Feb. 21, 2011
Nick Bellore should head to the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis this week with no worries that playing at a so-called "mid-major" college will carry a stigma in his attempt to impress the scouts.
Starting at linebacker for four years at Central Michigan of the Mid-American Conference ought to be a bold-type entry on Bellore's resume.
And so is the MAC's growing reputation for sending players to the NFL.
"You look at the numbers, especially in the Super Bowl," Bellore said in a telephone interview from Bradenton, Fla., where he has been training at the IMG Academy since mid-December. "All the quarterbacks on the Steelers' roster are from the MAC.
"I still think there is a little bit of a small-school stigma attached there that I think will always be there, no matter how many guys we had in the biggest game
