What does this mean to the MAC Bowl Committments?

Rollo83 · Post by **Rollo83** » Fri May 08, 2009 8:30 pm

GMAC signs deal with ACC to take their 9th place team. Wonder what that means for the MAC?

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/n ... &type=lgns

bgsufalcon24 · Post by **bgsufalcon24** » Sat May 09, 2009 12:47 pm

The ACC is a joke of a football conference. They only wish they had the BCS success of the WAC/Mountain West.

MarkL · Post by **MarkL** » Sat May 09, 2009 3:26 pm

I'm guessing they are dropping their commitment in the EagleBank Bowl (Washington D.C.) It is ACC #9 / MAC #4, and since GMAC will be ACC #9, I'm guessing the EagleBank will take the GMAC in our conference's slate. I love the GMAC Bowl, I've had great experiences in Mobile, but this is better for the conference in a geographic perspective. That being said ... you have a MUCH lower chance of being mugged in Mobile than Washington D.C.

San Fran Falcon · Post by **San Fran Falcon** » Sun May 10, 2009 6:45 am

Can we get a playoff please? I'm sick of speculating.

daspollak · Post by **daspollak** » Sun May 10, 2009 3:40 pm

I am sorry to say, but the MAC and the GMAC just do not mesh any more. Look at the attendance for the last few games. They need southeastern teams in that game. Good move for them, lets hope we can still keep at least 3 bowl commitments for the MAC.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sun May 10, 2009 4:34 pm

One thing to keep in mind. For the past few season, nearly every bowl eligible team has ended up in a bowl game. Do the commitments really matter as much as they used to? And, how likely is the ACC to turn out 9 bowl eligible teams?

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sun May 10, 2009 4:41 pm

According to this, it will be the MAC against the ACC, with conference USA moving on....

http://tinyurl.com/oqmgjl

daspollak · Post by **daspollak** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:06 pm

I am still going to go on the record and say they need to get rid of at least 30% of the bowl games. Past couple of years the match-ups have gotten pretty stale. MAC champ is the only one that deserves to go out of this conference.

MarkL · Post by **MarkL** » Sun May 10, 2009 11:18 pm

orangeandbrown wrote:According to this, it will be the MAC against the ACC, with conference USA moving on....

http://tinyurl.com/oqmgjl

Now that is interesting. I figured the MAC would be the one out because of attendance issues and geographic problems - Mobile is very advantageous to C-USA and the southern half of the ACC. Interesting matchups, imagine Ball State vs NC State, or the previous year BGSU vs Maryland.

tekekini · Post by **tekekini** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:03 am

San Fran Falcon wrote:Can we get a playoff please? I'm sick of speculating.

If we have a playoff....BG gets no post season.

Do YOU really want that?

No one will want to sponsor any meaningless bowl game anymore when they can get their name on as part of a play off game. This all means no bowl games for mid major teams.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:25 am

tekekini wrote:
San Fran Falcon wrote:Can we get a playoff please? I'm sick of speculating.

If we have a playoff....BG gets no post season.

Do YOU really want that?

No one will want to sponsor any meaningless bowl game anymore when they can get their name on as part of a play off game. This all means no bowl games for mid major teams.

I support a playoff system if every conference is given one automatic bid allowing conferences like the MAC to be guaranteed one team into the dance. I would gladly give up any of these craptastic (money LOSING) bowl games for a shot at playoff berth.

If you're talking some 4 or 8 team playoff which shuts out the non BCS conferences I want nothing to do with it.

Globetrotter · Post by **Globetrotter** » Mon May 11, 2009 8:58 am

daspollak wrote:I am still going to go on the record and say they need to get rid of at least 30% of the bowl games. Past couple of years the match-ups have gotten pretty stale. MAC champ is the only one that deserves to go out of this conference.

Ball State didn't deserve to go last year? That's absurd.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Mon May 11, 2009 9:45 am

tekekini wrote:No one will want to sponsor any meaningless bowl game anymore when they can get their name on as part of a play off game. This all means no bowl games for mid major teams.

So why do entities sponsor bowl games now that are meaningless and not part of the BCS championship series?

Do you think Mienke, GMAC, San Diego County Federal Credit Union, Emerald Nuts, etc are really sitting there thinking, 'Well we sponsored a crappy mediocre bowl game before this 12 team playoff thing came around, but now that there is a playoff it just doesn't make sense for us to do that anymore even though we would still get the exact same teams to come play in it'?

NWLB · Post by **NWLB** » Mon May 11, 2009 10:22 am

hammb wrote:
tekekini wrote:
San Fran Falcon wrote:Can we get a playoff please? I'm sick of speculating.

If we have a playoff....BG gets no post season.

Do YOU really want that?

No one will want to sponsor any meaningless bowl game anymore when they can get their name on as part of a play off game. This all means no bowl games for mid major teams.
I support a playoff system if every conference is given one automatic bid allowing conferences like the MAC to be guaranteed one team into the dance. I would gladly give up any of these craptastic (money LOSING) bowl games for a shot at playoff berth.

If you're talking some 4 or 8 team playoff which shuts out the non BCS conferences I want nothing to do with it.

Not every conference would or should get a bid in a national tournament.

And the bickering over who is "really" the best wouldn't be solved either.

NWLB · Post by **NWLB** » Mon May 11, 2009 10:25 am

Here is what I take out of the article, and it is telling of CUSA in my view.

"This is SEC and ACC country, but the Mid-American has been well-embraced here in Mobile," GMAC Bowl president Silverstein told The Star Press in January. "(The MAC) has become a conference for our community to embrace and enjoy, and everybody here loves them and their fans."

Good southern folks and good mid western folks, all of whom love football, are a good match. Fewer deluded types than you have with CUSA.