I couldn’t imagine being a player or a coach in this situation, and feel like you’re waiting for the whip of the world to descend upon you and take your season away at any time. Just covering the games was hard as it was, with the mental uncertainty of if a certain game was going to be played or not and having to adapt to it trying to find new ways to reach audiences while staying informative. We had assumed football wasn’t going to happen, since the MAC had been very proactive in being one of the first conferences to declare their sports cancelled for their respective seasons. It was a time of transition for us as a blog, even before taking into account everything else that was happening.
I can’t recall a season which I both loved and dreaded covering so much as the shortened 2020 campaign. James Jimenez: Before we go on to the 2021 outlook, I wanted to touch on last season briefly. With Frank Solich retiring at Ohio, the 2019 ascendancy of Kent State, and Lance Leipold leaving the Bulls for Kansas, what are the conference-wide narratives we’re looking at coming into 2021? Is it just the Wild, Wild (Mid-)West again? OTE: So.uh.2020 happened! Not exactly a banner year for humanity in general, but the constant that is MACtion sure kept on giving - what a season for, of course, the Buffalo Bulls, but the MAC CHAMPION Ball State Cardinals. We’re joined today by Hustle Belt manager James Jimenez, here to talk to us about how the MAC fared in a truncated 2020, storylines across the conference in 2021, and the looming specter of realignment throughout the Great Lakes (and beyond)! Part I: The State of the Conference Need to know who’s this year’s Akron-over-Northwestern upset? Want a taste of the shenanigans Eastern Michigan will get up to against a Big Ten team in 2021? We’ve got a multi-part preview of the Big Ten versus the MAC, thanks to our friends at Hustle Belt! Please make sure you’re giving them a click and a follow on Twitter, because it really is the class of dedicated MAC athletics coverage.well, really anywhere on the internet. With the Big Ten starting with a heaping helping of conference play in Weeks 0 and 1, there are fewer non-conference games to preview right away.but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to give you a primer!
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