(04-09-2018 06:56 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  It’s been bandied about that Arkansas Tech is the MVC’s 12 to Murray State’s 11.

* MVC announced an expansion committee last year
* MVC informed Scottrade Center of its intent to expand to 12 in their latest contract
* Missouri St’s president is in charge of the expansion committee
* Missouri St’s president publicly declared 11 isn’t feasible because it leaves MSU withoit a travel partner

Arkansas Tech fulfills the void of MSU missing a travel partner. It adds a new market and guides the league in its southward expansion with Murray. The Wonder Boys also fill a hole in the league’s color palette by wearing green.

More importantly, Arkansas Tech terrorized Concordia-St Paul this year. Concordia-St Paul whipped up UW-Milwaukee. UW-Milwaukee destroyed Loyola-Chicago.

The holdup this year is the league presidents saw Arkansas Tech is capable of winning the league from those results and it spooked them off. After Loyola’s run, MVC presidents will feel much more comfortable executing its plan.

Team A is not at all necessarily better overall than or even comparable to Team B simply because A beat B in one game (let alone because A once beat C which once beat D which once beat B).