(06-30-2016 09:40 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  NoDak,

Just a second there, professor. Are you talking about the MVC, or the MVFC??

Technically, if NCAA rules allowed it, the 10 teams in the MVFC could have decided to make that into a bonafide FBS conference itself, with those 10 teams becoming full members of that new FBS conference. (Name change would be needed)

While that would leave Bradley, Drake, Evansville, Loyola CHI and possibly Wichita hung out to dry, in the MVC, it at least makes some logical sense.


But it almost sounds like you're implying that the MVC would have moved up to FBS, with football members IL St, IN St, UNI, MO St, S ILL and perhaps WSU, then non-football members Bradley, Drake, Evansville and Loyola-CHI. Then you'd need to add two more full football members, I guess Idaho and NM St from the WAC. Doesn't sound realistic.

The MVC has existing contracts and NCAA money that is guaranteed. The MVFC has none of those and W Ill, USD, SDSU, NDSU, and YSU don't offer the MVC enough to even be on its short list of possible members. But somehow XDSU fans always get in a tizzy that they aren't included, as if they have inheritance rights.

Denver and NMSU would have come aboard. Idaho and Seattle would have been told to take a hike. Texas FCS schools like Sam Houston St, S F Austin, and Lamar would have been offered to get a Texas recruiting and media market presence. Maybe ORU too just to satisfy the nonfb schools. WSU would have started FBS. UNI offers all the markets that the Dakota schools would bring (MSP), so the XDSU's would not have been a priority add.