UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

[UNI83]

Announcement to come later today apparently.

[Trapped in California]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

Article cited says for FB only. That seems to be a bit of a head scratcher from my point of view. I see that as a trade down from the CAA for quality of FB - but maybe they will have a better shot of winning on a consistent facing MAC competition.

[UNI83]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

Article cited says for FB only. That seems to be a bit of a head scratcher from my point of view. I see that as a trade down from the CAA for quality of FB - but maybe they will have a better shot of winning on a consistent facing MAC competition.

Stepping stone to the Big East/ACC/whatever when the next round of expansion comes through. They will already have the FBS team to make the move.

[Trapped in California]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

Lots of "ifs" involved there - but what do I know. I think about UMASS 0.0000000000000000000000000000001% of the year.

[Panther-Sheik]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

Dominos...

[MnPantherFan]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

"Dominos..."

This, with Rhode Island leaving, UNH must be feeling pretty lonely about now.

[Big_Al]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

"When we went into this season, we changed our offense and our defense to fit our personnel," said Farley. "We were just trying to get this team to the playoffs. We knew we had to do something different to do so. I think we did that.

I think that speaks volumes. It also jibes with what he said to Rima immediately post-game. His main concern at the start of the year was teaching the players how to win. He wanted them to have a taste of the playoffs as motivation for next year.

It's fair to look at the loss to Lehigh as a disappointment but it in no way, shape or form indicates the wheels are coming off the bus.

[PantherFan]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

If Villanova goes to the Big East, that leaves only seven teams in the CAA. Wasn't all that long ago they were split into divisions.

[06panther10]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

wrong thread, Al...

[jegbomb52]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

Article cited says for FB only. That seems to be a bit of a head scratcher from my point of view. I see that as a trade down from the CAA for quality of FB - but maybe they will have a better shot of winning on a consistent facing MAC competition.

The CAA is not better than the MAC, not even close.

[Trapped in California]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

Per this weeks' Sagarin conference FB rankings

Conference central mean simple average teams win50%

1 pac-10 (a) = 80.40 80.98 ( 1) 10 80.75 ( 1)
2 southeastern (a) = 80.01 79.26 ( 2) 12 79.57 ( 2)
3 big 12 (a) = 79.23 78.94 ( 3) 12 79.08 ( 3)
4 big ten (a) = 75.16 75.19 ( 4) 11 75.19 ( 4)
5 atlantic coast (a) = 73.88 73.49 ( 5) 12 73.55 ( 5)
6 i-a independents (a) = 73.29 72.94 ( 6) 3 72.99 ( 6)
7 big east (a) = 70.97 71.00 ( 7) 8 71.01 ( 7)
8 mountain west (a) = 69.28 69.51 ( 8) 9 69.29 ( 8)
9 western athletic (a) = 68.45 68.84 ( 9) 9 68.64 ( 9)
10 conference usa (a) = 64.04 63.85 ( 10) 12 63.93 ( 10)
11 colonial (aa)= 62.07 61.32 ( 11) 10 61.62 ( 11)
12 mid-american (a) = 59.32 59.13 ( 12) 13 59.16 ( 12)

[jegbomb52]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

Per this weeks' Sagarin conference FB rankings

Conference central mean simple average teams win50%

1 pac-10 (a) = 80.40 80.98 ( 1) 10 80.75 ( 1)
2 southeastern (a) = 80.01 79.26 ( 2) 12 79.57 ( 2)
3 big 12 (a) = 79.23 78.94 ( 3) 12 79.08 ( 3)
4 big ten (a) = 75.16 75.19 ( 4) 11 75.19 ( 4)
5 atlantic coast (a) = 73.88 73.49 ( 5) 12 73.55 ( 5)
6 i-a independents (a) = 73.29 72.94 ( 6) 3 72.99 ( 6)
7 big east (a) = 70.97 71.00 ( 7) 8 71.01 ( 7)
8 mountain west (a) = 69.28 69.51 ( 8) 9 69.29 ( 8)
9 western athletic (a) = 68.45 68.84 ( 9) 9 68.64 ( 9)
10 conference usa (a) = 64.04 63.85 ( 10) 12 63.93 ( 10)
11 colonial (aa)= 62.07 61.32 ( 11) 10 61.62 ( 11)
12 mid-american (a) = 59.32 59.13 ( 12) 13 59.16 ( 12)

That is comparing apples and oranges.

[FargoBison]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

The CAA is not better than the MAC, not even close.

The MAC is garbage....Gardner freaking Webb beat a MAC team. The MAC would want no part of the CAA.

[Big_Al]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

wrong thread, Al...

*scratches head*

I agree. How the hell did this end up on this thread?

Strange.

[Newsbreaker]

Re: UMASS going FBS (MAC) next season

Stepping stone to the Big East/ACC/whatever when the next round of expansion comes through. They will already have the FBS team to make the move.

I'm sure that's what they think, but they're going to be wrong.

When the "next round" of expansion happens there isn't going to be any Big East in football. The "next round" will be the move to four super-conferences and teams like UMass aren't going to have an invitation to that party. In fact, those of us who stuck around in FCS are going to have a bunch of our old friends back.