Valley leaving St Louis????

by **ihsi** » May 18th, 2012, 8:26 am

Open for bid after 2015 and Omaha and KC are making a push.

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by **DoubleJayAlum** » May 18th, 2012, 8:44 am

Something tells me that "financial concerns" by our eastern schools will keep the conference tourney from ever moving to KC. I'm sure the league office will hear diatribe after diatribe over the increased costs such a move will create and the financial hardships suffered by those schools' fanbases if the tourney were ever to be moved to KC. I suspect the odds of such a move passing a vote of the league's members are about the same as the odds of Kate Upton joining my wife and I in a threesome tonight.

Some of these same schools complained when arguably the best scheduling alliance in the conference's history was put together, the MVC-MWC challenge, because the costs to travel to MWC schools was too prohibitive!!!

by **bigdawg** » May 18th, 2012, 8:56 am

Where'd this come from?

by **TylerDurden** » May 18th, 2012, 9:41 am

bigdawg wrote:Where'd this come from?

Bryan Burwell wrote a column in the STL Post-Dispatch.

He mischaracterized a few things, but the larger issue was about the Rams and the CVC. Essentially, the CVC and the local STL government doesn't play ball - which isn't new. STL isn't the most progressive city in the world with these things.

They'll open up the bid for the tournament again when the deal is coming to an end. I don't have a good grasp about the likelihood of it moving right now, but KC has been involved with the bid previously and knows it needs to up the ante to draw the event.

Stay tuned.

by **ihsi** » May 18th, 2012, 9:56 am

Anyone in Omaha hear the interview with Elgin on the radio this morning? I missed it.

by **Ricardo del Rio** » May 18th, 2012, 9:57 am

While STL is fine with me, I would like to have the tournament in another city or other cities.

Omaha is fine with me. KCI is fine with me. Both would be nice venues.

Of course, the argument against Omaha is the home field advantage.

Then again, KCI would be a near home field advantage for the Jays.

Nevertheless, I don't mind either city.

by **ihsi** » May 18th, 2012, 9:59 am

Ricardo del Rio wrote:While STL is fine with me, I would like to have the tournament in another city or other cities.

Omaha is fine with me. KCI is fine with me. Both would be nice venues.

Of course, the argument against Omaha is the home field advantage.

Then again, KCI would be a near home field advantage for the Jays.

Nevertheless, I don't mind either city.

St Louis is a home court advantage for the Jays. And it's not a neutral one for WSU according to Marshall :dance:

by **valleychamp** » May 18th, 2012, 10:07 am

DoubleJayAlum wrote:Something tells me that "financial concerns" by our eastern schools will keep the conference tourney from ever moving to KC. I'm sure the league office will hear diatribe after diatribe over the increased costs such a move will create and the financial hardships suffered by those schools' fanbases if the tourney were ever to be moved to KC. I suspect the odds of such a move passing a vote of the league's members are about the same as the odds of Kate Upton joining my wife and I in a threesome tonight.

Some of these same schools complained when arguably the best scheduling alliance in the conference's history was put together, the MVC-MWC challenge, because the costs to travel to MWC schools was too prohibitive!!!

Huh? We are talking about adding a few hours to a bus ride for most of those schools once or twice a year. Not exactly going to make or break the bank for them.

by **ihsi** » May 18th, 2012, 10:52 am

ihsi wrote:Anyone in Omaha hear the interview with Elgin on the radio this morning? I missed it.

http://1620thezone.com/page.php?page_id=119

Schick and Nick podcast summary-
-St Louis takes Arch Madness for granted
-Sites on campus highly unlikely
-KC is next best option
-expansion monitored but only if they can add a school with MBB value

by **MVCfans** » May 18th, 2012, 1:55 pm

ihsi wrote:
ihsi wrote:Anyone in Omaha hear the interview with Elgin on the radio this morning? I missed it.

http://1620thezone.com/page.php?page_id=119

Schick and Nick podcast summary-
-St Louis takes Arch Madness for granted
-Sites on campus highly unlikely
-KC is next best option
-expansion monitored but only if they can add a school with MBB value

It would be interesting if it rotated between St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City. St. Louis' citizens don't know the tourney is even occurring, so outside of losing the term "Arch Madness", I think you'd get a good/equal response at the other sites.