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I agree with that. I guess my question was more about the geography of recruiting though. Why would we change our recruiting footprint just because we're playing 9 (?) games a year in the great lakes region? I've heard that from a lot of people without any rhyme or reason as to why

Cleared for takeoff, let's go!

Question on the recruiting side of the MAC move, maybe this is better for the recruiting thread but I think it's relevant to this discussion. I've heard a lot that we will be competing with MAC schools for recruits and that we will have to recruit the MAC region. Why is that the case? Why can't we c...

Giving this a bump. 6:00 game time for all those interested, I'm going to try to make it. We'll see how the timing of the after-work shuffle plays out.

Since UMass is going to be handling the bulk of NIL going forward, will their NIL contracts be made available publicly? *Eldon, the top talent in the MAC is legit. There are real dudes playing in that league and when they eventually transfer, plenty of them end up being contributors on big time team...

I thoroughly enjoyed watching Kent St going into Olean and beating the snot out of St Bonaventure. There is definitely some good basketball being played and coached at the top of the MAC. Unfortunately the bottom is so bad that it drags down everybody's computer rankings. But I'm coming around on th...

The tournament is covered by the ESPN family of networks. If you click the link in my original post and scroll down below the bracket, game times and TV channels are listed.

The 2024 A10 championship game in Brooklyn between VCU and Duquesne had 7,805 in attendance, 2023 they had 8,162 for VCU and Dayton. The MAC championship had 7,099 in attendance this year, 7,955 in 2024, and 8,375 in 2023. So attendance for the MAC championship was less than the A10 this year, but p...

Pitino is a big time coach, one of the very best to EVER do it. Why would he come coach a middling A10 team? He was using Iona as a springboard to vault himself back to the top. Rick Pitino is very savvy and one hell of a coach.

In the moment / at the moment it made some sense to bring him back. As (I think Mike) noted, Umass was coming off it's first 20+ win season in a long time. They knew the MAC thing by then and Frank was still willing to sign on for it. They guy is nuts, but he would be the biggest name known in MAC....

The NIT is basically the A10 tournament. SLU, St Joes, Dayton, Mason, Loyola Chi, and St Bonaventure are in the field. The MAC got Kent St in, matched up against St Bonaventure. Other NIT games of interest: Matt Cross' SMU team is a 1-seed, Ronnie DeGray (remember him?) and Wichita St face OK St, an...

Mike, how do you explain South Carolina being a top 100 school? They won 2 conference games. Seems to me that their ranking was 100% a byproduct of conference affiliation and not remotely performance related. Play a tough schedule, lose nearly all the games, "earn" a decent ranking. That's...

The new NET was created to make the power conferences look better but stinks as a true metric. The NET is a horrible metric. Akron, who won all year is 91, decent but not great. A few spots ahead at 87 is South Carolina, who only won 12 games all year, and only 2 in conference. The fact that they p...

Goody, the period is on the lower right of the keyboard, right between the comma and question mark. Much easier to type because you don't need to hit the shift button like you do with the exclamation mark. How do you suggest that we recruit "some luck". Hoping to get lucky is not a strateg...

Sure. I have no idea what the issue with Chaz is and I'm not going to ask. I just know that he wants to be involved with the program.

Who are your suggestions?