I don’t disagree with a lick of what you’ve written.
Yesterday, I wasn’t feeling quite well, so I took it easy and turned on the Tulane/UCF game just to have some noise in the background trying to sleep, then I heard “UCF is off to the Big 12”, I immediately opened my eyes and said out loud “WTF” which prompted my wife to come in and check on me.
It also occurred to me that there was a slew of G5 conference title games on normal channels through out the day. The MAC Championship was buried on one of the ESPN’s, early in the day, almost as a second thought. I’m surprised that they didn’t try to make it a ESPN+ game.
your right, this conference while stable, surely is a ticket to no where. They absolutely refuse to better them selves, ever. It’s probably why the are always trying to put their bastion of mediocrity, Ohio, on a pedestal as much as they possibly can.