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In the NIL era, many have already gone pro.

Bowden had a great resume. Arth had a decent resume. Morehead had a great resume. Yet, we're still here. At some point you have to wonder if the problem isn't the guys UA is hiring.

Exactly, odds are 84 out of the 85 guys on scholarship will go pro in something other than football. This isn't like basketball where there are dozens of overseas leagues they can professionally play in.

I've seen them and lived with them in the same dorm in the past. They arent the brightest.

That makes you a dummy in my book

If a players main prerogative is to make a bowl game why would they choose Akron regardless? Akron has been in the MAC for 30+ years and has made 3 total bowls. That equates to 1 every 10 years. They would have better odds of making a bowl game at literally any other MAC school. The players we're getting IMO are coming for a variety of different reasons such as; they have limited options, they want an opportunity to see the field, want to play locally, like a coach, etc. I would add money to the list, but I'm not sure if the NIL for the program is really in a place to win bidding wars.

What if they aren't dummies at all? What if they simply don't care because if they start to flunk out they can just go to another school?

Its bad enough we are currently in a dynasty of losing but if you also can't produce a roster of APR passing collegiate athletes = WHY ARE YOU HERE. $600k for what? = Embarrassment on and off the field = Embarrassment to the University? My 16 yr old son who plays HS football in Ohio even found an article to text to me about this. Its embarrassing.

Nothing changes unless people voice their concerns directly to the people in charge, including Nemer and the BOT.

Will Akron take them to court?

Probably because they know this APR ban won’t stick. As soon as a school takes NCAA to court over it, APR will go away. It should have been eliminated already.

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

We offered Syracuse RB Juwaun Price. I’m guessing one of our current RBs has left the team in some capacity.

This program is far from perfect but you can find students/ex students at every school in the country that has this same take. Very predictable

One way or the other, the axe of reality is going to fall on most of the G5. The money just isn't there, and even some of the rich programs are sacrificing the Olympic sports to prop up football, which, let's be honest, even at Toledo few really care about it. Front-loading entire athletic departments toward football and basketball while cutting other sports is eventually going to invoke some interpretation of Title IX or spur the advent of new legislation to protect scholarships and opportunities for students who actually go to classes, pass classes, and graduate instead of smoking dope in the elevators of the Exchange Street Residence Hall (Sorry to vent but I had enough of that when I was moving my kid into his dorm room). At this point, as a loyal UA alumnus, I just don't give a damn about football anymore if it's going to be a money-draining, losing embarrassment. Joe must go.

Without having a chance at a post season, we might have to resort to recruiting in the Butchelite again.

I remember when I was at UA, the football players always had a sense of entitlement and arrogance. The ones I had class with never showed up and when they did it was a joke. Crazy part is I was there during the Ianello years and the team was a complete joke, while the soccer team was competing for National Championships. Yet none of them acted that way. Probably doesn't help that Akron has to scrape the bottom of the barrel for guys who can't crack it at P5 schools. Naturally this leads to academic and behavioral issues. This culture has existed well before Moorhead and will exist afterwards. I'd like to think this is the kick in the butt this program needs. But honestly it feels like the beginning of the end.

I used to believe Akron could consistently be competitive in football and that was true pre-NIL era. Now our enrollment has shrunk considerably and even programs like EMU are getting 7 figure donations for their collectives. We aren't going to be able to win in a system where our competition is able to pay $100k for a starting OL, but we can only afford to pay $30k (numbers are made up, but inputed to emphasize a point). Unless some massive donors come out of the woodwork, I just don't see how Akron can win, at least to the consistency of someone like a Toledo.

Better get some adults in the building. If you actually did the opposite of what UA leaders have done over the past decades, we’d be alright. But now we have Declining enrollment Increasing debt Empty stadiums Horrible football made up of dummies Total embarrassment. We’re going to do this clip at the Info this season. What’s your name

Girls played two games yesterday: lost 9-1 to Ball State in the first game but beat CMU 8-1 in the second (elimination) game to make it to Day 2. I believe the ladies play tonight at 5:30.

https://pittsburghsoccernow.com/2025/05/07/post-match-reaction-riverhounds-pull-off-cupset-with-dramatic-stoppage-time-goal-to-eliminate-new-york-city-fc/ For Ydrach, it was a dream come true… “I’ve been thinking about doing that since I was 3-years-old when I first started playing soccer.” “We all work really hard for moments like that and, to be able to do something like that in your career is something special.” …and an important result for the club “I think we needed a result like this. It was gritty until the last minute, but we dug it out, and hopefully we can take that into league play and get a result on the road this weekend too in Louisville.”

How easy would it be to pass classes and get an online college degree in the NIL era? My understanding is OSU has a WR making $4 million per year. It would only take about one to two percent of that money for a player to hire an "academic advisor". Does anyone want to write a job description for this academic advisor? My interests in college athletics in recent years don't really lie in what happens during games, but the entire perversion of the American university system. It's part of our general societal decay and has been fascinating to watch. It's so gross I can't look away.

In the NIL era, a winning team is all I care about. If there is embarrassment , it's the decades long failure on the field. I think anyone who feels bad about this story is internalizing it. Very few people give a crap about this nonsense. I don't feel one bit bad about this story. In fact, I think academic standards in minor league professional sports are stupid. The players aren't here to go to school. They are here to participate in football games and make some money so ESPN has weeknight programming in the late fall. The classroom stuff should be optional. Within ten years, high level college football will be teams that are merely sponsored by universities. They could use names like, The Buckeyes brought to you by The Ohio State University. If you don't think it's going this way, you are fooling yourself.

(First, sorry to dredge up something 4 weeks old and 3-4 topics ago) You know who else did this last year? IU Indy. Brought in the successful coach of the University of Indianapolis. Had ten new guys, 5 of which were from his last UIndy squad, 4 others from DII/Jucos, and a lone D1 transfer. The result? An improvement in league play from 2-18 to 6-14. I find this fascinating, and telling. With the right coaching, you can even do decently in D1 with quote-unquote D2 guys. It's made me pull for them.