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SMU deserves the death penalty again for bragging about this.

Kent just fired a coach for debt/legal problems after already extending him. There were allegations of verbal abuse, drinking on the job, etc. that they neglected to investigate. Their program has the nation's longest losing streak and is 1-23 these past 2 seasons (their lone win coming against a FCS squad). Whatever they did to circumvent the APR threshold is the least they could do. Akron's APR issue seems to have stemmed largely from Arth/Portal, and the APR is a joke regardless. If anyone is mired in a quicksand of stupidity, it's the NCAA. Kent basketball had 2 players quit the team last season (one was allegedly punched in the face by a teammate), they've had numerous DWI/DUI issues over the years, the 2022 diss track debacle, and a head coach who was part of a large recruiting scandal at Indiana (not to mention he called Akron the Yankees). In a college athletics world judged solely by what is done on the field of competition, Kent hasn't beaten Akron in football/men's basketball since March 2023. In addition, Akron are back to back MAC champs and have won 3 out of the last 4 MAC tournaments. Furthermore, regarding the high ground - speaking quite literally - Akron is located in SUMMIT County, and according to Britannica, sits at a higher elevation than Kent. It's over, Anakin. Akron has the high ground, and Kent State Still Sucks.

Been 4 days since we had a post on the basketball section. Just wanted to say... Kent Sucks.

Damn. This guy lost 2" in height since he committed. His X bio says he's 6'7" 😂.

Freeman was first off the bench to high five the Pacers as they closed out the Cavs to advance to the ECF. The Cavs and Zips were very similar in the regular season; very fun teams to watch. Then the Cavs decided to mimick the Zips 3P shooting in the Arizona game the entire 2nd round.

Fighting the NCAA and their ineptitude isn't a bad image at all.

That's fair and if that becomes reality, it will be a good thing for the MAC. I will say the top of the league will get a huge boost from UMass joining in general. If only NIU were hitting the road a year earlier...

This feels like fake hype. Of course Toledo, UMass, EMU, and Kent are hitting the portal/HS ranks/JUCO hard; they all lost the majority of their production/rosters. Akron went 17-1 and outside of Miami & Ohio, nobody came particularly close to challenging the Zips. UMass, Miami, and Ohio will be our biggest threats to start the season until others prove themselves (or not).

Nate got his degree.

Just found the database; did not realize that existed. The way it was being spread on X, there were comments it was leaked. Are the scores for the individual years public? Or just the multi year?

I never said the hit job was by the media. This was leaked by someone to Reddit, then the media ran with it and piled on. That someone targeted Akron by leaking the APR numbers and potentially false ones at that (they differ from the ABJ's numbers if I'm not mistaken).

The more that comes out about this, the more my anger turns towards whomever leaked whatever those APR numbers were (my fire Joe post previously was more of a joke). The ABJ shared different numbers that indicate YOY progress. It feels like whomever leaked it wanted it to be an Akron hit piece instead of some sort of journalistic reveal. I hope we play our asses off this year and give a massive middle finger to the NCAA. I also hope more journalism is done into the academic fraud committed at most schools to pass this stupid APR.

Akron's football team scored an 885 during the 2021-22 school year, a 905 in 2022-23 and a 920 in 2023-24. So it has improved every year since JoeMo's first year? It's still not ideal, but at least JoeMo isn't fully complacent. I really hope part of the plan is to challenge the ruling by the NCAA. LSU and New Mexico State reportedly failed to meet the 930 score during the pandemic pause, but were not penalized. LOL. F the NCAA. They can eat a bag of Kent 💩. If the APR was just reinstated last year, how can there be a 4 year report to fail? That's such horse crap.

Will Akron take them to court?

Why would players come to Akron with the postseason ban and embarrassing recent headlines?

Meanwhile, Kent set a new university APR record and had 5 programs with perfect 1000 multi-year APRs. Apparently offering Primary Colors 101 and 1st grade mathematics as courses has its benefits.

Started his career at Milwaukee. Transferred to UTSA where he never played, then played at Florida State last year.

APR be damned. We're still getting quality commits. 😂

Well that changes things a bit. Fire JoeMo.

No. Quite frankly, the punishment itself is even funnier than the rotting of the APR in 2025. Think about it - Marshall made a bowl game last season, the entire roster went into the portal, and the university was fined $100k for having to skip the bowl game due to a lack of bodies. Akron can still compete, have a successful season, maybe win the MAC, and the only punishment is missing out on a meaningless bowl game that could ultimately cost the University financially. With the way the bowls have been in recent years, we'd probably draw a G5 anyways.

The Supreme Court kept the flood gates open after the NCAA went decades with stupid rules that forced the system into its current situation.

You're right, and as @Captain Kangaroo said, it's a job with the goal being to get to a bigger program. Why? Because the NCAA said to hell with athletics and allow college sports to become a wild west free for all with no guardrails on any type of movement or financials. Yeah, I don't think a team that's struggling with the APR standards is majoring in anything significant. The couple of players that are aren't the problem. Give the rest a general business degree and let's move on.