(07-09-2017 04:53 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  

(07-09-2017 01:33 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(07-09-2017 12:18 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  Frankly, that's where the MAC should be. I can't think of one MAC program that's head and shoulders FBS. Akron, Toledo and NIU are decent as is Buffalo but I can't think of any others.

Bowling Green and Western Michigan both have put together quiet a resume in winning at the FBS level. Miami have been good at times, but lousy a lot. The ones I think that have issues are Kent State, Ball State, Eastern Michigan are the ones to worry about.

Western, are you kidding? They have their first really good season in 15 years and first notable national season in even longer and suddenly they have a quiet resume of winning? Same for Bowling, they had a couple years under Urban Meyer and pull a few upsets and suddenly that's a notable resume?

If you put any 12 teams together, someone has to win games and that's exactly what's happened in the MAC since Marshall left. Marshall was the last really great MAC program that won games and produced numerous notable prospects.

Ahem.



There were also four other future NFL players on the 2003 team that finished 10th. By that point Marshall had peaked in the MAC.