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Yesterday OSU announced how it intends to spend its $20.5 M in paying its athletes. $18M will go to four sports: football, men's basketball, women's basketball and women's volleyball. 75% of that will go to football. The remaining 25% will be allocated to the three remaining sports. The $2.5 M left from the total $20.5 M allowed will be used to support 90 new scholarships that will be allocated amongst the remaining 32 varsity sports as needed. OSU expects the money paid to athletes to grow as the NCAA has said the $20.5 M in revenue sharing will grow in succeeding years. What is next? Athletes unionizing? Payment is considered income? Athletes employ professional advisors ala agents? College sports continue on a slow but steady decline in the eyes of the average fan because their favorite school cannot compete or even have the illusion of competing. I see the top 30 schools doing well. The rest will not survive as we know it today.

Where did you find that?

Unsure how much is correlated to the new AD, but have seen a handful of new additions to the Summit Circle announced in the past week-ish.

Add another match against a top team for the Zips this fall. Akron will play at home against West Virginia on August 29. Last season, West Virginia finished 13-2-7, won the Sun Belt tournament , and lost in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament to UVA. They ended at 16 in RPI and 16 in most national polls. Another opportunity for the Zips against a top out of conference opponent. https://wvusports.com/news/2025/6/13/mens-soccer-announces-2025-schedule.aspx

I just wish he was able to participate in this Championship series.

2 more wins and Riq gets a ring

This is so cool.

I think your scenario is accurate. And if it is, Zips simply cannot afford competing at the elite level. Not at the moment anyway. 28 scholarships versus 9.5 scholarships is not fair competition. How many scholarships on Zips’ MSOC 2025, I wonder. Any school not maximizing their number of scholarships is not seriously competing.

I saw a report that said CBB would only review out of bounds if a coach challenged. Team must have a timeout and if successful, they don't lose the TO. I'm glad to see this. CBB games are lasting entirely too long. Let's get the games back to two hours. Now do the same thing with reviews to put a tenth of a second back on the clock.

This post has so many holes in it, if it was a boat it would sink in 30 seconds. Either that or it is one of the all-time troll posts in ZN.o history!

Looks to me like former Zips LB great under Bowden and NFL LB Justin March is now a member of our staff. Good move.

A good marketing team would figure out how to capitalize off of this

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1YMcaE5zmj/

Solid debut!

Jason Shokalook with his first MLS assist. 👏👏 👏

That could be a good thing for us since a lot of gamers like to see how far they can take an underdog team.

EA Sports paying schools based off of how frequently the team gets played in the game. https://www.si.com/college-football/ea-sports-pay-schools-based-game-usage-college-football-26

https://www.chicagofirefc.com/news/lineup-notes-chicago-fire-fc-at-d-c-united-x6606 Available off the bench are goalkeeper Bryan Dowd; defenders Leonardo Barroso, Sam Rogers and Chase Gasper; midfielders Brian Gutiérrez, Sam Williams and Vitaliy Hlyut; and forward Jason Shokalook. https://www.chicagofirefc.com/news/chicago-fire-fc-signs-vitaliy-hlyut-and-jason-shokalook-to-short-term-agreements

Schools paying players is exactly the wrong direction. They should be allowed to have jobs and earn a living outside of the universities. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/06/07/ncaa-revenue-sharing-settlement-questions/83221673007/

I think the schedule is done. Traditionally, Jared has steered the ship. The official announcements vary by school, but Akron generally announces first week of July.

are we running behind on finishing our 2025 schedule because of the AD switch?