Valpo To Be the 10th MVC team: Football?

[Model Citizen]

Drake and Valpo are both staying in the Pioneer. They don't want to spend ,money on football schollies.

You say that as if someone is denying you a toy, just to be mean.

No state legislature is going to give them the money. No taxpayers are going to subsidize tuition to keep scholarship costs low. If Drake or Valpo jack up fees, they lose students to private schools that don't have $3-4 million football burdens.

Most private schools are D-III. The exceptions have access to a cash cow (SEC), wealthy donors, or have enough pre-athletic-scholarship major sports history that they want to stay in D-I.