Lusuperfan1 wrote:Much to the chagrin of Make MVC Great Again (who would probably prefer some Wichita middle school in the valley over us), Loyola comes in at 100 and the projected conference champion. I thought the preview was solid, fair about Moser's inability to win, although I think it overrated Custer and underrated Krutwig. But the biggest takeaway is that the top of the league is wide open and LU has as legitimate of a claim to it as anybody. I don't think we or anyone else is the "team to beat" like WSU. But my expectations for Loyola are still pretty high.
Jsnhbe1Birds wrote:Lusuperfan1 wrote:Much to the chagrin of Make MVC Great Again (who would probably prefer some Wichita middle school in the valley over us), Loyola comes in at 100 and the projected conference champion. I thought the preview was solid, fair about Moser's inability to win, although I think it overrated Custer and underrated Krutwig. But the biggest takeaway is that the top of the league is wide open and LU has as legitimate of a claim to it as anybody. I don't think we or anyone else is the "team to beat" like WSU. But my expectations for Loyola are still pretty high.
Loyola doesn't win based upon every expert.
Jsnhbe1Birds wrote:Some have Loyola winning. Some have ILSU winning. Haven't seen an MSU yet. Surprising.
VUGrad1314 wrote:Looking at these rankings I feel as though the Valley has been vastly underrated and unfairly punished for Wichita State's departure. Everyone is in such a rush to write the epitaph for this conference, constantly talking about how down the Valley is, how low the conference has sunk, and how this league is going to join the ranks of the other perennial one-bid leagues. Sure the league is down now but by no stretch of the imagination is it out. Look at the WCC. No one's writing their obituary and they're going to have as many teams in these rankings (4) as the MVC. The difference between them and us is simply that they haven't been plundered yet and they got a huge gift when BYU took its football team independent and joined up. How down can a conference truly be when a rival mid major conference needs two realignment gifts (Gonzaga being too far away from other conferences to jump and BYU going FBS independent and joining) to even stay near the MVC while the MVC has been the unfortunate victim of the past two realignments.(Creighton becoming a major geographical outlier in the Big East, and the AAC choosing to add Wichita State when they could have easily added VCU instead). The Valley is down but it's surely not out, and it is great to see teams like UNI and Illinois State realizing this and going for it. I just hope the overwhelming majority of the other schools follow suit. The time is now as we stand at the crossroads and the decisions made by the Valley schools in these next few critical years will determine its destiny.
Blers wrote:Leagues wide open this year. I'm with Superfan, i'm pretty high on are teams potential but it's only potential at this point; and i don't think many other teams in the Valley are slouching either. I see 4 teams that could be in the running for first, potentially 5 depending on how Valpo's additions go. Then beyond that i think there are 7 really solid teams in the league this year. One will be looking from the outside come STL. Should be a fun season.
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