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Murray State heading to the Missouri Valley
33Y0:
https://twitter.com/DomIzzoWDAY/status/1479501218506592259?s=20
"Murray State makes it official, they are leaving the Ohio Valley for the Missouri Valley Conference. This statement says there are active discussions between the Missouri Valley Football Conference and Murray State on membership."
Wick250:
This is potentially very good news for us. I doubt that anybody wants to play more than 8 league games. So if the MVFC expanded to 12, how would you fairly decide which 8 teams a school played in a given year? The only feasible way is by forming divisions. Six schools on each side of the Mississippi.
YSU, Indiana State, Illinois State, Western Illinois, Southern Illinois, Murray State
NDSU, SDSU, South Dakota, North Dakota, Northern Iowa, Missouri State
Each year you play the 5 teams from your own division and then 3 from the other. Rotate the 3 after a 2-year cycle.
For reasons of geography and rivalries, the Dakota schools always play each other. Likewise, the Illinois schools and Indiana State always play. Murray would just be happy to be in a much better basketball conference. YSU obviously would be pleased.
The two losers, UNI and Missouri State. Who cares.
guinpen:
--- Quote from: Wick250 on January 07, 2022, 04:38:59 PM ---This is potentially very good news for us. I doubt that anybody wants to play more than 8 league games. So if the MVFC expanded to 12, how would you fairly decide which 8 teams a school played in a given year? The only feasible way is by forming divisions. Six schools on each side of the Mississippi.
YSU, Indiana State, Illinois State, Western Illinois, Southern Illinois, Murray State
NDSU, SDSU, South Dakota, North Dakota, Northern Iowa, Missouri State
Each year you play the 5 teams from your own division and then 3 from the other. Rotate the 3 after a 2-year cycle.
For reasons of geography and rivalries, the Dakota schools always play each other. Likewise, the Illinois schools and Indiana State always play. Murray would just be happy to be in a much better basketball conference. YSU obviously would be pleased.
The two losers, UNI and Missouri State. Who cares.
--- End quote ---
Makes sense and would be good for YSU. Love your last line, I agree
guinpen:
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (WKBN) – The Missouri Valley Football Conference, of which Youngstown State is a member, voted to extend an offer of membership to Murray State University.
The move establishes the Racers Football program as the 12th member of the FCS conference.
Murray State, which is located in Murray Kentucky, finished last season with an overall record of 6-5.
“With Murray State becoming the 12th Missouri Valley Football Conference member, we have stabilized and strengthened FCS football in the Midwest and cemented the MVFC’s position as the premier FCS football conference in the nation,” said MVFC Commissioner Patty Viverito. “This course of action makes good sense for our conference, our member institutions, our fans and most importantly our student-athletes. With this move, we will turn long-standing traditional games with neighboring schools into conference rivalries and open the way for equally satisfying new rivalries throughout the league.”
Murray State will play its’ first season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference in the fall of 2023.
The Racers will play the 2022 season in the Ohio Valley Conference, their 75th and final season in the league.
“As we enter a new era of Racer Athletics and begin to play in the Missouri Valley Conference, I am extremely proud that we will be playing football in the Missouri Valley Football Conference,” said Murray State University President Bob Jackson. “This is the best FCS Conference in the country and it will benefit our student-athletes, our program and the university as a whole as we move forward. I want to thank Commissioner Patty Viverito and the MVFC Presidents Council for this invitation and vote of support.”
Wick250:
Viverito also stated that the conference will not use divisions. Rather, you would play everybody at least four times in six years! Sorry, that is not practical. You know that the Dakota schools will insist on yearly matchups. The Illinois schools and Indiana State (right on the Illinois border) would rightly also insist on playing each other every year? Divisions is the only answer. And it will mean far fewer trips to the Dakotas for us.
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