2017 Mid-American Conference Football Media Guide
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THE MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE THE MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS Mid-American Conference 24 Public Square, 15th Floor, Cleveland, OH 44113 Table Of Contents web site: www.mac-sports.com; telephone: 216-566-4622 This Is the Mid-American Conference ....... 2-5 Dr. Jon Steinbrecher ........................................ 6-7 Name/Title Office Ext E-Mail Media Information ............................................... 8 Composite Schedule/Non-Conference ........ 9 Dr. Jon A. Steinbrecher 310 [email protected] Commissioner MAC Football Notes .................................... 10-14 2016 MAC Standings/2017 Breakdown ......15 Julie Kachner 311 [email protected] 2016 Postseason Awards .................................16 Executive Assistant to the Commissioner 2016 Academic All-MAC Team .......................17 Bob Gennarelli 308 [email protected] Deputy Commissioner/Chief Operating Officer MAC West Division ...................................... 18-53 Jeff Bacon 316 [email protected] Ball State .............................................. 18-23 Senior Associate Commissioner/Championships & Sport Development Central Michigan .............................. 24-29 Ricky Stokes 307 [email protected] Eastern Michigan ............................. 30-35 Senior Associate Commissioner/Men’s & Women’s Basketball Northern Illinois ................................ 36-41 Betty Sislak 320 [email protected] Toledo .................................................. 42-47 Chief Finanical Officer Western Michigan ............................ 48-53 Ken Mather 301 [email protected] MAC East Division ........................................ 54-89 Associate Commissioner/Media & Public Relations Akron .................................................... 54-59 Kristin Williams 318 [email protected] Bowling Green .................................. 60-65 Associate Commissioner/Institutional Services & Senior Woman Administrator Buffalo .................................................. 66-71 Jeremy Guy 303 [email protected] Kent State ........................................... 72-77 Assistant Commissioner/Communications & Social Media Miami.................................................... 78-83 Ohio ...................................................... 84-89 Korinth Patterson 302 [email protected] Assistant Commissioner/Championships MAC Year-By-Year Champions .......................90 Erica Schmidt 309 [email protected] Assistant Commissioner/Institutional Services MAC Coaching Records ............................. 91-93 MAC Players of the Year ....................................94 Kyle Klein 323 [email protected] Director of Basketball Operations & Championships Vern Smith Leadership Award .......................95 MAC Standings ...........................................96-103 Tori Kohl 314 [email protected] MAC Championship Games ................ 104-114 Director of Communications & Digital Services MAC Championship Game Records 115-117 Kerri Krawczak 324 [email protected] MAC Bowl Results ................................... 118-119 Director of Football Operations & External Relations MAC Bowl Game Records .................... 120-121 Heather Klatt 319 [email protected] MAC All-Americans ................................ 122-124 Assistant Director/Media Relations MAC All-Star Selections ........................ 125-126 Eric Kwaitkowski 322 [email protected] All-MAC First Team Selections ............ 127-130 Media Relations Assistant All-MAC Second Team/HM Selections 131-136 Galal Cancer 323 [email protected] All-Time Players of the Week .............. 137-149 Championships Assistant Team Year-By-Year Leaders.................. 150-153 Individual Year-By-Year Leaders ........ 154-160 IMG College - MAC Properties: Total Offense Records ........................... 161-162 Steve Volchko 304 [email protected] Rushing Records ..................................... 163-164 Account Executive Passing Records ...................................... 165-167 Tom Sitko 305 [email protected] Receiving Records .................................. 168-169 General Manager - MAC IMG Sports Marketing Scoring Records ...................................... 170-173 Defensive Records .................................. 174-175 Visit the MAC web site www.mac-sports.com Special Teams Records .......................... 176-177 Miscellaneous Records ......................... 178-179 The MAC web site features news, information, standings and statistics, as well as the Player of the Week awards MAC in the NFL ........................................ 180-184 for all 23 MAC sponsored sports and the MAC Scholar Athlete of the Week. Don’t forget to follow the MAC on Twitter and Facebook! You can follow us at www.twitter.com/MACSports and search for the Mid-American Con- ference on Facebook. Fans are welcome to comment and interact with one another on all of our social media platforms. Credits: The 2017 Mid-American Conference football record book was produced by the MAC Media Relations staff using Adobe InDesign on Dell Latitude 100L. Design by Jeremy Guy. Editorial assistance from Ken Mather. Team information and photos provided by MAC institutions. www.mac-sports.com 1 THE MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE THIS IS THE MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE Providing leadership in education and diversity, the Mid-American Conference moves into its 71st year of service to our students Since its inception in 1946, the Mid-American Conference has progressively grown and developed into one of the most aggressive Division I conferences in the coun- try. One of only 10 football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conferences, the MAC named Dr. Jon A. Steinbrecher as its eighth commissioner in March of 2009. The league hosts championships in 23 sports, including neutral site events at some of the finest facilities in the nation – football (Ford Field, Detroit), men’s and women’s basketball (Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland), softball (Firestone Stadi- um, Akron) and baseball (Sprenger Stadium, Avon, Ohio). The MAC secured a four- year contract extension with Ford Field to host the MAC Football Championship Game through the 2019 football season, anchored a six-year contract extension for the MAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments at Quicken Loans Arena through the 2023 season, and stabilized a five-year contract extension through the 2020 season for the MAC Baseball Tournament at Sprenger Stadium in Avon, Ohio. In addition to growing its commitment to MAC championships, Steinbrecher has strategically positioned the MAC’s participation in hosting NCAA events and cham- pionships. The MAC recently served as the host for the 2015 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Midwest Regional at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland and will also serve as host of the 2018 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships and the 2020 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament First and Second Rounds, also at Quicken Loans Arena. The MAC has previously hosted both the 2012 and 2014 NCAA Women’s Bowling Championships, and will also host the 2019 NCAA Women’s Bowling Championships under Steinbrecher’s direction. In the summer of 2014, the MAC and ESPN announced a historic 13-year rights extension deal through the 2026-27 season for expanded national television and digital distribution. This is the largest and most extensive agreement in the history of the Conference and brings long-term security for the MAC through the 2026-27 academic year. ESPN has exclusive television and digital distribution rights for all MAC sporting events, and guarantees coverage of every football game, and select men’s and women’s basketball and Olympic sporting events. The MAC and ESPN will establish on-campus production capabilities that will provide a significant increase in the national coverage of baseball, softball, soccer, volleyball, wrestling and Olympic sports on ESPN3. This will open up nearly 92 million households from ESPN3 for exposure to MAC sports for the first time in Conference history. Through this ESPN partnership, the MAC and CBS Sports Network announced a four-year sublicensing agreement to expand its national coverage of football and basketball through 2018-19. For the second time in Mid-American Conference history a member institution will be playing in one of the prestigious New Year’s Six Bowl Games, as MAC Champion Western Michigan will face Wisconsin in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Jan. 2 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. During the 2016 season, the MAC witnessed six members accept bowl invitations. Western Michigan (Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Arlington, Texas), Ohio (Dollar General Bowl, Mobile, Ala.), Toledo (Raycom Media Camellia Bowl, Montgomery, Ala.), Central Michigan (Miami Beach Bowl, Miami, Fla.), Miami (St. Petersburg Bowl, St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Eastern Michigan (Popeyes Bahamas Bowl, Nassau, Bahamas) represented the MAC in bowl games during the 2016 bowl season. The six bowl invitations are one shy of the MAC single-season record of seven bowl invitations during the 2012 and 2016 bowl seasons. This also marks the ninth time in MAC history to have five or more programs receive a bowl invitation (2004, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016) in a single-season. In the pre- vious six bowl seasons, the MAC has a record of 11-24 in 35 bowl games – 2016 (0-6); 2015 (3-4); 2014 (2-3); 2013 (0-5); 2012 (2-5); 2011 (4-1). In December of 2016, Western Michigan head coach P.J. Fleck was named MAC Head Coach of the Year,