MAC Week 3 Picks, News, Stats & Comment

[MACReport]

We have posted our week three preview which includes:**Preview of each game this week**Comparison of overall non-conference records among the non-BCS conferences and their record against BCS schools so far this season**List of MAC players in the NCAA Top Ten national statistical rankings**Commentary on Brian Kelly's attitude about the UC-Miami gameCheck it out at: www.macreportonline.com

[blueandgold]

In regard to the above note: **Commentary on Brian Kelly's attitude about the UC-Miami game.Below is the article. It is sickening! A former MAC coach with this attitude! Kelly: UC Too Big To Play at MiamiDuring his three years as head coach of the Central Michigan Chippewas, Brian Kelly relished the idea of "BCS" schools having to travel to take on the MAC. He told MAC Report Online prior to the start of the 2006 season that he could not wait for Boston College to visit Mt. Pleasant so that the MAC could play a BCS school on a "level playing field." Funny how things can change. Kelly, now in his first season as head coach of the Cincinnati Bearcats, a member of the Big East Conference and therefore a member of the upper crust (i.e. BCS) of college football, suddenly feels that his team is now too good to have to travel to play a MAC team on the road, even if it does involve one of college football's longest running rivalries, dating back to 1880. Kelly told the Cincinnati Enquirer, "We're a BCS conference. We have to look at our schedule and find out is it in our best interest to travel to a non-conference BCS school. We have to think about that. That's going to be a decision that's made above my pay grade, but I have my influence in it and I make my opinion known." Could part of his sudden change of heart be a fear of losing to a MAC school? After all, Miami has not lost at Yager Stadium to the Bearcats since 1999 and owns a 7-4-1 mark at Yager against Cincinnati since the schools started alternating their home games in this rivalry in 1996. Overall Miami owns a 59-45-7 edge over the Bearcats in the battle for the Victory Bell. "I could live with it being at a neutral field," Kelly added. Well, that's mighty big of you Coach Kelly. Strange that you believe that Cincinnati is too big to play at a MAC stadium, let alone that of a longtime rival, when schools like Minnesota, Iowa State, Kansas, Purdue, Indiana, Northwestern and oh yeah, Boston College (remember?), have had no issue with playing on the road against the MAC. Coaches from those schools, as we recall, also never felt compelled to constantly remind us that they are "a BCS conference school." "We do not want to stop the game between Miami and Cincinnati," Kelly also added. "We're not saying that at all but again those are all (my) opinions...more so than our administration. They might come out tomorrow and say Brian Kelly is full of it."We'll save them the trouble. You are full of it and have revealed yourself to be a shallow opportunist who has clearly forgotten his roots and which conference gave you the opportunity to coach at a BCS school.

[MDZip]

Kelly told the Cincinnati Enquirer, "We're a BCS conference. We have to look at our schedule and find out is it in our best interest to travel to a non-conference BCS school. We have to think about that. That's going to be a decision that's made above my pay grade, but I have my influence in it and I make my opinion known."

The most laughable thing is the quote about "above my pay grade". Most BCS head football coaches out-earn their AD's and University presidents. What a joke!

[Zipgrad01]

Nice catch. I was just about to comment on the pay grade thing as well. Maybe a more appropriate comment would have been...."that is going to be a decision that is made about my IQ level".Cincy is starting to build a nice program, but I had no idea they had "arrived" yet. I mean, they had about 25,000 people at their huge ESPN televised game against Oregon State. I believe Akron would draw that or more against Oregon State for a special event Sunday night game.