UIC, VALPO, LOYOLA, UM-KC - Favorites for MVC membership

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http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/31...onference.html

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...issouri-valley

UMKC is also moving back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municip...ity,_Missouri) this upcoming season.

some fan reaction - http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172&f...t=11429629&p=1

Looks like some of the Valley schools pushing for UMKC. Not surprised.

UMKC was gonna go to the WAC, which to me is a better conference in the MVC eyes than the Horizon.

KC is in the heart of the Valley, as conference offices are in St.Louis.

as for UIC, Loyola and Valpo.

UIC has the Chicago Market ( they want to get into that market), and Valpo has basketball and the Indiana Schools.

Loyola to me seems a bit odd.

My money is on a 1 or 3 team expansion -

Milwaukee has the bigger athletic budget than any of those schools, but location , and media market not as big as Chicago, and does not own or play at the Cell and is way way way behind all of these schools in regards to facilities ( if we get the cell owned its bigger than renting it), and baseball is a joke.

Personally, I feel the move back to the Klotsche has destroyed any opportunity of getting MVC membership in July, even if we move back to the Cell for the upcoming 13-14 season.

Overall, Lovell dropped the ball bigtime, as he is not committed to athletics, and the Lacrone / Geiger tag team has screwed Milwaukee.

If we had our act together, it would have been super easy to have KC, UIC and Milwaukee and make the decision as easy as 1-2-3

The leadership on this campus sucks , as evidenced since Haidet has left, and under Lovell's term.

Horizon League forever -MILWAUKEE !