12-08-2004, 08:21 PM
Im getting worried.....
THe MAC looks vulnerable right now.....The big east shake up and the growth of CUSA makes poaching a team or two from our conference seem like a plausible scenario.
I see fans upset with the MAC (I flamed early this week....now I see Toledo fans flaming) Are we upset with the MAC, the MAC leadership, specific individuals, or just circumstances?
My worry is that as we get better...as the conference gets better, we start looking ripe for the plucking. CUSA already got Marshall (no matter what you feel about the school, program, or any other issues, deap down you know that they were a conference draw) My fear is that if we lose anyone else, especially those schools that are currenly strong, (which would obviously be the ones that BEAST or CUSA would want) then the entire conference could weaken substantially ..or worse yet, fall completely apart. It sounds like many of the schools are looking for options, or at least open to looking.
The best thing about this conference is the fact that we have eachother...all being in the same mid-major boat and all looking to climb out of it...Chat boards like this often show how centered we are on that point. DO any of us really think that we would be better off apart form eachother...or does the problem lie with better management of the conference...or are we just so foreign to the idea of success that we have no idea how to handle that we have five bowls and cant figure out who to be ranting at so we have turned on the conference and eachother.
Where does everyone see this conference if five years?
THe MAC looks vulnerable right now.....The big east shake up and the growth of CUSA makes poaching a team or two from our conference seem like a plausible scenario.
I see fans upset with the MAC (I flamed early this week....now I see Toledo fans flaming) Are we upset with the MAC, the MAC leadership, specific individuals, or just circumstances?
My worry is that as we get better...as the conference gets better, we start looking ripe for the plucking. CUSA already got Marshall (no matter what you feel about the school, program, or any other issues, deap down you know that they were a conference draw) My fear is that if we lose anyone else, especially those schools that are currenly strong, (which would obviously be the ones that BEAST or CUSA would want) then the entire conference could weaken substantially ..or worse yet, fall completely apart. It sounds like many of the schools are looking for options, or at least open to looking.
The best thing about this conference is the fact that we have eachother...all being in the same mid-major boat and all looking to climb out of it...Chat boards like this often show how centered we are on that point. DO any of us really think that we would be better off apart form eachother...or does the problem lie with better management of the conference...or are we just so foreign to the idea of success that we have no idea how to handle that we have five bowls and cant figure out who to be ranting at so we have turned on the conference and eachother.
Where does everyone see this conference if five years?