(10-17-2017 07:59 AM)Wmufan715 Wrote: Tell that to Boise who has pretty much ran the MWC for 10 years. And that is a much greater league of competition than the MAC.
G5 schools who want to be taken seriously by people outside their own town find a way to make themselves known and part of that is not toying with the Akron’s and Buffalos.
When you rank teams 1-130 like CBS does. MAC teams are often 90-120 and AAC and MWC teams are 50-75. So you don’t think Western is capable of having a consistent top 50 team and running through the majority of the MAC? I don’t mean Toledo and NIU but Akron and Buffalo are NOT good teams in the big picture.
Stop using MAC parity as an excuse like the league is so great you can’t pull away. It really means you have a program that at best is mediocre and really doesn’t matter to anyone besides 3,000 alumni and the players/coaches.
CFB is much more of a National game and you should want to be in that national conversation every year like Boise, Houston and Navy are. You may not win the G5 spot every year but you should at least be in conversation. That means yes you can chalk up easy wins vs 6/8 MAC teams every year.
No MAC team has consistently been part of the "national conversation" every year like "Boise, Houston and Navy are," except when they are not (Houston and Navy were horrible a decade ago and Boise pretty much decimated funding to all other sports to build its football program, which has become somewhat "meh" in recent years). And no MAC team will ever, consistently, be part of that so-called "conversation." The $ and support is not there.
The MAC has had outstanding teams from Marshall (which cheated to get them), Miami, BG, Ball State, Northern Illinois, CMU, Toledo, and Kent State in addition to WMU last year. All have been ranked in the Top 25 at some point, several in the Top 10. However, they rode their wave and then fell back into the pack, which is to be expected. Of course, their fan bases thought they were entitled, just as some of you think. You are getting like U-M and MSU fans....gag....but at least you are still Broncos.
Also, how many MAC championships has WMU won since Akron and Buffalo joined the league? One. The exact amount both Akron and Buffalo have won. And you are mocking them?! One outstanding season gives WMU no leverage to trash other league programs that have earned just as many league championships.
Last season was a miracle in so many ways. I would never expect that kind of season again, although it should remain a wishful goal.
The only thing I expect from WMU is to be November contenders for a MAC Championship annually - actually win it more than once every three decades - and beat CMU consistently. Expecting more than that is somewhat naive.