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The soccer ball in last night’s game should be super healthy. The ball recuperated many, many times in last night’s game. the announcer was laughably very bad.

I've been saying this for years also. You should go back and read all of my posts and get back to me in a couple of years.

Of course they're not. They have every reason to let students go into debt to support these programs that will never be competitive, while administrators pad their resumes, collecting 6, 7-figure salaries on the backs of student debt.

Collegiate athletics is just a marketing arm for the University. Them turning a profit isn't a necessity, but with all marketing plans you have to evaluate whether the reach it provides is worth the dollars that you're spending. Little to no good has come from football in the past 15-20 years. In fact, the negatives have only tarnished perceptions of the university. Something likely needs to done. Ideally, it would be great if the MAC as a whole decided they can no longer keep up and decided to drop down to FCS, preferably non-scholaship FCS. Trying to keep up with the Jones's, even at the G5 level, has grown prohibitively expensive.

You are defending BS. Playing D-1 football serves nobody but 6, 7-figure administrators who use these universities as stepping stones to other more lucrative endeavors; ala Matthew Wilson.

I've been saying this for years. There's a path forward. I just don't think anyone at the G4 schools is interested in looking into it.

That's a great question. I don't know what their financials are. Maybe someone at the MAC could look at it. Our basketball program is a great MAC program. Does everyone realize moving to the MVC would greatly increase the competition?

Yes, could very well be.

Yes, fixed.

Same These were my thoughts exactly. I mentioned to a few of my friends at the game how Finley didn't look comfortable (I'm still surprised by that) and how he looked like he was aiming the ball instead of just letting it fly. But then my brother-in-law, who was watching on ESPN+ said it was due to him being rushed all night. So I wanted to get some expert opinions 😂

Wouldn’t those “similarly situated schools” be most or all MAC schools as well? What needs to happen is the G6 in general needs to figure out how and where they want to be in this new college athletics landscape.

Idk. What about YSU? Or any of the Missouri Valley schools? How do they make ends meet?

Did you mean to say 'there's no reason NOT to start exploring conferences and alliances with similarly situated and like minded schools'?

I was there live and haven’t had it in me to watch the replay. I felt the OL was generally serviceable aside from a few plays. Also noticed Finley bailing out of the pocket early instead of stepping up a few plays as well. So I think a little of both, but lean more towards Finely at fault.

I have to ask. What's so special about the MAC? I'm not advocating leaving the MAC and spending money to do it, but there's no reason to not to start exploring conferences and alliances with similarly situated and like minded schools.

Still numb from Thursday night. As LZIp mentioned above, I loved what I saw out of Patrick and White before they went out with injury. Hopefully our D is truly stout & it wasn't simply an inept Wyoming offense we were witnessing. Without saying both, would you guys pin Finley's troubles primarily on Finley, or was our OL to blame? I was fully expecting Finley to light it up this season 😞

I don’t understand how we have so many guys hurt Week 1: I may have missed something, but notable guys I did not see on the sidelines (and didn’t play): David, Shor, Motley-Simmons Notable guys I saw on the sideline not in uniform: Gee, Davis, Curry, Davis, Newell. Pretty disappointing that two for sure starters and the rest at least being 2 deep type players weren’t even available for game 1. Losing Patrick was huge and I like what I was seeing out of White as well before he got hurt. Hope those guys are back before week 3. Finley’s play was inexcusable. Adams’ drop was inexcusable, but it’s even sadder that he’s hardly able to get on the field now. I have to assume he’s fully healthy after 2+ seasons. I thought defense was solid enough (besides the last drive). I thought Joe Mo punting on 4th down with 3 minutes left was inexcusable as well. Really disappointed we couldn’t even score a point. Use next week to continue evaluating all the new players, give Roggow or Johnson a few drives, then shore up our rotations for week 3.

I'm not defending the BS. I'd like to eliminate the BS and make MAC athletic departments benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general communities around their schools.

There should be MAC sports. Football should be part of MAC sports. They need to find a way to make all MAC sports work.

It brings in the most money, while also costing the most. It's a net positive if you get rid of the Football program; because the money brought in by the football program doesn't even cover the expense of the football program. Some people just live in denial.

Yet the football team is the only one bringing in any revenue. Didn’t they bring in close to 4 million last year by playing Rutgers, SC, and Ohio State? Where is the athletic budget without that cashflow? Yet the football program has no training table, no money to recruit, etc etc. Appears to be a sinking ship

Dude, we have to stop defending this BS. It's absolutely unacceptable that the University of Akron is cutting education, cutting tenured professors, cutting services for students (that students have every right to have because they're the one paying the bills), just so that a bunch of administrators can pad their resumes using Akron as a stepping stone, and so a bunch of barely-existent alumni can pretend in a reality that doesn't exist. At some point it has to stop. We're not talking about how it happens, we're talking about that it needs to happen. I'm sorry, you're not a serious person of you're still defending this crap.

Then there should be no MAC sports should there? It's time to stop mortgaging the future, so the greediest generation in history can sit in the stands of empty stadiums. But more specifically: you don't have to eliminate all sports that don't make a profit, just the ones that cost you the most with no potential to ever be competitive...like football.

I've only been able to watch the first half thus far but would agree that this is (so far) a great defensive team. I can imagine that the offense will start to click when coach dials in the right partners and the chemistry catches up. The MOTM for me was the announcer.

Incomplete definition.