They tiered all HS jobs in the Group of 5. Here's the criteria:

Tier 1 jobs: Financial backing for coaches' salaries, support staff and facilities projects; no major barriers in access to top recruits; consistent league title contenders that regularly target New Year's Six bowls; history of wins against Power 5 (recent or long term); strong local or regional fan support; Power 5 expansion candidates.

Tier 2 jobs: Solid footing with finances, facilities and support; access to good regional recruiting areas; competes often for league championships, regularly makes bowls and occasionally challenges for the New Year's Six; some history of wins against the Power 5 (recent or long term); solid local or regional fan base.

Tier 3 jobs: Some resource or location limitations but enough to make bowl games consistently and challenge for conference titles; a restricted but decent recruiting pool of regional or national prospects; a rare New Year's Six appearance is the ceiling; not a realistic candidate for Power 5 expansion.

Tier 4 jobs: Moderate challenges with finances, facilities or program support; requires a unique approach in recruiting to compete with upper-tier teams in their leagues; bowl eligibility is a realistic goal most seasons, with some 10-win seasons from time to time; not much sustained history of success.

Tier 5 jobs: Significant challenges with infrastructure, support, facilities and/or location; restricted recruiting and/or fan base (regional or national); a place where bowl eligibility is always celebrated; limited history of on-field success and little or no sustained history of winning.

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And here's how the MAC fared:

Tier 1: None

Tier 2: None

Tier 3: Central Michgian, Miami, NIU, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michgian

Tier 4: Bowling Green, Buffalo

Tier 5: Akron, Ball State, Eastern Michigan, Kent State

NIU has decent facilities, problem is funding. Rely on student fees and OOC games

Tier 3? I'll take that.

(06-10-2020 06:31 PM)klake87 Wrote:  NIU has decent facilities, problem is funding. Rely on student fees and OOC games

I dunno, even in the MAC we have average to below-average facilities. Akron, Toledo, Miami, Western Michigan, and Ball State all have nicer stadiums. Huskie Stadium needs some serious updates but unless they start fundraising for it they certainly aren't going to get the money from student fees (or until enrollment numbers go way up). I doubt the university will even let them take on new debt.

When they say, "no major barriers in access to top recruits" - where did they place Stanford, Northwestern and other schools with high academic standards that eliminate 80%+ of the recruiting pool?

(06-11-2020 02:29 PM)Huckin Fuskie Wrote:  When they say, "no major barriers in access to top recruits" - where did they place Stanford, Northwestern and other schools with high academic standards that eliminate 80%+ of the recruiting pool?

Stanford and Northwestern are not Group 5 schools, so they didn’t place them anywhere.

Great recap and 3 is about right but was hoping for 2.

Finacial burdens and lack of student support brings it down to 3, imo.

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(06-11-2020 11:59 AM)epasnoopy Wrote:  

(06-10-2020 06:31 PM)klake87 Wrote:  NIU has decent facilities, problem is funding. Rely on student fees and OOC games

I dunno, even in the MAC we have average to below-average facilities. Akron, Toledo, Miami, Western Michigan, and Ball State all have nicer stadiums. Huskie Stadium needs some serious updates but unless they start fundraising for it they certainly aren't going to get the money from student fees (or until enrollment numbers go way up). I doubt the university will even let them take on new debt.

Yorden and Chessick center are great. Convo center not bad if fans went. Huskie stadium is bad

Toledo May be close to tier 2.

(06-11-2020 02:39 PM)HuskieDave Wrote:  

(06-11-2020 02:29 PM)Huckin Fuskie Wrote:  When they say, "no major barriers in access to top recruits" - where did they place Stanford, Northwestern and other schools with high academic standards that eliminate 80%+ of the recruiting pool?

Stanford and Northwestern are not Group 5 schools, so they didn’t place them anywhere.

Ahh -sorry Brain fart. I was thinking Power 5 instead of Group 5. Even then, I should have caught that from the list of schools. Duh.