(11-30-2010 10:15 PM)uakronkid Wrote:  If the WAC folds, we would be in a god position to pick up one of their bowls. We continuously have the most eligible teams beyond our alloted number.

This whole UMass business seems to me part of a plan for something greater. I'm not just talking about 16 football teams, but 16 basketball teams as well. bringing up Umass and two other teams gives us great leverage to force them to bring in all sports along with Temple. Keep these football-only contracts on a renewing basis, and once you have four teams simply threaten not to renew any of them unless they join for all sports. Temple wouldn't make the move on their own, and neither would UMass, but as a group it doesn't seem as bad. If even one decides to do it, it changes things for the others, especially if they all come from the same basketball conference. Maybe this is the MAC's plan. Maybe I'm giving the MAC too much credit here.

No I think you are on to something. The MAC doesn't have the mass of a BCS conference to just gobble up any team it wants unders its terms. However, over time the seats at the BCS table will continue to fill and then conferences like the MAC will have more leverage. Especially for East coast schools there are only so many options.