MIAA swings and misses in its attempt at expanded football slate

Sports Commentary

You can't make all of the people happy all of the time. And when you're an athletic league on the verge of becoming a mega-conference, that's even more true. But you could probably do a better job than the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association did last week.

The MIAA announced the league's football schedules for the 2011-15 seasons last week, and upon first glance, the conference did its best with a tough task. But still not nearly good enough.

The MIAA handled a few things just fine. But then it starts to get wonky.

The league decided against taking the easy step of two eight-team divisions.

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