First Glance: Central Michigan loses its grip on the MAC for good

An absurdly premature assessment of the 2011 Chippewas. • Previously On… There are two kinds of tough coaching jobs in college football: The ones that leave you gasping in an atmosphere of hopelessness, and the ones that erect pillars of false hope. When Dan Enos accepted the Central Michigan job last January, he was pretty clearly stepping into the latter, and not for nothing. The Chippewas had just taken three MAC championships in four years from 2006-09 on the strength of five eventual NFL draft picks, two competent head coaches (Brian Kelly and Butch Jones), and one dynamic quarterback, Dan LeFevour, a four-year starter who left as the owner of every conceivable school record and the NCAA record for total touchdowns in a career. Enos inherited the cream of the conference, and found an almost empty dish. Still, no one expected his first go-round to be quite as bad as it was — 3-9, with easy early wins over Hampton and Eastern Michigan followed by a single win in the...