Dansen wrote:
Ben and Marques both on Twitter advocating for Loyola to go to the Big East (or A10) to keep Porter. Love those guys, but also hope that Loyola not moving to a bigger conference isnt the nail in the coffin for PM. Those are hard things to manage, especially with DePaul in the way
Can’t agree more, while that certainly sounds exciting and flashy, the MVC is a great conference, competitive teams, lots of tradition, and good fans. MVC took us when we were not a great team, and hopefully we should show more loyalty. It doesn’t always work out either, look at DePaul and Wichita St, both are in big conferences and DePaul can’t advance above the bottom of the conference. Wichita state is still a good basketball program but they haven’t had the heights they did prior to leaving. It’s a tough call and as Dansen said, sometimes you don’t get the call. Guess time will tell, but a lot of us say we want to be Gonzaga, they didn’t leave and still achieve incredible heights while in the WCC. It is possible to be a perennial top 25 team in a smaller conference.