(01-11-2020 02:52 PM)MWC Tex Wrote: I’d like the MAC to expand to 16 with the 4 Dakota schools.
No, that defeats the whole purpose of the league in the first place.
As an alumnus of a MAC school, Ohio, and as someone who has seen pretty much all of these campuses, it’s a really neat little league. The schools all fit together very well culturally and geographically. I would never change that if I were them. What the MAC has now is legitimately different than everyone else and I would never surrender that advantage. It’s a throwback to a simpler time in college athletics.
That said, when I was in college, Marshall was in the MAC and we had a great rivalry going with them. From OU’s perspective, at least when I was there, our big rivals were Marshall and Miami. Marshall was mostly a football thing while Miami was mostly a men’s basketball thing.
I’m really sorry to see that all go by the wayside and I have always wondered how it could possibly be worth it for Marshall to leave? I mean I guess I understand their thinking at the time, but that door is now officially closed and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them reconsider their MAC options if the league will still have them. Personally, I would definitely endorse their return to the MAC from an alumnus standpoint.
Ohio and Marshall are only about an hour and a half away from each other and used to fill up each other’s stadia in a way you don’t really see very often nowadays.