Conference Officials plan to visit Belmont Denver & Oral Bob

by **ILSTU** » April 10th, 2013, 12:13 am

http://www.wjbc.com/common/page.php?fee ... &is_corp=0

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by **rlh04d** » April 10th, 2013, 12:54 am

Finally Denver gets included.

by **IllinoisState** » April 10th, 2013, 2:06 am

I thought that Denver said no right at the beginning of all of this, though.

by **Chuck A** » April 10th, 2013, 4:39 am

ILSTU wrote:http://www.wjbc.com/common/page.php?feed=31&pt=MVC+officials+visit+possible+replacements&id=44863&is_corp=0

Kind of misleading. The interview with Elgin took place on 4/5 during the UIC, Loyola, Valparaiso period. It was already reported earlier that ORU and UMKC had overtures and deciphering from the interview with the Denver AD, it appeared they already had contact with the Valley. They are unwilling to change who they are (read, they are content with what they have and where they are). It seemed the writer of the article culled some info from different places and put them together.

The Valley reps are now in the process of processing and presenting the info for Presidential voting. Announcements/invites should be in the next week or two.

by **TylerDurden** » April 10th, 2013, 8:40 pm

Chuck A wrote:
ILSTU wrote:http://www.wjbc.com/common/page.php?feed=31&pt=MVC+officials+visit+possible+replacements&id=44863&is_corp=0

Kind of misleading. The interview with Elgin took place on 4/5 during the UIC, Loyola, Valparaiso period. It was already reported earlier that ORU and UMKC had overtures and deciphering from the interview with the Denver AD, it appeared they already had contact with the Valley. They are unwilling to change who they are (read, they are content with what they have and where they are). It seemed the writer of the article culled some info from different places and put them together.

The Valley reps are now in the process of processing and presenting the info for Presidential voting. Announcements/invites should be in the next week or two.

Please stop acting like you know about the process and timeline.

by **shocker3** » April 10th, 2013, 9:00 pm

Denver would be a great choice. Their TV market is #18. The largest current market in the Valley is Wichita at #69. Belmont is also in a large market, Nashsville #29. Oral Roberts is also in a decent market, Tulsa #61.

The TV market they would be replacing, Omaha is #76. But none of these schools have as much support in their markets as Creighton does in the Omaha market.

From a TV market perspective only any of these 3 would help.

by **IllinoisState** » April 10th, 2013, 10:07 pm

shocker3 wrote:Denver would be a great choice. Their TV market is #18. The largest current market in the Valley is Wichita at #69. Belmont is also in a large market, Nashsville #29. Oral Roberts is also in a decent market, Tulsa #61.

The TV market they would be replacing, Omaha is #76. But none of these schools have as much support in their markets as Creighton does in the Omaha market.

From a TV market perspective only any of these 3 would help.

All we can hope is that, since we are looking at larger markets, that we can get the same number of people interested even though it will be a smaller percentage.

I don't understand why Oral Roberts is still being talked about. They are nowhere near what we are looking for in a team. The only thing that they have going for them is the Tulsa market which still isn't that big.

by **TheDrake** » April 11th, 2013, 9:32 am

That's great news. Denver and Belmont excite me much more as potential candidates than UIC, Valpo, Loyola or UMKC.

by **Aargh** » April 11th, 2013, 10:01 am

I lean towards Belmont. Denver is a travel concern for a lot of Valley teams. Belmont is an easy drive for InSU, Evansville, and SIU.

I think Belmont has a lot of potential. There's only one "major" D1 program in Tennessee, and there's not much fan interference from professional sports (certainly not as much as Denver). Belmont is also nicely located to a lot of decent recruiting areas and would have a lot of potential to improve by being in the Valley.

I think Belmont is probably the leader in being able to improve by being in a better conference, being able to attract more fans by improving, and being able to deliver their TV market.

by **MVCfans** » April 11th, 2013, 10:08 am

Aargh wrote: There's only one "major" D1 program in Tennessee, and there's not much fan interference from professional sports (certainly not as much as Denver).

Vanderbilt?