Weighing in on the new AD

[g-mann17]

I'm all for losing some dead weight, but the conference is not in a position to say "goodbye" to anyone.

The MAC most certainly is in a position to say "goodbye" to someone. We can dump one team and not lose the championship game. The MAC has all the bargaining chips when it comes to Temple. their football program is just becoming mildly respectable, and if they don't want to lose that by being dumped back to Independent status, they'll join in basketball. Then you can drop Can't.

Wow.No Temple has all the cards. They are in a better basketball conference. They are a basketball first school, in a basketball first region. They could go independent and play who they want when the want. The MAC is in a position that it has to do what it can to keep schools. Temple was brought in because of fears of another team leaving (dropping down). Hell the MAC is so afraid of losing schools it brought in Hartwick for Soccer to keep us happy. The MAC cannot force anyone to do anything.

[GP1]

And walla, no more conference championship game. Walla, no more ESPN coverage for the entire conference. The championship game (which is highly viewed) is the keypin to the ESPN contract in the first place. Lose that, lose all the ESPN coverage we have. Some of you will cheer that (no wednesday games) but that means no primetime coverage and back to the dark ages for the conference.

What are the ratings for the MAC Championship game?I don't believe for one second that displaying the MAC on national TV is a good thing for the MAC. Until the product improves, it isn't worth watching and is leaving a stench in living rooms around America. Quite frankly, the only reason they show Wednesday games is because they want to use it as promotion for the ABC/ESPN weekend line-up. I would like a regional network to pick up the MAC and show the games. The regional network would spend less time promoting itself and more time giving the fans interesting information about the league and schools playing.As far as the Dark Ages, the MAC is currently in the Dark Ages of the conference. In the 1950s and 1960s, the conference had teams like Miami which was a national power. Western Michigan was frequently good during that period as well. Moving into the late 20th Century and into the beginning of this century, Marshall, Toledo and Miami were all very good teams and Miami had a Top 10 finish during that period. Guys like Leftwich, Pennington and Roethlisberger were national names of interest and were REAL NFL prospects. Who is/was interesting the past couple of years? Nate Davis......please, this guy is struggling to make the 49ers right now. The fact that he left school early to become a third string QB is laughable. If Davis was more intelligent, he could have stayed one more year at BSU, found a team stupid enough to draft him and then actually put him on the field, and changed his name to Charlie Frye Jr. The same can be said of MBB in the MAC, there are absolutely no nationally known players and the talent level, with the exception of UofA, is getting worse.Where is the Conference now? In the two sports that matter, football and MBB, our conference champions get laughed off of the field of play in post season competition (spare me the NIT wins). The MAC was flat out embarassing last couple of bowl seasons. The Conference champion in MBB the past few years gets shipped off to the west coast to serve as first round fodder for a higher ranked team.We should not think for one second that the key to the MAC's success runs through Bristol, CT.