Interesting article with quotes from MAC coaches about the state of the conference.
https://x.com/dbriggsblade/status/1851727953165488277?s=46&t=Mwc894NmZi2sl3ixPUgjFA
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Appears that Miami wasn’t mentioned at all, for good or bad reasons.
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There’s a common theme with the top jobs and hardest to recruit against. They all align with most investment. I don’t know that you’ll really find anyone here who thinks Miami has invested adequately in basketball over the last decade plus. But it does feel like the winds are changing.
Miami was mentioned once about being hard to recruit against if strong academically
Yep:
Which MAC school is your toughest competition on the recruiting trail?
“I would probably say Toledo, but, quite honestly, I don’t beat anyone. I beat no one for anyone. When we recruit against Ohio, we usually lose. When we recruit against Toledo, we usually lose. When we recruit against Akron, we usually lose. When I try to get a high-achieving academic kid against Miami, we usually lose. You can put all four of them in there.”
This also sounds like our non-con scheduling in the recent past:
“We need to get our NET ranking back where it was, and that means the bottom teams need to get better. You can’t have teams playing four guarantee games [at big schools] and then offset that by playing three non-Division I teams.”