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I did not watch or listen to the game(I did follow it on yahoo sports however and being on the west coast did not help). It seems like, unless I am wrong, was a winnable game. and if thats the case, this loss(and this season) can be summed up by this linkhttp://www.bombombombomwooooo.com/

We did Temple a favor by adding them .They would have been a independent otherwise, however, the whole conferences SOS went down by just having them If the MAC launches WMU, CMU, EMU and Temple, now the MAC is a fourth-tier conference and would have to add schools and expand. They bring nothing to the table.Mabye we could merge with C-USA(minus a few teams) or disband the conference and merge with the Big Ten and make two 8 division league(I am willing to put money on the Big Ten want to get rid of some teams, but tradition won't let them)with C-USA:AkronCan'tBGMiamiOhioBall StateECUSMUTulsaSouthern MissMemphisRiceWith Big Ten:AkronCan'tBGMiamiOhioBall StateOhio StateMichiganPenn StateIowaIndianaMichigan Statejust putting idea out there and you can always add teams

The MAC will never have a team that competes for a national championship.The MAC is considered successful in neither football nor basketball. The league has brought in misfits in the past like Central Florida, Buffalo and Temple. Central leaving was a good thing. Replacing them with Temple was a bad thing. I would argue that even NIU is a misfit for the league at this point.Having a league that has the same teams at the top, the same teams in the middle and the same teams at the bottom evey year is terrible for a league. The Big Ten is as bad as it is right now because they have this structure year in and year out.I'm not certain the MAC doesn't have an identity. Identitiy means that something indentifys what you are. For example, a female kangaroo can be identified by a pouch. The identitiy of the mac is that it is a league full of a bunch of schools that underfund their athletics, reside in states that are obsessed with the BCS schools in those states, have little community/alumni support and are ignored by the NCAA (the list could go on, but I'm going to 5:30 mass). The league has been around since 1946. It is just what it is and 60+ years have not changed it. I could care less if it changes. I only want Akron to be the best team in a highly competitive conference. More teams with the same identitiy will not change the league. Fewer teams will create more rivals, more "dislike" for each other and more interest.Contraction crossed my mind when I was writing the orginal post, but that is not the way to go only because the NCAA will put the entire conference to a lower level(1-AA, or whatever it's called now). The NCAA can not do this. It is up to each conference which level it belongs to and the conference requires each member to be at that level.The Big East is not going to do anything different than what it is doing right now. That league is primarily a basketball league and secondly a football league. As long as Notre Dame stays in for basketball they will be happy. Adding Central Florida, etc. does not improve that league. You don't improve your league by bringing bad teams into the league.I'll give another example. I once worked for a company that manufactured building products and sold them to contractors as a system. We expanded our sales by contracting the number of contractors eligible to issue a warranty with our products. In that industry, we expanded perceived value in our product by elimating rum dums who were not good installers of the systems. It was very successful. More was not better. Adding contractors every year was sucking the value of the company down the drain in many, many ways. The MAC has not improved itself by adding bad teams and reducing the perceived value of the competition. Contraction is the real key. The new MAC president will not allow it because it will not look good on a resume and ADs will not vote for it because they worry about offending anyone that might be able to help them get another job at a bigger school. When those two motivations are the reason for "growing" the league, it is the wrong thing to do.I can't think of a single confernce that has been helped by becoming larger and having a conference championship at the end of the season. The SEC? The Big 12? These conferences would be great conferences without a championship game. The PAC10 has no championship game and it is just as good of a conference as the Big 12 and SEC. The quality of a league is not measured by one championship game at the end of the year. It is measured by the quality of the competition throughout the season. These three conferences have great competition all year long. Championship games don't matter. Larger conferences don't matter.The big 12 actually became better being larger(the Big 8 and the Southwest Conference Merging). However they do have some stiffs in their conference(i.e. Balyor). If you do it right, it can be better being larger

The MAC will never have a team that competes for a national championship.The MAC is considered successful in neither football nor basketball. The league has brought in misfits in the past like Central Florida, Buffalo and Temple. Central leaving was a good thing. Replacing them with Temple was a bad thing. I would argue that even NIU is a misfit for the league at this point.Having a league that has the same teams at the top, the same teams in the middle and the same teams at the bottom evey year is terrible for a league. The Big Ten is as bad as it is right now because they have this structure year in and year out.I'm not certain the MAC doesn't have an identity. Identitiy means that something indentifys what you are. For example, a female kangaroo can be identified by a pouch. The identitiy of the mac is that it is a league full of a bunch of schools that underfund their athletics, reside in states that are obsessed with the BCS schools in those states, have little community/alumni support and are ignored by the NCAA (the list could go on, but I'm going to 5:30 mass). The league has been around since 1946. It is just what it is and 60+ years have not changed it. I could care less if it changes. I only want Akron to be the best team in a highly competitive conference. More teams with the same identitiy will not change the league. Fewer teams will create more rivals, more "dislike" for each other and more interest.Contraction crossed my mind when I was writing the orginal post, but that is not the way to go only because the NCAA will put the entire conference to a lower level(1-AA, or whatever it's called now). You almost have to add teams. I am not saing add teams for the sake of adding teams. If a meger happens between conferences, take the upper tier schools and tell the bottom feeder teams to get lost. I want Akron to be the best in a STRONG CONFERENCE, not one where the BCS schools think of Akron, or other schools in the MAC as easy wins.

Going back and reading my own and other members post on tring to fix the Mac. Is the best thing to do is to blow the whole thing up and start over? Meaning start taking teams and making one super conference? I understand that that are issues with this including, but not limited to:-Travel cost and time-Do you take some sports or all sports-SOS concerns-Charther members of other conferences wanting to leave, or wanting to have their rival game every year-How many teams and who-Getting post season selections(i.e. BCS games)-money sharing between schoolsanyone with ideas?

Yes they do have to do that, at least in Basketball. However it seems like the Mac West has no desire to do that. The solutition: Kick them out and/ or merge with another conference to force the NCAA's hand because of the "Super Conference" look. Also I was thinking about it more and more form an marketing standpoint, for the national exposre, you need more and more games on T.V. and radio(not just the Thursday Night game on ESPN2 for Football) AND HAVE SOME TYPE OF SOLGAN TO GO WITH IT!!!)As far as Football, adding Temple was a mistake! There was a reason the Big East got rid of them(dragging everyones SOS down). Do the same as listed avobe with the west. Bring back the Acme-Zip game if you have to, or some other-style promotition conference wide. Play home and homes with top- tier schools every year(have to start forcing hands instead of having our hands out).

Is it totally offical?

Be careful of what you wish for. The College of Charleston basketball team had a 30+ win record a few years back and was a 8 seed if I remember correctly. Can it work, yes The MVC proved that. As far as football, winning helps alot, recurting players locally is not the answer(ask Gerry Foust how that went) going national is the answer and do one hell of a sales job. Nebraska has their radio network and that might be the way to go. For the record, I currently live in a pac-10 city(Phoenix) and they don't draw unless its a Los Angeles school of U of A and their in a major conference. Sometimes it could be just the location, fan support, conference. Everything that is being talked about here now. Going to a larger conference might be the answer, however you have to take Can't State with you for a rival game and they will never leave.

I think that IU knows that it is a dangerous game(with the new stadium). rather do said quote. However some will travel(Can't state's home game against Minnesota a few years ago, I think)

Like the new webpage! I would like to know if it's just for gozips.com. Looking at other MAC webpages (Ohio, Can't State and Bowling Green), the all look the same as the old webpage. Just wondering

Mabye he can go to the new league that is plaing in massillion

Excellent point. Here is what the NCAA should do. 1. Select the 40 best D1A programs over the past 30 years and make them one division.2. They have four conferences that must play each other over an eleven game season meaning 9 conference games.3. Three out of conference games that must be scheduled within this level of football and the NCAA decides who plays whom and the decision is based upon prior season success like the NFL used to do.4. Stop the farce that is the players are amatures and pay them.5. Have a playoff that pays players and coaches extra for advancing.6. You must win your conference to make the playoffs.This scenario would only take two weeks of playoffs. No wild cards or anything else. You either win your conference or you watch the playoffs on TV.heres the problem with that...-they would consider that perimer league soccer-style and would never fly with any conference-the ncaa would not spread that type of money around(the other sports would want their cut)-they would bring back "margin of victory" to football, so you will see florida state beatting up D-II schools for poll rankings-and you should win your conferenceI belive the only way to fix the problem is to get rid of the guarnteed conference bowl bids