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People buy football season tickets?

Show me such a good time at your Spring game that I want to buy regular season tickets to duplicate the experience.

If the athletic department were remotely serious about expanding their market, they'd tell the coaches "here's what we're doing, deal with it." But they're not. And now they've heard loud and clear that people were displeased with this decision. And did like a quarter measure to reply to it. Still completely pantsed by Kent

This screams of indecision and the type of second guessing that makes me question their overall judgment.

This could’ve been prevented if Zipsnation members were on the fan council.

The free food in the club seats was fantastic a couple years ago. I am always last minute on buying season tickets for football, this isn't really speeding up my decision

I understand most spring games are going by the wayside, but this whole thing has seemed like an absolute **** show. Kent State is doing it right and now this is supposed to be the answer? Just a few years ago they opened up the suites and had free food for everyone. How far things have fallen. I’m incredibly disappointed as I can only get up there twice a year and the spring game is one of those times. This is exactly how not to resonate with your fanbase.

This is likely. If it helps sell a few more season tickets then so be it. As @clarkwgriswold said this event has been poorly attended in recent years anyway. I personally haven't attended since the surplus sale days. 90% of the people who go are probably season ticket holders anyway. The other 10% probably didn't care that much to attend anyway if a $75 season ticket is going to deter them from going.

I ask the jury/judge to refer our one and only Exhibit, A: 1 and 23. 😄

Seems like a move to scramble and hold onto some goodwill. Probably a compromise between the coaches and the athletic department more broadly.

Apparently spring practice will be open to season ticket holders.

No argument there. The hope is if the MAC does expand to a 22 game conference schedule those would be the games eliminated. Whether it plays out that way who knows.

I think they expected more then the $6.37 they received from the split. The attendance was disappointing. I think I'd take the risk of hurting the brand over playing the likes of Concord, Heidelberg and Ohio Wesleyan.

They don't need to concern themselves with that, either. The expansion to 76 allows the tournament to get rid of 8 more of the pesky mid-majors before the money schools can beat what's left of them. It's not giving more shots to mid-majors.

Jacob Thomas, one of our student managers, wins the Internet today. He posted this on his IG.

Some of us are fans of the sport, not just Akron. By we I mean mid-majors as a whole. A program like Belmont could have made the tournament if instead of getting neutral court wins against Toledo and St. Francis they picked up wins over mid-tier P5 programs. They were never given that opportunity.

22 game MAC schedule.

After the MAC's tournament performance, we don't need to concern ourselves with that possibility anymore.

We need to be at least able to play them on a neutral court. Mid-majors used to be able to build an at-large resumé by picking up 2-3 nice wins in a MTE. Those opportunities really aren't there anymore.

Is like to see us play an Ohio team outside of the Mac every year. 1. Ohio St 2. Cincinnati 3. Dayton 4. Xavier 5. Wright St 6. CSU 7. YSU

I like it. I feel like a team will generally come together as a unit more with more road games early in the season. I like the idea of playing someone seen as someone you should defeat on the road. Helps a little with metrics being on the road too. Now if we could play schools like Bucknell on the road and schools from “bigger” conferences at home I think that would be a good metrics strategy.

Did you watch CSU 1st round game in the Horizon League tournament? They hosted the game and there may have been a few dozen people in the stands. If even CSU fans don't care about CSU basketball why would Akron fans?

We're a mid-major whose ceiling is winning three games in Cleveland in early March (that also draws very very average crowds). Better to play as many local teams fans might actually care about that we can, even if we're "a level above them."