ptownbraves wrote:TheAsianSensation wrote:So it sounds like there are 2 big questions.
1) Does the MVC think 11 teams is a fine model? If so, we've got our two teams, it seems. If not, that leads to a second critical question:
2) Is 10 teams or 12 teams better? The sneaky fact about this whole situation is this: Murray St and Valpo aren't going anywhere else. If the MVC can't find a 12th team they're comfortable with, do they just settle on adding just one of Murray St or Valpo? They can (probably) add the other at a later date, but they can't reverse a Milwaukee invite once it's done.
Since the school presidents are the ones voting, I imagine the private schools don't want to be dominated by the publics. If they can't get a private school to join, I think we stay at 10 and just add Murray. If they can get Valpo (or more unlikely SLU or Belmont), I think they are more likely to go 11 or 12.
Privates were fine running at a 4-6 disadvantage, although they had a non-football Wichita making it a 5-5 football split.
A Murray/Valpo/Milwaukee or Omaha package makes it a 5-7 disadvantage for the privates, with 6 of the 7 publics playing football (Milwaukee or Omaha) creating a 6-6 split there.
A Murray only package makes it 4-6 again, but that 6th public plays football....although it's pretty obvious basketball runs that university, so it'd be status quo compared to Wichita being in.
A Valpo only makes it 5-5, clean split in public/private and football/non-football.
Murray and Valpo, with no 12th team....it's a 5-6 private/public split, and a 5-6 non-football/football split.
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