I don’t know what this says about me as a person, but when the Detroit Lions were 0-15 last year, I mostly did not want them to win that sixteenth game. This is because in not winning that last game, Detroit set a record in badness (whereas had they lost just 15 games in a season, they would have merely tied the record for badness).
So it was oddly satisfying for me to read the Eastern Echo article “Eastern Michigan falls to 120, Alabama stays best in Pool’s Power Rankings.” EMU is not just in last place in the MAC; we’re in last place, period. According to the article, there are only 5 out of 120 teams in the FBS division without a win this year, and, according to the rankings, we’re the worst football team of bad football teams. But with five other win-less FBS teams, it’s going to be tough for EMU to be the undisputed worse team of the year.
Oh, and this weekend, EMU is earning a check by being beaten up by Arkansas.
Is this the kind of football publicity that some claim is indispensable for a university’s success in recruiting students, donations, grants? Who will seriously argue that EMU has any chance of ever rising from our bottom of the bottom rank in football to some where in the top 30 teams?