(06-15-2022 12:04 PM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  

(06-15-2022 11:40 AM)PeteTheChop Wrote:  

(06-15-2022 11:38 AM)CitrusUCF Wrote:  CUSA will overtake the MAC again in a few years.

How?

Demographics and ambition. The MAC has neither. The MAC schools are reliant on talent from the South to fill key roles. Go scan their rosters, and you'll see plenty of guys from GA, AL, FL, TX. There's no MAC program that has any ambition to be anything more than a payday game for B1G teams. That has been made apparent time and again with their investment levels.

On the other hand, the CUSA teams are in solid football recruiting areas. Yes, there's limits even to the amount of talent that FL, GA, TX and the others produce. But you can find a lot more legit 2* guys with potential in those states than in the Midwestern states. Plus these CUSA programs have ambition. Liberty, of course, but these other schools moving up to D1 want to succeed. They're making investments, and they're going to expect success in football.

CUSA has a decent mix of proven, generally successful programs with new high ambition programs that the MAC doesn't. Buffalo is the only MAC program that seems to have any ambition whatsoever.

Toledo has brought in some fairly decent opponents into the Glass Bowl in the past (Miami, BYU, Missouri, Iowa State, Cincy, and several big ten schools) …
Get back to me when anyone in the future CUSA lineup can pull that type of home scheduling off !!
Plus, recently a contingent of University of Toledo boosters are in the process of setting up a very lucrative NIL deal for our student athletes …
Other schools in the MAC (Miami,Western Michigan have deep pockets) and along with Buffalo and Toledo have ambitious agendas…