The MAC can't compete with the pay you can find in the Mountian West, and things worked out well for Urban Myer when he moved from Bowling Green to Utah.
I'm jealous of Buffalo's sucess as Kent State alumni, and I wanted Syracuse to hire him as an Orange fan, but I don't know if Turner Gill has really proven himself as a great hire yet. Sure, he's done a great job one of the worse programs in the FBS to MAC Champions, but this year's UB team is one of the luckiest of all time. They pretty much won the MAC East by default, winning 4 games in OT and one on a hail mary, and benefited from some timely fumbles run back for TDs in the MAC Championship.