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This is actually where Akron has a small advantage. It's attendance from Saturday to Tuesday games can't drop by 10,000.

A very good article. Guess it depends what money ESPN is offering on a new deal to keep MAC attendance way down for the last of the season.

Good article about the origin of weekday MACtion games: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timcasey/2025/11/11/how-the-mid-american-conference-and-espn-made-maction-mid-week-football-popular/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAOAYThleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEemo1YlrZA2EszPo3QuBDsIR2ejxJkA2It2G9NFoysihcLW258CHJJ9SWwHNQ_aem_YlVC2XEkdt_RBvARUvnIoA

Their issue was picking fruit one too many times from the Bobby Hurley/Nate Oats coaching tree. Eventually, the fruit soured with Whitesell and it killed all the momentum with their program. This is the exact reason why hiring Groce was such a big hire for Akron to sustain what KD had built. Canada's South Campus doesn't have a very strong athletics backing, so unless they strike gold with coaching hires (they've done well in football, too), they'll always find themselves with a middle of the MAC ceiling at best.

Kent has NIL, too, which I only know about thanks to the series of Pinky's Pathetic Promos this offseason where we saw a sad clown beg for money essentially after being rejected by Fordham (allegedly).

I don't think they have much NIL, which is one of their problems. I think only Akron, Miami, UMass, and maybe OU have money. I feel all the other schools just spend on football.

Maybe Buffalo is a good example that NIL alone can’t buy you a successful program. I have to think that university has some wealthy alumni.

Hell, just protect the rivalry games. There is no reason for Akron-Kent to be played on a Tuesday evening at 7:30 in November. I'm fine with it against literally any other opponent, but this should have been a Saturday noon kickoff. I believe it would have been a decent crowd and generated at least some mild buzz for the program locally. Instead, we will probably get a bit more than last week, which was downright embarrassing.

I anticipate a close game through three quarters with Akron having at least a seven point advantage. In the fourth, Akron pulls away with points off of a turnover winning by 14. The only reason it's this close is Kent scores with under two minutes remaining to avoid total humiliation.

that should never be on our schedule to begin with.

I'd be surprised if we don't continue the pooch kickoffs that we saw last week against UMass.

Can’t give up any special teams TD’s. They have a really good kick returner that has taken a few to the house - and we’ve given up a few this year. Have to keep it away from him!

If you exclude the non-D1 schools.

I can’t believe Buffalo is currently the weakest team on our schedule.

Back to the game. We SHOULD win; we are the more talented and experienced team. This is our game to lose via turnovers, penalties, and special team blunders. If we play complimentary football like we have the last few weeks we should be good. But you never know unfortunately. Rivalry games are tight for a reason.

I'm not sure the requirement ever formally went away, but it's certainly not been enforced for quite awhile. Not sure getting booted out of FBS is the worst thing ever, but that's an entirely different discussion.

Hard to take college football attendance numbers seriously. I'm not sure if it's still a requirement, but it used to be every 2 or 3 years a school had to average 15k fans to remain FBS compliant. You would see schools, like Akron, buy 10s of thousands of tickets from their athletic department to remain compliant. That's why if you go back and look you will see Akron averaged 15k fans 1 year, but average 8k the next.

I didn’t rag on them. I offered them kudos?

It's Kent. Every detail of their existence is worth ragging on.

A Q1 road loss is significantly better than a Q3 one lol

Not sure I'd be ragging on any team for having "two remaining fans" given the only FBS team with fewer people attending games than Akron is the one that is 1-8 and plays 70 miles from its campus right now.

Well, we wanted some P5 opponents and we finally got one. Personally, I would have preferred a more mortal one, but beggars can't be choosers. If we can be semi-competitive in this game, it may very well be good for our KenPom and Net rankings as the season progresses and the strength of schedule is taken into account. Not that we would be in line for an at-large bid, but I would love to get a higher seed in the NCAA tournament if we can make it again.

Bird Droppings There are apparently still two remaining Kent football fans? Good for them.

White board update! As of 8am on 11/11

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/high-school/soccer/2025/11/11/all-ohio-soccer-reese-gallagher-hoban-jacob-west-aurora/87130159007/ Congratulations to 3 Zips Recruits for being selected to Ohio All State Soccer teams. For the 2nd straight year, New Albany midfielder Londen Sears was honored as the Division II player of the year. In addition to being named Division I All State, Calan DeWalt led his Dublin Jerome team to the Division I state title last night. DeWalt and his Celtic teammates defeated 6 time defending State champion 4-3 in PK's last night. Division II All-Ohio boys soccer Player of The Year: Londen Sears, New Albany; Division I All-Ohio boys soccer Calan DeWalt, Dublin J,erome,, D, sr. Leonardo Morana, Strongsville, F, sr.;