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MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
MAC highest rated non-AQ conference using next year's formula for distributing revenue to the conferences.
http://mweb.cbssports.com/ncaaf/writer/d...n-illinois
The formula currently shows the MAC has the best of those leagues followed by the Mountain West, Sun Belt and Conference USA. That, despite Fresno State -- from the Mountain West -- being ahead of Northern Illinois -- from the MAC -- in the BCS standings.
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11-09-2013 10:26 AM |
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Okie Chippewa
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
Where's the AAC (sponsored by Bill the Cat)?
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11-09-2013 11:29 AM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
Even more reason why the MAC should strongly consider dropping one program. Too bottom heavy and less cut for everyone else. The WAC being the highest rated conference at season confirms less can work just fine. Losing one will widen the gap on the other leagues.
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11-09-2013 11:54 AM |
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Okie Chippewa
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
I agree. NIU is really weighing down MAC hoops
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 11:54 AM)HuskieTap22 Wrote: Even more reason why the MAC should strongly consider dropping one program. Too bottom heavy and less cut for everyone else. The WAC being the highest rated conference at season confirms less can work just fine. Losing one will widen the gap on the other leagues.
I'm confused. The MAC should drop a program so they'd be in 0th place instead of 1st?
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11-09-2013 12:23 PM |
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HuskieTap22
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 12:23 PM)jjmc85 Wrote: (11-09-2013 11:54 AM)HuskieTap22 Wrote: Even more reason why the MAC should strongly consider dropping one program. Too bottom heavy and less cut for everyone else. The WAC being the highest rated conference at season confirms less can work just fine. Losing one will widen the gap on the other leagues.
I'm confused. The MAC should drop a program so they'd be in 0th place instead of 1st?
Yes. This ranking is more to do with the performance of the top teams than the bottom. To say you are going to have a 9 - 0 nationally ranked NIU type of program leading the conference every season is a little nieve. Good time to tighten up the membership and get to 12. More money for everyone else. And my vote for which team to drop is not UMass.
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11-09-2013 12:35 PM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 11:29 AM)Okie Chippewa Wrote: Where's the AAC (sponsored by Bill the Cat)?
Don't worry, they will troll here and say they are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2013 06:23 PM by lance99.)
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11-09-2013 12:42 PM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 12:35 PM)HuskieTap22 Wrote: (11-09-2013 12:23 PM)jjmc85 Wrote: (11-09-2013 11:54 AM)HuskieTap22 Wrote: Even more reason why the MAC should strongly consider dropping one program. Too bottom heavy and less cut for everyone else. The WAC being the highest rated conference at season confirms less can work just fine. Losing one will widen the gap on the other leagues.
I'm confused. The MAC should drop a program so they'd be in 0th place instead of 1st?
Yes. This ranking is more to do with the performance of the top teams than the bottom. To say you are going to have a 9 - 0 nationally ranked NIU type of program leading the conference every season is a little nieve. Good time to tighten up the membership and get to 12. More money for everyone else. And my vote for which team to drop is not UMass.
I've been around long enough to know who you would vote for, but I just don't think it's that big of a deal. I could be wrong, but I don't think there are tons of bowls and networks lining up to thrown the MAC money if only it weren't for EMU, nor do I think there are tons of schools out there who would be banging down the door to join if only the Eagles weren't part of the conference, especially cause as I take it they aren't cellar dwellers in other sports. Even in football, if you kick them out, there will always be someone who is in the cellar. The entire conference will never be bowl eligible.
I mean, from a quasi-outsider's perspective, I don't think the conference is more appealing if EMU is kicked out. I definitely don't think the football part is negatively effected by EMU being here. In fact, I like them here. I want UMass to play them next year. Badly.
I don't know. Maybe I just don't understand. Is there any evidence that EMU is negatively effecting the MAC in anyway?
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11-09-2013 01:35 PM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 12:10 PM)Okie Chippewa Wrote: I agree. NIU is really weighing down MAC hoops
Well played.
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11-09-2013 01:39 PM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 12:10 PM)Okie Chippewa Wrote: I agree. NIU is really weighing down MAC hoops
Oh, you with the revenue sports bias. I'll have you know that NIU has two men's soccer tournament wins and one shared men's regular season soccer title in that past decade ~ if it weren't for the Huskies, it would be all Akron.
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11-09-2013 02:08 PM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
I posted this article a while back in a different thread.
Sad thing is despite these and other facts, Fresno still has such a big gap on us in human votes.
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11-09-2013 02:25 PM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 12:10 PM)Okie Chippewa Wrote: I agree. NIU is really weighing down MAC hoops
We're still AQ.
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11-09-2013 04:39 PM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 04:39 PM)Cougar King Wrote: We're still AQ.
No disrespect Cougar King, but that is for the moment.
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11-09-2013 06:25 PM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 06:25 PM)lance99 Wrote: (11-09-2013 04:39 PM)Cougar King Wrote: We're still AQ.
No disrespect Cougar King, but that is for the moment.
Yeah, but if you count the AAC as a non-AQ it kinda ruins the thread OP.
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11-10-2013 12:49 AM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-09-2013 06:25 PM)lance99 Wrote: (11-09-2013 04:39 PM)Cougar King Wrote: We're still AQ.
No disrespect Cougar King, but that is for the moment.
And only because of a technicality.
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11-10-2013 01:08 AM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-10-2013 12:49 AM)Attackcoog Wrote: (11-09-2013 06:25 PM)lance99 Wrote: (11-09-2013 04:39 PM)Cougar King Wrote: We're still AQ.
No disrespect Cougar King, but that is for the moment.
Yeah, but if you count the AAC as a non-AQ it kinda ruins the thread OP.
Its one thing for a title to leave those qualifiers out ... "MAC highest rates non-AQ-at-least-as-far-as-AQ-this-year conference" is a bit cumbersome.
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11-11-2013 01:02 AM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-10-2013 12:49 AM)Attackcoog Wrote: (11-09-2013 06:25 PM)lance99 Wrote: (11-09-2013 04:39 PM)Cougar King Wrote: We're still AQ.
No disrespect Cougar King, but that is for the moment.
Yeah, but if you count the AAC as a non-AQ it kinda ruins the thread OP.
I'm glad you made this point. This poster has been going around dropping this misleading info on multiple boards. The AAC is a better league and that will be official in the rankings beginning next season. Not in including them in a G5 ranking is slander.
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11-11-2013 01:16 AM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-11-2013 01:16 AM)HuskieTap22 Wrote: (11-10-2013 12:49 AM)Attackcoog Wrote: (11-09-2013 06:25 PM)lance99 Wrote: (11-09-2013 04:39 PM)Cougar King Wrote: We're still AQ.
No disrespect Cougar King, but that is for the moment.
Yeah, but if you count the AAC as a non-AQ it kinda ruins the thread OP.
I'm glad you made this point. This poster has been going around dropping this misleading info on multiple boards. The AAC is a better league and that will be official in the rankings beginning next season. Not in including them in a G5 ranking is slander.
To be fair, the OP is correct. THIS year the MAC is on course to get the biggest cut of the non-AQ BCS money that is distributed on the basis of conference performance.
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11-11-2013 11:10 AM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
This is interesting. We are the highest rated non-AQ conference, yet our flagship football program can't get respect in the polls and is behind the highest team in an inferior conference?
Could this have something to do with how this conference is perceived nationally?
Could a perennial losing football program that also happens to be the conferences weakest academic member be hurting perceptions?
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11-11-2013 11:28 AM |
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RE: MAC highest rated non-AQ conference
(11-11-2013 01:16 AM)HuskieTap22 Wrote: (11-10-2013 12:49 AM)Attackcoog Wrote: (11-09-2013 06:25 PM)lance99 Wrote: (11-09-2013 04:39 PM)Cougar King Wrote: We're still AQ.
No disrespect Cougar King, but that is for the moment.
Yeah, but if you count the AAC as a non-AQ it kinda ruins the thread OP.
I'm glad you made this point. This poster has been going around dropping this misleading info on multiple boards. The AAC is a better league and that will be official in the rankings beginning next season. Not in including them in a G5 ranking is slander.
I doubt this is going to be better than the MAC:
Cincinnati
Connecticut
East Carolina
Houston
Memphis
South Florida
SMU
Temple
Tulane
Tulsa
Central Florida
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