Comments on: Majerus, St. Louis Not Happy in A10

By: Robert Schonfeld

Robert Schonfeld — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:36:00 +0000

what’s next in realignment

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:02:25 +0000

They didnt get out bc Conference USA wouldnt allow full time members without football programs. I went to SLU when they were in Conference USA and for their first season in the A-10. Conference USA was not financially stable enough to support the bigger programs. The league was about to absolve which is why 9 out of the 12 teams left the conference in 2005. Only Memphis, UAB, and Southern Miss remained so to keep the conference alive they scrambled for lousy southern teams. Conference USA used to be something, I mean, Charlotte, Louisville, Memphis, TCU, Marquette, Cincinnati. Now it is nothing. Slu went to the A-10 because it could not get into the Big East. Also, at the time the A-10 provided better competition for Slu's main sports, soccer and basketball. The MVC is nothing special, maybe Slu would get into the tournament more often in that conference but I would rather have my alma mater play against stronger opponents than play teams like Bradley, Evansville, Wichita State,Northern Iowa and Illinois State.

By: Nathan Brice

Nathan Brice — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:00:13 +0000

More conferences should think about making that a rule.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:07:45 +0000

They got out of Conference USA BECAUSE the conference will no longer allow full time members without football progams.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:09:07 +0000

I live in the St. Louis area, and this has been discussed on talk radio shows and in the local media off and on for about three years.

The reason this is coming to the surface is that a lot of administrators at St. Louis University is closing their ears to any other option. Many of the alum have been ignored, but now they can't ignore the head coach coming out with this public.

Hopefully, (I said hopefully, not probably) the St. Louis University officials will re-evaluate the A-10 and take a second look at the Missouri Valley.

If, (a big if) St. Louis University was to head to the Missouri Valley, the Missouri Valley would go shopping for one more program to make it a 12 school conference.

Butler would not turn down the chance to move out of the Horizon. Thus giving the Missouri Valley a pretty good Conference.

East West
Butler St. Louis
Indiana St. Missouri St.
Evansville Wichita St.
Southern Illinois Creighton
Illinois St. Drake
Bradley Northern Iowa

By: Nathan Brice

Nathan Brice — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:55:33 +0000

Schools really need to get past academics if they really want to be good at any sport. It is a 19th Century philosophy that does not work in the 21st Century.

By: bevo

bevo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:34:31 +0000

I had a friend who worked in the SLU athletics office when SLU moved to the A-10. MVC wanted them but SLU saw itself as bigger academically than Bradley, Drake, Creighton, and Evansville.

SLU is a research university. Those private schools in the MVC are not.

Besides a lack of an interest from administrators, my friend said SLU was waiting for a Catholic midwest athletics league to form if/when the Big East breaks up.

By: Nathan Brice

Nathan Brice — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:34:57 +0000

This is tough for Saint Louis. They got out of Conference USA probably because they could not handle the travel there. Unfortunately, they did not choose the correct conference. They Missouri Valley would have been a much better choice because the competition is not as tough in the Valley and the travel would not be nearly as harsh. I am not sure if the Valley would want them, but I am sure that Saint Louis would gladly go there if given the chance. It would make so much more sense on so many levels for them to be in the Valley. The closest team to them in the A-10 is probably Dayton. The farthest that any team in the Valley would be perhaps Creighton, which is in Omaha. Rick is going to lobby all the way for this one!!