BCPanther wrote:Was double secret probation involved?? Maybe a sealed envelope or two?? UNI, Illinois State, NDSU, and probably SIU are all above MSU in the jump up pecking order. You guys are a financial and competitive dumpster fire right now, especially in your football program. You're holding on to TA simply because you can't find the money to buy out one year of his middle of the pack MVFC salary.
Anyway, if Appy and GA Southern want to go, this is their ticket.
All of what what you said above is laughable... TA was retained partly because of his half million buyout but mostly because the team showed some fight towards the end of the year (aside from the UNI stomping). With all of that said none of the MVFC teams you mentioned are in a better position with NDSU and UNI being in the worst spot. It is not about competing it is about Media Market's and ad revenue. Springfield, Mo offers more of those then any of the leagues counter parts. As for Casey, he has sources don't know who since he is not here employee at MSU and from all my conversations there was no envelope, and outside of conversations with multiple conferences at various time MSU was not actively soliciting conferences. President Smart said yesterday, we are not looking to leave The Valley, we would have to be wanted for us to make a decision to move on.