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Has the decision been made, or is it still just rumor?

We're in the East.

I knew they'd never be able to stand the heat in the West. Pussybirds!

There's been lots of talk about possibly backing down to a 16-game schedule for MAC hoops. That means play each team in your division twice, each in the opposite once.

So, begging the question - Do BG and/or Toledo hold up this possibility by insisting on a home-and-home each MAC season?

Roberto Gato Wrote:There's been lots of talk about possibly backing down to a 16-game schedule for MAC hoops. That means play each team in your division twice, each in the opposite once.

So, begging the question - Do BG and/or Toledo hold up this possibility by insisting on a home-and-home each MAC season?

I think they could set it up so that Bowling Green and Toledo could do a home and home by allowing each to skip a cross over game.

The skipped teams in the crossovers could then play each other again to make it up.

Not too hard.

Roberto Gato Wrote:There's been lots of talk about possibly backing down to a 16-game schedule for MAC hoops. That means play each team in your division twice, each in the opposite once.

So, begging the question - Do BG and/or Toledo hold up this possibility by insisting on a home-and-home each MAC season?

I don't think so.

The BG-Toledo basketball series only drew 5,800 for Toledo which is about average for UT. The game sold out in Bowling Green though, but that was only at 4,700 in attendance.

BG-Toledo game for football of course is a totally different animal. Easily the top cross divisional match up and probably the top game in the entire conference. Worthwhile to protect every year, definitely.

On the women's side of things, according to BGSU coach Kurt Miller, he and UT's Mark Ehlen are working on putting together a rotating tournament. The year UT has the traditional conference home game, BG woul host the tournament. They'd would then flip thing the next year.

I don't hink Dakich and Joplin would work quite as well together.

The MAC schedules in ALL sports needs to be reworked to make them an even schedule if they are staying in the division format. An good example is that this year in baseball, Bowling Green does not play EMU in a "league/division game", but play Miami and Ball State in the other division. Those type of situations make no sense in any sport, and I like the possibility of going to a 16 game schedule for basketball and doing something to even out the schedules in the other sports so all teams in the same division, at a minimum, play each other, and I seriously question if cross divisional games should count in the divisional standings until an "even" schedule can be arrainged.