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Note that several MAC schools rate higher academically in this listing than a few of the lesser ranked B1G schools. A wag on the MACbbs board was advocating droping the lowest ranked MAC schools to up our academic profile. Droping Akron and EMU would do wonders for our academic profile. Thanks for posting this! ACC is the standard. Back to Top GoCats105 General User Member Since: 1/31/2006 Location: Seattle, WA Post Count: 7,114 Status: Offline     RE: News around the MAC    Posted: 10/18/2024 1:20:55 PM  OhioCatFan wrote: Thought that this is an interesting graph. Note that several MAC schools rate higher academically in this listing than a few of the lesser ranked B1G schools. A wag on the MACbbs board was advocating droping the lowest ranked MAC schools to up our academic profile. Droping Akron and EMU would do wonders for our academic profile. This is the kind of thinking that killed the PAC 12 and almost killed the PAC-8 back in the day. Back then, USC and UCLA wanted the Arizona schools but Stanford, Cal and Washington didn't want to bring in anyone that didn't fit their academic profile. They eventually folded once they realized how much more money the conference would make from ticket sales and TV revenue in places like Tuscon and Tempe compared to Pullman and Corvallis. Back to Top L.C. General User Member Since: 8/31/2005 Location: United States Post Count: 10,397 Status: Offline     RE: News around the MAC    Posted: 10/18/2024 2:46:25 PM  ExCat21 wrote: Let's play commish for a moment. These FCS schools have the top 25 stadiums. If and when we lose Toledo/NIU, what 3 teams would you like to replace them with to get back to 14 teams? ... There is nothing magical about 14 teams, or 12. Twelve teams allows you to do 3 pods of 4 teams each. 16 would allow 4 pods of 4. You could also shoot for 15, giving you 3 pods of 5. Just stay away from prime numbers like 11, 13, or 17, and you can work it out. Even then, not all pods have to be the same size, so at the current 13 you could have two pods of 4 and one pod of 5. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus Back to Top ExCat21 General User Member Since: 9/29/2014 Post Count: 1,089 Status: Offline     RE: News around the MAC    Posted: 10/18/2024 3:08:19 PM  L.C. wrote: ExCat21 wrote: Let's play commish for a moment. These FCS schools have the top 25 stadiums. If and when we lose Toledo/NIU, what 3 teams would you like to replace them with to get back to 14 teams? ... There is nothing magical about 14 teams, or 12. Twelve teams allows you to do 3 pods of 4 teams each. 16 would allow 4 pods of 4. You could also shoot for 15, giving you 3 pods of 5. Just stay away from prime numbers like 11, 13, or 17, and you can work it out. Even then, not all pods have to be the same size, so at the current 13 you could have two pods of 4 and one pod of 5. I do like 16. Add 2 northeastern schools and put Buffalo and UMass in their own pod. Back to Top Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame General User Member Since: 7/30/2010 Post Count: 3,552 Status: Offline     RE: News around the MAC    Posted: 10/18/2024 5:12:53 PM  I'm not sure I understand the desire to expand the conference. Unless you're expanding with teams that you're certain increase the value of your TV deal substantially (at minimum more than 13%), doesn't expansion run the risk of harming the league financially? Aren't there just two more schools to share every dollar with? Back to Top Pataskala General User Member Since: 7/8/2010 Location: At least six feet away from anybody else Post Count: 9,328 Status: Offline     RE: News around the MAC    Posted: 10/18/2024 7:46:14 PM  Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote: I'm not sure I understand the desire to expand the conference. Unless you're expanding with teams that you're certain increase the value of your TV deal substantially (at minimum more than 13%), doesn't expansion run the risk of harming the league financially? Aren't there just two more schools to share every dollar with? I think it's the old fear that if you don't grow you die or if you stand still you actually move backwards. Expansion should be a positive move, not an act of desperation. We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive. 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