08-20-2008, 09:36 PM
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Practice Squad
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 314
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Re: UMass to FBS - Its just a matter of time
I don't know, the MAC kind of sucks. I mean, we can beat most of those teams right now. Honestly, who wants to play the Akron Zips and Bowling Green State Falcons and Kent State Flashes year in and year out? What has any team in that conference done in recent memory? The only team in MAC history to leave for a real conference was Cincinnati, and they left in 1953. I don't want to have to wait until I'm 70 for a chance to see UMass compete in a major conference.
I don't see the point of perpetually playing in the Meineke Car Care Bowl or whatever with no hope of real success in FBS. Why move up to a crappy conference in FBS when you're an annual competitor for the FCS national championship? The MAC is not an incremental increase, in my humble opinion. It is a lateral step at best.
Now I agree that the Big East will probably not come calling for a long while, so looks like we'll be in FCS for a good long time, and hopefully take home some more titles (Hopefully we have some more Liam Coens and Steve Baylarks and Marcel Shipps in our future)!
EDIT: A nitpick, but the link in your sig says "1988 National Champs" instead of "1998". Just thought you should be aware. Hopefully you'll be adding "2008" to that soon!
Last edited by Scooter_McGruder; 08-20-2008 at 09:38 PM..
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