I agree with BEARZ77.
The selection process is really the big issue. There's no way a team like Kansas State, Wake Forest, or Vanderbilt should have made it over the Redbirds this past season. There was even talk that if Wichita State had not of beaten ILST that Wichita wouldn't have made it. The fact that Wichita was seeded 10th was also extremely unfair.
There were only three at large bids given to mid majors this past season. Two from the Atlantic 10 (Dayton and VCU) and one from the WCC (St Mary's). Dayton and VCU have both had a lot of NCAA tournament success and there is also east coast bias involved as well. St Mary's finished 28-4 and had too good of a record to keep them out, especially when 3 of those losses were against a top 4 team (Gonzaga).
The only way the MVC is going to get 2 bids from now on is if we just happen to have one team that is dominant and wins 28 or more games; and that team happens to get beaten in the semifinals or finals of the MVC tournament. The system is set up to allow more and more big schools in and keep less and less small schools out.
I just know that they were trying to keep Middle Tennessee out because they had a "bad loss" at UTEP. I found it kind of funny since UTEP finished a terrible 4th in the CUSA! (MTSU would have had a 29-5 record had they of lost the CUSA championship game.)
If a top team from the ACC (or any other power conference) went on the road and lost to a bottom dweller in the ACC then it wouldn't even affect them. If anything they'd just talk about the strength of the conference from top to bottom and it would move the bottom dweller into the bubble conversation. Most of these teams from these power conferences play almost all home games in non-conference play to make their overall record look good and then they hope that they can finish at or close to .500 in conference play. If you don't believe me look up some of their schedules.
But back to the MVC, I think we should try to add quality programs that are capable of winning tournament games should they make it that far. But as far as getting 2 bids goes, I'm not entirely confident that we'll ever get to that point again. I hope I'm wrong, but with all these big schools gaming the system it's only going to get tougher. I think going to 12 has more to do with conference stability than anything else. There's strength in numbers. We just have to be careful that whatever decision we make doesn't mess up anything in our football league (MVFC).