(07-31-2017 09:42 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  

(07-31-2017 07:47 PM)Steve1981 Wrote:  

(07-31-2017 07:15 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  UMass still hasn't found a Conference?

I think the only FBS conference you would've fit in is the MAC, and that obviously didn't work out. I think on our side, we may've been willing to keep you guys if we had that 14th member. Personally, I would've liked to see your football have gotten good. MAC is too Ohio-based.

I highly doubt the AAC takes UMass at this point. They would've already done it if they were going to. As stated, they would do nothing but drag the Conference down, just like they drove the MAC down. I don't think Independent will work forever either.

Maybe Conference USA? But really how different is CUSA then the MAC?

Also, that Georgia St stadium looks nice. Shame it won't be ever be full, though, unless you guys host Georgia Tech in a Bowl Game there.

Ohio was our only true peer and the only one to schedule us. Thank you for your defensive coordinator, Ed Pinkham. Buffalo was a team that was so easy to hate. Cheers. Our issue is that we wanted a multi-bid conference for BB and the MAC was close, but the A10 did not fall off fast enough. Said it on your board, Middle Tennessee with Kermit Davis would make the most sense. Given that Western Kentucky would have been a logical continuous footprint team #14.

Yah, our coach Fleck who left to Minnesota said the coordinators and position coaches did all the work. You guys will like Pinkham.

I think you guys could've just joined as a full-on member, taken a small hit in basketball, and then bolted from the MAC (like you were planning on doing) when you got good/competitive in football. Now you're stuck with the A10 falling and football still without a conference and still with losing records. I think the A10 will rebound though.

I doubt the MAC would add MTSU and WKU. They have no need to leave their current conference. But yah, if the MAC wanted to expand, they'd work in our Conference.

We're stuck in the A10 in the sense that the AAC hasn't invited us, but with the MAC it was our choice so I wouldn't call us stuck and the A10 is pretty good