Dear God, what a painful time to be a fan of MAC football. I've never been more embarrassed about this conference in all of my 27 years of existence. The MAC had a chance to justify being a three bid league this past weekend and completely fell flat on their faces. After Central Michigan's inspiring comeback effort against an abysmal Purdue last month, Ball State and BG had the chance to represent the conference against superior competition. I'm not trying to say that Rutgers and Tulsa are good, but a win from either MAC school would be considered a big upset and a good win for the league.
The result: Bigger schools 115, MAC 37. Ouch. Bowling Green is just a terrible team that should not have gone bowling anyway, but thanks to the crappiness of my alma mater, they were granted the right to get blown out. Ball State also sucks and they made Ray Rice look like Barry freaking Sanders. Clearly, these two programs weren't ready for the big time. They should be given a 5 year bowl ban for rolling voer and dying on the football field. Losing is one thing, but showing no effort and desire at all is unacceptable. Seriously, maybe the MAC should go back to being just a one or two bid league...it's hard to justify why 3 teams get a bowl paycheck if they can't even compete.
And if you look up the definition or "terrible" in the dictionary, it's just the logo of the MAC. Maybe one day we will compete again...stranger things have happened.
1.07.2008
MAC Fans, Hang Your Head In Shame
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Boy, you got that right.
The Post-Glory Days MAC is the equivalent of the Sun Belt. No question. Take a look at some of the teams: Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan, Buffalo (Buffalo, for God's sake, can't beat Baylor or Syracuse and competes in the conference, tisk tisk..). How comfortable would you be with Buffalo playing a team like Arkansas State? How would CMU fare against Troy? Bowling Green and Florida Atlantic? Ohio and UL Monroe? Miami and Middle Tennessee?
The Sun Belt is gaining some ground (or even at this point). The bottom of C-USA is horrible with SMU (probably not with June Jones now), Marshall, Rice, Tulane, and UAB, but the top is far superior than anything the MAC offers.
All in all, this bowl season was just pathetic. Just pathetic.
Call me a hopeless optimist, but I see the conference making a comeback of sorts for 2008. It's been progressively declining since 2003 getting exponentially worse each season. But with CMU having the potential to play a little defense, Ball State getting a slew of players back, the conference has a chance to field some teams that can actually compete.
I'm going to do a write up on where the MAC stands and has to go from here on Tuesday.
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