Cautiously optimistic. Background reads good, see if it translates to running point. I think Mike Kern or Patty Viverito would have been a "stay the course" hire.Big time basketball background. Like the hire. Elgin was great until the last decade when he let basketball fall off.
Isn't the bottom half of any league garbage in comparison to the top half?I am very happy the MVC went external and found someone who lives and breathes basketball and has been around it all his life. I am curious if he has any plans of expanding the league. I know 10 teams is nice, we get to play every team twice, but the bottom half of the league is always garbage. Would be nice to bring in some schools who would improve the strength of the league.
many outside of P5+BE? NMSU is a former MVC member and they still prefer to find a home that includes FBS football.If we are going to stick to the current MVC footprint than were probably wasting our time. Creighton was not exactly in the big East footprint. Many other examples of recent conference re alignment where teams joined conferences where their travel increased greatly. I said this when mvc added Valpo, but I’d love to see Grand Canyon and New Mexico State. Both take basketball serious and have recent NCAA berths on their resume.
although I don't think that would happen (more likely AAC would look to backfill), the overall net would be good. If nothing else, maybe some CUSA members get dragged to the AAC, and we end up in the CUSA (football becomes D-I and is not in the MAC or Sun Belt).They need to do something bold. But they'll have to wait until the big12 raids the aac for Cincy, Houston. Memphis, central Florida. Then maybe the mvc can do what they didn't do in the mid 00's. Go after Dayton, st Louis, get Wichita when the aac fails and add one more like Murray State over Belmont to keep the private public thing happy. If they fail who cares, at least ther tried.
I think it's the Presidents, right? Not the ADs? Maybe both?Just out of curiosity, who chooses the new commissioner? Does a search committee find candidates and then all the schools AD’s decide?
I think it's the Presidents, right? Not the ADs? Maybe both?