- February 12th, 2022, 2:54 pm
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tyndal23 wrote: ↑February 12th, 2022, 1:10 pmThe highest recruiting rankings we've ever had was the 2021 class and we were ranked 130. 6 c-usa schools finished higher with western Kentucky pulling in the 52nd ranked class.Ill flame wrote: ↑February 12th, 2022, 1:26 am C-USA has won a first round game in 5 of the last 6 tournaments. That liberty win a few years ago has been the only asun tourney win outside of the FGCU win against another #16 seed in that time period. I enjoy playing in the tournament every year but the odds of us getting an upset in the first round isn't good right now and I think we are near our ceiling in the asun. In c-usa the expectation would be to make it to the second round when we do make the tournament.OK. I guess show me the recruiting rankings, then verify McKay has been losing recruits because we aren’t in CUSA. 3-4 Non P5 Conferences you could make that argument, that a recruit would choose higher level, but not a single 1 bid league is currently a recruiting hurdle for McKay. Same for Softball and Baseball.
There's no doubt in my mind that we will get better recruits playing against teams like nmsu and Louisiana tech on a regular basis compared to teams like Bellarmine and stetson. I also expect fan interest to be a lot higher, the overall quality of basketball is so much higher in c-usa.