(02-04-2020 11:34 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  

(02-04-2020 10:08 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(02-04-2020 08:43 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  It may just be me but I think a conference with a footprint like this is a large enough one for a D1 conference.

Buffalo
Cleveland
Detroit
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Chicago

Why does the MAC have to expand out of the Great Lakes?

What the MAC needs is to step up to an MWC type TV deal and get out of the Midweek games.

Exactly! Why can't an Eastern/Central conference with schools overshadowed by multiple P5s just go and get the same kind of deal as a conference with flagship and only-game-in-town schools that play in the Mountain and Pacific where college football content is much scarcer?

This flagship stuff doesn't matter. If it did the Big Sky and Summit conferences would have much better TV deals. They are flagships of rural states.

The MAC has endowments that are comparable to the MWC and both are overflow for their respective P5 conferences (B1G and PAC) in their distinct regions.

They play each other in 2 bowl games. TV deals are all about football. MAC upgraded its bowls for 2020-2025 so why can't the TV deal be next?

The mountain west has to deal with the PAC 12. The Mac has to deal with the Big 10 and the AAC. That's just for football. For sports the east is loaded with games from the big 10, ACC, and SEC. You also have to deal with the other G5 start times AAC, C-USA and Sun Belt have early kick offs. Later in the day the Big 12 games start and around 3 pm eastern are noon PAC 12 kickoffs. Really after 6pm Pacific all you have is the MWC and PAC 12 games. That's the value the MWC has is that it's mostly going against 1 other conference most of the time. With Hawaii home it could lock up the 8 pm time slot for ESPN.(any west coast team can really)