While Illinois State is a good school, it doesn't really move the needle in football or basketball and it doesn't bring many more television sets. Better options in my view would include:

1. North Dakota State and South Dakota State.
2. Massachusetts and Stony Brook.
3. Western Kentucky and any one of the schools in (1) or (2) except South Dakota State.

All this assumes the Division I landscape does not change. If Division I were to undergo a big restructuring that diminished the value of MAC football, perhaps Illinois State and a less expansive footprint would make more sense.

How many of these needless realignment threads do we need?

(01-26-2022 01:40 PM)kreed5120 Wrote:  Hoe many of these needless realignment threads do we need?

I suppose we could talk about MAC golf.

(01-26-2022 01:40 PM)kreed5120 Wrote:  Hoe many of these needless realignment threads do we need?

Certainly NOT this one……..given that other one now has 337 posts.

(01-26-2022 05:32 PM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  

Leave that horse alone or I will have you arrested for animal cruelty.

So ... we're going to have 337 posts on this thread too, until someone succeeds in persuading all the people they couldn't on the other one. Save time ... reread the other thread.

It would be nice if we actually had mods to stop this ****.

Nah, I think we have 22 more pages to talk about re-alignment/expansion ad nauseam.

(01-26-2022 07:19 PM)AllBronco Wrote:  

(01-26-2022 05:32 PM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  

Leave that horse alone or I will have you arrested for animal cruelty.

LOL Oops! no harm intended!

(01-27-2022 11:22 AM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  

(01-26-2022 07:19 PM)AllBronco Wrote:  

(01-26-2022 05:32 PM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  

Leave that horse alone or I will have you arrested for animal cruelty.

LOL Oops! no harm intended!

Not to worry. It is a dead horse after all.

(01-27-2022 12:43 PM)axeme Wrote:  

(01-27-2022 11:22 AM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  

(01-26-2022 07:19 PM)AllBronco Wrote:  

(01-26-2022 05:32 PM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  

Leave that horse alone or I will have you arrested for animal cruelty.

LOL Oops! no harm intended!

Not to worry. It is a dead horse after all.

At the risk of extending this topic further than it should be extended, does anyone know why, on the MAC Web site's front page, there is a link to Valparaiso University's athletics Web site along with the current 12 MAC members?

(01-27-2022 07:34 PM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  At the risk of extending this topic further than it should be extended, does anyone know why, on the MAC Web site's front page, there is a link to Valparaiso University's athletics Web site along with the current 12 MAC members?

Mens swimming and diving member

(01-27-2022 12:43 PM)axeme Wrote:  

(01-27-2022 11:22 AM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  

(01-26-2022 07:19 PM)AllBronco Wrote:  

(01-26-2022 05:32 PM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  

Leave that horse alone or I will have you arrested for animal cruelty.

LOL Oops! no harm intended!

Not to worry. It is a dead horse after all.

That's the mascot of the private school in Limony Snicket...
... the cheer is "You can't beat" / "a dead horse!"

(01-28-2022 01:39 AM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  

(01-27-2022 07:34 PM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  At the risk of extending this topic further than it should be extended, does anyone know why, on the MAC Web site's front page, there is a link to Valparaiso University's athletics Web site along with the current 12 MAC members?

Mens swimming and diving member

That is what I thought at first, bit I see what bobcat is talking about. There is an area on the front page that you can scroll to the school logos that are grayed out.
It shows all 12 members and Valpo's logo. There are no other Affiliate members logos in this area except Valpo.

(01-28-2022 07:39 AM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(01-28-2022 01:39 AM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  

(01-27-2022 07:34 PM)bobcat_backer Wrote:  At the risk of extending this topic further than it should be extended, does anyone know why, on the MAC Web site's front page, there is a link to Valparaiso University's athletics Web site along with the current 12 MAC members?

Mens swimming and diving member

That is what I thought at first, bit I see what bobcat is talking about. There is an area on the front page that you can scroll to the school logos that are grayed out.
It shows all 12 members and Valpo's logo. There are no other Affiliate members logos in this area except Valpo.

right! i thought at first it was an affiliate membership thing, but i know we have more affiliate members than Valparaiso. Wrestling has several the last time i looked. i just thought it was very odd or just another mistake by the MAC office. or both!

update! i just looked and the Valpo link is gone now. must have been a mistake. mystery solved!

(01-26-2022 01:40 PM)kreed5120 Wrote:  How many of these needless realignment threads do we need?

Apparently, quite a few.