Post by motorcitysam on Jan 27, 2022 15:56:12 GMT -5
With the word that Loyola, UIC, and Valpo are being visited by the MVC for potential membership, the Titans are on the brink of being royally screwed.
Valpo has won two state regular season titles. Can the league afford to lose it's last several regular season champs (with Butler leaving last year)? What if all three go, to bring the MVC to 12? Then a) they probably won't expand further (meaning no UD); and more importantly b) The Horizon will be down to six teams - with some rumors that YSU wants out to join a FBS football league. It will lose its auto bid, its Chicago connection, and its most recent NCAA entry.
It's interesting that the MVC wants its new members in place by July 1. We sit here 12 months after Butler left and the Horizon has announced nothing. The A10 added GMU within weeks of Xavier and Butler departing.
Maybe we'll join the Summit; or the WAC. I feel like I've been punched in the stomach.
Looking back at this thread and I saw my comments. It was true then and it's still true now.
You have to bring something to the table and so far it looks like U of D isn't bringing enough. Our market is big, but ignores us. We've had some success recently, but it's very recent and not sustained. We're a Catholic school, but as the new Big East shows, that is more important to some U of D fans than it is to a lot of conference decision makers.
We don't really have anything going for us now that makes us a "gotta get" for conferences looking to expand. We don't have any really big positive attributes that overshadow our negatives right now. It doesn't have to always be that way, but it appears to be that way now.
I remember when the new Big East was being formed and Terry Foster of the News wrote a throwaway column implying it would be easy for Detroit to join if we just tried. It's never been easy, and it certainly wasn't easy then.