MVC Basketball Budgets

[Svoboda]

Have a link to the source?

http://www.sycamorepride.com/showthread ... ll-Budgets

[Drakey]

Milwaukee, Valpo, Denver and Belmont should be pursued based on these numbers. Maybe Detroit too. After WSU leaves and the schools that think they are Football powerhouses take off, this would leave a better conference.

If you think Drake would be better off with a conference that includes the likes of Milwaukee, Valpo and Detroit why not simply join the Horizon League?

I only want the top 3, combined with the top one or two non-football playing schools from other midwest mid-majors, and whoever else want to hang around. There are enough basketball only mid-majors in the midwest to still make a good conference.

[Redhawk]

Milwaukee, Valpo, Denver and Belmont should be pursued based on these numbers. Maybe Detroit too. After WSU leaves and the schools that think they are Football powerhouses take off, this would leave a better conference.

If you think Drake would be better off with a conference that includes the likes of Milwaukee, Valpo and Detroit why not simply join the Horizon League?

I only want the top 3, combined with the top one or two non-football playing schools from other midwest mid-majors, and whoever else want to hang around. There are enough basketball only mid-majors in the midwest to still make a good conference.

There is a real strong possibility that the MVC and MVFC factions will split up and you would have your choice of the non-football Midwest Mid-Majors.

[unipanther99]

Splitting isn't as easy as it sounds. One group would have to form a new conference. You aren't guaranteed an auto-bid when you do that. It took the Mountain West a couple of years and a compromise before they got an auto-bid to the NCAA tournament.

[LJSites]

Have a link to the source?

http://www.sycamorepride.com/showthread ... ll-Budgets

Thank you! I've been looking all over for this. I'm curious to do some trending.

[Redhawk]

Splitting isn't as easy as it sounds. One group would have to form a new conference. You aren't guaranteed an auto-bid when you do that. It took the Mountain West a couple of years and a compromise before they got an auto-bid to the NCAA tournament.

That is true and the auto-bid is a must have so that's why I foresee a major shuffling of the conferences
with the MVFC essentially partnering with the Summit League, the Valley absorbing the best available Privates to become a Midwest copy of the Big East and the Horizon collecting what's left.

[Drakey]

Midwest Big East may be a little ambitious, but maybe a midwest West Coast?

[Redhawk]

Midwest Big East may be a little ambitious, but maybe a midwest West Coast?

Nice call Drakey....that would be more appropriate!