Brett McMurphy is reporting that on Tuesday NIU will accept an offer to join the Mountain West as a football only school, thus opening up a spot in the MAC:
https://x.com/brett_mcmurphy/status/1875240739892027486?s=46 Now not to get ahead of ourselves, but this could finally be our chance. We've been rumored to the MAC forever and adding us adds another school near UMass and rounds out a nice eastern wing for the MAC. If not us I'd imagine Western Kentucky gets the invite to get the MAC up to 14.
I think if offered we should clearly take it. Can't F**k this up this time.
EDIT: I just realized that with NIU leaving and Umass already slated to join as a full member they'll just stay at 12, at no point will they be at an odd number of members save for next season in football. Nevermind guys, I think we're still stuck.