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No, but I think Mrs. GP1, the luckiest woman in the world, is happy about it.

Was it an NIL contribution directed to players or directed to the recruiting budget so coaches can go find players? $100k for recruiting seems like a lot. My guess is it takes much more to have a really good recruiting budget. My company spends over $60,000 a year for my travel expenses. To hire at least one person would easily absorb the entire amount. Athletic recruiters must travel a lot for the program to have success. Akron needs muh more money just for recruiting alone.

No. The point is that they are an example of a historically bad program that has gotten good. They are a good example for Akron. Their fans have graduated from the expectation of losing and failure, to seeing the positive in their accomplishments. Yesterday they had a WR set the school record for most yards in a game. Moving forward, nobody is going to be saying, "ya, but he did it against Delaware.". They will remember one of them being an 80+ yard catch with 20 seconds before halftime and being excited. The memories will make them happy. Search for Debbie Downer Thanksgiving Dinner on YouTube and you'll see the "ya, but" people of the world.

That's not the point. JD won his first year. I don't care who he did it with. When fans say "ya, but" it's a dick thing for fans to do and dismisses a real accomplishment. Let's not forget 2005 with Luke and a better supporting cast he brought in including an NFL offensive lineman. I don't know a single Wake Forest fan today who is saying, Dickert won 8 games this year, but he did it with Clawsons recruits. In 20 years, they won't be trying to make a dumb point about a successful season.

It's the toughest part and one that I don't think Akron is set up to do. It's cultural throughout a university that is successful at it.

Awesome, we can get out of one of our P4 games next year. $100,000 is a lot of money for most people. It isn't much for a football budget. If it's a one time gift, it could go away next year. Akron needs permanent endowments and prioritization of money from within the University at least to the levels of the upper half of the MAC.

This looks to me like the AD is trying to get ahead of Joe leaving on his own. He's not going to come up with more resources because UofA can't do anything other than make cuts, but wants to make it look like he really tried.

It's tough to win six games with a new coach and this schedule at a school like Akron. The schedule will not be kind to a new coach. Wake Forest has a new coach, will have 8 wins after today and potentially 9 after Duke next week. I'd call it smoke and mirrors, but it's more like cupcakes and cookies if you look at the ooc of Kennesaw State, Western Carolina, Oregon State and Delaware. Wake Forest set itself up for success in this area. If we can't get something as simple as scheduling right, why bring in a new coach that is automatically set up for failure? Feed Joe, if he stays on his own, to this scheduling doom and try to do better in 2027 with someone else. Jesus, this is a depressing thought but maybe the best course of action.

2004 first season. 6-5 overall. Finished second in the MAC East behind Miami. The key to that season was not an Owens recruit, but Brett Biggs coming off the bench against and giving the program some life in a loss to Middle Tennessee. The program did well the next two seasons as Brookhart brought more of his own people in.

Look at more than the W-L. Nobody is celebrating. I'm pointing out that without being crippled with injuries, BG is a good team that would have had a chance at Detroit, won around 8 games and gone to a bowl. If BGs season was only the first six games, it would be defined as a success. We've never had that good of a start to a season. It is common for people to mistake facts for reasons. It's why sports debate is so dumb and why turning on ESPN can only make someone dumber. The fact is BG will have a 3 win season. The reasons are easily explainable. I don't think a three win season makes George a bad hire and stand by him being a good hire. I wish Akron would hire this boldly after fixing all of the other crap that would destroy a bold hire. I wish at the end of a three win season Akron fans could look back and easily explain it with the understanding that it was a fluke and better days were ahead, but our failures are so many they are hard to explain and fix.

He's already having success, it just didn't show up in wins because he was killed by injuries. He has been recruiting well, endowments, win against rival and a real team, two sold out home games, win against Liberty, I thought they had a great game plan against the Zips and executed it as well as they could all things considered. If any first year Akron coach had the pre-injury success George did the first six games of the start of their career at Akron, we would all be floored at the success. Some of you can't be so obtuse that you can't see what a great hire he was. I wish Akron had the brains to think outside the box and hire someone other then Faust, Ianello, Bowden and Arth.

George will be in the NFL HOF before too long. The Bowdens are freaking dinosaurs. Are you kidding me?

I don't know, but he has a two week head start on the rest of college football and Franklin is already in place. Announcing a coordinator hire this early in the recruiting process could be helpful in securing key players from the TP.

Maybe the conversation could sound something like this. "Mr. Commissioner, you are killing us with the schedule. All we ask is to play our rival when the weather is nice on a Saturday early in the season so we can have a decent crowd. You did it for the BG/Toledo rivalry and all they did was sell out a stadium and put on a very exciting game. We all know the only people dedicated to weeknight games are drunks and degenerate gamblers. Gamblers will bet on anything and drunks will drink to anything, so trading Kent for another MAC school on a Tuesday night won't matter. Would it be too much to ask for you to dislodged your head from your ass for a few minutes to schedule the Akron/Kent rivalry early in the season?" There you go. Problem solved.

For those of us who actually follow the MAC we understand how difficult injuries can be on a team. Nick Saban isn't going to win in the MAC with bach up quarterbacks. Let's review. Before the injury bug got them, they had wins against Liberty, Lafayette and a Toledo team that could finish with 8 wins and a bowl. BG was easily on their way to a bowl and an outside shot at Detroit based upon their remaining schedule. I know how easy (lazy) it is to use facts as reasons. The fact is BG is on a long losing streak. The reasons are pretty clear. To think Eddie George, Nick Saban, Woody Hayes or anyone else would couch their way out of it would be stupid. George made the FCS playoffs last year at a school that I don't think had ever made it. Sanders won at Jackson State. Colorado is a black hole of college football misery and long term success there isn't realistic. BG isn't a black hole and I anticipate him doing well there for as long as he wants to.