UAZipster0305

So we lost to #'s 4 and 25 on the road, and the latter was close and we should have won.

If we play the full 40 minutes, we win. If not, we lose. It's really that simple against teams that have lesser but still moderate talent, especially when playing in Canada.

We could easily (and should) drop the non-D1 games we seem to play every year. They are a complete waste of time, and it's embarrassing that we count them in our win-loss total when they are not fair competition. I wanted to attend a Zips game when I was in the Akron area for the holidays, but the only game scheduled was against Concord, which is a total waste of time. I didn't even bother to listen on the radio/internet.

And how sad is it that we didn't win that game on a short FG that literally I could make?!

Coach just said on the pregame show that Sharron is out today.

He's right that those schools do fit the profile well. However, given the state of politics, I think Senators should focus on things other than the athletic alignment of their alma maters. I'm sure if there was mutual interest, these schools would have already joined the Big East.

Effort is fixable though, talent is not.

Against respectable teams, it would be a 32 minute game and a 40 minute loss.

It's always good to feast on a MAC cupcake.

I like your distinction between playoff and invitational tournament. Let me expand on that... For me to take it seriously as a playoff, it would have to be setup like other NCAA Tournaments where conference champions get an automatic berth. This would discourage all of the ridiculous conference consolidation and ensure that, from the start of the season, everyone has a legit shot of winning the title (however stretched those odds may be). The fact that the ACC Champion (Duke) was excluded while a team not even eligible to play in its conference championship game got into the "invitational tournament" is ridiculous, regardless of other logical justifications.

Thankfully, college basketball and NHL. The NBA is unwatchable, and beyond the Zips, college football bores me to death anymore.

All those things are true, but I wouldn't advertise regression to the mean as something we have going for us because by its very definition in our case, it highlights that we have traditionally been one of the worst programs in FBS/D1-A.

That is about the most AI statement ever. I think I heard Frank Caliendo say something similar when he was impersonating John Madden.

Would the Big Ten really want Notre Dame though? All prior Big Ten expansion was based on capturing as many media markets as possible. Notre Dame literally offers nothing in that regard. And no, I don't think there are enough casual ND fans and alums throughout the country to make it worth adding another very loud and hungry mouth to feed. I don't see ND being added to the Big Ten.

I think about that IU game and the one at Michigan all the time. Those could have been defining moments for the program. Winning programs or programs that are turning the corner from winning to losing win those games, especially when all it requires is something as simple as a 20-ish yard field goal.