If a conference had Buffalo and Toledo in it, there's no way it would be a decent FBS conference
The same could be said about Akron, sadly.
The only advantage we have is our facilities. You can't help but laugh when you look at all the rest of the MAC compared to us.
I think we have lots of advantages, and I think we can get strong. But you need to keep in mind that Toledo just built a nice indoor facitlity for football, and they still get some nice opponents coming to the Glass Bowl. They have a solid history as well..and then some really bad stuff recently.
Buffalo, if the Bills move, could become the main football program in that town. And, I get the feeling they will improve their facilities even more in the future.
Well you can say that we are the main football program for our town and actually Buffalo is not very much bigger than Akron. I know they are both in the 200,000s