Conference Realignment

[clarkwgriswold]

33 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

and western ky.  there is a northern michigan but i think you mean Illinois.

That is what I meant and I also meant to insert Western. I went back and fixed.

Edited November 2, 2021 by clarkwgriswold

[NWAkron]

18 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

That is what I meant and I also meant to insert Western. I went back and fixed.

i figured was a typo but what else do we have to do as we await the big game tonight.

[ZippyRulz]

1 hour ago, GP1 said:

What is the over/under on the number of years they will be in the MAC before leaving for another conference? 

 

3 posts back nobody else wanted them. Things move pretty fast around here!

[clarkwgriswold]

18 minutes ago, NWAkron said:

i figured was a typo but what else do we have to do as we await the big game tonight.

 

I messed up as I was busy scouring the internet for someone scalping some tickets for tonight's game.

[zipsrule]

18 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

 

I messed up as I was busy scouring the internet for someone scalping some tickets for tonight's game.

For someone to scalp them, someone has to be buying them in the first place.

[GP1]

We should steal New Mexico State from the grips of CUSA so we can have exposure to the Rio Rancho TV market. 

[Z.I.P.]

19 hours ago, GP1 said:

We should steal New Mexico State from the grips of CUSA so we can have exposure to the Rio Rancho TV market. 

Rio Rancho is an Albuquerque suburb (yes - it has one!).  However, it WOULD give a path to the Hatch Chile Market!  🌶  Que viva!!

[GP1]

2 hours ago, Z.I.P. said:

Rio Rancho is an Albuquerque suburb (yes - it has one!).  However, it WOULD give a path to the Hatch Chile Market!  🌶  Que viva!!

We could play them annually for the Rubber Green Chilies Trophy.

[Blue & Gold]

I thought WKU was already a done deal, but apparently not.

[GP1]

1 hour ago, Blue & Gold said:

I thought WKU was already a done deal, but apparently not.

Maybe that Bowling Green, KY media market doesn't get the exposure we are looking for. 

[kreed5120]

It looks like WKU and MTSU joining the MAC fell through. I actually would have liked having WKU as I feel they would have raised the quality of both MAC basketball and MAC football.

 

 

[NWAkron]

8 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

It looks like WKU and MTSU joining the MAC fell through. I actually would have liked having WKU as I feel they would have raised the quality of both MAC basketball and MAC football.

 

 

That would really add to the travel budget for the schools.   They didn't seem like a good fit.  

[GP1]

Sanity prevailed in the MAC today. There is hope. 

[clarkwgriswold]

15 minutes ago, GP1 said:

Sanity prevailed in the MAC today. There is hope. 

 

Now they're going to merge with the Horizon League...

[NWAkron]

1 minute ago, clarkwgriswold said:

 

Now they're going to merge with the Horizon League...

Shut it!

Was a great day to be a Zip until you came along

[Captain Kangaroo]

2 hours ago, NWAkron said:

That would really add to the travel budget for the schools.   

More travel than their CUSA trips  to Louisiana, New Mexico, Florida, Texas…?

[NWAkron]

1 minute ago, Captain Kangaroo said:

More travel than their CUSA trips  to Louisiana, New Mexico, Florida, Texas…?

No, for the MAC teams.

[Blue & Gold]

Yeah. Seems like MAC said no.  It's nice to see we're not beggars.

 

(Honestly, I was kind of excited about WKU, though.)

[72 Roo]

I asked Guthrie about the potential for conference expansion with MTSU and WKU. He saw no reason for it. Neither school brought a big metropolitan market that could increase the eyes watching MAC FB or BB. Additionally two more slices of the TV revenue would have to be given up thereby lessening what each existing school got with little chance of negotiating a fatter deal because of these two. I do not know for sure, but I bed Charles shared his opinion with Miller, who values Charles insight. 

 

All that being said I have a sentimental interest in seeing WKU as an opponent. I remember regularly playing them when we were in the OVC. We played MTSU regularly too, but I never liked them.

[Zipmeister]

3 hours ago, 72 Roo said:

I asked Guthrie about the potential for conference expansion with MTSU and WKU. He saw no reason for it. Neither school brought a big metropolitan market that could increase the eyes watching MAC FB or BB. Additionally two more slices of the TV revenue would have to be given up thereby lessening what each existing school got with little chance of negotiating a fatter deal because of these two. I do not know for sure, but I bed Charles shared his opinion with Miller, who values Charles insight. 

 

All that being said I have a sentimental interest in seeing WKU as an opponent. I remember regularly playing them when we were in the OVC. We played MTSU regularly too, but I never liked them.

 

What you and Charles do behind closed doors should be of no concern to others. Go Zips.

[zippy5]

I thought WKU and MTSU would be good adds from a viewers standpoint. MTSU has been down a bit lately but they've recently both been pretty competitive on a mid major level in hoops and WKU has had a good football team. More of the status quo, boring

[zippy5]

 

 

 

[GP1]

32 minutes ago, zippy5 said:

 

 

 

Again, if nobody else wants them, why would we?

 

If WKU would just calm down and work with their existing conference to find two more schools, it isn't a bad conference. 

Edited November 10, 2021 by GP1

[zippy5]

WKU would be a top 3 athletic program in the conference the minute they join imo

[Z.I.P.]

I can't help recalling with moist eyes those days when people on this board looked longingly at the day when Akron could "move up" to the Big Time...Conference USA.  Where has all our ambition gone?  🥺