Loyola-Chicago joining MVC this week (Oakland to Horizon League)

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ISUCC said:
ok, I see what you meant. Makes sense. I can see WIU going to the OVC and YSU heading east sometime soon, within a year or two.
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I've read the Youngstown State boards and their fans state they're strapped for cash. Was a bit shocked by that myself.
 
Jason Svoboda said:
I've read the Youngstown State boards and their fans state they're strapped for cash. Was a bit shocked by that myself.
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I thought they were going to move up to become an FBS powerhouse. At least that was the cry from their fans a few years ago.
 
Jason Svoboda said:
I dunno. I think with both Wichita State and Missouri State being vocal about wanting to move, they keep it in the Eastern Midwest area which makes sense. I'd want a long term agreement with a huge buyout before I'd be willing to take a western school because if either jumped as they've talked about, those remaining western schools would be cost albatrosses.

My plan, and this is a wild one, would be to get the 5 dual member schools together to see if there would be interest to form a new conference with a 15-20 year goal to go FBS. Not sure UNI would bite because of their financial troubles, but both Illinois State and Missouri State are already looking at FBS. Then you scour Midwestern FBS schools to see if anyone wants to buy into that vision and if so, you work together as a conference to transition to FBS.

Don't get my wrong, I like the Valley, but I really dislike the separate conferences. I think that it fractures and severely limits membership as well as future membership. I also don't like, as I've stated multiple times in this thread, the different playing fields because of sports offerings.
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You and I are on the same page, anybody else like this idea or have a better one.
 
Really. I like Loyola of Chicago as a reasonable pickup for the MVC with the potential for improved coverage for the conference in Chicago and maybe the conference tourney in Chicago on occasion BUT Loyola of Maryland is the defending National Champion in Lacrosse. How many team national titles has the whole MVC won in the past 15 years?
 

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Loyola and the MVC

I am one who is not so upset about Loyola joining the MVC. I think additional media exposure in the Chicago market is good for all in the conference. However, after reading the post yesterday, I went to the Ramblers' website. NOTHING indicating they were switching conferences was there. I would have thought it would have been a major story.
 
DyedBlue said:
Really. I like Loyola of Chicago as a reasonable pickup for the MVC with the potential for improved coverage for the conference in Chicago and maybe the conference tourney in Chicago on occasion BUT Loyola of Maryland is the defending National Champion in Lacrosse. How many team national titles has the whole MVC won in the past 15 years?
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Is this a serious question? I'm assuming this is in response to my joke about getting the best of the Loyola's? Lacrosse isn't even a sport played in the MVC.

I guess I'll say North Dakota State's back-to-back National Championship's probably count for something since we're talking about sports that don't apply to the MVC.
 
Fiji Bill 72 said:
I am one who is not so upset about Loyola joining the MVC. I think additional media exposure in the Chicago market is good for all in the conference. However, after reading the post yesterday, I went to the Ramblers' website. NOTHING indicating they were switching conferences was there. I would have thought it would have been a major story.
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Go back through the thread and check some of the links. Friday press conference is the rumor right now to announce, so I'd imagine they won't have anything on their official sites until it has been announced publicly.
 
Bally #46 said:
Your confidence is admirable but what says that the MWC is their ONLY option. Conference USA has non-football schools among others. I also would like to hear, why I have your attention, why you are so confident that Loyola is the only one the MVC is looking at? You must know something that most of us do not. Are you in favor of a 10-school conference and if so, what is your logic behind that, especially when you know that WSU could be leaving and at least a couple others have been rumored to want to jump ship?
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Exactly which C-USA schools are you thinking of? Every C-USA school I research plays football. Unless you're dragging in the affliate members, which aren't exactly true members of any conference.
 

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Chicago area alumni: The Missouri Valley Conference will officially announce that Loyola University Chicago will be joining the league. Alumni, friends and Sycamore fans are invited to join the MVC for this announcement on Friday, April 19 at 11 a.m. (CDT) at Gentile Arena in downtown Chicago.
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From the Alumni Association.
 
I went over and read their sports message board....I'll say this, they are pumped up about being in the M V C!!!
 
another good read about Loyola's choice to be added to the MVC, Jason, I know you like the football schools, but as suspected, they were never given a thought.

MVC presidents couldn’t get excited enough even to consider visiting the Dakotas, thank God. Nor were they sufficiently intrigued by Denver or a crazy notion to return to Texas; the league having endured long-ago misguided expansions to Houston, North Texas State and West Texas State, which has changed its name and no longer competes in Division I.

http://www.pjstar.com/sports/wessler/x1431012745/Wessler-Don-t-pan-Loyola-plan-yet?zc_p=0
 
Thanks for the link ISUCC. It is a good read. And one paragraph is a cause for concern.

Chicago is a pro-sports town. College basketball in the city is not only an afterthought, it’s terrible. Loyola’s program is virtually invisible. At the Friday news conference to welcome LUC to the MVC, newspaper reporters from the Tribune and Sun-Times attended, but radio and TV outlets did not.
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It makes little difference whether it's the 3rd largest TV market in the country if the programing is not available to the viewers. There is no need for panic, but it certainly speaks of the road that lies ahead. It appears anyone thinking that The Valley gets a fat TV contract because of the Chicago market is living a dream.
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Only took the Horizon League how long? Complain all you want about Elgin and the Valley leadership trust, but at least it isnt the braintrust of the Horizon League.

If the HL is smart, they should go after Northern Kentucky next.
 
Five years later and Loyola is your 2018 MVC champs with a 28-5 record. Meanwhile, we're coming off our fourth straight losing record. Which team is hurting the MVC's prestige again???
 
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