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Temple to join MAC in '07; minimum attendance concerns
Temple football to join MAC in '07
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Temple's football program has found a home, accepting an offer to join the Mid-American Conference, a school athletic department source said Monday.
The source, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, confirmed the Owls will join the MAC as a full member in football in 2007. An official announcement is scheduled for Tuesday.
The Owls were kicked out of the Big East after 13 years for failing to meet minimum requirements for membership, most notably in attendance, facilities and fielding a competitive team.
The football team will play the next two seasons as an independent, though the Owls will likely add more MAC teams to their schedule for those two seasons. Temple is to play MAC teams Toledo, Bowling Green and Miami (Ohio) in 2005.
The rest of Temple's athletic teams will remain in the Atlantic 10, where Temple has been since 1982. No other A-10 school plays Division I-A football.
Temple athletic director Bill Bradshaw was unavailable for comment. A telephone message left for MAC commissioner Rick Chryst wasn't immediately returned.
The Owls were overmatched in the Big East and haven't had a winning record since going 7-4 under Jerry Berndt in 1990. They went 2-9 last season and are 19-60 in seven seasons under coach Bobby Wallace.
Though Wallace said during the season the Owls would be a perfect fit for the MAC, the Owls lost to two of those mid-major teams in 2004: 45-17 at Toledo and 70-16 against Bowling Green.
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05-16-2005, 07:23 PM
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Losers...they'll be a drag on the MAC.
The MAC is an underrated conference - They should have kept Marshall, kicked out Buffalo, added Louisville - then they could have taken over the Big East's automatic BCS bid.
Yeah I know - I'm dreaming.
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05-16-2005, 08:18 PM
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05-17-2005, 07:15 AM
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They couldn't compete in the Big East. Even with as terrible as it was this past year. What makes anyone think that they'll be worth a damn in the MAC?
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05-17-2005, 07:23 AM
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Don't like that move by the MAC, some of those schools play damn good football, they don't need the Big Leasts castaways.. I agree with Scarlet Arrow, they should have made a bigger push when conferences were re-alligning, had they gotten at least one of the combo of louisville and marshall they could have even considered pushing for Notre Dame.. I know half of you think I'm stupid now..
but think about it. Notre Dumb doesn't want to join the Big Ten and become another Penn St., if the MAC pulled a BCS bid, which they certainly would have with Notre Damn then the homers could have run the conference like a Miami or FSU did.. If they wanted a return to glory that would be a quick way to do.. Besides, I am sure the MAC would be a lot more generous to them as far as TV rights and Percentages of the cash go than would the Big Ten.
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05-17-2005, 07:56 AM
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As a MAC alum I hate this move for every reason. Football only??? A 13 team conference? A team that met 2 MAC teams and got blown out in both games last year? The only way I can even stomach this is if we got them in Basketball. But we didn't.
The MAC can be so much better, but why do they have to think like they are a struggling conference and make such stupid moves.
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05-17-2005, 11:31 AM
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I guess this makes sense for Temple...maybe? I don't understand at all why the MAC would want this, unless like Piney said, they got basketball too. Another below average football team to drag down what Miami, BG, and other have accomplished over the past few years.
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05-17-2005, 11:58 AM
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