MAC Football Pod

EPISODE 20

Today I’ve got a special guest for you. Alan Blondin from The Sun News in Myrtle Beach joins the show to talk about the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, and give an early preview for this season’s non-league game at Buffalo. One of the few good things from the 2020 season, on an entertainment level, was the excellent season that the Chants had. With so many returners back, this is a team that shouldn’t be overlooked, and is home to one of the most unique-looking offenses in the country. Not a bad start for a program that didn’t exist until 2003.

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EPISODE 19

Today I’ve got a special guest for you. Mike Wilson from SB Nation’s Cardiac Hill joins the program to talk about his Pitt Panthers, and give an early preview for this season’s non-league game against Western Michigan. Can the Broncos’ high-flying offense keep Pitt’s defensive secondary scrambling for answers? Or will QB Kenny Pickett lead his offense to a strong enough charge on the day?

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EPISODE 18  

As previously blogged on macfootballblog.com, I ranked teams in the MAC based on *my* confidence in each of them going up against their respective non-conference schedules in 2021. Here, I’ll talk about the thought processes behind my list a little bit more in-depth.

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EPISODE 17

Simple question that I’ll be tasked to answer this episode: Which MAC team will have the best three-game start to the 2021 season? Is anybody even capable of going 3-0? How many good MAC teams will start the year out with a 1-2 record?

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EPISODE 16

The initial plan for this episode was to talk about all of the Week 2 matchups, but we’ll instead kick the can on that until next week. Instead, we’re going to brush up on Buffalo’s finalized coaching staff, take a question from the Discord, and look at some hard-hitting journalism that doesn’t require a subscription fee to read.

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EPISODE 15

It’s May, which means I’m a little thankful for Buffalo giving us something new and current to keep up with here in mid-May: the boringest time in college football’s 12-month calendar year. There are mixed levels of optimism for this coaching staff + program moving forward, but why might 2021 be sloppy for the young Bulls? Also, non-conference previews will be coming up, so let’s take a quick look at the Week 1 contests.

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EPISODE 14

Buffalo, led by Maurice Linguist, is still in the rigorous process of hiring the rest of its assistant coach pool. So far Linguist has hired his first offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, and recruiting coordinator. We’ll transition into transfer portal woes at Buffalo, Bowling Green, and Northern Illinois, but I really am excited to tell you why Tim Tebow is in my Mt. Rushmore.

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EPISODE 13 

Buffalo’s search for a new head coach following Lance Leipold’s departure has come to a quick, and fairly impressive, end after just a week of the job opening up. Maurice Linguist is Buffalo’s new head coach and will be formally introduced Monday. While there’s still a lot of work left for him to still do between now and the start of the upcoming football season, this doesn’t seem like it’s the kind of hire Buffalo scrambled around aimlessly for at the last minute. Linguist is a guy that has a year of NFL coaching experience under his belt, and is more than proven himself as a recruiter. Doesn’t hurt that he actually knows the area, too.

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EPISODE 12

The biggest ongoing story in the world of MAC football right now is, of course, Lance Leipold’s transition from Buffalo to Kansas. He’s not the only one leaving of course. Leipold’s already taking a bunch of his coaches with him and some young starting players are already hitting the transfer portal. Both of those were expected to happen, but now we’re seeing who’s actually, also, going to be part of the big move. Also, how many playoff teams is actually necessary for an expansion, and when will we know that there are too many teams in a larger-than-four-team format?

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EPISODE 11

Finally, the NFL Draft is over and we have actual results (not just forecasts and opinions) to discuss. Two MAC guys were taken on Day 2, and two linemen went in the fifth round to round out this year's smaller draft class, but that's sort of to be expected with the odd pandemic year throwing a wrench in a lot of regular football plans. I talk about that, but not before we hit on a couple more bits of news that have come up during draft week. One life was nearly taken away last week, but the good news is that CMU's John Keller is having his health improve after being shot in the chest at a part last week; his father recently provided an update online to say his son is off the ventilator after a week of support. Lance Leipold is now the *former* head coach at Buffalo and the *current* head coach for Kansas. That's right, he took the one FBS job that seemingly nobody else would really want to have and I cannot be any more excited for him. That's such a great opportunity for Leipold, a coach who is actually built different than the rest of his peers. 

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