(02-11-2018 04:38 PM)Seminowl Wrote:  

(02-11-2018 06:22 AM)MUther Wrote:  

(02-11-2018 05:45 AM)Seminowl Wrote:  

(02-10-2018 11:20 PM)monarx Wrote:  

(02-10-2018 08:21 PM)beefcake0520 Wrote:  By all means do that. This conference is a joke compared to what it used to be. Other than long time rival USM and building rivals WKU MT, there is nothing worth staying in this dying conference for. You start combining with too many FBS newbies and an FCS pull up, the conference reputation will get even worse. I'm not the only one who sees this. No offense to Charlotte or ODU, I personally saw the light when those two came up for the list of additions, ODU seems to be coming along nicely. Regardless, no one else in big boy football cares, so go ahead and add more to that. I hope my school would make a decision to do something else than that. JMU was passed over for ODU for a reason.

I can understand a team with the history and past success of Marshall not liking the idea of being in a conference with these recent FBS arrivals, but it does seem to me that the alignment in question would be comparable to the MAC. And these newbies all have drive and determination to be better, whereas the MAC has been mostly lousy for decades. I think CUSA is just as good as the MAC now and has a much higher long term ceiling. It just doesn't have the teams with as much name recognition at this time.

CUSA is better than the MAC. 9/10 Floridians have no idea what the MAC is, and couldn’t name one of thier schools. I’m sure it’s the same for the CUSA in the North. Both conferences have the same level of national recognition, so it comes down to performance. MAC was the worst conference last year, the way Toledo and Akron lost earned them that title. In the G5 it’s all about performance, history only gets you so far when people barely know your name.

I've never understood the ignorant fan argument. If people in Florida have never heard of the MAC, not likely, then that's on them. You're either a college football fan or you're not. I mean, your team's bowl was vs a MAC team. They didn't know who they were? or their conference? It isn't unreasonable for anyone that watches college football to be able to name ten FBS conferences and at least 4-5 teams in each one. If they can't do that then they really aren't fans. They're just killing time on Saturdays wearing blue and red or whatever colors their team wears.

Sorry but most college football fans are casual P5 fans. Half of the people I asked to go to the bowl game with me had no idea Akron had a University. I got questions like “Are they a division 1 team?” and “didn’t LeBron go there?”. If you think the MAC is a trending topic in South Florida, you are wrong.

Like I said, that's on your friends being ignorant and not on the MAC. It's a bad argument to try to disparage a conference. Reflects more on the quality of fan in your area. Might explain why you guys have empty stadiums. Of course a lot of people in Florida are from the North East where zero good college football is played, so that might have a lot to do with it. I mean they have Buffalo, UConn, Syracuse, and Boston College. Pretty much it at the FBS level. And they're good like once every 50 years.