08-26-2004, 04:30 PM
1.Inviting all MAC teams to the Gund Basketball Tourney. Vandelay first mentioned this as a possibility and I think its a lot better for everyone to go to Gund and have some involvement than for schools to host an ill-prepared first round game at home. Then the Gund tourney can be sold in season ticket packages to season ticket holders of MAC basketball.
2.More Bowl Game agreements. This league needs a third bowl. If the WAC can have three games, the MAC should be able to have 3. Over the last 5 years, the MAC has produced an average of 3 schools with 7 Division 1-A wins or better. That says to me the MAC clearly should have 3 teams in bowls if they have at least 3 solid bowl teams every year.
Over the last couple of years the schools of the new MAC have produced 4 teams with 7 Division 1-A wins. For instance last year BGSU,MU, UT, and NIU all had 7 1-A wins. If we keep this up, the league will need to have 4 bowl games by 2006.
X-Factor: What effect will the attendance requirements have on this league? I'm confident the MAC will still be around as a Division 1-A conference, but say in a worse case scenario MAC football is reduced to 8-9 teams, the MAC wouldn't need more than 3 bowl games. The only schools in the MAC in serious danger of not meeting the attendance requirement are EMU, Kent, Akron, and Buffalo because they consistantly don't make it. Anyone of these schools I mentioned still could make it, and then you have Temple, Army, Navy, maybe YSU if a 9th team for scheduling ever becomes necessary.
2.More Bowl Game agreements. This league needs a third bowl. If the WAC can have three games, the MAC should be able to have 3. Over the last 5 years, the MAC has produced an average of 3 schools with 7 Division 1-A wins or better. That says to me the MAC clearly should have 3 teams in bowls if they have at least 3 solid bowl teams every year.
Over the last couple of years the schools of the new MAC have produced 4 teams with 7 Division 1-A wins. For instance last year BGSU,MU, UT, and NIU all had 7 1-A wins. If we keep this up, the league will need to have 4 bowl games by 2006.
X-Factor: What effect will the attendance requirements have on this league? I'm confident the MAC will still be around as a Division 1-A conference, but say in a worse case scenario MAC football is reduced to 8-9 teams, the MAC wouldn't need more than 3 bowl games. The only schools in the MAC in serious danger of not meeting the attendance requirement are EMU, Kent, Akron, and Buffalo because they consistantly don't make it. Anyone of these schools I mentioned still could make it, and then you have Temple, Army, Navy, maybe YSU if a 9th team for scheduling ever becomes necessary.