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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2019 11:48:15 GMT -6
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Post by calpoly on Apr 9, 2019 14:55:59 GMT -6
At least we have MACtion....
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Post by david75bsu on Apr 9, 2019 16:33:53 GMT -6
after the past two years, you’d have to say the MAC is at the bottom of the FBS teams/conferences. Not sure we would dominate FCS. Maybe it is best we stay where we are. Play eight MAC games, two Power5 teams, two FCS teams at home. If we could just begin competing in the MAC life would not be so bad - heck, no MAC team will ever win a football championship ( the NCAA and Power5 schools have made sure of that).
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Post by CallingBS on Apr 9, 2019 16:36:04 GMT -6
The MAC commissioner sold his soul on the last contract. Long-term and a financial dagger for MAC schools.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2019 7:54:55 GMT -6
after the past two years, you’d have to say the MAC is at the bottom of the FBS teams/conferences. Not sure we would dominate FCS. Maybe it is best we stay where we are. Play eight MAC games, two Power5 teams, two FCS teams at home. If we could just begin competing in the MAC life would not be so bad - heck, no MAC team will ever win a football championship ( the NCAA and Power5 schools have made sure of that). Only one FCS win counts towards bowl eligibility, so play one FCS, then another Group of Five team. |
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 10, 2019 10:03:12 GMT -6
The power conferences have less and less interest in scheduling us. More gate, TV revenue from a conference game or a OOC name opponent. We are going to be lucky to get more than one money game in the future.
As far as their needing fodder to get to 6 wins, they probably have enough bottom feeders in their own group to schedule to get the teams in their conference to a bowl who really want to go.
The bottom bowl games don't offer much incentive to a big budget Program to participate. There are too many bowl games, not that much TV money, and some are not exactly dream destinations for weekend trip in December. Most schools lose money on trips, it is all about an alumni event involving one last warm weather football game. Program loses money but chalk it up to alumni relations and advertising expense.
The bowl committees at the bottom bowls aren't getting the big crowd they might want, it's now made for TV, much like the regular season low budget MAC TV contract. Probably want a big schools to participate but I don't see how they get that much gate.
Those low budget bowls are happy to have a couple of mid level conference "powers" and a MAC team fills out the dance card. Are big school alums really excited to see their team go play Toledo? In Birmingham? Just barely enough TV revenue to keep the pageantry alive somewhere in Alabama, or North Dakota (shudder), or the like.
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 10, 2019 10:16:12 GMT -6
The MAC commissioner sold his soul on the last contract. Long-term and a financial dagger for MAC schools. Given the low level of MAC attendance it might be a financial break even, or even small profit. But it kills the ability for MAC schools to do much with those games. Season tickets with 2 night games weeknight? Late season games which might draw on a crisp Saturday afternoon in a game are not going to draw Thursday night.
Usually those games are definitely at the home schools expense. BSU has about the most favorable possible weeknight schedule this year, but no doubt suffers in the future.
Especially if the game involves two good MAC teams, and is relatively good TV, the home school usually loses out (smaller crowd no bigger revenue overall) but the visitor gains. Maybe both do, from national attention on TV. But most of those night games can't do much for the unlucky teams who have to play in the sad reality TV drama of MAC wannabe football.
Even if the home schedule is not too badly impacted the visitor in exchange for modest potential profit has the players miss midweek classes often to play in dismal conditions.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2019 13:49:19 GMT -6
The power conferences have less and less interest in scheduling us. More gate, TV revenue from a conference game or a OOC name opponent. We are going to be lucky to get more than one money game in the future. As far as their needing fodder to get to 6 wins, they probably have enough bottom feeders in their own group to schedule to get the teams in their conference to a bowl who really want to go. No, the fact is they do need Group of Five OOC match-ups to try and get their bowl minimum wins. I would hope we'd become a spoiler. |
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Post by 00hmh on Apr 10, 2019 15:33:20 GMT -6
The power conferences have less and less interest in scheduling us. More gate, TV revenue from a conference game or a OOC name opponent. We are going to be lucky to get more than one money game in the future. As far as their needing fodder to get to 6 wins, they probably have enough bottom feeders in their own group to schedule to get the teams in their conference to a bowl who really want to go. No, the fact is they do need Group of Five OOC match-ups to try and get their bowl minimum wins. The question is how many games?
As conferences expand their in conference scheduling there are just fewer slots on the schedule. Some of the bottom feeder big conference schools who perhaps need every easy win they can get are the ones we make the least money playing.
Soon more of those bottom teams will realize that even with a MAC school win they may not expect to make it. If so, the revenue they get from a bigger school game is attractive and they will compete with us to be "money" game opponents.
Besides that, those bottom schools are already the least attractive to the bottom feed bowl game committee. Even they don't want to play some of these bowls. Why schedule a loser, make less gate money, and why? So they then "win" a trip to Omaha in December...
This all means we are going to have more and more trouble scheduling. Our AD is quite happy to have us scheduled out as far as we are with money games, and expects it to be harder to get games beyond our current schedule.
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