Swap out Youngstown State for Eastern Illinois, keeping the # of teams in the MVFC the same, but reducing the travel costs for quite a few members.
Bring Eastern into the Summit for all sports (they already participate with us for Swimming, Diving, and Men's Soccer).
If we also added SIU-E we'd probably want to add one more (or kick out someone) to make even # travel partners. Then we might be back to looking at Div. II schools looking to move up, although ideally, they'd be ones that don't have football...for example:
- UI-Springfield - smaller school, great baseball facilities but high-school level bball facilities,
- UW-Parkside - also small school, great cross country course and softball facilities, small bball facilities
- Missouri-St. Louis - if we really wanted to hit the St. Louis area hard...larger school, decent baseball facilities, small bball facilities