Summer Snapshot ’11: Eastern Michigan Eagles

EMU football attendance on a good day... (Photo: Wikipedia) Hello, MACrifice! Every year there is at least one. This season, Penn State draws in Eastern Michigan for a customary beat down in exchange for a few hundred thousand bucks. As tempting as it might be to do so, don’t laugh at this next statement… Eastern Michigan could be half-way decent this season. Yes, that’s all relative to what Eastern Michigan football has traditionally been: very, very bad. As we roll on through our Summer Snapshot series–in tandem with Galen’s TMI and Tim’s Q&A–it’s time to take a deeper look at where the Eagles of Eastern Michigan are coming from, and a few things about the team to watch for this fall. The Past Few Seasons… Surprisingly enough, for a team that’s been so bad for so long, the Eagles have only had three head coaches from 2000 to now with Ron English at the helm. Both preceding head coaches had successes as position coach...