^Exact same thoughts^

WMU should have won in regulation. Going for it on 4th-and-3 and under a minute. Great playcalling, faking Bellamy up the middle with QB running wide right with open field for the first down and possibly another 10-20 yards. . . but falls down untouched behind the line of scrimmage. . . game goes to OT where WKU wins.

I also believe the “turf monster” play actually occurred on third down. This put them somewhere around the WKU 30 yard line. They opted to go for it on fourth and three, rather than try a (47 yd per WMU message board) field goal, and WKU batted down the pass. Their FG kicker was 2-2, also per their message board. WKU made a few successful plays before WMU opted for the 12 man formation that LC alluded to.

Lester is taking a lot of heat from WMU fans. Not really undeserving it seems.

Wrong again, the MWC suspended the Nevada players, Nevada didn't have a say in it.

In the end, only one MAC team ended up with fewer than 6 losses for the year, that being Buffalo, at 8-5. Six others end with 6 losses (Ohio, Miami, Kent, CMU, WMU, and Toledo), while another three had 7 losses (NIU, Ball St, and EMU). That's quite some parity.

It seems that every year the MAC has one or two not-very-good teams, but most years they have 1-2 good teams at the other end, so that it averages out. This year there were no "good" teams, but they had one bad team and one especially putrid teams. (per Sagarin Akron was #212, BG was #172, putting BG in the middle of FCS teams, and Akron well below most FCS schools).

I'm not going to look it up, but it seems to me that this is the first time I remember the MAC with only a single P5 win; usually I think they have 2-4 of them. On the whole, it was not a good year for the MAC, though seeing them win a few bowl games was perhaps the lone bright spot.

You are constantly nitpicking a lack of a league title and downgrading this football team. The majority of people who log on to this website realize Ohio hasn't won a conference championship since Cleve Bryant played. We all want a MAC title, but we do not constantly post negative remarks after a game. [/QUOTE]First off ... learn to properly use the quote button. It's much easier than scrolling thru something with quotation marks around it to find where you're trying to comment.

Secondly ... c'mon. You lack of originality is tiresome. Just like most responses to my posts. I understand that most know Ohio hasn't won a league title in a long time ... so I'm just supposed to ignore the MASSIVE elephant in the room? I'm never allowed to bring it up when comparing a bowl win against winning a league title? And I most certainly do not post negative remarks after every game. It's just a lazy statement to make ... the easy way out.

You. Are. Absurd.

I encourage you to go back and re-read the hundreds of posts I've made about Frank Solich and how he should NOT be fired and how I have nothing but respect for what he's done for Ohio's football program. But no ... be lazy and just jump to the ridiculous "Put up the cash to buy him out" line. SMFH.

I've carried the flag saying Frank will retire on his own terms. But you would have to actually read past comments to see that. Much easier to just spout out nonsense about my views ...

J. O. K. E. R.

Not tolerate losing one game? HAHAHAHAHA! That is so laughable. Get a clue ... do your research. Quit making lazy blanket statements because you disagree with what I say.

Does Frank Solich have more wins than any coach in MAC history? Yep.

Does Frank Solich have more losses than any coach in MAC history? Damn close. He'll pass Ohio's own Bill Hess next year most likely ... unless he can do something he's only done once in 15 years at Ohio ... win 10 games in a season.

Frank has been an absolute godsend for Ohio football ... and has done an incredible job turning what was a downtrodden, forgotten, bumbling program into a consistent above-average program. That is NOT a slight. That is just the truth.

He's won 58% of his games at Ohio ... no championships ... and has appeared in the league title game 4 out of 15 years. All of that is above average. And I am thankful for it. It's why I fully support a statue in front of Peden Stadium and them renaming it to Frank Solich Field at Peden Stadium at some point.

I'm also just ready for the next guy to come in and see where he can take it because I think it's been proven that Ohio has flown as high as they can under Solich. If it hasn't happened in 15 years, it's probably not in the cards.

I'm also ready to stop reading this ridiculous comments of how I HATE Frank and don't appreciate what he's done ... and that I have no feel for where Ohio football was before. And that 7-6 is GREAT compared to where they were before Frank when they went 1-11.

Blah. Blah. Blah.

Just stop. Don't be lazy. Don't come at me with false rhetoric.

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The same could be said for the Bobcats last season. MAC title chances gone and nothing to play for, but they responded to thump the Aztecs. The same could be said for Ohio this season as they were disappointed to be playing in the Boise bowl vs Nevada after losing close league games, but they didn't quit and came up with the victory. Sometimes people forget that. This team and the 2018 team did not quit. As a Bobcat alum and fan I am proud of that.

bshot44: I'm not at liberty to discusses specifics but in those mystery years of big thumpings late in the season there were some serious locker room issues. If you go back and listen to Frank's statements at the end of one of those season, he said in typical Frank-speak that he had been dealing with problems of a type he never had dealt with in his whole coaching career. Trust me. He wasn't blowing smoke.