(07-12-2015 01:17 PM)toddjnsn Wrote:  

Quote:There is no openings in the MAC right now, not even for the #1 draft pick.

UMass is leaving after this year. That's an open slot to make the numbers even.

Quote:Northern Illinois, Toledo, Ohio U. and Bowling Green could move to a better conference.

NIU has a border war with Ball State in the MAC and Toledo is a name team to bring into the stadium.

Toledo likes to play the Michigan schools, NIU, BG and Ball State. That is 6 of their 8 MAC games every season.

Bowling Green is like the Texas Tech of the MAC. They are never the most loaded team in the MAC but they find creative schemes and diamond in the rough skill players that has them normally in contention. They prefer playing the MAC West schools too. It had long been a goal of the MAC to go to 14 for the purposes of moving BG to the West.

Ohio's thing is they play a ton of home games. 6 every year in football and close to 18 in basketball. They buy a lot of home games in basketball like you'd expect a P5 program would do. This way they can small time the opposition. CUSA or AAC they would be picking on someone their own size which is not the way they think athletically.