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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 6, 2024 12:02:07 GMT -6
Upon further review we are in with a win and western loss Eha also made a statement apologizing for calling it early they used info from the MAC office which was wriong My prediction for Friday is we have a heroic, gut-checking, come from behind victory, only for Akron to phone it in and lose to WMU. The tough decision is should I drive to Bowling Green to witness it?
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 4, 2024 11:38:42 GMT -6
One interesting thing about the play. The first 1/10th of a second goes off the clock at about the exact moment the ball hits the floor. I think technically, the clock shouldn't have started until the player touched the ball about 8/10ths of a second later. Right? I think the clock operator started the clock on the assumption that someone would touch the ball as it came down within reach and before it hit the floor. This was, of course, an entirely reasonable assumption, but I think it caused him to start too early. Not that it made any difference and not that I'm trying to be critical. This is easy to see when slowing down the video frame by frame, but not in real time. It made a huge difference. It deprived us of our chance to make a full court bounce pass dunk.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 3, 2024 10:46:45 GMT -6
An out-of-the-box idea: we use this current notoriety to kick off a new concept of BSU basketball. Sort of a reverse-image of the Harlem Globetrotters. The Globetrotters delight fans with their amazing skill and always win. BSU could delight fans with their comical ineptness and always lose. And some have posted here that the main attraction of going to games these days is to watch Lewis in a constant state of irate frenzy. That fits in well with my concept. Lewis could tickle the fans with repeated temper explosions over the team's continual f--k ups, possibly combined with some pratfalls using water bottles, bench chairs, the scorers table, etc. as props. Just a thought. They rolled out that concept 20 years ago. Did you miss the memo?
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 2, 2024 16:53:16 GMT -6
I’m just gonna write that up as karma paying them back for that 2020 football cluster of a last play that sent us to Detroit.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 2, 2024 15:20:16 GMT -6
Can’t get too excited about the win as I know they’re just setting us up to miss the tournament in the most painful way possible. This guy is brilliant. He said this after the big win at CMU. It’s like he can see the future.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 2, 2024 14:53:09 GMT -6
Incredible comeback. Time to show what we’re made of.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Mar 2, 2024 14:30:01 GMT -6
Getting run off our own court by a lousy WMU squad. Bummer.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Feb 29, 2024 8:35:51 GMT -6
Another view of MAC expansion - Expand the conference while it is possible before some conference contraction happens. We don't know the long term effect of NIL on the weaker G5 conferences, so the MAC better expand now with the anticipation that not all schools will remain. If this is the case, then I feel they have started expansion way too late. That's a reasonable point, but I think history has demonstrated that the teams most likely to leave are the teams that don't actually fit and join randomly. Marshall, UCF, UMass in football before. I have a hard time seeing anyone else bouncing. If one school dominates both sports for a while, maybe they'd be a candidate for a better conference, but I don't see another conference wanting to raid the MAC in any serious way. All any of us could bring to the table is what I hate about this current expansion, bringing in a better team where the only upside for the existing team is another roadblock.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Feb 28, 2024 14:13:31 GMT -6
I hope we get to Cleveland. If nothing else for the prestige.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Feb 27, 2024 22:36:23 GMT -6
Can’t get too excited about the win as I know they’re just setting us up to miss the tournament in the most painful way possible.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Feb 27, 2024 18:22:56 GMT -6
We have no mojo. Even wide open threes are off.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Feb 27, 2024 14:55:17 GMT -6
Lots of arguing but tge answer is simple for the MAC to remain in the fight it has to expand. This is not about the schools in the mac its about survival of the conference. If the conference survives we survive inside of it. Now we all know the MAC will eventually lose but the front office is the Alamo Why?
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Feb 27, 2024 14:13:48 GMT -6
It does appear that ESPN will shell out more money for larger conference inventories, aka more teams. Perhaps that is what our MAC leadership is thinking? Obviously the question of quality vs quantity will be weighed as well. Our conference “quality” is not necessarily the caliber of athletes and teams, it’s the willingness to play football games on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. So far the MAC's contracts with ESPN have been for relative pennies. Adding more schools might up the ante, but it would still have to be spread amongst more schools. I doubt the contract the MAC could get would result in significantly more dollars, unless somehow the commish convinces ESPN that extremely mediocre teams playing in empty stadiums in bad weather on week nights will be super lucrative... Yeah, "we get more money from this" would be the most persuasive argument yet for this. But if it's actually that the conference gets a little more money that gets spread among more parties resulting in no actual additional money coming to us, then it's a nonstarter. Granted I have no idea how the TV contracts work, but I don't see why ESPN is going to roll out the red carpet to get the rights to put EMU vs. UMass on the internet.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Feb 27, 2024 13:47:59 GMT -6
If you don’t understand that right now, then I can’t help you. Look at every other conference in collegiate sports at the FBS level. There have been 15 schools jump up from FCS to FBS over the past handful of years. With Delaware and Kennesaw state for sure moving up and now Tarlton State being rumored as well. With the Big 10 moving up to 18 schools, and all of these FCS schools moving up it’s inevitable. I’m more traditional, and would prefer 12 member conferences with divisions, but everything is moving away from this, and I don’t want to get left behind. Arguably we already have by the Sunbelt. I remember when the Sunbelt used to be the bottom feeder and now they’re the top group of five school in football. And your whole mentality of why even expand has us in the position we’re in now. Is UMass a great ad no. But reading through some of their stuff. It sounds like they actually have a decent head coach now, and they have money being invested into the football program. More than us. Additionally, Frank Martin is their basketball coach right now and they seem like they have a lot of potential. Ok. You asked me to think critically. So let's pick this apart. Look at every other conference in collegiate sports at the FBS level. We already covered the weakness of the "everyone else is doing this" argument. Is there more to this point that I'm missing? There have been 15 schools jump up from FCS to FBS over the past handful of years. With Delaware and Kennesaw state for sure moving up and now Tarlton State being rumored as well. I'm not sure why this mandates conferences to expand. Sure there might be good fits that mutually benefit all parties where an upcoming school needs a home and brings value to the table, but all the schools we're discussing here are already D1. I'd evaluate any school on an ad hoc basis, and support it if it benefitted us. With the Big 10 moving up to 18 schools, and all of these FCS schools moving up it’s inevitable. I don't understand how it becomes inevitable. First of all, the B10 is a totally different beast. People actually want to see UCLA vs. Michigan. They actually generate money via their programs. Second, how do FCS schools moving up mean that we have to give them a shot at our conference title? I’m more traditional, and would prefer 12 member conferences with divisions, but everything is moving away from this, and I don’t want to get left behind. How is continuing as we are "being left behind"? Arguably we already have by the Sunbelt. I remember when the Sunbelt used to be the bottom feeder and now they’re the top group of five school in football. First, how did the Sun Belt reach this majestic mountaintop of being the top G5 conference? Second, that is all great for fans of the "Sunbelt," but I'm guessing there are few fans who particularly care about the conference itself. Do the fans of the bottom feeder schools in the Sunbelt receive any real benefits by their top teams having the prestige of being the top G5 conference? And your whole mentality of why even expand has us in the position we’re in now. I said I'm willing to have my mind changed. I'm not opposed to expansion, I'm opposed to expansion for expansion's sake. I literally have not seen a single persuasive argument how this actually benefits us. Well then by all means, full steam ahead. But reading through some of their stuff. It sounds like they actually have a decent head coach now, and they have money being invested into the football program. More than us. Good for them, how does that benefit us? Additionally, Frank Martin is their basketball coach right now and they seem like they have a lot of potential. Good for them, how does that benefit us? Was that thinking critical enough for you?
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Feb 27, 2024 13:18:50 GMT -6
If you don’t understand that right now, then I can’t help you. Look at every other conference in collegiate sports at the FBS level. There have been 15 schools jump up from FCS to FBS over the past handful of years. With Delaware and Kennesaw state for sure moving up and now Tarlton State being rumored as well. With the Big 10 moving up to 18 schools, and all of these FCS schools moving up it’s inevitable. I’m more traditional, and would prefer 12 member conferences with divisions, but everything is moving away from this, and I don’t want to get left behind. Arguably we already have by the Sunbelt. I remember when the Sunbelt used to be the bottom feeder and now they’re the top group of five school in football. And your whole mentality of why even expand has us in the position we’re in now. Is UMass a great ad no. But reading through some of their stuff. It sounds like they actually have a decent head coach now, and they have money being invested into the football program. More than us. Additionally, Frank Martin is their basketball coach right now and they seem like they have a lot of potential. If your entire argument is "everyone else is doing it" then you're right, you can't help me.
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