I don't care who you are the MAC conf rules OHSAA football. Before some moron jumps in and says they can't beat St X or Pick Central or St Ed ... I never said they could. But they just simply play great football for their size. Five teams from the MAC made the playoffs. Two are in the state champ games. The three that are not lost to the two that are in. They continue to amaze year over year.

Yep.

Big Schools: GCL-South
Small Schools: MAC

They both are awesome in their own right.

tl;dr

I hope Marion and Coldwater can continue that tradition this weekend.

tsst_fballfan;989887 wrote:I don't care who you are the MAC conf rules OHSAA football. Before some moron jumps in and says they can't beat St X or Pick Central or St Ed ... I never said they could. But they just simply play great football for their size. Five teams from the MAC made the playoffs. Two are in the state champ games. The three that are not lost to the two that are in. They continue to amaze year over year.

Is your name Eric Frantz.

ernest_t_bass;990220 wrote:Is your name Eric Frantz.

Nope, simply know good football when I see it. By the way who is Eric Frantz?

tsst_fballfan;990259 wrote:By the way who is Eric Frantz?

some durp

thePITman;989897 wrote:Yep.

Big Schools: GCL-South
...

Any in the D1 or D2 championship game?

Con_Alma;990355 wrote:Any in the D1 or D2 championship game?

No. But if you had to pick one big-school conference, top-to-bottom, in the COUNTRY, I would take the GCL-South (as many would on Rivals message boards).

But the explanation to your question is this: I'd think that there's more parity in DI than in DV-DVI. Just my opinion.

thePITman;990362 wrote:No. But if you had to pick one big-school conference, top-to-bottom, in the COUNTRY, I would take the GCL-South (as many would on Rivals message boards).

But the explanation to your question is this: I'd think that there's more parity in DI than in DV-DVI. Just my opinion.

What are some of the schools in that conference?

ernest_t_bass;990366 wrote:What are some of the schools in that conference?

St. Xavier
Archbishop Moeller
Elder
LaSalle

By the way, I didn't mean to take the attention away from the MAC. They prove year-in, year-out, with great consistency and results, that they are one heckuva football conference.

How many sw or Cincinnati schools in the State Championships this weekend? Anyone know? That's where the GCL is correct?

I don't question the GCL as a great conference but other big school, championship quality schools around the State that are private stay out of conferences. That's one reason the GCL can make a claim to being the best Big School conference.

Con_Alma;990379 wrote:other big school, championship quality schools around the State that are private stay out of conferences. That's one reason the GCL can make a claim to being the best Big School conference.

I was thinking the same thing and agree.

Serious Question: How many schools in the MAC are public/private?

I think all in the MAC are public. Anyone else confirm this?

All public except Delphos St John

Great conference....and not just in football either! They have plenty of teams in all sports winning championships. Very impressive!

MAC Team State Championships Summary
Minster Wildcats – 26 State Championships (12 Girls Track & Field, 9 Girls Cross Country, 2 Girls Basketball, 1 Baseball, 1 Football, 1 Boys Golf)
St. Henry Redskins – 20 State Championships (7 Volleyball, 6 Football, 4 Boys Basketball, 3 Baseball)
Coldwater Cavaliers – 12 State Championships (5 Baseball, 3 Girls Track & Field, 2 Girls Basketball, 2 Football)
Marion Local Flyers – 10 State Championships (4 Football, 2 Boys Basketball, 3 Volleyball, 1 Girls Basketball)
Delphos St. John’s Blue Jays – 10 State Championships (4 non-conference) (6 Football, 2 Boys Basketball, 2 Girls Basketball)
Versailles Tigers – 5 State Championships (6 non-conference) (2 Girls Cross Country, 1 Football, 1 Girls Basketball, 1 Girls Track & Field)
Fort Recovery Indians – 4 State Championships (1 non-conference) (2 Girls Basketball, 1 Volleyball, 1 Boys Cross Country, 1 Boys Basketball (non-conference))
Parkway Panthers – 4 State Championships (2 Baseball, 2 Volleyball)
New Knoxville Rangers - 1 State Championships (1 Boys Basketball)
New Bremen Cardinals – 0 State Championships

MAC is pretty successful sports conference in general
http://www.ihigh.com/midwestathleticconference/custompage_9451.html

The Mac has a nice web site. This one is new. I thought the old one was better.
http://www.ihigh.com/midwestathleticconference/index.html

Jeese Louise,

I thought I was on JJ's for a minute. All we need now is some Steubenville, Mooney, WGH and West Jefferson love.

Little Danny;990481 wrote:Jeese Louise,

I thought I was on JJ's for a minute. All we need now is some Steubenville, Mooney, WGH and West Jefferson love.

Didn't have to open up the thread.

Okay, have a question regarding the MAC that I don't feel like trying to search out the answer because I think it'd take quite a while. But, someone from the MAC area could probably answer.

MAC is D4-D6 and is rough geographical area in a block west of Columbus north of I-70 and south of US30. Well, are there other teams in and around the MAC that are D4-to-D6?

I mean, is it just that this conference somehow produces great teams... or is it just that the great teams have, over time, by chance, or for whatever reason, coalesced into this conference. Similar to the old AAC: Massillon, Canton McKinley, Warren Harding, Steubenville, Alliance, and Niles McKinley. The conference didn't make them great. They were great to begin with and decided to come together. The downfall of the league was one-team per region and only three classifications. Something the MAC doesn't have to contend with.

(ps I had to throw in those references, haha)

The MAC is centered in Mercer and Auglaize counties with Minster, New Bremen, New Knoxville, Fort Recovery, St. Henry, Marion Local, Parkway and Coldwater there. Delphos St John is just to north of that on the Van Wert, Allen county line, Versailles and Anna are to the South. Small school leagues all around it like the Northwest Conference, Green Meadow to the North, Northwest central to the East and South. The schools in the conference had had some athletic successs before. Delphos St John, St Henry, Fort Recovery in Basketball, Coldwater and Parkway in baseball, Marion had produced some good football teams. Parkway in the early years of the conference under John Reed was considered Football power. Coldwater and later Delphos St John both left the Western Buckeye League which contained larger schools in part because they could not compete in many sports especially Football.
Now that would not be true. St Henry was just introducing FB into their school system when they joined the league. The interaction of the teams made the league. You had some long standing rivalries and new ones were established. The competition and the communities have attracted some really good coaches. Versailles and Anna were later joiners coming in part for the quality of competition. AND THERE ARE ALOT OF REALLY BIG KIDS IN SOUTHERN MERCER COUNTY.

I think you have to give all members of this conference credit for two reasons:

1. they allow a catholic school in the league despite that school's success. in the ytown area most schools run from the catholic schools and blame their lack of success on them. in the old days, area schools would get better by playing good competition, and the mahoning valley conference had multiple teams go to state. not now.

2. the teams in the mac that aren't winning continue to battle, rather than look for weaker conferences or realignments so they can have the best possible regular season record. in ytown, we see the latter.

I was looking at the schedules
except for playing each other
no trumbull, mahoning or columbiana county teams on ursulines schedule
and just Boardman on mooney' schedule

question why doesn't ursuline play warren jfk?