I'm not sure I understand your post, Ramblerguy.
Neither the Track/Cross Country or Men's Volleyball coaches were "terminated." They were hired away by schools with much deeper pockets.
If Coach Moser had a highly successful season (e.g. reaching NIT or NCAA), you could expect a similar thing to happen. The difference is, in men's basketball Loyola might have a fighting chance to match a really high salary thrown at him by a larger conference school, assuming PEOPLE ACTUALLY STARTED SHOWING UP FOR GAMES AND PRODUCING REVENUE FOR ATHLETICS.
If you look around the MVC, Wichita State (avg. 10806 home attendance) and UNI (avg. 5379 home attendance) pay their coaches in upper six figures plus other incentives. We were at 1832 last year, the only school to average less than 3000. And a good 5-10% of our home attendance average (maybe more?) was opposing team fan attendance.
Now I know we have some special circumstances compared to Peoria, Carbondale, Normal, Springfield MO, Terre Haute, etc., but there's no rational reason for us to be below 2500. And here's another important point: in games where the home attendance was 1650 or more, we were 5-3. In games where the home attendance was below that, we were 4-4, and that was against mostly lower-quality teams (losses to Bradley, Missouri State, Southern Illinois, and Cleveland State).
In non-revenue sports, to be frank, there's not much we can do to fight off bigger programs (uh, like with football) that want to poach our winning coaches.
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