Originally Posted by DallasFlyer
MVC targeting Valpo and Murray State per news reports as Wichita State replacements.
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Either one would be good.
Murray State plays football, which would most likely mean leaving the OVC in football as well.
Here is what is interesting. The Missouri Valley Football Conference is a completely different conference and entity than the Missouri Valley Conference. It is a football only conference that simply has the same name as the MVC. It's actually the old Gateway Conference. It decided it would rather be called the Missouri Valley Football Conference. I guess they liked the idea of confusing people.
So, Murray State's inclusion in that would not be automatic. In fact it has ten teams already and probably doesn't want to get any bigger. I cannot foresee the Ohio Valley letting them stay on as a football only member. So, while Murray State may make a lot of sense on the surface, the logistics of adding them could be more complicated than simply adding Valpo.