(01-03-2017 10:18 AM)Ken Barna Wrote:  Dear steve,
I may have been wrong about Fleck winning the MAC Championship, however, when you recover your own fumbles five times, that's just pure luck. Had Wisconsin recovered any, it probably would be points on the board for them. They play Southern California and Michigan State next year, and will lose both of those. Western will be riding a three game losing streak into next season.
They will also be without any experience at quarterback, and isn't the MAC considered a quarterback league?
You may consider him a good coach, or the best in the league, but I do not. Good recruiter? Yes.

What's the point about playing USC and MSU and losing both? EVERY MAC team would lose both.

EMU is scheduling to win as many games as possible. WMU, in 2017, is going the opposite direction.

BTW, I wouldn't get too happy with our schedule ahead: Kentucky was a good bowl team as was SDSU. We're playing some pretty tough teams in 2017 and 2018. Thankfully we aren't plaing Rose Bowl or Cotton Bowl teams, though.

As E'Tough points out, in a G5 conference if a school can recruit like G5 conferences schools, they win hands down based on talent differential. We saw that with Marshall in the late 90s. Great recruiting equaled big success.