definitely separates itself from the Horizon, Summit, and OVC because of the link to major state universities and football.

NDSU
SDSU
UNI
ISUr
ISUb
SIU
Missouri State

Valpo
Evansville
Bradley
Drake
Loyola

MVFC

NDSU
SDSU
USD
UND
ISUr
ISUb
SIU
UNI
WIU
Missouri State
(YSU to the OVC all sports)

New Summit
UND
USD
Omaha
Denver
Minnesota State*
UMKC**
IUPUI
IPFW
ORU
Western Illinois

*Drops Football
** Required to add Baseball in order to come back to the Summit.

[NDSU92]

Does Western Illinois not care about all of the non-football sports? You'd think they would love to be in the MVC with everyone else. I've heard their arena would need a lot of love but they seem like they would be a great fit relationship-wise and geographically

[Bison"FANatic"]

Does Western Illinois not care about all of the non-football sports? You'd think they would love to be in the MVC with everyone else. I've heard their arena would need a lot of love but they seem like they would be a great fit relationship-wise and geographically

One word: Macomb

[NDSUstudent]

Sounds like Belmont is going to say no to the MVC once again...

Missing from most reports, however, has been input from Belmont on whether it is even interested in bouncing from the Ohio Valley Valley Conference to the MVC. As it turns out, it's not something that's even on Belmont's radar screen.

"We're a proud and happy member of the Ohio Valley Conference," Belmont athletics director Scott Corley said. "We're happy where we are."

That's almost word-for-word what former Belmont AD Mike Strickland said in 2013 when the MVC was in need of a team after Creighton bolted and several media outlets had the Bruins ready to make a move back then.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/spor...mvc/100382846/

[El_Chapo]

can NDSU please get on the phone with the rest of the MVFC AD's/Presidents and ask for a NDSU only invite?

we have subsidized the MVFC, and raised the national profile, they owe us!

[HerdBot]

Little more MVC realignment talk with Keith Brake yesterday The Uconn play by play guy weights in on adding Wichita State too. Most in the first hour
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