(07-12-2017 10:20 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 09:56 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 09:36 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 08:34 PM)MissouriStateBears Wrote:  

(07-12-2017 08:21 PM)NoDak Wrote:  If my suspicions are right, UALR has already been contacted by Mo St and is just going through motions that fb is not a viable pathway for them. Mbb would get renewed importance and interest in the end.

Your suspicions are wrong. We don't want UALR in the MVC.

That would have validity if it came from your president, but it doesnt.

Our school doesn't want UALR in the MVC. They do nothing for us. MVC doesn't want them either. It's about as stupid as your Montana to the Summit League crap. Which you got owned in that thread so bad.

Am an investor who frequents many investor message boards that spout crap about small companies as they are short sellers who don't want it to go up. Frequently been told my ideas were worth crap by short sellers, but later make ten fold gains if I show patience over years. This is just another example. My ideas were never refuted by thoughts on a Presidential level, but just by posters on viciousness with lies about the premises. This board, as most are, is full of con artists that think they know everything when they don't know crap. But they sure yell and scream at you and degrade you all they can but in the end their wrong. Meanwhile, I just make bank deposits and the screaming is just confirmation that I'm on the right track. Sometimes posters do have very good legitimate points so I do back off, but not very often. My WAC FBS idea was made null and void by deregulation, which is occurring everywhere in the business world, and I adjust my expectations.

Mo St president spouted off to the media that he was going to get a close proximity rival in the next two adds. Possible picks are UMKC, ORU, or UALR. UMKC and ORU simply haven't performed recently. UALR could be the pick for the MVC in a southern expansion strategy.

Murray St is almost assured, but Mo St likely doesn't want Milwaukee and will be pressing hard for its closer choice. The MVC also needs a baseball power to replace the Shockers. The Trojans could be considered, and then Mo St wouldn't be the furthest outlier. Not saying it would happen, but at least UALR has a possible alibi to leave when the FBS study doesn't pass muster.

Another thing to take into consideration: rivalries. Once again, I look back on my student experience at the University of Montevallo, a predominant female college. When I went to intramural games at the University of Montevallo, or to the Montevallo Falcons baseball team's games, the logos of the Gulf South Conference and its member institutions were very visible around the arena and the baseball stadium. The athletes and even other students told me about some of the rivalries that my school had with other teams in the conference, and it made for some very interesting conversation. However, after I graduated from Montevallo, the university decided to leave the Gulf South Conference, made up of primarily Div 2 football schools, although there were some schools that didn't sponsor football in the conference, in addition to my alma mater for the Peach Belt Conference which was a conference primarily consisting of schools that did not sponsor football. While my university did very well in that conference, there was something lacking: rivalries. The university president noticed that, and inquired to the Gulf South Conference if the University of Montevallo could rejoin. The GSC said yes, and so, probably next year, my alma mater will be back in the GSC once again, not because of an institutional fit, but because of a rivalry fit.

Most, if not all UALR rivalries are in the Sun Belt Conference. Take that away from them, and they're starting all over again, which can be very, very hard for both the athletes and the students.