The best recruitment tool is winning, and the bigger the wins the more allure to the recruit. We could own non-P5 recruiting in NE Ohio with a few thumpings of Akron and Can't. Want a game in SW Ohio? Then let's play Miami (OH)...prolly more winnable than even Akron or Kent. Like I said earlier, they are paying a ton of $$$.
Instead we play patty cake with 1AAA schools, excuse me but that's a schedule for p---ies. Small risk, small reward. Big risk, big reward......although playing MAC schools isn't even that high risk.
Now we have BP and CP running the team. If we can't swing for the fences now with a bolder schedule, then when? Is it our destiny to always be a rung below the crappy MAC in terms of perception?
I suspect after a few embarrassing losses to YSU, MAC teams will stop playing us. I understand NDSU is having trouble findings FBS opponents for that reason.