Another Expansion/Realignment Thread

[GoSIU88]

I thought ISUr was going to the BIG XII. At least that was the original plan.

[IllinoisState]

I thought ISUr was going to the BIG XII. At least that was the original plan.

Who said that because I want to live in their fantasy world.

[Adunk33]

I thought ISUr was going to the BIG XII. At least that was the original plan.

Who said that because I want to live in their fantasy world.

On the old college sports video games I'd start with ILST in the MAC for football and eventually would get the call from the Big12. Same for NCAA Basketball 10. The Big12 was always where I ended up.

[racernation]

I would like to reiterate the points made here about moving up to FBS. When, not if, the SEC and Big Whatevers splits from the NCAA, FBS will be toast and we'll all essentially be FCS anyway.

I would not move to the FBS for anything right now. The Sun Belt & CUSA are dumpster fires.

[Jsnhbe1Birds]

The sun belt is a very good football league

[IllinoisState]

I agree that it doesn't make sense to move up now because of what may happen. Although I could easily be wrong.

the Sun Belt is better than the MAC, C-USA, and maybe AAC at the very least.

[Adunk33]

MAC basketball is trash. I would not want to give up Arch Madness for Tuesday night MACtion.

I've always said that if they did an MVFC vs MAC annual challenge, the MVFC would win more games than not. I get football drives decisions, but going from a top 10 basketball league to 24th would be less than ideal.

Agree that eventually the top 40-50 schools are going to break off and do their own thing in an NFL kind of model. BIG = NFC, SEC=AFC.

[TBS_20]

Missouri State and Illinois State are leaving eventually. I thought about the best of the MVC privates leaving for the A-10 but that would be a huge conference. Then I realized the best idea would be to create a new league of the best of the two (and a couple others). It would be a midwest located conference with 2 on the east and 2 on the west.

Belmont
Bradley
Dayton
Davidson
Drake
Grand Canyon
Loyola, IL
Richmond/George Washington
St. Louis
St. Mary's

[Mikovio]

I thought about the best of the MVC privates leaving for the A-10 but that would be a huge conference.

"Huge conference"? The B1G will have 18 members soon, and the A10 will have 14 members after UMass leaves.

MSU and IlSU might be able to leave, but they would be sacrificing their basketball budget at the altar of FBS football, and in a few years they might find their new conferences lumped back in with FCS/MFVC. Then you're stuck playing bad basketball in empty gyms in Ohio and Michigan.

[TBS_20]

I thought about the best of the MVC privates leaving for the A-10 but that would be a huge conference.

"Huge conference"? The B1G will have 18 members soon, and the A10 will have 14 members after UMass leaves.

MSU and IlSU might be able to leave, but they would be sacrificing their basketball budget at the altar of FBS football, and in a few years they might find their new conferences lumped back in with FCS/MFVC. Then you're stuck playing bad basketball in empty gyms in Ohio and Michigan.

Im prmarily a basketball fan and basketball will definitely suffer. Long term it's the right move for the university, however.