RacerJoeD wrote:If the risk for Murray State is that they risk the NCAA tournament appearances for a chance at a deep run in the tournament, I (just one Racer fan) would rather have the run. In recruiting, our conference is used against us as it is. We get great players, but miss out on so many more because our conference. Crappy seeds every couple years isn’t good enough any more. We want a deep run. That is the MVC’s draw for me as a Racer fan. It’s a gauntlet and when you run a gauntlet there are two outcomes. You get bruised. you get tough.
30ASaluki wrote:Two points: all interested parties need to listen to the podcast of the interview of the new MVC commissioner. While he did say the conference would be open to consideration of members that make sense for the MVC. But as he also put it, “we aren’t paupers, we have (paraphrasing) multiple institutions knocking on our door”. Secondly, I don’t believe the addition of these two teams would enhance the chances of a higher bid in the Dance, we had better teams than Belmont and Murray this year, and what seed was awarded to Loyola? I also agree wholeheartedly that those fans of those teams who think the MVC will be a cakewalk will be in for a rude awakening. The MVC has a real end-of-season tournament, no byes, everyone plays. The MVC is not populated with a slew of 300+ RPI teams. Last but not least, if we are not going to get more teams in the Dance, which we will not, it should be easy to see which way the water runs there, why do we want a 16.67% haircut in revenue from the Dance?
Kyle_Saluki_17 wrote: I know for a fact that Saluki fans will definitely show up for a home conference rival gave vs. Murray State.
BEARZ77 wrote:I've always been ok with the idea of expansion, and been quite ok with the idea of Murray St and Belmont. The thing I've consistently said though is it won't increase our bids and it won't raise our profile. Those arguments just don't hold water in my estimation. I do think the scheduling argument is valid given how hard it is to get quality noncon games; 2 more decent conference foes makes sense from that standpoint. I think the league will be forced at some point to make a decision as to it's nature; it's always been a basketball league , but in the next couple years there appears there will be major decisions for some of the membership based on football. It'll be interesting to see if G-5 and high level FCS become the same thing , if so, that opens up a lot of options for conference realignment along more traditional regional geographical lines, and maybe you have another basketball only league[s] form from the privates in the MVC , A-10 and others that don't get an invite to the BE if and when it settles into what it looks like. There are some big hitters that might be scrambling among schools that play both and those that don't. I like where MSU is right now in that we 're not scrambling to do anything, just continuing to focus on infrastructure and retaining coaches so as to be ready if a solid opportunity is there whan things get crazy.
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