Meh. What did those Butler units do for the Horizon? Or Gonzaga/St Mary's and the rest of the WCC? They'll benefit us if we're the ones winning them for the conference imo.
DePaul tries to recruit Chicago, Illinois tries to recruit Chicago, Marquette tries, Notre Dame tries, the national blue bloods like Duke and UNC try.. it's a lot easier said than done to "build a fence around Chicago" if you're a MAC team
I think people wish we splurged and kept Dambrot. Seeing that Oats made the tourney 4 of the past 5 years and won a tournament game and got a 6 seed this year.. all netted him a raise to 850k, I don't think paying KD more than that to stick around would have been worth it. So here we are