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The quick run-down:
NCAA tournament money will be distributed based on merit. No more equal shares.
“You’re in the NCAA tournament or NIT or CBI or CIT, you pick up units. Nonconference winning percentage at a certain level, you pick up more units. If your RPI is at a certain level, you pick up more units.”
That begins with home games. Each program, Steinbrecher said, must have
a rolling two-year average of 15 home games to receive its full share of NCAA money.
“I think our coaches and institutions have a pretty good understanding as they’re preparing for the next year, probably where they’re going to be, assuming kids stay healthy and so on,” he said. “Are they going to be a top 100 program? Are they going to be fighting for the conference title? Is it a rebuilding year? And I think you schedule accordingly.”
This is also a conference that has its two best teams — Kent State and Akron — playing in the equivalent of run-down high school gyms. And the administration at its most nationally respected program, Kent State, ridiculously under-funds men’s basketball in the name of equity, to the point it just lost its second head coach to a fellow mid-major program offering to double their pay. Kent State ought to be Butler or Gonzaga at this point. That it’s not and is as much a reason for the MAC’s decline as anything.
Similarly, the West Division has been set back by a series of unnecessary coaching changes by self-serving, greedy and simple-minded administrators.