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The Missouri Valley Conference has a separate website for their football conference and the rest of their sports Missouri Valley Football Conference website Missouri Valley Conference main(?) website Missouri Valley Football Conference Illinois State Indiana State Murray State North Dakota North Dakota State Northern Iowa (UNI) South Dakota South Dakota State Southern Illinois Youngstown State That's a solid football conference which we wouldn't win right now. NDSU would name their score on us. Missouri Valley basketball schools: Belmont Bradley Drake Evansville UIC Illinois State Indiana State Murray State Northern Iowa (UNI) Southern Illinois Valparaiso For 30 years I've been absolutely dead set against dropping down but I've been kicked in the balls so often as a Zips football fan that I've broken and would absolutely give this move serious consideration... were it offered.

I think you're wasting your time trying to convince the wrong person. I'm not the audience you need to convince. I've said for a few years now that the cost for G5 football has grown too outrageously high and something needs to be done. Whether its just mailing it in and us being the Pirates of FBS (spend little to nothing, but collect the revenue sharing) or do something more drastic like drop down to non-scholaship FCS.

And by making that point, you exactly prove my point. This whole charade has to stop, and people need to start calling it out.

Not all 1 bid conferences are the same. It's true the MVC typically gets 1 bid, but they are seeded better than the MAC. Below are the seeds by years. 2025 - Drake 10th (2 bids was likely had Drake lost in conference tournament) 2024 - Drake 12th 2023 - Drake 12th 2022 - Loyola Chicago 10th (Had path to at-large had they lost conference tournament) 2021 - Drake (at-large 11th), Loyola Chicago 8th As you can see in the last 5 years years the MVC had 1 at-large and their teams were seeded 8, 10, 10, 11, 12, 12. There is also a pathway for an at-large, but only if the top team from the regular season loses in the conference tournament. The MAC doesn't have that luxury. Also, your odds of winning a tournament game an 8-10 seed are far greater than as a 13 or 14, which is what the MAC typically gets seeded. Besides all of this, I'm not just an Akron Zips fan. I actually enjoy watching quality college basketball. Looking at our MAC schedule there are only a handful of games that I'm excited for. The majority are against cupcakes. Akron would be more battle tested come tournament time as they would be playing a higher level of competition. I understand joining the MVC is likely never going to happen. I'm more just sharing my thoughts out loud.

Nebraska Offensive Line: Tackle 6'5 325 guard 6'6 320 center 6'1 315 guard 6'5 315 tackle 6'10 320 Zips had 1 qb hurry and zero sacks against wyoming. Raiola threw 42 times against Cincinnati. Good chance he tops that... I think i'm taking the huskers -34.5...

Evening scores for September 1 Providence earned a 3-1 road win at Rhode Island Tulsa went on the road and battled to a 0-0 tie at Creighton IU Indy got a 1-0 win on the road at Butler.

Win is a win. Big one on the road Friday!

About as dominate as a 1-0 game can be right? Would’ve loved another goal but it wasn’t like didn’t have a bunch of chances. Onto the next one

Zips get a 1-0 result.

I don't know about that. Have you ever visited the Parthenon?

Roman from Dobrijevic.

I think it is but also GOALLLLLLL

GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!

Is this commentator the football PA announcer? I would rather have the student from the WVU game

Scoreless at half

Honestly, how would the MVC even benefit us? It’s been relegated to a 1 big league (same with A10 basically). The Big East wouldn’t take us (nobody cares about college soccer). A tougher bball league makes it harder for us to play in March Madness. We’re in a college athletics era where it’s P4 or bust aside from a few select programs (Memphis BB, Gonzaga BB,etc) and it sucks!

1,000 years from now archiologists are going to find all of these bobbleheads in landfills and think we worshipped more Gods than the Greeks.

My whole comment was in response to you grossly overestimating the pull Akron basketball has with the MAC. If we want to be a basketball focused school we would be better served elsewhere, perhaps MVC if they would have us. The MAC isn't going to bend the knee to accommodate us because frankly what they care about is FBS. All the FBS conference schools prioritize football, even the ACC. That shouldn't come as a shock.

Got mine on my bookshelf at work!

Then the MAC shouldn't exist at all then right? It exists only because the universities' students subsidize the MAC's existence by taking on absurd levels of debt for a "product" that will never be anything than, as you put it, the tallest midget. Sorry, but the Emperor is wearing no clothes. Why are we allowing this absolutely insane system to continue?

Western Michigan came back and defeated UNH 2-1. Good outcome for the Zips.

Agreed, and that's where the MAC is getting it as wrong as the University of Akron. Emphasizing an overly expensive sport that in which they have no chance of success on a national level.

Early scores from September 1 number 1 Vermont and Georgetown battled to a 1-1 result Villanova got a 1-0 win over St. Joseph’s At halftime, New Hampshire leads Western Michigan 1-0 (WMU has started their year with 3 losses)

That's like claiming to be the tallest midget. If the MAC kicked Akron out of the conference, the MAC might go from being the ~25th rated conference in hoops to the 27th or 28th. Akron basketball isn't earning the MAC any at-large bids and isn't winning any tournament games so it's not adding anything additional for the conference. Akron basketball has been good, but it hasn't been good enough, like a Gonzaga or a MVC days Wichita State, to carry the conference on its back. It would take that level of success for the MAC to cater to Akron's demands. Football is what drives MAC decisions. Basketball is a distant #2. All other sports are irrelevant.