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Post by indyvalpo on Feb 11, 2007 20:09:20 GMT -5
By 1994, the Mid-con was reeling after losing 6 teams to the HL and MAC. Teams were needed so they raided the East Coast Conference, perhaps the only conference even remotely as far flung as the Mid-Con became. One of those schools was Troy State from Troy, Alabama. They were very competitive in their 3 seasons with a .538 winning percentages but those three years were the 1st three of the Valpo dynasty, so no championships. They jumped at the first chance to join a conference in the south by joined the Trans-American conference (now the American Sun). Troy made at least one NCAA appearance from there. The sports there continue to grow as they now play big-time football in the SunBelt and have been to a lesser bowl. Valpo certainly had little in common with this southern university.
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Post by crusaderjoe on Feb 11, 2007 20:58:10 GMT -5
Of all its members, geographically speaking, I believe Troy (they have since dropped the State) was located the farthest south of any Mid-Con school.
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