We just lost our school kinda like that in CU. Except outside of large fan bases and good basketball, we had very little in common
If you haven't picked up on it yet, we seem to be the fanbase that everyone loves to hate and we do have a few posters who play that up and give some reason to hate us. I believe WSU fans are a knowledgable group but we are extremely confident in our program and that doesn't always come off well to others. Even when we sucked, we knew where we'd been and had faith we'd get back to prominence and many hate us for that. But we're also a group that loves discussion/debate and can get along with everyone.
I'd love if your program proved it belonged toward the top of the MVC and we have that sort of friendly rivalry in the future. We used to have that with Illinois State, who seemed to be the only fanbase that had our back and was civil. That changed over the last couple of years with some issues between the teams. We had an assistant who left early to go to ISU in Dana Ford. Marshall asks all of his assistants to commit to two years so when Dana left it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, including Marshall. Then there was the Jackie "Chan" Carmichael incident where on a rebound he appeared to deliberately kick one of our players in the face/upper chest area which was followed up with a heated exchange after the game in the tunnels when someone on the ISU staff got into it with one of our assistants and security had to get in between them. There's a little hostility now between the fans, but I'm hoping that dies down.
And Bradley and ISU hate each other so much that it may take quite a bit for one or both to acknowledge you in a larger sense. That has nothing to do with you and everything to do with a long lasting rivalry between the two.
Didn't mean to derail this topic, just wasn't sure what kind of relationship you guys had with Butler. Hopefully you find someone in the MVC to fill that void.