MVC Football is back!

[Shockerman]

http://www.nmnathletics.com.edgesuite.net/pics11/200/JN/JNMKVBILUXHCJDO.20080606185139.jpg

Eat that Beggs! HAH. Congrats to the conference for a great name change.

http://www.mvc-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=39013&SPID=2899&DB_OEM_ID=7600&ATCLID=1478424

[skinny_uncle]

http://www.nmnathletics.com.edgesuite.net/pics11/200/JN/JNMKVBILUXHCJDO.20080606185139.jpg

Eat that Beggs! HAH. Congrats to the conference for a great name change.

http://www.mvc-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=39013&SPID=2899&DB_OEM_ID=7600&ATCLID=1478424

Great.

Start a team, shockerman.

Then we can get C0ldbl00ded over here to annoy everybody.

xoopsx

[DFW HOYA]

Now, let's see WSU football back, too.

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I like the slogan "New Name, Same Game" ...

[TexasTerror]

We'll have our first "Missouri Valley" football champion since 1985...

[T-Dog]

So technically now, NDSU and SDSU never got to compete in the Gateway.

[Thundar]

So technically now, NDSU and SDSU never got to compete in the Gateway.


You are correct

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I like the slogan "New Name, Same Game" ...Oh yeah, now I remember why that slogan sounds so good ...

[BearsCountry]

I hope the conference didnt pay for that logo, hopefully some intern did it on the computer in the office.

[stevdock]

We flew in and out of that conference faster than ever.

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http://www.tansustyle.com/photos/100811844595-2T.jpg

[bincitysioux]

Hey, xDSU fans: You guys change conferences more than you change jock-straps!

NCC to Great West to Mid-Con to Summit to Gateway to Missouri Valley

[GradBison]

I like it! MVC all the way baby!!

[IndianaAppMan]

http://www.nmnathletics.com.edgesuite.net/pics11/200/JN/JNMKVBILUXHCJDO.20080606185139.jpg

Eat that Beggs! HAH. Congrats to the conference for a great name change.

http://www.mvc-sports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=39013&SPID=2899&DB_OEM_ID=7600&ATCLID=1478424

Whatever works. Mizzou Valley is pretty darn-well respected thanks to great basketball, so if it helps with exposure, it's a good move.

By the way, I don't think that Youngstown's or Indiana State's membership in the "Mizzou Valley FB Conference" should matter much despite the contradiction in geography. There's plenty of precedence: University of Arizona & Washington State in the Pac-10 (Pacific Ocean is six hours away); Marquette & DePaul in the "Big East" (trust me: anything central time does NOT associate with east coast); Jacksonville State in the OVC (why? because the Tennessee River drains into the Ohio hundreds of miles north?)

That's just my two cents;)

[Hansel]

Hey, xDSU fans: You guys change conferences more than you change jock-straps!

NCC to Great West to Mid-Con to Summit to Gateway to Missouri Valley

the xDSU's have never competed in either the Mid-Con or Gateway

[ISUMatt]

I LOVE the name...

[89rabbit]

I like it!!! xhypedx

[JayJ79]

I like it! MVC all the way baby!!

MVFC, technically.

[jessesd]

Mo-Valley, I like it!!xthumbsupx xthumbsupx

[SiouxFallsJack]

I'm happy with the name change.xthumbsupx

[JaxSinfonian]

Jacksonville State in the OVC (why? because the Tennessee River drains into the Ohio hundreds of miles north?

(Sorry, gonna go all geography-nerd on you here ...)

It's actually worse than that. Tennessee Valley Conference would be a better name for the OVC, as there are more teams near that river than have anything to do with the Ohio. But SEMO and EIU are on the other side of the Mississippi, fer cryin' out loud. And even Jax State's not in the Tennessee basin; we're between the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers, which drain into the Gulf through the Alabama River, independently of the Mississippi.

I think this is a problem for the OVC (though probably not its biggest concern). I just don't know what the best choice for a new name is. The COSWASG? (Conference of Schools Without a Shared Geography) the SISBONBoT League? (Schools in States that Border or Nearly Border Tennessee)

Anyway, congrats to the MVC. If we revive the OVC-Gateway Challenge, we could re-christen it "War of the Valleys" or the "Valleys Challenge." Or not.

[skinny_uncle]

"What's in a name............"

[BearsCountry]

Whatever works. Mizzou Valley is pretty darn-well respected thanks to great basketball, so if it helps with exposure, it's a good move.

By the way, I don't think that Youngstown's or Indiana State's membership in the "Mizzou Valley FB Conference" should matter much despite the contradiction in geography. There's plenty of precedence: University of Arizona & Washington State in the Pac-10 (Pacific Ocean is six hours away); Marquette & DePaul in the "Big East" (trust me: anything central time does NOT associate with east coast); Jacksonville State in the OVC (why? because the Tennessee River drains into the Ohio hundreds of miles north?)

That's just my two cents;)

Mizzou is NOT the nickname for the state of Missouri, that goes only to the college in Columbia.

[Keeper]

for the OVC, how about.....

The Big Rivers Conference !