(10-16-2012 03:03 PM)MacLord Wrote:  Isn't there a MAC Smack Talk board built for just this kind of nonsense? This kind of absolute guff that should be such a minor part of discourse on a football discussion board, to call out a whole school for removal from the league from a guy from a school that just won its first bowl game EVER last season? But I'm not going to fall into the trap of attacking Ohio based on one or two goons.

If you've been around this board and its predecessors as some of us have, you can remember when it was NIU and Kent on the chopping block from some well-intentioned people, here to save the MAC from being "dragged down." Buffalo spent a lot of years with people wanting them gone. Akron. BG. The idea that any of these schools would or should be kicked out is just as absurd as the idea that they shouldn't when they have a good season and people show up.

If you went to a school and root for the school, maybe you don't live near the school enough to go to games, but you like there being a program and wish the best. EMU has some very fervent fans who are suffering enough just with wanting the FB team to be good. EMU, less than year removed from a 6-6 year where they beat both other Michigan MAC schools, and less than a week from taking Toledo to the wire. Eventually they will get a coach with the vision and skill to turn things around. They may already have that coach, I don't know. But we'll see if when they reach the top of the mountain, EMU fans are looking down at someone to eliminate from the MAC.

Cylical, as someone said. Enjoy your time at the top, Optimist.

Excellent comments. Well, I'm OK with ditching BG, but otherwise I'm in complete agreement with you.

(10-16-2012 03:28 PM)H2Oville Rocket Wrote:  

(10-16-2012 03:03 PM)MacLord Wrote:  Isn't there a MAC Smack Talk board built for just this kind of nonsense? This kind of absolute guff that should be such a minor part of discourse on a football discussion board, to call out a whole school for removal from the league from a guy from a school that just won its first bowl game EVER last season? But I'm not going to fall into the trap of attacking Ohio based on one or two goons.

If you've been around this board and its predecessors as some of us have, you can remember when it was NIU and Kent on the chopping block from some well-intentioned people, here to save the MAC from being "dragged down." Buffalo spent a lot of years with people wanting them gone. Akron. BG. The idea that any of these schools would or should be kicked out is just as absurd as the idea that they shouldn't when they have a good season and people show up.

If you went to a school and root for the school, maybe you don't live near the school enough to go to games, but you like there being a program and wish the best. EMU has some very fervent fans who are suffering enough just with wanting the FB team to be good. EMU, less than year removed from a 6-6 year where they beat both other Michigan MAC schools, and less than a week from taking Toledo to the wire. Eventually they will get a coach with the vision and skill to turn things around. They may already have that coach, I don't know. But we'll see if when they reach the top of the mountain, EMU fans are looking down at someone to eliminate from the MAC.

Cylical, as someone said. Enjoy your time at the top, Optimist.

Excellent comments. Well, I'm OK with ditching BG, but otherwise I'm in complete agreement with you.

Remove your only rival?

(10-16-2012 03:43 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  Excellent comments. Well, I'm OK with ditching BG, but otherwise I'm in complete agreement with you.

Remove your only rival?
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We'd be like Temple and our only rival would be in a lower division. We'd still play them.

(10-16-2012 03:28 PM)FlashFan Wrote:  The best attendance in the MAC is in a range of 25-30K, a laughable figure by most BCS programs. No one in the MAC is Ala-Damn-Bama. Some fans need to get over themselves.

Yep.

Yep, it would be great if one of the mods simply dragged this thread over to the smack board.

I feel bad for EMU, and part of the MAC's strength, especially in these turbulent times, is our solidarity, but at some point?????????????

Big East gave Temple the heev-ho...

Temple was a football-only member. It's the equivalent of booting one of the soccer-only schools from MAC soccer.

(10-16-2012 11:04 AM)The Optimist Wrote:  

(10-16-2012 10:57 AM)EA3 Wrote:  

(10-16-2012 10:55 AM)The Optimist Wrote:  

(10-16-2012 01:45 AM)Lolly Popp Wrote:  The biggest problem is that Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor are simply too close together. No reason for two large universities, where one overshadows the other so much, to be located in adjacent cities.

Eastern Michigan needs to somehow find a way to start building a branch campus in a place like Port Huron, St. Clair, Marine City, New Baltimore, or Monroe with the ultimate plan of moving everything.

Start with some science and technology buildings, as well as dorms with modern amenities, and then move on to other departments. Also relocate all athletic department facilities as quickly as possible.

Once the new campus is fully done, sell the old campus to the University of Michigan, where they can establish new departments or something. EMU should actually be situated in Eastern Michigan.

+100

You just described no less than 25 years. More like 40-50.

You can't just pick up a University and move it overnight.

That is EXACTLY why I don't have hope to save EMU. I have nothing against EMU fans personally... I have nothing against EMU personally.

I call BS

(10-16-2012 12:01 PM)bronconick Wrote:  Aside from Temple in the Big East, who was an associate, football only member, has there ever been a scenario where a school COULD be removed from a conference without hordes of legal issues? I kind of doubt it, which is why conferences are slow and deliberate to invite schools. So, not only is this a stupid discussion guaranteed to cause bad blood, it's not even a feasible consideration anyway. It's like arguing who deserves mineral rights on the Moon.

Marshal was booted from the MAC for cheating too much. That was a long time ago though.