Dissolution of Mid Major Conferences

[MissouriValleyUnite]

Twitter/X is brain rot. Its societal function is a toy for the terminally online.

[Kyle_Saluki_17]

Twitter/X is brain rot. Its societal function is a toy for the terminally online.

Replace “Twitter/X” with “social media” and you got it.

[30ASaluki]

It’s hard to read some of this “malarkey” — not talking about the original post on X — and not bust a gut lmao.

Would you care to enlighten the common rabble?

[smidge34]

No, I wouldn’t.

[squirrel]

The Valley is in great shape simply because we're not real poachable. Our biggest threat of defection is programs choosing to move down rather than another league coming for our programs.

There's an advantage to having your three best long term successful programs in Des Moines, Peoria and Cedar Falls...

There's a Belmont caveat there but they'd have to go on a run of sustained success in this league.

I think Drake & Belmont are candidates to move up if they keep winning in the near future. Illinois State is a candidate too if they think FBS football is more valuable to them.

Where is Drake going to go? The Big East stuff is absolute Fantasy Land and the A10 isn't splitting the pie another way and adding big time travel cost to add Des Moines plus Drake doesn't really recruit regular students from the East Coast, their base is Chicago, Minneapolis and KC. The move doesn't make sense for either side.

So, just because they don't, that means they shouldn't consider growth into a national profile? Bradley has always recruited from the east coast and randomly Colorado. No reason Drake can't set their sights more broadly. That's how institutions grow.