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  Message Not Read  RE: Top Five Jobs in the MAC
   Posted: 9/22/2020 9:51:57 AM 
BryanHall wrote:
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I think the OU job is about as attractive as it can get in the MAC. Solich has made the program a perennial bowl team and all the next coach has to do is win the MAC outright to take it to the proverbial next level. I'm curious what OU will do in the post Solich era.


I think the geography is an advantage for recruiting the Eastern Seabord and OU has great curb appeal. However, the lack of metro area/media market provides a low ceiling. I think Buffalo is clearly the highest upside. Toledo, Western and North Illinois get a benefit as well.


Agreed on Buffalo. That they have that market to themselves is a big benefit, and also could eventually make them an attractive expansion option for a bigger conference. I think that's the best job in the MAC in both football and basketball.

I mean, it wasn't so long ago that they were the State University of New York at Buffalo. I grew up in New York and was a New York resident, and nobody I went to high school ever considered Buffalo. They were behind Albany, Geneseo, Binghamton and even Plattsburgh in the SUNY pecking order. Since then, they've completely altered their brand and perception and are definitely trending up.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Top Five Jobs in the MAC
   Posted: 9/22/2020 10:53:58 AM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BryanHall wrote:
Tymaster wrote:
I think the OU job is about as attractive as it can get in the MAC. Solich has made the program a perennial bowl team and all the next coach has to do is win the MAC outright to take it to the proverbial next level. I'm curious what OU will do in the post Solich era.


I think the geography is an advantage for recruiting the Eastern Seabord and OU has great curb appeal. However, the lack of metro area/media market provides a low ceiling. I think Buffalo is clearly the highest upside. Toledo, Western and North Illinois get a benefit as well.


Agreed on Buffalo. That they have that market to themselves is a big benefit, and also could eventually make them an attractive expansion option for a bigger conference. I think that's the best job in the MAC in both football and basketball.

I mean, it wasn't so long ago that they were the State University of New York at Buffalo. I grew up in New York and was a New York resident, and nobody I went to high school ever considered Buffalo. They were behind Albany, Geneseo, Binghamton and even Plattsburgh in the SUNY pecking order. Since then, they've completely altered their brand and perception and are definitely trending up.


Buffalo's not a bad city. It gets a bad rap and can get brutally cold, but it seems safe and clean, with just enough night life (not much near campus tho) and some beautiful neighborhoods. But I never looked at New York as some recruitment hotbed. They could make a name for themselves in Western PA, but New York itself doesn't really have much of a high level high school football culture.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Top Five Jobs in the MAC
   Posted: 9/22/2020 11:09:27 AM 
shabamon wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BryanHall wrote:
Tymaster wrote:
I think the OU job is about as attractive as it can get in the MAC. Solich has made the program a perennial bowl team and all the next coach has to do is win the MAC outright to take it to the proverbial next level. I'm curious what OU will do in the post Solich era.


I think the geography is an advantage for recruiting the Eastern Seabord and OU has great curb appeal. However, the lack of metro area/media market provides a low ceiling. I think Buffalo is clearly the highest upside. Toledo, Western and North Illinois get a benefit as well.


Agreed on Buffalo. That they have that market to themselves is a big benefit, and also could eventually make them an attractive expansion option for a bigger conference. I think that's the best job in the MAC in both football and basketball.

I mean, it wasn't so long ago that they were the State University of New York at Buffalo. I grew up in New York and was a New York resident, and nobody I went to high school ever considered Buffalo. They were behind Albany, Geneseo, Binghamton and even Plattsburgh in the SUNY pecking order. Since then, they've completely altered their brand and perception and are definitely trending up.


Buffalo's not a bad city. It gets a bad rap and can get brutally cold, but it seems safe and clean, with just enough night life (not much near campus tho) and some beautiful neighborhoods. But I never looked at New York as some recruitment hotbed. They could make a name for themselves in Western PA, but New York itself doesn't really have much of a high level high school football culture.


Definitely don't think New York's a recruitment hotbed, just pointing out that their brand is on the rise generally.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Top Five Jobs in the MAC
   Posted: 9/22/2020 4:09:17 PM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
shabamon wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
BryanHall wrote:
Tymaster wrote:
I think the OU job is about as attractive as it can get in the MAC. Solich has made the program a perennial bowl team and all the next coach has to do is win the MAC outright to take it to the proverbial next level. I'm curious what OU will do in the post Solich era.


I think the geography is an advantage for recruiting the Eastern Seabord and OU has great curb appeal. However, the lack of metro area/media market provides a low ceiling. I think Buffalo is clearly the highest upside. Toledo, Western and North Illinois get a benefit as well.


Agreed on Buffalo. That they have that market to themselves is a big benefit, and also could eventually make them an attractive expansion option for a bigger conference. I think that's the best job in the MAC in both football and basketball.

I mean, it wasn't so long ago that they were the State University of New York at Buffalo. I grew up in New York and was a New York resident, and nobody I went to high school ever considered Buffalo. They were behind Albany, Geneseo, Binghamton and even Plattsburgh in the SUNY pecking order. Since then, they've completely altered their brand and perception and are definitely trending up.


Buffalo's not a bad city. It gets a bad rap and can get brutally cold, but it seems safe and clean, with just enough night life (not much near campus tho) and some beautiful neighborhoods. But I never looked at New York as some recruitment hotbed. They could make a name for themselves in Western PA, but New York itself doesn't really have much of a high level high school football culture.


Definitely don't think New York's a recruitment hotbed, just pointing out that their brand is on the rise generally.


Agreeing with both of you. UB is probably one of if not strongest school in theAC academically (disclaim: my graduate degree is from UB), but high school football in New York State is a joke from what i saw of it (circa 2006-2013). Not a major talent producing area, with notable exceptions (iirc Gronkowski (sp?) grew up in one of the nicer Buffalo suburbs. As of 2010 or so his family was still active in the area. Seemed like nice enough people when they came to the cancer center i worked at for a charity event)
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  Message Not Read  RE: Top Five Jobs in the MAC
   Posted: 9/24/2020 8:23:00 AM 
BryanHall wrote:
Tymaster wrote:
I think the OU job is about as attractive as it can get in the MAC. Solich has made the program a perennial bowl team and all the next coach has to do is win the MAC outright to take it to the proverbial next level. I'm curious what OU will do in the post Solich era.


I think the geography is an advantage for recruiting the Eastern Seabord and OU has great curb appeal. However, the lack of metro area/media market provides a low ceiling. I think Buffalo is clearly the highest upside. Toledo, Western and North Illinois get a benefit as well.


I hear you with no metro area and televison/radio market but I think the current program since about 2005 has done a fairly good job of marketing itself as "the" sports program in an entertainment starved Southeastern Ohio. Imagine if they actually took the time to spend some real money on just the marketing of the basketball and football programs. That isn't to say they haven't done a good job, but there are certainly more avenues they could explore. I think you take the disadvantage of being in the sticks and bump up the levels of promotion in the towns like Lancaster, Chillicothe, Marietta, Portsmouth, Jackson, etc. But, that's a whole other discussion. They've tried this to a degree but I don't think they've ever gone "all in."
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  Message Not Read  RE: Top Five Jobs in the MAC
   Posted: 9/24/2020 9:35:27 AM 
Culture is a huge advantage. FBS programs in the coal mining areas like WVU or VT seem to have that tough blue collar football culture. That is Ohio has going for it in the MAC to go along with Athens being a great college town.

Contrast that with Miami's spoiled rich kid culture. Fancy buildings but not a lot of substance. It looks like an ivy league college but isn't. The average FBS player I don't think is attracted to that type of school.

With the bigger market programs in the MAC they no doubt have resource advantages on Ohio but it also drives Ohio to continually strive for improvement and initiate more facility campaigns. Players don't pick where to play by its donor base or coaching salary but more on the facilities and culture.

There are factors for WMU, Toledo and Buffalo that place a ceiling on how far they can go. Buffalo is a pro market town. Toledo has a stigma as a mediocre rust belt town to outsiders. WMU has the directional Michigan label and is removed from locations outside the Midwest. They don't exactly have TCU or Miami Fl potential in recruiting where all the players they need are right there in a 30 mile radius. The only G5 program in the Midwest that has anything close to that is Cincinnati.

Boise State didn't have the players right on their doorstep but decent market resources. Out west though its easy to recruit players across state lines and many of those MWC universities have zero talent in their back yards so it allowed Boise to get out in front with wins and dominate recruiting. In the MAC the Michigan kids want to play at the Michigan schools and the Ohio kids want to play at the Ohio schools so you can't run away with the whole region in recruiting. Illinois and Indiana recruiting isn't as strong but the MAC has only 1 school a piece in those states to offset it.


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  Message Not Read  RE: Top Five Jobs in the MAC
   Posted: 9/24/2020 3:34:22 PM 
Club Hyatt wrote:
Players don't pick where to play by its donor base or coaching salary but more on the facilities and culture.


I would argue that Ohio has a solid culture based on coaching stability, and bowl appearances. I would also argue that Peden is a ways down the list in terms of facilities, though the academic center has made an improvement there.

By comparison, Miami's facility is better all around, as is Western's. I think it's reasonable to say UT and BG both have better facilities as well. And then there's Akron. So at best, Ohio is 5th/6th in football facilities?
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   Posted: 9/24/2020 5:43:01 PM 
OU_Country wrote:
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Players don't pick where to play by its donor base or coaching salary but more on the facilities and culture.


I would argue that Ohio has a solid culture based on coaching stability, and bowl appearances. I would also argue that Peden is a ways down the list in terms of facilities, though the academic center has made an improvement there.

By comparison, Miami's facility is better all around, as is Western's. I think it's reasonable to say UT and BG both have better facilities as well. And then there's Akron. So at best, Ohio is 5th/6th in football facilities?


I dunno about total ranking per school. Do you consider things like having dorms on West Green nearby compared to walking 2 miles to the stadium? What I do know is almost every time someone in the MAC builds something they go above and beyond what existing members already have.

Facilities are relative. Ohio has an IPF, football ops, weight room, therapy pools, academic center, club seats, press tower, scoreboard, videoboards. Go back to 1990 and it didn't have any of that. Are any of these facilities best in the MAC? Probably they'd rate at least as decent. That Ohio could always use more and better facilities competing in the MAC provides rational to continually fundraise for them.

That argument is harder to make if Ohio was playing in the Colonial with facilities already on a different level than the majority of schools that play football there. Ohio's program might not have the local economic base of most MAC and G5 peers but there is at least a sense that improvements have to be done anyways to stay competitive.

Last Edited: 9/24/2020 5:43:37 PM by TWT


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   Posted: 9/24/2020 9:12:38 PM 
Reading some comments here, I’m struggling to understand how the Big12 took WVU over Ohio.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Top Five Jobs in the MAC
   Posted: 9/24/2020 11:14:35 PM 
BillyTheCat wrote:
Reading some comments here, I’m struggling to understand how the Big12 took WVU over Ohio.


Probably because WVU's mascot practices open carry
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mf279801 wrote:
BillyTheCat wrote:
Reading some comments here, I’m struggling to understand how the Big12 took WVU over Ohio.


Probably because WVU's mascot practices open carry 

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