Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment
Apr 14th, 2013 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Horizon League Expansion & Realignment, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment
Loyola will join the Missouri Valley Conference this July. The Chicago school was selected over other candidates to replace the departing Creighton, which will join the Big East. Illinois-Chicago has been falsely reported as being the first school selected as Creighton’s replacement, but ultimately Loyola was selected first. Schools such as Illinois-Chicago, Missouri-Kansas City and [...]
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Mar 20th, 2013 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: American Athletic Conference Expansion & Realignment, Atlantic 10 Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment
The Big East, comprised of the (7) non-football members of the current Big East, have added Xavier, Butler and Creighton to form a 10 member base. The 3 schools will provide high powered programs to the conference, with an argument to be made that the 3 schools are better than more than half of the [...]
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Feb 7th, 2013 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, Summit League Expansion & Realignment
UMKC will join the WAC for the 2013 season. They will leave the Summit, a conference that had it’s most recent addition come from the same WAC conference via Denver. The move comes as a bit of a surprise on the surface as Denver just left the WAC for the Summit. But with multiple Summit [...]
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Nov 4th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment, Summit League Expansion & Realignment
In a last second move suggested multiple times on this site, the University of South Dakota got their hail mary pass to keep them from leaving for the Big Sky. USD had appeared in line to join the Big Sky, following former Great West football partners Southern Utah and North Dakota as full members of [...]
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Jun 10th, 2008 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment
Last week, we brought up a potential name change in the Gateway conference. Well, it’s official. The Gateway is now the Missouri Valley Football Conference
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Nov 20th, 2007 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment
This won’t come as a real shock for anyone since it’s a name change we’ve been talking about for years since it makes the most sense (listening Summit League?). Confirmed sources including Northern Iowa AD Rick Hartzell have made it clear that the Gateway members are discussing the change. With 5 Missouri Valley schools participating [...]
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Mar 7th, 2007 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment
Not anything concrete, but Bryan Burwell of the St. Louis Post Dispatch wrote an article lobbying St. Louis to leave the Atlantic 10 and join the Missouri Valley Conference…the league St. Louis passed over just a few years ago. Some things do seem like a genuinely good idea at the time. Things like that second [...]
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Mar 7th, 2007 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment
The Great West Football Conference is down to three teams — 2006 Great West champion North Dakota State and runner-up South Dakota State officially accepted an invitation to join the Gateway Football Conference today. The move, which will take place starting with the 2008 season, leaves the Great West with just three teams: Southern Utah, [...]
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Jan 4th, 2007 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment
South Dakota State and North Dakota State have not been invited to join the Gateway Football Conference, but they have been asked to attend league meetings on Feb. 19 in St. Louis, commissioner Patty Viverito said Wednesday. SDSU athletic director Fred Oien confirmed the invitation and said that he and university president David Chicoine plan [...]
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Oct 28th, 2005 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, MAC Expansion & Realignment, Missouri Valley Expansion & Realignment
Just when you thought the “Western Kentucky to the MAC” talks were over, they come back from the dead. The issue seemed to lose some steam last month, but it appears that the MAC might be ready to extend Western Kentucky a formal invitation. Specifics of the situation are not known, such as setting a [...]
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