Gregg Marshall stays at Wichita

[unipanther99]

Great news for WSU and the Valley!

[Aargh]

When your name is on the arena. And it gets blasted over the air about 100 times during a 2 hour basketball game for a top-20 team on national television - about 10 times a year...

Charles Koch is getting a great ROI on his investment in Marshall. There's also some lesser-known donors stepping up big-time.

If Charles Koch really wanted to spend some money supporting the Shox, he could build a 60K football facility, hire Saban away from Bama and fund a WSU FB program for 10 years with no other revenue. That would cost him about a month of his after-tax earnings.

WSU recently shut down their 18-hole on-campus golf course. That land is being used for an Innovation Campus, where WSU and industries share space and assimilate students into aerospace, engineering, and business occupations.

There is a football-arena-sized area left as a 3-hole golf course in the middle of the business and student facilities taking over the golf course.

[March]

Great news for WSU and the Valley. Great news for Marshall too. Alabama's interest certainly worked in his favor.

[Snaggletooth]

MVC asst just texted: "Not the news we wanted. No one will EVER publicly admit that. But EVERYONE wants him out of the MVC. He is a Titan"

[DUShock]

And after a day of grown men turning into 14 year old girls speculating on shockernet the site has crashed at maximum capacity (at least on my phone).

LOL it is true.

[Championz]

Tons of Redbird insight in the previous Marshall thread. None in this one so far.

Ouch.

[mvcfan]

Reports are that Bama offered between 4.2 and 4.9 Million dollars.

[ShoxNAwe]

Remember a poster back in the day saying something about WSU being a sleeping giant? I remember several other posters scoffing. What say you now?

@redbirdRecon: $3.3 million will make Gregg Marshall the highest paid coach in college basketball at a school without FBS football. Let that sink in. Paid.

[Rollbird5]

Congrats guys! Great news for the Valley!

[valleyclimber]

The Marshall extension at WSU is great news for the school and the entire Valley, and UNI locking up Jacobsen for the long term...very cool. The top level MVC schools have shown commitment to keeping their successful coaches which truly strengthens the whole Valley.

And with LUC winning the CBI tonight and UE with a shot at a CIT title, it looks like the Valley is ready to make some waves nationally this next season.

Those top 6 MVC teams next season are going to be pretty darn good and this post-season has really shown how undervalued the Valley has been this year. Hopefully this coming season the Valley schools will truly get after it in the non-con and treat those games like they are tourney games....win and survive...lose and go home. All the MVC teams need a take-no-prisoners attitude when it comes to non-con games.

There's still probably some more shaking to do before things are done, but for now I've got next season going like this:

1. Shockers
2. Redbirds
3. Aces

Think those 3 should have a pretty good shot at dancing.

4. Ramblers
5. Panthers

These 2 could be NIT material.

6. Sycamores

Should be there for the CIT or CBI

then....

7. Bulldogs

See an upward swing for DU and possibly a year away from the CIT/CBI range.

8. Bears

Better than the bottom 2 and still with some good young players

and.....

9. Salukis
10.Braves

Could be an ugly season for SIU and BU. Like Barry Hinson and hope he can get it done, but think with a new AD his leash will be short. Guess the big upside with each team losing so many players is that you could bring in a few keepers.

Anyhow, I'm glad that the Valley has validated itself this post-season with the success of WSU and UNI in the NCAA, ISU Redbirds advancing in the NIT, LUC winning the CBI and (hopefully) UE's Aces winning the CIT.

Tons of young talent in the MVC, so the future is looking pretty bright....YES gotta LOVE it!!