(02-15-2012 11:48 PM)Observer1 Wrote:  

(02-15-2012 11:40 PM)Louis Kitton Wrote:  

(02-15-2012 11:34 PM)NoQuarter08 Wrote:  

(02-15-2012 11:24 PM)Louis Kitton Wrote:  

(02-15-2012 11:05 PM)Observer1 Wrote:  Let's say Temple declines the offer

And CUSA picks up UTSA, Akron, and UNT all of a sudden CUSAMWC seems like a lot smaller step up from WAC/MAC/Sunbelt than it is currently.

If The Merger does this correctly they can end the WAC, cripple the MAC, and Sunbelt still won't be much of a factor

So the plan is to cripple the MAC by taking Akron?



Go ahead and take Akron. The MAC will respond by adding James Madison and come out a better football conference than before.

I think he's saying taking Akron is not doing this correctly.

Yep.

It will be hard to "cripple" the MAC with the insane amount of market redundancy that exists within the conference.

You can go ahead and take Toledo, the MAC still has Bowling Green in basically the same market.

You can take Ohio and Toledo and the MAC still has 4 other Ohio based schools to work with. You can take Northern Illinois and the MAC will just upgrade Illinois State in its place.

NIU and Toledo may be the best 2 MAC football teams but they are the two worst MAC basketball teams. Ohio is the best overall in football/basketball but its in the smallest market.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you that the MAC an already irrelevant conference would be a force after losing its top 3 teams... It would take them 10 plus years to recover

That is what was said when Marshall left.....and now the MAC is listed higher than ever in the Sagarin ratings.

The MAC is resilient with its highly concentrated footprint. You can't just chop it up and make it go away like the WAC.