I am going to go a little easy on this guy because it is very apparent he must be young.
Northern KY has shown serious commitment??? Had a nice YEAR.
You do realize Illinois State has the longest NCAA drought in the conference, with the possible exception of Loyola? Unless Wichita bolts this year, I certainly don't see that changing next season.
UNI has had 6-7 seasons of decency. You do realize they play in one of the smallest gyms in the conference, with one of the smallest fan bases.
SIU, along with Creighton carried this league for several years in the early 2000's. The overall history of SIU is far greater and lengthy than both Illinois State and UNI.
Indiana State played in the National Championship game, and has made two NCAA's in the last 7 years.
Evansville, after having it's entire team killed in a tragic plane crash, proceeded to make 5 NCAA's, and at least 2 NIT's in the next 20 years, averaging over 10K a game throughout that period. Prior to the crash in 77, they had won 5 College Division National Championships at a time when the College Division included many of the current MVC members.
Please explain how NKU compares against any of them.
There is this thing called ebb and tide. Some programs never are good, most have good and bad periods, and some are able to sustain success and actually propel themselves to a higher level. Wichita is one such program, and is the only one in the MVC that can accuse anyone of holding them back. It is clearly Snow White and the 9 dwarfs, and watching one of the dwarfs claim superiority to the other dwarfs is downright amusing.
I do not understand the Northern Kentucky Love. It was a nice year but there is no track record. Oakland $hit the bed in the HL and Valpo was lost Alec Peters to injury right before the tournament and were down 3 opening starters from the start of the season.
NKU had a cake walk to the Tourney in the HL. They barely beat Valpo when they lost Alec Peters, NCAA pretty much screwed them on the suspension of losing their starting Power Forward most of the season (as well as got screwed by the NCAA for not giving an extra yr of eligibility to their PG from last years team), the 2nd leading scorer has been battling a serious stomach virus the last month of the season and their only bigs were 2 freshman... NKU barely beat an the injured Valpo squad with no depth at the of end the regular season game and finished 3rd place in the Conference behind Oakland/Valpo.
The game against Kentucky wasn't that great of a showing. One of their best players in that game LaVonne Holland will be transferring at the end of this season. On top of that their coach is already been in rumblings to be being looked at as a possibility for bigger jobs. If he were to leave that would be a huge blow for the very very young program.
NKU is a nice team and had a nice year and took advantage of the opportunity with Valpo, Oakland and Green Bay going down early in the tourney and not having to face them, but getting an invite the MVC after that? No doubt NKU looks like it turn into a nice program but it was one year and they got really lucky with the best teams falling early in the tourney. Lets not get ahead of ourselves, because they made the tourney and are fresh in peoples minds. They have nice facilities as well but MVC needs a consistent winner in my opinion with more then a year of history.