I know it just started, but man, this is some bad football! Not a terrible crowd for a Wednesday though.

they must have a microphone right in front of the cheerleaders. they are louder than the announcers.

Steinbrecher goes into the locker rooms at the half Eddie Albert from The Longest Yard style and tells both defenses that they start giving up points or they're going to be forced to transfer to Eastern Michigan.

After watching Zordich and Keith, can't tell you how thankful I am for Tettleton. 

Almost drove over to this one (I get in free). Glad i passed.

I'm going to sound like one of those big conference jerk-wads that make my blood boil but these two teams look really bad, Tettleton is light years ahead of these QBs. .

Just cut it to women's volleyball already.

What is Buffalo sucks?

I'm staying off the "change conferences" threads for a reason.  But this TV showcase tonight is illustration 1A why that when the opportunity presents itself, we got to be ready to move if we ever want to be anybody. 

#1  Imagine being a friend of an OHIO sports fanatic who invites you to games saying how great they are, you tune into this and then quickly justify why you always have other commitments that don't allow you to attend.  Honestly, MAC home opener, ESPN and it looked like a bad high school crowd.  Camera guys did their best to not show the crowd, but they just can't avoid it on punts, kickoffs, etc... 

#2  Imagine watching as a recruit tonight.  You have an offer from OHIO, considering a visit, you read all the hype about OHIO football and then you watch this game.  If you have offers from bigger conferences, do you even want to make that visit thinking this is the atmosphere you'll be playing in.

#3  AP and Coaches Poll voting members.  You see OHIO plays one of these two teams; you pull out your ballot to vote and see OHIO just played them; your memory bounces back to watching this game a few weeks ago and you suddenly give what hopefully is a win very little credence.  

#4 Respect from the general public.  I remember getting defensive when a friend of mine called watching MAC games on ESPN "like watching a junior high game."   I flashed back to that comment as I was watching tonight and thought his point of view was accurate.  That was Bush League and hard to watch.  Unfortunately, when you ask a casual fan to name teams in the MAC, they typically answer Miami, OHIO, Akron and these two teams.

Realize I'm overreacting and last years games were high scoring and more entertaining--but this was one illustration as to why I would never get content with the MAC.

There's a reason why Ohio is the only team plays 4 weekday games in November for MACtion and most other teams play just 1 or 2. The game tonight only reflects poorly on us if we should lose to one of these teams this year. (we didn't think it would happen last year but it did)

OUr 2 home MACtion home games are critical, barring an upset we should be sneaking into the top 25 and these games will draw some attention. We need to not only win, but win big. That means no slow starts and no letting off the gas pedal in the second half.

The Blackout is planned for BGSU who will probably wear their storm trooper whites, I think we should have a Green out the week before against EMU. Someone much more articulate than myself should also write an open letter in the Post to students and fans urging them to attend these games in full force and stay till the end even if its a blow out. If our mojo is still running high then I think they'll understand the importance of presenting a packed Peden to a national audience.

I'm getting ahead of myself though, but its exciting to think about.

I was thinking the same thing while watching the game.

I think everything about this game was a "serious load", if you you know what I mean.