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I believe Eddie George will either plateau next year or continue to revive the program and leave. This is not a long-term success story. He's too young to ignore bigger-dollar jobs, and BGSU's athletic budget is in the lower-third of the league, if I'm not mistaken.

It's still a damned expensive place to live vs. Akron, Ohio.

70 is probably a better number than my original. They could have 53 scholarships and 17 walk ons. It wouldn't take much time. They could chart the number of plays per player on every roster. Some players may only play a handful of plays in a season. I believe those players are unnecessary to give scholarships. A lot of NFL players are brought in n mid season to replace IR players or guys who aren't cutting it. Injuries are part of sports. Teams will need to deal with those problems with their available roster. Life isn't fair.

Duquesne beat OU a couple years ago. The seem to be a decent FCS team in 2025, playing #10 Lehigh pretty close last week. I hope the starters take the game seriously and build a nice lead that allows the guys further down the depth chart to get PT. But the Zips have a history of making FCS games much closer than they need to be.

I would agree it makes more sense for football but the problem is classes. Most schools start 2nd semester until early to mid January so kids needs to be enrolled. If they aren’t enrolled for 2nd semester then they can’t participate in spring practice.

My complaint with the transfer portal is that it's open during the CFP. They should move the window to early February IMO. Trimming it down to 1 window was a big improvement. I feel a little bit more study needs to be done to determine proper roster size. NFL teams have roster size of 53, but they have an additional 17 player taxi squad, who they have on hand to step in when needed. Plus they can sign FA mid-season. An NFL team uses much more than 53 individual players over the course of the season when you factor in injuries. I would think 70-75 players would be adequate and accomplish some of the goals you stated.

This is a good step. Next step should be reducing scholarships to 65. College football is now a professional minor league. If 53 players per roster is good enough for the NFL, college can do the same thing. It will make coaches really think about who and who does not get a scholarship. One half of all kids in the TP never play football again. It will also accelerate them out of the sport and move them to things they can do on life where they can be more successful.

Players and teams can still sign after the portal closes. Players just have a 10 day window to submit their names.

A few articles on former Zip Shooky.... He had 3 goals in a game on September 14 and has 15 goals on the year for Chicago Fire FC 2. https://www.chicagofirefc.com/two/news/match-recap-chicago-fire-fc-ii-falls-against-new-york-city-fc-ii https://ontapsportsnet.com/fire/chicago-fire-ii-make-history-defeat-rbny-ii-9-2/

Ncaa announced today plans to eliminate 2 transfer portals and to only have one that is open for ten days. the potential dates are Jan 2- Jan 12. that's it. it is official to one transfer portal but the window date has not been confirmed yet. it is reported that this is something coaches have pushed for and most likely will pass. that will be crazy. players will have to decide if they are leaving before the playoffs are finished and the national championship. i think last year i read 3,000 players from FBS and FCS entered the portal in the winter and spring windows coaches will have ten days to fill empty positions which should make teams desperate.

Spring transfer portal removed https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ncaa-approves-single-transfer-portal-window-how-the-new-rule-will-impact-college-football/#

this game means nothing unless the Zips lose. Even if they win 45-0 it won't show us anything at all. They are playing a JV team and I fear instead of developing players or seeing what options exist it will be used for nothing more than stat padding for the starters. it shows me that program development means nothing if it is all the same players in the same positions. i don't want to hear on sunday how some starter that hasn't done anything in three games suddenly figured it out. im not saying bench all the starters but i do think if they really wanted to develop the program this would be the perfect game for players to get experience and see what they can handle.

Take me back!! I miss the Rubber Bowl and the feel of the games....especially the Acme Zip games!~

My son gets married on the 21st so I will miss this one. On my wedding day 32 years ago the Zips were down 35-0 at the half to BG. I listened to the game on my Sony Walkman in the vestibule as the church filled up. Hoping for a better result in 2025. Here’s my niece, then a freshman at Akron, bottle-feeding him at the Acme-Zip game in 2001. Time flies…

No, they play at the Public Auditorium now.

Is the Cavaliers minor league team still playing at the Wolstein Center? I haven’t seen them since they played in Canton.

He's a guy who can work a room. He was a name to some extent, having had MAC success and coming from the Big 10. He's intense, personable and outgoing, and those attributes get people to follow him, whether it's playing basketball or writing checks.

This interests me because he doesn't strike me as a sales type guy, but a gym rat kind of guy. It must have been hard at first because he wasn't really a "name" when he came to town. Imagine how easy it was for Sanders or George to do. Akron football needs to do at least one thing that would make life easier for them.

I think we all wish that for JoMo. We're just frustrated with the lack of progress.

Everything you say is true. JoMo's fatal flaw is his inability to attract and nurture the type of donors needed to fund those NIL dollars and program enhancements. John Groce has done an exceptional job at doing this and the results are evident. Jared Embick the same. At a MAC level school you need someone who is willing to help sell the program to the potential donors. At the P-5 schools where Joe had his success this was not necessary. The programs history sold itself. There were legions of development personnel eager to wine and dine to secure those donations. That infrastructure doesn't exist at Akron. We don't have that winning football tradition. It's going to take a different kind of coach than what have now if we expect different results.

Vermont wins are good for us.

I'm not the one who said Eddie George is irrelevant. Also, you notice all of these guys you mentioned came to FBS after 2-3 years of FCS coaching? I never said it couldn't work. All I said is it will still require financial backing to get things off the ground. I'm convinced even Nick Saban couldn't win at Akron given the current state of our NIL and staff budgets. Money would be needed regardless of strategy.

We have Joe for $650,000? And he's HC, OC and QB coach. We have $0 in NIL. Our staff pool is the lowest in D1. I can imagine, if Joe leaves or is fired at year's end, how bad a coach we will get for the sack of beans, buttons and bus tokens we offer. I work in Industrial Automation. It's impossible to beat your competition when you have half their distribution network, half their direct sales force, 1/4 their overall budget, 1/10 the Marketing budget, limit your outside sales force to generating business by phone and Linkedin messaging vs. getting on the road and meeting customers face-to-face, etc. etc. On one hand you don't want the University to go public with the shackles and anchors they've strapped on Joe. It would kill whatever miniscule recruiting sell-points we have left. On the other hand, staying quiet hangs Joe out to dry. 99% of the general public thinks we're funded just like anyone else. They only see wins and losses. On TV MacGyver can beat the bad guys with paper clips, duct tape and a AAA battery. In real life, that doesn't play out so well. I hope Joe has a good MAC season and sticks around another year or two. He's been dealt the mother of all losing hands and been asked to beat Phil Ivey.

I imagine a lot of Tennessee State fans said things like this over the years. At some point, someone decided to ignore the sad sacks and do something truly different. Why can't we get someone like that "someone" to work for us. What is our most recent marketing genius AD going to do that the last 10 didn't? He might be really bright and energetic, but I've already seen Band Day, etc. If Eddie George is too old and irrelevant for kids to remember and be drawn to, why are so many good transfers from respectable schools drawn to him? The nightlife at Bowling Green?

Amherst is 2 hours west of Boston