(10-21-2015 08:57 AM)bigredmachine Wrote:  [quote='sportsfan' pid='12529884' dateline='1445431434']
would the Big 12 or AAC WANT NIU?
That's the real question. Just because we say we're going to change doesn't
Mean it's going to happen. Nobody is pounding down our door to get us to make a move.
Anyone notice how that applies to the MAC as a whole? With all of this shuffling, not one MAC team has been affected. I don't count UMASS. What does THAT say?

As for MAC teams that have moved on to other conferences, Marshall to CUSA. Temple and UCF to the AAC.

Marshall was over a decade ago and the MAC was a stepping stone right from the start with them. Temple was another associate member for football because they had no place to go. Again, like UMASS, a stepping stone.

Why hasn't Toledo been in any conversations, or Buffalo, Ohio, BG or even the Cradle of Coaches, Miami? I don't have the answer but I really wonder why schools in the MAC appear to have little interest from others.