MAC Football

Glad to see BG got blasted!!!!

What happened to OU football this year? By cutting track, I would have thought that their football program would have been rated in the top 10 this year!

Central Michigan's football program hurts their track team. The new AD up there is putting all the money in football, and the men's track team is really getting the squeeze put on them.

The best was an article in the Columbus Dispatch a few weeks back that said a few years ago when they were in the GMAC Bowl they had to pay the Bowl $280,000 for unsold tickets they were suppose to sell...

Not sure how much the MAC football teams which went to a bowl game LOST this year!!!

I think OU lost nearly a million dolalrs going to the MAC Championships game and their bowl game last year...

They were one of the top 10 in the MAC -

http://bringingbackohiotrack.blogspot.com

MAC football teams are chasing fools gold. They think somehow that they can be BCS contenders. MAC football teams will always be on a cycle of rising and falling just because they do not consistently get the talent. Just look at Marshall and N. Illinios. CMU has been good the past couple of years, but also have had their hats handed to them by the likes of Clemson and North Dakota. The Motor City Bowl should hope CMU does well every year so that can invite them because they have been a good draw. But it won't last forever just like the other MAC teams of the moment. The MAC ADs would be better to focus on good all around athletics and aim for placing high in the MAC with the occassional shot at the MAC championship and a bowl game. Even with a exciting team, the home crowd for CMU games is not that great in terms of attendance.

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All MAC football teams should be 1AA in football. Less money needed for scholarships and the chance to win a national title. Look at Y.S.U. football during its glory days! At that time, they were cranking most of the MAC teams they were playing too!

At this point the AD/Coache's egos could not take that. Their fan base would not know the difference, though.

The premise would be nice if it encouraged schools to keep (and support) men's track. Unfortunately the facts are incorrect, CMU lost its bowl game to Purdue, and the football coaches/ADs at most schools (including all MAC schools) are si myopic they fail to see the potential benefits track can have for football.JB

macer wrote:

Did anyone notice the two Mid American Conference schools (Ball State and Bowling Green) in the bowl games without a men's track team got their butts kicked. Central Michigan has a track team and won. If I was a football coach I would make sure my AD and school saw the need for a track program to help the football program...

My mistake...They didn't win, but they were in the game....