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March Madness should be our focus not football.
YSUGO:
Watching FDU and Florida Atlantic playing for a bid to. The Sweet Sixteen and listening to the fans in the Ohio St arena makes me feel even more adamant that we need to invest more into Basketball. Calhoun said college basketball has changed and we needed to improve facilities and NIL. With the portal being as it is YSU can be the next FDU. We cannot miss a chance to get to the next level. We need to use our success in both basketball ball programs to get what we need. Let’s not miss out like we did in football.
YsuPride:
Much easier to turn around basketball at YSU than football. Just need like 3 or 4 good players in Basketball and need at least 30 in football. Ain't going to happen in football. I go to both football and basketball games and by far the basketball games this year were way better than the atmosphere for football. This used to be a football area but now it's not as prevalent and rest of the sports are catching up. Plus our population in the area is declining since the 1970's and 80's to where it is today. So basketball is the way to go now. It will strengthen football with a successful men's and women's basketball team year in and year out. Need to raise money for a overhaul of Beeghly center now
YSUinBoston:
Obviously, this is a bit of a false choice and biased after a fun basketball season. That said----I agree that the conference is certainly more fun with natural rivals. I feel also like it is easier to envision what success looks like in basketball here and how to get to that point. With FCS football, and college football in general, I feel like there is another shoe that is due to drop. Competitively, the sport is structured really weird. I just don't see how/why MAC programs are considered the same level as SEC, for example. I am hopefully there is a real overhaul to the system and at some point YSU is able to compete in a more regionally relevant conference in football. Jumping to BCS football seems dumb right now to me as the "who care?" is basically the same for FCS football and whatever crappy bowl game the MAC champ plays in. But, if there was a mid-division division I, then I think that is something to aspire to that includes your MAC school, etc. Let the semi-professional college teams have their own division.
YsuPride:
Who could name a bowl that the Mac schools are a part of? i don't think 99% of the fan base can. I don't even know.
YsuPride:
Bowl game in Detroit is all that I can think of
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