When will this MAC obsession ever end? Here are the facts:
First, McCune park never hosted the MAC (college) softball championships. You are confusing those letters with a old local high school conference. McCune is a boys' little league field, and it is embarrassing that we have been forced to use it. Our new facility will do wonders for our recruiting.
Second, our new soccer field is for our women's team, intramurals, and available for rent to local high schools. We will never start a men's team. Do the math. 20 new men's scholarships plus Title IX equals 40 additional athletic scholarships.
The Horizon League did rent the Kent indoor facility for the league championships. Until the construction of the WATTS, the league HAD to rent an indoor facility somewhere because nobody had one. Now the indoor championship will be staged, at a fraction of the old cost, in the WATTS every year (or until another school in the league gets a facility.)
Baseball rents Eastwood field specifically for recruiting purposes. Nothing more.
Finally, each MAC school spends two, three, four times more on sports than we do. What is their return for that investment? They are a one-bid basketball league; so is the Horizon. They send football teams to the famous Clorox Toilet Bowl and lesser attractions; the MVFC sends multiple teams to a national playoff. No thank you.