I don't envy MAC ADs and coaches trying to create schedules. You can't play all your games on the road, and you'd like to be able to bring a P5 team in once in awhile. Nice that Kent was able to do that this year, but here's this from a story in the Indianapolis Star today about Butler trying to create a schedule:

Quote:A resurgent Ball State would be a natural opponent, and the teams have already met 105 times. It is role reversal for Butler, a former mid-major that now belongs to a power conference.

“That was a good rivalry back in my day,” Jordan said of Ball State. “We’ll see. I don’t know about home-and-home.”

If they aren't willing to travel to Muncie, I'd rather not play them in Indy.

But it's stuff like that that makes it difficult to create a quality schedule without doing something to similar to Ball State this year and playing a gauntlet of road games.