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It's always a good sign when bigger programs want your staff. It means that you're doing something right. It's just a shame he wasn't here long enough for us to experience some success before he left for greener pastures

On the road against a tough Ball State team was going to be tough as is. Assuming Castaneda is out, this is going to be an uphill battle. We're going to need more out of Hankerson this game and hope Tavari, Tribble, Hunter, and company can all chip in if we hope to win.

If you go back 5 years even the "bad" MAC teams were still pretty decent compared to other mid to low majors. Now those same schools are at the absolute bottom totem pole of college basketball. It just seems like the MAC has 7-8 teams that are actually trying in basketball. The remaining 4-5 really aren't putting forth any effort and are content being horrific.

Considering A&M has had one of the top recruiting classes the past few years, I doubt it.

NIU coach should be fired for not sending hard double teams at Enrique, especially with X out. On another note I love to see other guys step up. Perhaps a game without X was what the Zips needed for some of these guys to step up and have confidence to create themselves some offense.

This is what it looks like when you remove your best offensive player off an already struggling offense

It's not like these national pundits follow all these teams closely. They kind of just looks at wins and loses then assign grades. Personally, I'd probably give him a B-, but overall I'm optimistic that 3-4 years from now this will look like an A hire.

You're completely disregarding the 4 OOC games that each team played, which the MAC performed extremely poorly. This included multiple losses to FCS schools. The 48 OOC regular season games is a much larger sample size than the 6 bowl games. I'm not ragging on the MAC to just rag on the MAC. I'm doing it because it was objectively a down year for the MAC. Hopefully this years bowl performance is a sign the conference will be improved next year.

I actually didn't think BG was good this year to begin with. They just did enough to capitalize on a very weak MAC this year. Most other years they would have probably been a 4 win team given their level of talent.

Here is how the MAC performed during OOC play per the NET rankings. MAC Team's NET Rankings 30 - Kent State 98 - Toledo 118 - Ohio 125 - Ball State 132 - Akron 198 - Buffalo 253 - Central Michigan 277 - Bowling Green 292 - NIU 300 - Eastern Michigan 326 - Miami 327 - Western Michigan Overall Record by Quad Q1 0-21 (.000) Q2 4-15 (.211) Q3 12-19 (.387) Q4 40-22 (.645) Overall 56-77 (.421)

If it was to happen, I'd imagine the Hall of Fame Village would be the host. I don't see it happening anytime soon though as the village isn't on the greatest financial footing at the moment.

On the plus side, Hankerson has strung together a few good games. He seems to be emerging as that 3rd scoring option.

I don't think that's a done deal yet. They're just interested in hosting one. It would still need to be approved by the NCAA.

High school athletics just isn't big money like college athletics. Massillon's head football coach for example is the school districts 16th highest paid employee. He made 90k, which was 18k for being head coach and 72k for his other job responsibilities. Even if you get NIL at the high school level, I feel it would be players making <5k. Maybe a few isolated incidents in places like Texas where a player might receive a car, but that wouldn't be the norm.

Unfortunately I'd assume it would.

No disagreement there. It's harder in football given the volume of players needed to field a team, but in basketball building through the portal seems like the better option compared to recruiting freshman for this reason. Better to have a player that can help you now instead of spending it on a development project who bolts as soon as they can become a productive contributor

The downside is the G5 is going to be the minor leagues for the P5. You might get 1 productive year out of a player after spending 2 years developing them before they transfer.

I wasn't sure if this is the right place to post this, but I saw reports that multiple teams are offering Drake Maye $5 million to transfer. The transfer portal is becoming big business.

Thankfully we don't play @Dekalb. That place always seems to be one of those games.

I say we go 11-7 with 2 losses to Kent. 1 loss to each of Toledo, Ball St, and Ohio. The other 2 losses will be to random cupcakes in the MAC on nights we can't buy a shot.

I'm with you. I remember under Arth and Bowden when we were recruiting guys that we were their only FBS offer and they weren't even rated by rivals, people here were like star ratings don't matter. Going back 5 years to look at how someone was perceived out of high school is even more useless. Not to say he can't contribute for us as obviously we lacked talent in many areas. But what he did on the field in his limited opportunity over the last 5 years means a lot more than his star ratings coming out of high school.

The way we've played up to this point, no we can't win 3 games in 3 games. That's not to say we can't improve. Frankly, Lyles or Hunter needs to step up and be able to give us 30 productive minutes a night. We can play 4 small guards against Maine for large chunks of the game and get away with it. Toledo or Kent will eat us alive. Additionally, we need Hankerson to return to the player he's been previously and Tavari to become a better decision maker. If that happens, we can compete.

Toledo one year was able to add a P5 transfer that joined the team for the spring semester. This far into December though with all scholarships accounted for, not going to happen.

Edit: This Bradley team while good would lose to Kent by double figures. If we don't improve vastly by March, seeding won't be a concern.

X is 1/9 from the field with 3 TO. Outside of Hunter hitting a few triples not really any positives from this game. Burn the game film.