We're not the worst!!!!

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We're not the worst!!!!

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The Athletic puts us at #125 out of 130!! Akron is 124...NIU is 120.
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2021 Opponents:

Tennessee - 85
South Alabama - 107
Murray State - N/A
Minnesota - 50
Kent State - 76
Akron - 124
NIU - 120
EMU - 109
Buffalo - 77
Toledo - 51
Miami (OH) - 100
Ohio - 99

Notables:

Syracuse - 111 (Yikes Dino)
Wake Forest - 67 (could be a sleeper this year)
Notre Dame - 10
Michigan - 38
Michigan State - 64
Ohio State - 4

Worst in the MAC by virtue of losing to Akron last year. ULM, UMass, UConn, ODU, and NMST round out the cellar.
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Given that Akron and Northern Illinois are both on our schedule, we can settle this question on the field.

I fear it may not go well for us, but we'll see. Maybe this team will start to gel as we settle into MAC play.
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jpfalcon09 wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:39 pm 2021 Opponents:

Tennessee - 85
South Alabama - 107
Murray State - N/A
Minnesota - 50
Kent State - 76
Akron - 124
NIU - 120
EMU - 109
Buffalo - 77
Toledo - 51
Miami (OH) - 100
Ohio - 99

Notables:

Syracuse - 111 (Yikes Dino)
Wake Forest - 67 (could be a sleeper this year)
Notre Dame - 10
Michigan - 38
Michigan State - 64
Ohio State - 4

Worst in the MAC by virtue of losing to Akron last year. ULM, UMass, UConn, ODU, and NMST round out the cellar.
Tennessee feels far too low. I know they haven't been great of late, but to have them lower than Toledo, Kent and Buffalo seems pretty suspect. It's still a team with SEC talent.
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If I had to take a bet in the generally morbid pool of first coach to be fired, its Dino. He's having a tough time getting recruits to the middle of nowhere northern New York. He's abandoned his offense for a generic fast spread. It's not working. Of all the jobs open in 2015, his best shots would have been Maryland or Missouri as recruiting is far easier. Though I would have preferred be stay one more year at BG.
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MarkL wrote: Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:32 pm If I had to take a bet in the generally morbid pool of first coach to be fired, its Dino. He's having a tough time getting recruits to the middle of nowhere northern New York. He's abandoned his offense for a generic fast spread. It's not working. Of all the jobs open in 2015, his best shots would have been Maryland or Missouri as recruiting is far easier. Though I would have preferred be stay one more year at BG.
Dino has a very lucrative buyout in his contract, somewhere between $12 and $17 million. Unless someone with deep pockets close to Syracuse steps up, he very likely isn't going anywhere. He's got a damn good agent.
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