SDSUFan wrote:I know I'm going to get blasted but here is my take on why you should look at SDSU and NDSU. First I want to start with,.....Why is everone bashing Doug Elgin? From my perspective he has brought your conference a ton of stability. If the MVC is a desirable mid-major conference, don't you have to give Elgin some of that credit?
If Dayton and St. Louis don't end up in the Big East, why do you guys want them so bad? You know as well as I do that they are in the next wave or are waiting for an offer from a sexier conference. They would be 2 year rentals most likely, is that what you are really looking for?
There has been mention of a lot of the big market teams like UW-Milwaukee, Detroit, UIC etc but those teams are afterthoughts in those cities. It's not like Omaha and Wichita where they get all of the press and the love. I also don't see an influx of recruits to the rest of the schools just because a metro team joined the conference.
As for some of the other teams like the Belmonts, Murrays etc I think you are always at risk when you take a team that is an outlier school. There will always be a desire for them to get back closer to their region and they would be a potential flight risk every time expansion or realignment is discussed.
With SDSU and NDSU you would have two regional schools that you are already familiar with. We already come with the sports your conference offers and don't have to add. You also have two schools that won't be joining the conference looking for the next best offer to come along. I've spent some time reading the message boards from the other schools. It's pretty apparent that none of you are comfortable with instability. Almost every single board has a faction that wants to upgrade conferences, go FBS football whatever the case maybe. So my question is why wouldn't you want the stability our 2 schools can offer?
I know that moving to your conference wouldn't be easy. But our 2 schools have always strived for excellance. You can check our history in D2 and look at how we have done since joining D1. We will be down initially, but we won't settle with that. The same way you banged on UNI when they joined the conference, they have more than made themselves respectable because they have a passion to be better. Look across the nation and even across your own conference. Some people are just comfortable with being average. Our schools don't represent the town we are in, they represent the entire state, that is what makes us unique despite the smaller communities we are in and helps drive our passion for success.
I know the travel may be expensive, but hopefully the competition will make up for it. Look at the football conference.....Did anyone believe we would be able to come in and compete? Like I said, we may struggle initially but we will get there.
Whether the opportunity arises and whether we get in our not best of luck to your conference, I hope for your sake Creighton stays put and your conference thrives.
you answered your own question, the presidents of the remaining 9 MVC schools are NOT stupid, they are not going to vote to add schools that will increase athletic travel budgets by hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more) ever year. Not gonna happen. Now if the dakota territorial school would agree to foot the bill for flying every olympic sports team from the remaining 9 MVC schools up there every year for all sports, then it's a deal. Wakes keeps bragging about how much oil $$ ND has, use it to pay for all the flights MVC olympic sports teams would be required to make.
Still say only 1 school will be added, and it will be a private institution.
