(05-26-2019 11:23 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-26-2019 08:55 AM)panama Wrote:  The A-10 affords them the ability to play a bunch of schools in the East that their fans and alumni recognize. Nothing wrong with that. UMass has to do UMass.

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A10 is mostly a bunch of small private schools that play in gyms that would embarrass an Indiana high school. So if they are no longer playing high level basketball, there's no reason for UMass to stay.

You must be thinking of the Northeast Conference. The A-10 conference has bigger basketball budgets and better attendance than the MAC. Below are the attendance averages for all schools with at least 4,000 in attendance between the MAC and the A-10 in 2017-2018:

Dayton -12,996
VCU -7,637
Richmond - 6,491
St. Louis - 6,235
Rhode Island - 6,216
Ohio - 5,597
St. Bonaventure - 4,286
Davidson - 4,276
Toledo - 4,239
George Mason - 4,087

Ohio had the largest basketball budget in 2017-2018 in the MAC at $2.98 million. That would rank last in the A-10. There can be a debate about whether UMass would be better off in the MAC because of football revenue and scheduling, but there is no debate about the better basketball league. The A-10 is the better basketball league for UMass.