(04-19-2020 10:07 AM)Older and Older Wrote: (04-15-2020 09:10 AM)KSUforever Wrote: UC just cut mens soccer. Now, they are hoping to join the Big 12 which does not have soccer but its still a massive cut. Of course, next year we wont have the highest AD in the league.
Cuts are definitely coming and it will be men’s sports at Kent vs Lacrosse.
Track, Wrestling as a guess. Baseball a long shot... but very expensive.
Bigger problem is NCAA transfer portal. This will reduce MAC to “minor leagues” for Power 5 schools. Can envision a Power 5 coach telling a recruit “ play 2 years at a MAC school get some seasoning and we will then bring you up to our level”. This will discourage our dwindling fan base even further. Lack of leadership from AD, Administration, and MAC office
not helpful. They can disguise all as Covid 19 cuts.
MY FIRST REACTION THE SAME AS YOURS .... BUT:
I think players seeing the likes of DP and Sanders staying, along with the likes of El-Amin, Flowers and ARoberts still floating around the portal over a month with elite options dwindling might be a bit of a wake-up call, at least when it comes to guards.
Guys like them are a nickle each right now in the portal.
Are any of those guys really going to find comparable minutes and status (No. 1, No.2 even No. 3 options) on the teams they wind up with?
Only on teams/programs either rebuilding or worse than the ones they are leaving.
Folks better step back a bit and look: YES! The MAC is a one-bid league. But it may be one of the Top 3-2-1 One-bid leagues in the country.
Sooner or later, the more players like Sanders, Pippen and all those seniors at Buffalo, 2019, stay instead of go, the MAC will burst the second-team bubble.