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That would be one damn short line.

Are they playing their games on a day of the week and at times that would make it attractive for someone to attend? I would say no. BG had a great crowd last night, but Eddie George creates more interest than $2 beers and scholarship give aways. I'll be interested to see if they can keep it up. Is Akron a mess? Hell yes. Last night was a disaster. There is no positive spin that can be put on a 10-0 loss to a bad team that had to travel cross country. I think the entire league is a mess in terms of football. After a couple of decades, the rot created by weeknight games has taken its toll. I'm so disgusted by it all I can barely bring myself to watch it.

I watched some of the Miami Wisconsin game and by that I mean a couple of Miami series. They have a seventh year QB (yes, you read that right). He looked like he never played a game. If you plan on playing college football until you are 25, at least look like a star your last year, whenever that may be.

Organizations? No, just give them away to anyone who wants one.

The TV experience was worse. Reghi continued to call out the wrong players when doing the play by play and a few times even got the down wrong. The TV was showing the player's name on his jersey but Reghi was not watching the monitor. It was ugly. And how many times can he indicate our coach is an offensive genius when we cannot score a point. And how many times can we watch the same wrestling commerical? 50 times and counting.

Free tickets will not improve the quality of the football and that's the real issue. Also, people will not go to see bad football, even for free. They've given away tickets before and it hasn't worked.

AMEN!

Just remember, every coach looks better when their entire roster is 5 star recruits. That has a lot to do with his past success.

The in game experience wasn't special, but I would not call it "bad." Work to do, sure, but it is relatively low IMO on the problems list right now

Moorhead has been a great offensive coordinator in the past. That is where his true talent is. Right now, he is trying to be a head coach and an offensive coordinator. He can't do both well. He needs to give up on one or the other for this year. Give OC responsibilities over to someone else on staff so he can focus on the head coach responsibilities. He is not made out to be a Head Coach. He will be a coordinator somewhere else next year. Coach Tibs has proven to be an effective defensive coordinator. Really impressive scheme and performance last night. Perhaps he could be a head coach someday. Unfortunately, this season is going to be another dumpster fire. Coaches will leave. Players will leave. Recruits will decommit. A new coach will takeover and the dumpster fire will continue.

Is it basketball season yet?

I'm not going to get my hopes up

Is it basketball season yet?

The overall product is complete BS. Bad team on the field and in the classroom. Bad fan in game stadium experience No merch in the team store All around Bad

Findley is rated the fourth best QB in the MAC. God help those other 9 teams. Nebraska will be a throw away. We should treat this like a pre-season game. We should see at least 3 QB's have a shot. Just maybe; one will show something under pressure. I don't mean to put the loss on Findley, but so much more was expected. If he is going to make mistakes like a true FR, we might as well see them from the back ups.

They need to host concerts at Infocision because having 1,000 people on a good day in there is such a waste.

They have been do that for years. Last year 15,000 free tickets distributed to various organizations. Around 150 redeemed. Joe Akron just doesn't give a crap about UA football. We would draw the same if we were competing against Mount Union and other D3 programs at 1/10th the cost. Figure out how to let soccer and basketball compete at a higher level without pretending we can compete in football.

I hope you are right.

Knowing how Akron operates they will just likely keep throwing more good money after bad. We give Kent sh*t for obvious reasons, but at least their board saw the changes coming to football and had the foresight to give up trying to compete altogether. Instead focusing their attention on other sports like basketball and baseball. Fortunately for us we have Bud heavily involved with basketball. Otherwise our basketball program would likely be decaying from its former glory leaving us with nothing. Akron isn't in a position financially to try to compete in football. A situation that's likely not going to improve considering Cuyahoga, Summit, and Stark County are all projected to lose 15%+ of their population by 2050. Football is where everyone is throwing their money. Basketball provides more bang for the buck and has lower overhead costs.

I agree but the future is bright under him.

Not this season.

Last night was rough, but I believe in AD Goodrich — he’s going to turn things around!!

These are called promotions. If the promotions don't work, come up with another promotion. If I was a student who really needed a tuition waiver, I might not be able to attend a game because I'm at my job because I need money to pay for tuition. The odds of winning the waiver are so low it isn't worth losing my job. Or, I can't go to the game because I have to study because I don't have much free time because my job that pays my tuition doesn't give me much fee time for fun, if you call what happened last night fun. The promotion right now needs to be tens of thousands of tickets being given away around NE Ohio just to get 5-10 thousand people willing to watch that crap.

Listening to Joe's post-game presser. Ugh. SSDD.

Nihilism is not the answer because it doesn't prove solutions, only destruction. If Akron moved forward without a plan as to what to do about basketball and soccer, those programs would be finished. Football isn't holding those programs back. They are really good already with a bad football program and will remain so.