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Topic: Parity coming to the MAC?

Topic: Parity coming to the MAC?

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Pataskala
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Parity coming to the MAC?

Posted: 11/10/2017 10:07:56 PM

With six inter divisional games left, the East is playing the West nearly even for a change:5-7. Fiami, in fact, hasn't lost to a West team in two years. Looking at the last six games, the East may at least split them:

CMU (1-1)--Kent (0-2)
EMU (0-2)--Fiami (1-0)
Toledo (1-1)--BG (0-1)
Buffalo (0-2)--BSU (0-1)
BG--EMU
Fiami--BSU

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

Bobcat110
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RE: Parity coming to the MAC?

Posted: 11/10/2017 10:44:31 PM

Pataskala wrote:

Seems like a lot of MAC teams suck equally?

Bobcat1996
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RE: Parity coming to the MAC?

Posted: 11/11/2017 8:04:07 AM

You could probably say that about the American Athletic Conference also as UCONN, East Carolina, Tulane, Tulsa and the Bearcats all have 6, 7 or 8 losses.

L.C.
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RE: Parity coming to the MAC?

Posted: 11/11/2017 9:06:24 AM

I think his point is that the East is getting better and/or the West is getting worse. Go back a few years and the West won perhaps 85% of all the inter-division games. This year the East might win 40-45% of them. That doesn't mean that all teams are equal, just that there are bad teams on both sides and good teams on both sides. While the East has Kent, the West has Ball State. While the West has Toledo, the East has Ohio. If Miami, Akron, and Buffalo were equal to WMU, NIU, and CMU, divisional parity would be here.

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

TWT
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RE: Parity coming to the MAC?

Posted: 11/12/2017 11:24:55 AM

Sometimes I wish we played in the MAC West where it would be a border war week in and out against mid to upper tier G5 competition. But if the trade off for playing Buffalo, Akron and Kent in football is getting to pay Buffalo, Akron and Kent twice during the regular season in basketball I'd rather be in the MAC East. The thing in East football is the ceilings on some of the programs aren't that high. Miami has the most potential. BG I think maxes out at the MAC Championship level. Akron and Kent don't win the MAC recruiting battles and 8 wins are a great season at those places. Buffalo's problem at this point I think is facilities. They announced plans to build an IPF in September but that is where Ohio was in 2010.

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