I do post here. Mostly lurk.

As far as reigning it in, I most definitely will not. To give a nod to Thompson's post above, "... what exactly are we getting for our money?"

What set me off was JGuyMAC's tweet that he had no "say" in the decision. What he doesn't seem to understand is that his say was months ago when he didn't speak up that the best rivalry game in this fledgling conference is being played in Athens, Ohio. His say was when he didn't tell the Commish that Ohio University has the highest glass ceiling for marketability, they must be treated as such (yes, in a conference with no faces, it doesn't take a Rockefeller to see you need to make one).

I won't even get into the Temple/UMass debacles. The number one rule in negotiation is not negotiating until you have to.  But he also had his say when he traveled to all of the MAC schools in the fall and didn't speak up that Eastern Michigan must be let go (contentious topic but I don't respect an opinion to the contrary). 

There is no one in the MAC office that understands, there is no one that is capable of making any grown man decisions.

The easy choice was to put Kent and Akron on TV two weeks ago. Because STO missed out on our near capacity crowd, ESPN had no choice but to overlook us. All this conference does is make the easy choice. And I would gladly take anyone in that shell company out to lunch and teach them how to do their job.

I dont have cable anymore because i use my xbox to watch Netflix and ESPN. Im one of those weird people that get on ESPN xbox every night and just pick games that look good or games that are really close and watch them. And I fell alot of sports fans do the same. Its nice being able to see all the scores of the games and switch to any one you want instantly if its close at the end or getting exciting. ESPN3 is much better than ohiobobcats.com just saying. 

That being said. Ohio got ripped off and im pissed just like everyone else. The MAC does nothing for us even though we have the best support in the MAC hands down.

I actually use that quite a bit.

Maybe the problem is slightly different then most of this group is making it out to be. Maybe the problem is that Dr. Steinbrecher has done an insufficient job communicating conference issues to the mass market that makes up his customer base. I'm not sure I understand Jeremy Guy's role.

Is he similar to the White House Press Secretary or is he just a social media wonk? In any case, a Steinbrecher State of the Union would probably be a welcome addition, or at least some twitter/FB Q&A, etc where he answers a bunch of pre-screened, sterilized, planted questions.

Again, it would be helpful to know everyone's role in this (and other) scandal before we go attacking the wrong people. Maybe it just comes down to Norby and Co making uninformed decisions even at the behest of Steinbrecher and Co. Maybe it was Jeremy Guy that failed. Maybe Steinbrecher. Maybe it was Memphis. Southern Summer Nights? You? Me? Sure feels right.

Still waiting for Borna to answer the question I posed earlier today: Why do you say we're on the verge of "taking the next step" as a program? What evidence do you have from a talent and/or performance standpoint?

If we would have put the Miami game on TV, we would have had to change the time.  So that has nothing to do with the MAC.  The MAC does some dumb stuff, but all in all they've done a great job with putting together these TV deals.  Sometimes things don't work out for us, and as much as we want to believe it, we are not bigger than the conference overall.

Or we might just be the best.

Bobcats fans putting the MAC on blast, I love it, and I agree, we got hosed.

I hope this puts a big chip on the team's shoulder and they go ham on UNC- Ironton.

Whether our fans were right or wrong about the slight, our conference's media guy probably should get a little thicker skin and not disrespect the largest MAC fan base(in hoops at least). I don't take anything other than a poke in his comment above. Someone in his position needs to be more careful, regardless of what is being tossed his direction.

Just my opinion, but the guy (Guy) shouldn't have said anything if he didn't know the who/what/when/where's of the BracketBuster situation. If he heard 3 'TV' games and ran with it, and it ended up being EMU/NIU/Toledo vs Bryant/NJIT/Marietta on espnOcho.com, he wouldn't declare the MAC well represented on TV. So for him to do so without knowing the facts was a mistake. And his second was to not own it, say oops, or "I understand", and instead he let the situation fester. The third through ____ mistakes were for him to poke the bear with his tweets/re-tweets, and basically appear as someone who is absolutely not a director of communications for our conference.

I would imagine he regrets all that has happened here, but the snowball effect seems to happen much more quickly with social media.

I for one do get a little enjoyment that our fans are upset at a slight. It's because we care. Nobody around the rest of the MAC is speaking up because apathy rules most other places.

ben

Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah,...........Blah.

Just win the game. This year - and the next 5...........................

Looked it up the other day.  I think we've been in 8 previous bracketbusters, after sitting out the first two.  Illinois State was a normal home/home schedule and not part of BB, IIRC.

@Butler-loss, OT
@Detroit-Win
Samford-Win
@New Mex St-Loss  TV
Mason- Win-TV
@EKU-Loss
Wright St- Win
@Winthrop-Win

Return games, we won Butler, Det (sweep), New Mex St, EKU, Wright (sweep).  Lost @Samford, and @Mason. 

5-3 in Bracketbusters, 3-0 at home, 2-3 on the road.  1-1 in TV games
5-2 in return games, 4-0 at home, 1-2 on road.

Overall 10-5.  7-0 at home, 3-5 on the road.