I always enjoyed volunteering for hockey. Got to do some cool stuff (goal judge, penalty box).

In front of an announced crowd of 907.

And to think, some Miami fans thought they had it bad with Charlie Coles! IMO, they are a program headed straight in the wrong direction.

Seems like they have already arrived at rock bottom.  No fans in the community.  Alarming student apathy.  Etc.

Unfortunately, most of the MAC is right there with them.

Our lowest attendance at home is only surpassed from only one MAC team and that was BGSU Vs. Michigan State. If Butler, Dayton, and Xavier don't leave the A-10, I say we should heavily consider moving basketball conferences. The only thing that  benefits for our team is the low travel cost and having the MAC tournament in Cleveland. The good thing about joining the A-10 would be a better chance to make the NCAA tournament without having to win the conference, in general better games, better attendance, have prominent rivals with Dayton, Xavier, Duquesne, and Butler while still scheduling non-conference games against MIami and Marshall, and more money for the team. With out average attendance at around 6,000 we would be about 5th in the conference. 

Maybe.  But, Football > Basketball. 

Before adding any of my own commentary, I'd be curious to know what was meant by this as well.

I don't know if it would be possible but we would be a full-time member in the MAC and only a basketball member in A-10. A-10 doesn't regulate football and most teams that play in the A-10 don't even have football. I'm only suggesting for us to leave MAC as MAC isn't really known for our basketball.

Here's some stats I found:
2011-2012 attendance

86th in attendance out of all D1 schools at 6,177 average per home game. 

A-10 top 6 schools:
Conference Ranking 9th 5,556 

Dayton - 28th in Nation 12,154
Xavier - 39th 10,155
Temple - 58th 8,165
St. Louis - 66th 7,757
VCU - 70th - 7,622
Butler (wasn't A-10) 78th 6,599
UNC-Charlotte - 89th 6,001

With an anticipated A-10 schedule I could see our average increase from 6,177 to 7,200-7,400 and be ranked 71-73. Maybe even more? Who knows? 

MAC top 6 schools: were the only one ranked in top 100. 
Conference Rankikng MAC - 16th 2,973

Ohio - 86th 6,177
Akron 3,440
Ball State 3,724
BG -2,157
Buffalo 2,684
Central Michigan 1,362
Eastern Michigan 1,200
Kent State 3,475
Miami 1,797
NIU 996
Toledo 3,770
Western Michigan 2,745

We dominate our conference in average attendance. With a 13,080 seat arena, and moving into A-10 I could see us easily seating 10,000 fans playing Butler, Xavier, Dayton, or VCU on a Saturday or Friday Night. Plus still playing Miami and Marshall we can still have over 7,000 people show up for that. 

Moving into A-10 would increase revenue, t.v. exposure, better chance of making it into the tournament, more fans showing up, and just overall a great basketball conference. 

If we were to move it would make it a 15 team conference. If they had George Mason come also, it would make a 16 team basketball conference. George Mason averages 5,161 fans in a 10,000 seat stadium which would be perfect. 

Those are just my thoughts. Move to A-10 better overall conference and more exposure for Ohio. If people say travel in a concern, Butler, Dayton, Xavier, and Duquesne are within a 4 hour drive and service Indy, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Pittsburgh International airports. La Salle, Temple, and Saint Joesph are within a 8 hour drive and Philadelphia International Airport. Richmond and VCU are within 20 minutes of Richmond International. George Mason and George Washington are within an hour of Ronald Regan International. UNC Charlotte is 40 minutes from Charlotte, Fordham is within 20 minutes of La Guardia, and St. Louis like 10 minutes away from its airport.

Travel shouldn't be an issue at all in the A-10. The only schools "out their" are St. Bonnie, UMASS, and Rhode Island. 

Source for attendance:  http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/pdfs/2012...

Notre Dame, Air Force, UMASS

Well I didn't know about Air force, and I used Notre Dame as an example even though they don't have a conference for football. Yea I don't see how we can't be in A-10 for just basketball and MAC for everything else. 

Notre Dame still follows the rule because they're only in one conference. If a conference sponsors FBS football, you can't be in another conference for other sports. You can go independent.

why don't you want to kick redhawk when they're edown?

What am I missing here?  Our friends from UCF, Temple and now UMass joined the MAC for football only and maintained their basketball affiliation in another league.