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I was wondering how much the opponents you play have an impact on your interest in watching your team play.

If your team moved to a new conference (like one with a lot less successful programs) would you watch the team less?

Or would you continue to watch your team the same amount, even if you would prefer they play better programs?

The Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference was a conference for junior colleges (2 year schools).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermountain_Collegiate_Athletic_Conference

The conference only had 10 members throughout it's history but the conference has really grown up since then!

• Boise State (D1, Mountain West)
• Utah Tech (D1, WAC)
• Colorado Mesa (D2, RMCC)
• Southern Utah (D1, WAC)
• Weber State (D1, Big Sky)
• Westminster (D2, RMAC)

Offseason... Thought this was interesting.

We are focused on D1 but NIL money is an option for all college players.

What's to stop a D3 donor or collective from bringing in D1 level talent?

I am curious if people are more interested, or less interested, in college sports as a result of the changes in the NIL era.

Booster NIL money is driving so much player movement that it seems to be clear that eventually the money will be able to dictate team success.

This has been wondering how schools and conferences would handle a flood of money into a member school.

For instance, the MEAC is a historically weak conference with little money.

But if there were a booster that started funneling a few million dollars a year of NIL into a schools athletic department, would the other schools in the conference...

1. Enjoy the rise in standing by the school nationally?
2. View that school as not being a peer and removing championships opportunities from all the other schools in the conference that compete at a mor

I hear a lot of people talking about hiring an alum to be their coach since they will be loyal to the program and stay long term.

Is there any evidence of this actually being the case?

Posted this in another thread and thought others might like to see it.

College playing experience of coaches in the Sweet 16. This info is from Wikipedia.

At the end of the 2019 Basketball season, fans of Richmond basketball put up a billboard in the city calling for their coach to be fired.

The team had finished 10th in the Atlantic 10 with a 13-20 record.

https://www.12onyourside.com/2019/02/21/spiders-fans-post-fire-mooney-billboard/

The AD decided to keep Mooney at the helm of the program with a lot of vocal complaints from the fans regarding the AD's decision.

In the five year's since that billboard went up...

I am curious what the Loyola Chicago fans think about their change from the MVC to the A10.

Now that you've had good and bad seasons in the conference and learned about the new teams, what are your thoughts on the conference and how it compares to your old conference?

Are you happy with the move? Do you miss the MVC?

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With UMass leaving, the A10 is at 12 teams. This had me thinking...

Should the A10 buy-out schools in the conference to better serve everyone?

If La Salle and Fordham were to leave the A10 for the MAAC and the Patriot League, they both would be better off.

I was looking over the KenPom data and this is what I see....

Current A10 without UMass, La Salle, and Fordham

The A10 would have been significantly stronger with the middle of the pack teams

Every Week Last Year I put out a list of NCAA At-large Contenders.

Currently the list is 70 teams.

Teams can move in and out through the season. The list is based on Sagarin ratings.

Teams making the list: