EMU gets one vote in the Coaches poll!
October 4th, 2016 at 9:10 AM ^
October 4th, 2016 at 9:18 AM ^
If their football program is moved down, would that affect their MAC membership?
October 4th, 2016 at 9:25 AM ^
Every other year, Pepsi buys enough tickets to make sure they stay FBS eligible. That's not a joke....
http://www.annarbor.com/news/eastern-michigan-university-struggles-to-i…
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/01/ticket_sales_on_t…
October 4th, 2016 at 10:41 AM ^
EMU has come a long ways since the days when it was a twenty minute struggle just to get on the field
October 4th, 2016 at 10:45 AM ^
Last year??
October 4th, 2016 at 11:30 AM ^
Close - 2014
October 5th, 2016 at 3:17 AM ^
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October 4th, 2016 at 9:12 AM ^
Just noticed that Chris Creighton, EMU head coach, gets a vote. Hmm...
October 4th, 2016 at 9:16 AM ^
Pretty obvious he put his team on his ballot. I don't think any of their prior opponents even have a vote either.
EMU's SOS to date is quite possibly the worst in FBS.
October 4th, 2016 at 9:39 AM ^
"The Head Coach doesn't even submit the top 25 votes"
If that is the case, the dude that put EMU at #25 if laughing his ass off right now!
October 4th, 2016 at 10:15 AM ^
October 4th, 2016 at 9:13 AM ^
October 4th, 2016 at 9:15 AM ^
There was so much discussion in the EMU community recently about how much it costs the university to run the football program. More than a few people would like to see them drop it completely.
Imagine how much more it's going to cost them if they actually make it to a bowl game.
October 4th, 2016 at 9:16 AM ^
October 4th, 2016 at 9:19 AM ^
I don't know how the specifics for every single bowl, but I know a lot of them require that the attending schools pay for a certain number of tickets, hotel rooms, etc. If you've got a big fan base ready to go and pay you pass that cost to them, but if not, the school eats it. Obviously if they're only going to Ford Field they won't have to pay much for transportation, but there are other costs as well.
October 4th, 2016 at 9:20 AM ^
The question I've wondered about bowls: are the payouts unreasonably low and impossible to cover costs with, or do schools just go overboard in their attempt to entertain their teams/fans and thus incur overruns?
October 4th, 2016 at 9:32 AM ^
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October 4th, 2016 at 9:34 AM ^
It's just that most bowls now don't subsidize the team's travel expenses, many times the bowl imposes a mandatory minimum ticket sold requirement on each school (hence unsold tickets are eaten by the school at full cost), and if you want auxiliary activities like marching bands and comp'd alumni / administrators, that comes out of the school's pocket as well. So in the end, if you're a middling team with a small active alumni base and you get invited to a bowl game with high travel costs and an unreasonable minimum ticket purchase guarantee, you can easily be in the red as a school.
October 4th, 2016 at 9:36 AM ^
it's a combination of blazer-sporting bowl organizers trying to pass off as much financial responsibility as possible,
and schools drunk on (moderate) success failing to read the fine print of their bowl contracts.
October 4th, 2016 at 10:20 AM ^
failing to read any fine print. It's more that turning down a bowl invitation is mostly a no-no in the world of college football. No athletic director who values their job would consider doing it, especially in the case of a program that almost never sees post-season action.
one thing to consider here as well is that every bowl is televised, and there's a payout associated with each one. Most conferences stipulate these payouts are distributed amongst all conference members, so while the EMU Athletic Department may be in the red on this particular excursion, they're not in the red overall, given they're sharing the spoils of all the bowl money earned by all conference members, including their own bowl payout, should they earn an invitation.
October 4th, 2016 at 10:43 AM ^
Small schools lose a ton of money. They have to buy a block of tickets, hotel rooms, travel.
When UConn went to a BCS bowl a few years back they lost a ton of money.
October 4th, 2016 at 9:32 AM ^
Good for them. They've beaten some good teams along the way - Wyoming has historically been a decent team, and Bowling Green isn't "good" but they are certainly not a terrible squad. We'll know a lot about them next week after they play Toledo, which just barely lost to BYU. I don't think EMU will win, but be competitive and who knows?
October 4th, 2016 at 9:50 AM ^
Their previous game was against Memphis. The score was 77-3.
October 4th, 2016 at 10:06 AM ^
October 4th, 2016 at 9:35 AM ^
my dad took me to fraser's pub to watch EMU in a bowl game. i think it was the raisin bowl, or the california raisin bowl or something. and i think they won even.
October 4th, 2016 at 9:47 AM ^
I believe it was the California Bowl in 1987, and they played San Jose State. I am pretty sure they did win as well, come to think of it, although not be much if I am not mistaken. They may have even gone to one when they were still Division II back in the 1970s, although that's a whole separate tier of bowls, of course. That might be their entire bowl history to date though.
October 5th, 2016 at 3:09 AM ^
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October 4th, 2016 at 9:38 AM ^
I have a son at Eastern He has attended Michigan games with me since he was 7. He didn't even realize they were 3-1 lol.
It would be really great if Eastern could become a conssitenly decent team and hold on to some of the SE Michigan talent that makes it to other MAC schools.
It will be great to see who wins bragging rights among the four second tier schools EMU/CMU/WMU/MSU.
October 4th, 2016 at 11:03 AM ^
MAC teams that do well only get to experience it a couple years. Then they have their coaches hired at bigger fish. Like Purdue or Illinois. And their careers die. And the cycle starts anew.
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October 4th, 2016 at 11:56 AM ^
Pretty sure you're joking, but even though we all like to laugh about Beckman/Hazell/et al, some damn good coaches have come out of the MAC:
- Urban Meyer (BGSU)
- Nick Saban (Toledo)
- Gary Pinkel (Toledo)
- Brian Kelly (CMU)
- Butch Jones (CMU)
- Dave Doeren (NIU)
And if you're willing to go back a bit...
- Bo Schembechler (Miami)
- Woody Hayes (Miami)
- Ara Parseghian (Miami)
- Don Nehlen (BGSU)
October 4th, 2016 at 9:43 AM ^
Hopefully some fans will head over to Ypsi on Saturday. Looks like a 3 p.m. game so no conflict with M-Rutgers. But we do have M hockey at 5 p.m...
October 4th, 2016 at 9:43 AM ^
I think EMU getting a vote in the coaches poll is equivalent to Michigan winning the Rose Bowl so congrats are in order to the Emus. Great season!
October 4th, 2016 at 9:46 AM ^
Did they find a way to dress up Mike Hart like a college student. Good for them, would like to see EMU turnaround in so many ways.
October 4th, 2016 at 11:16 AM ^
Mike Hart hasn't worked for Eastern in like, 4 years. He's with Syracuse now
October 4th, 2016 at 2:12 PM ^
I'd forgotten that Hart left when English was fired. Hopefully they do great at Syracuse and SJS respectively.
Definitely explains why I've heard so little about him/EMU lately.
October 4th, 2016 at 4:58 PM ^
DoublePost, remove me please. Also my work proxy be damned!
October 4th, 2016 at 9:48 AM ^
October 4th, 2016 at 9:57 AM ^
Next were going to hear about the Lions going on some kind of win streak...HA! never mind, I don't know what I was thinking. That would make virtually anything possible. Like a planet killer asteroid headed right for us at the speed of light.. which is more likely than the Lions going to Super Bowl
October 4th, 2016 at 10:21 AM ^
The Cubs won a 100+ games...
October 4th, 2016 at 11:53 AM ^
the World Series in 100+ years.
October 4th, 2016 at 12:02 PM ^
They played and lost in 1945 against Detroit. That was the series that gave them the curse of the billy goat
October 4th, 2016 at 10:38 AM ^
But that would mean MSU would have to be bowl eligible this year
October 4th, 2016 at 10:39 AM ^
October 4th, 2016 at 10:49 AM ^
Is Notre Dame's APR high enough to get a bowl bid at 5-7?
October 4th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^
record which made them Bowl eligable but turned down Bowl officials and did not go to a bowl that year. Notre Dame officials said they did not deserve it. Not sure and don't remember whether they did or not but I remember thinking wow talk about Holier than thou. It was probably financial as anything because of cost of getting team there against the payout would have possibly cost them or they would have broke even.
October 4th, 2016 at 1:48 PM ^
Even if it is the Rally's Truckstop Bowl hosted in Pigsknuckle, Arkansas, wouldn't a school accept the bid for the practices?
October 4th, 2016 at 11:11 AM ^
in Detroit if they are in fact bowl eligilble. That bowl has had ACC/Notre Dame and Big Ten tie ins since the start of the 2014 season. The only way Eastern gets into that bowl is if the MAC has too many bowl eligible teams and either the ACC or Big Ten don't have enough.
October 4th, 2016 at 11:35 AM ^
Thank you for making me google "nee" and learning a new word.
October 4th, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^
Better thread would have been WMU #25 in Coach's Poll. Bye Bye PJ Fleck!
October 4th, 2016 at 5:21 PM ^