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I have the upmost respect for Marine City and the things their program has accomplished over the years. I do want to know how the MAC officials can justify them playing in this division. The league schedule should be easy enough and then to have them play a team like Clawson in week 4 that is half their size and can't even be mentioned in the same sentence if you are talking strength of program. I am a huge fan of the MAC but things like this just don't add up.

Here's a scenario for you MAC fans. What if...
What if Marine City and Clintondale were moved up to MAC Blue and Roseville and Fraser were moved down to MAC Gold? And lets take it one step further and say that the new MAC manadate regarding schedules forced teams in each MAC division (except Red and Bronze) to play 2 schools in MAC divisions below them, one from the division at least one above them, and one from the division at least 2 divisions above? Lets say Clintondale takes Mt. Clemens from the Bronze and SCS Lakeview from the Silver. Marine City would take Marysville from the silver and St. Clair from the gold. Clintondale then would take Warren Cousino from MAC white and Romeo from MAC Red. Marine City would take Warren Mott from MAC white and Macomb Dakota from MAC Red. Based on this year's performance, that would lead to a 2009 that looks like this:

• MC 27 Dakota 42, L
• MC 35 Sterling Heights 34, W
• MC 53 Port Huron Northern 20, W
• MC 25 Grosse Pointe South 7, W
• MC 28 Port Huron 26, W
• MC 42 Marysville 7, W
• MC 35 St. Clair 14, W
• MC 35 Warren Mott 38, L
• MC 42 Clintondale 38, W

That leaves them at 7-2 with a playoff score of approximately 97.330. Clintondale would have the following results:

• Clintondale 20 Romeo 62, L
• Clintondale 50 SCS Lakeview 12, W
• Clintondale 48 Mt. Clemens 6, W
• Clintondale 38 Port Huron 26, W
• Clintondale 46 Grosse Pointe South 25, W
• Clintondale 65 Port Huron Northern 20, W
• Clintondale 39 Sterling Heights 27, W
• Clintondale 24 Warren Cousino 21, W
• Clintondale 38 Marine City 42, L

That would put Clintondale at 7-2 with a playoff score of approximately 88.444. My point is just that even if Clintondale or Marine City got moved up, they'd probably still win. It would be more interesting to see...I agree with you there...but what happens when a school like Port Huron or Sterling Heights has a stellar year? MC or Clintondale could quickly end up with 5-4 records simply because they are playing schools that are much larger than they are and would miss the playoffs where they would certainly be able to trounce schools of their same size. Personally, I'd like to see a MAC Blue that looks like this:

• Marine City
• Clintondale
• Sterling Heights
• Warren Mott
• Warren Cousino
• Port Huron

Realize, however, that MC and Clintondale are schools of about 800 students where as the other schools range from 1440-1840...thus, MC and Clintondale play in the less challenging MAC Gold.