In-depth video on MVC expansion

[64NIT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQgb8m4j2ds&t=2s

Spoiler alert: Goes heavy into statistics and numbers.

[Da Coach]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQgb8m4j2ds&t=2s

Spoiler alert: Goes heavy into statistics and numbers.

First, to let anyone know, this is a pretty in-depth presentation by a sports vlogger who has no affiliation with the MVC. So everything presented is purely the opinions of the vlogger.
He spends the first 20 minutes or so evaluating the current members of the MVC in ways that IMO, are mostly irrelevant to realignment or expansion.
Then he spends the last 40+ minutes delving into possible expansion candidates. He evaluates these following schools looking at numerous factors, mostly involving demographics of the schools and the cities and metro areas they are from and how that could benefit or detract from the MVC.
These are his 19 possible expansion candidates for the MVC-
Texas-Arlington
Oakland U.
Detroit-Mercy
St. Thomas of Minnesota
Univ. of Denver
Lindenwood Univ.
Northern Kentucky
UMKC
UW-Milwaukee
Bellarmine
Oral Roberts
Nebraska-Omaha
Wright State
Univ. of Central Arkansas
Little Rock
Austin Peay
UW-Green Bay
Eastern Kentucky
South Dakota State

In the end, based on his extremely in-depth analytics, he concludes the top 5 possible expansion candidates are UT-Arlington, St. Thomas of Minnesota, Northern Kentucky, Wright State, and Milwaukee. He believes the MVC will pick one of these 3 - UT-Arlington, St. Thomas, and Northern Kentucky.
He calls Milwaukee a "dark horse" and Wright State a "longshot".
IMO, this vlogger is putting too much weight on some esoteric factors, and not enough on other practical factors like Private vs. Public, travel costs, if a new member can align with a current member as "travel partners", TV and media markets, candidates' facilities, past success and likely future success, etc.

For the record, here was a post I made citing a Dave Eminian article that listed 11 possible candidate, plus my list of several others, most of which were included in this Youtube video's candidates - https://www.bradleyfans.com/forum/sp...421#post520421

[BravesWinINStyle]

That was one of the best videos I’ve ever watched. The amount of research is insane.

I think the vlogger is right in incorporating demographic/enrollment/recruitment/alumni factors. When Matt Brown was reporting on expansion last time, he mentioned the push for Texas-Arlington had a lot to do with schools wanting to open up that market for students and recruits. Matt Brown talks with Presidents and ADs, so I’m going to assume that is a discussion point.