(06-18-2012 10:25 AM)Karl Wrote:  

(06-16-2012 12:51 PM)DICK Wrote:  

(06-15-2012 02:32 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  I think if the MAC can help it, they want to keep Toledo.... men and women's athletics are very solid. Great athlete scholars. Larger market than any other city in the MAC but Buffalo... We're also on TV more than every other school in the West.

I am sure there are many great athlete scholars at UT, however, I was a little surprised by that comment as I seem to remember reading about UT men's basketball and football receiving penalties for low APR's. Of course that is only a small portion of UT athletes, but those are the ones which most people follow and the ones I was aware of.

You could certainly be forgiven for that. Both sports earned that reputation the old fashioned way...they earned it. When you combine kids with a casual attitude about school with loose discipline, that's what you get. OTOH, when you have coaches that make school THE priority, the kids respond. That athletic department as a group had a gpa over 3.0 again (a record 3.266 to be precise). Men's basketball, the mess of the department, not only scored over a 3.0, but stopped the bleeding with the massive turnover. The APR there will be fine after this year. Football was the only team that didn't beat a 3.0...they missed it with a gpa in excess of 2.90...I read somewhere (but can't find story) that it was a 2.99. They're definitely headed in the right direction.

I'd like to add to that. The football team has not been under the APR in a year or two now. I believe last year Toledo football had the highest graduation rate of all MAC schools for football. The basketball team is still paying the price for when Cross was the coach. I understand that they will be out of the APR doghouse when the next APR results come out for next season.

(06-13-2012 11:22 PM)Rocketdamus Wrote:  Is there a date where you have to declare if you intend to leave the conference before you reup for another year?

Is the an exit fee? I see the CAA just went from 250,000 to 1,000,000.

Just asking ....

To my knowledge, there are no such dates or amounts in the MAC outside of the contracts that Temple and UMass signed (and perhaps Marshall and UCF before them, though I'm not sure.)

It's not completely unique. The SEC prides itself on having no grant of rights or exit fee, because well, who would ever want to leave the SEC.

In the MAC's case, it's probably a combination of lack of interest from other leagues in the core 12 and/or other leagues not being a good enough improvement to be worthwhile to move anyway.

(06-17-2012 10:32 PM)Louis Kitton Wrote:  The problem the Gallia is this conference doesn't have much room to grow.

Why the need to grow? Because everybody else wants to?

Or, is it just so that you will have something to post about?