Temple Heading to the Big East??????

[footballguy51]

Wonder how that $6 million gets used? Is it put into the MAC operation budget, or distributed to member schools?

I think that they should give half to the school that gets affected most by all of these realignments....

Damn good idea there! You win a Captain and Coke!

The problem: I think UMASS was the most affected, as now they don't have a league partner anywhere near them. I can see the argument for us, but I can also unfortunately see the argument for UMASS.

[Class of 61]

WHOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!! FALCON SCREECHES ALL OVER THE PLACE. Back in the East where we belong.

Really hoping BG is at Akron this year, now...and the Falcons are capable of winning the East.

GO FOOTBALL

We should be at Akron this year...last game against them was 2009 at BG.

away - Akron, Ohio
home - Kent, Miami, Buffalo

Assuming we play all East teams, that means Umass will likely be away...the two west teams split, most likely Toledo away and a team to be named later at home.

In other news, great news for BG getting to move back to the East Division. Moving to the west would've sucked.

Hard to say how the sched. will work out, but I think we should get UMASS at HOME to "compensate" us for being the MAC's PING PONG ball for the last 8 yrs. or so.

[Class of 61]

Well if they decide that 6 mill over the 13 schools I know what I would do with the 400k. We could use that money to buy out a certain coaches contract in another sport. Just my own thought. Who would have thought that Temple leaving could help us get a new basketball coach. Lol

I don't think that UMASS should get a share, certainly not a "full share" when they haven't even played ONE game in the MAC.... that said, 12 schools / 6 million... = 500K per school (unless the conference takes some bucks out too).

[NWLB]

Well if they decide that 6 mill over the 13 schools I know what I would do with the 400k.

Put it in the endowment and you have funded ONE of the 85 football scholarships. Now to get 84 more people to do the same thing.

Aye.

I think more than most things, securing BGSU athletics in the long-term requires getting as much of the budget off the sights of student groups, faculty unions, and simply the radar. It becomes harder to target programs and new projects, if the kids playing are paid for.

(And since I'm responding to Transfer: When's the BW3's opening?)

[Falconfreak90]

I really dont' care what UMass thinks...they are new to OUR league and can make the sacrifices, if need be.

[daspollak]

I think the MAC should look to the Missouri Valley or Ohio Valley to find a 14th team if they want to go in that direction.

[It's the Journey...]

I've said it before and I will say it again, Illinois State would be a perfect fit. They fit the MAC academic footprint which is what a conference should be about, and the will compete for championships in every sport except football for the first 2-3 years. ISU would be a great rival for NIU and they are not been quiet about wanting to move football up to FBS.

[NWLB]

I think we face interesting times ahead, with regard to D1 football. (and yes, I continue to ignore the new designations)

It looks like the +1 option will get traction and become the new BCS model. My feeling has been, that once it does happen, we will see more "+1" games develop. Several bowls will band together, have a rotating "title" game akin to what will happen. I would guess we see leagues, pair-off, adjust bowl slots, to pull it off. Especially if the do end automatic bids to the BCS. Why wouldn't they? I see no legal way of the NCAA stopping it without triggering anti-trust battles. There will be money on the table, TV content to be had by the ESPNuSSR.

The upside might be having a way to add meaning to the bowl system, at least from the perspective of making even lower rung games have some purpose. Likely it would accelerate the bowl season too, since the prospect of an extra week of games would require the earlier games to start and end sooner.

[Falcon137]

Well if they decide that 6 mill over the 13 schools I know what I would do with the 400k. We could use that money to buy out a certain coaches contract in another sport. Just my own thought. Who would have thought that Temple leaving could help us get a new basketball coach. Lol

I don't think that UMASS should get a share, certainly not a "full share" when they haven't even played ONE game in the MAC.... that said, 12 schools / 6 million... = 500K per school (unless the conference takes some bucks out too).

UMass is technically the reason the MAC got any money. The MAC had no exit clause in place before UMass signed on the dotted line. I don't think Temple would have agreed to a buyout clause if they had already seen the Big East falling apart.

[NWLB]

I'll add that we don't know what the NCAA Division One talks are going to produce either.

The move is on, again, to contend with the haves and have-nots in 1a. Now I don't see anything that is as hostile as the attendance or stadium capacity requirements from the 80s and 90s coming down the road. In fact I'm still getting a feel for what the target really is at this point.

I think we could see the wall between 1a and 1aa come down. Maybe even take the current 1aa tourney down with it. That might seem counter-intuitive, since some folks are utterly obsessed with the idea that a tourney is the way to go. Yet I can see reasons and ways that the existing 16 team "playoff" gets paired back down to as little as the original 4 teams, and opening the door to major bowls to previously excluded 1aa programs. Teams could "play-up" to the bowls, but major programs could not "play-down" to the tourney unless they had fewer grants-in-aid.

The mini "+1" games could also expand the pool of possible bowls, thus making the option of 1aa teams playing-up needed to ensure enough teams.