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What if they found a way to do just that with the athletic department?

Another win! I need to start tuning in more

Offensive guru puts up a donut against….Wyoming?

And the taxpayer support should be going to supporting students and the next generation of our economy, not to football programs. As a taxpaying citizen, I want better paid educators ... better resources ... less debt for college students than a BS football program that just drains money.

Ball lives are being recuperated at the women’s game as well. It seems the survival of soccer balls is a point of emphasis for both men and women’s soccer this season. There has to be one student that played HS soccer and aspires to be a TV announcer that’s better that this kid. He is painful to listen to.

Probably just want to do it while the weather is nice so the players' families can enjoy it.

Wyoming (1-0) Week 1: Win 10-0 at Akron (0-1) Week 2: vs Northern Iowa (1-0) Nebraska (1-0) Week 1: Win 20-17 vs Cincinnati (0-1) Week 2: vs Akron (0-1) UAB (1-0) Week 1: Win 52-42 vs Alabama State (0-1) Week 2: at Navy (1-0) Duquesne (0-1) Week 1: Loss 61-9 at Pittsburgh (1-0) Week 2: vs Lincoln (0-1) Toledo (0-1) Week 1: Loss 24-16 at Kentucky (1-0) Week 2: vs Western Kentucky (2-0) Central Michigan (1-0) Week 1: Win 16-14 at San Jose State (0-1) Week 2: at Pittsburgh (1-0) Miami (0-1) Week 1: Loss 17-0 at Wisconsin (1-0) Week 2: at Rutgers (1-0) Ball State (0-1) Week 1: Loss 31-0 at Purdue (1-0) Week 2: at Auburn (1-0) Buffalo (0-1) Week 1: Loss 23-10 at Minnesota (1-0) Week 2: vs St. Francis (0-1) UMASS (0-1) Week 1: Loss 42-10 vs Temple (1-0) Week 2: vs Bryant (0-1) Kent State (1-0) Week 1: Win 21-17 vs Merrimack (0-1) Week 2: at Texas Tech (1-0) Bowling Green (1-0) Week 1: Win 26-7 vs Lafayette (0-1) Week 2: at Cincinnati (0-1)

October 1st

Wil Trapp with the longggg assist …. 👏👏👏

My comments weren't pertaining to MBB or Olympic sports. It was specifically about FBS football. We were never capable of competing with the OSU or Alabama's of the world in football. I have no idea why you're trying to take my words out of context. Of course we could compete in MBB. I never stated otherwise. There is always a Cinderella in the tournament. Roster sizes are much smaller in basketball and basketball is a global game so it's harder for bigger schools to hoard all the talent. Also, 1 or 2 guys having a career night from 3 is a great David vs Goliath equalizer. Football is more challenging because even if you do have some skilled players, you won't have the depth or size in the trenches. As for soccer we won a national championship so that's self explanatory. I've long stated we should focus on basketball and soccer as our dollars would go further there since everyone else is prioritizing football. It's not nearly as much of an uphill battle.

We have Plutocrats. We don't have Oligarchs. Oligarchs arise after Socialism/Communism and privately control what used to be state run businesses. Shame on Bernie Sanders for so often misusing the word.

And I said nothing about socialism or communism. There is no need to trot out these boogeymen models in defense of plutocrat or oligarch. You will never be one and neither will I. The populace's constant defense of plutocrats and oligarchs astounds me.

There are an infinite number of ways to do college football better than NIL for MAC-level programs. I provided one. You suggested another. They all have merit. As for the prior season not impacting the next, this happens due to rankings whether we like it or not, and that's not determined by anything on the field but rather mere opinion. My suggestion at least let's all schools participate in a meaningful post-season and let's next season jockeying be determined by results on the field.

I'm old enough to remember the Soviet Union and the failures of Communism. 130 million people died in the name of Communism in the 20th Century. I addition, I have been to Cuba and have seen the destruction Communism has brought to that beautiful island. Socialism is great for the Socialists, but creates misery for everyone else. Is the perfect Social Man the Communists tell us will run the world going to create this healthier society? In reality, it gives us monsters like Stalin, Lenin and Mao.

That's too complicated and results for one season shouldn't impact the next with the exception of more difficult schedules the following season based upon how good you were the previous. What if they just had eight divisions and every team in a division had to play each other in a 10 game season. Ten games is enough for the Ivy League and less games will help keep costs down. 7 divisional games and 3 non-division games. Establish some tie breakers. The top two teams per division make a playoff of 16 teams. Champion determined and they move on to the next season. 60 scholarships is enough. If the NFL can have games with 48 dressed, college can survive with 60. Players don't get paid. They can get a job if they need money. Players get to transfer once for coach leaving or after they graduate. Only five years total. No injury red shirt years. Contract says if they transfer before graduating, they have to pay back scholarship. If team cuts player, school must fund scholarship until player completes what would be eligibility years or player is free to transfer once.

Let's be serious...we aren't even consistently competing with Toledo and haven't been for more than a decade. We were though one chip shot FG away from defeating Indiana a few years ago though. Granted, that relative situation has changed since. In the Owens era (I believe it was), we lost 28-14 to OSU, and they got a score or two late to pull away. We lost in OT at the NIT to OSU in men's basketball about ten years ago. We have a stellar record against OSU and more success in men's soccer. So yes, we do compete with OSU, BUT that cannot happen when the the difference comes down to being able to pay players or not. Like GP1 says, find a new model for football at the conference level. Otherwise, football will continue to be a major drag on all other sports and the reputation of UA as a whole.

The same argument is made by the right against Amtrak...it doesn't turn a profit. You know what?...neither does our highway system or airports or libraries or schools or fire or police departments. In the early years of this country for profit police and fire departments were tried, and they were an absolute disaster. Basically, when you try to put a price on everything, nothing has value anymore. All of the G6 need to band together and create a competition level between FCS and 1-AA. Suppose there would be about 4 conferences and ~64 total teams. A quarter would play a single elimination championship bracket after the conference season while the others would play out-of-conference games that could help determine how many wild card invites for the tournament a particular conference gets for the following season. Level playing field, every game is meaningful, players get paid a living stipend, but they aren't free agents...I'd watch that!

Actually, it's every day and they never really tried. UofA is a taxpayer supported institution. If it isn't doing those things every day and in every way possible, it needs to start. No better time than the present.

Today’s game is senior night? In August? What’s up with that?

And, with all due respect, that time has sailed. That time to be a "benefit to athletes, students, alumni fans and general communities" was 20-years ago. The market is too oversaturated at this point, and anyone worth their salt will immediately move onto greener BIG-10 pastures like the RooWards people (if you remember RooWards that was a smshing success). But If you want to know what the rational for Thursday night games was, it was $$$$. ESPN handed the MAC money, that the MAC wouldn't otherwise be getting, for that Weeknight slate of games. It was negotiated in 2014 as a 13-year deal that will expire at the end of 2027. It amounted to like $10-million a year for the MAC, which is like $830,000/year per team. I think it's pretty obvious why the MAC made that decision. They aren't getting that in gameday ticket sales, regardless if it's on a Saturday. Like Akron pulled 11,000 in reported attendance, which is more like 6,000 in reality? How much of that is actually paid customers and not free student tickets? Half? It's pretty obvious why the decision was made. They'll make more money to cover the outrageous costs of D-1 Football doing ESPN+ Weeknight games than they ever will doing Saturday afternoon games. I agree with you, it's dumb and destroys culture ... but the best attended game in the past 15-years was a Thursday Night Akron vs. BGSU game in the rain. And that's because they had a tuition giveaway, so the house was packed with students, and the Zips were actually contenders in the MAC that year.

Gerry Faust was a high school legend but that's not my point with this post. Coaches who do well at private high schools where they have a recruiting advantage as a contributing factor to their success build a lot of resentment from coaches in surrounding high schools. Those coaches are critical to recruiting success. If Timmy ever got the job at Akron, there would be so many coaches with a hard on for thim they would happily undermine his recruiting. He would be DOA. Jealousy and pettiness are alive and well within the personalities of high school coaches.

Jalen Kitna is a creep!! Hopefully we light him up. When, not if, we go up by multiple scores - I wouldn't mind a blatantly late hit and/or blindsided from summers or Cooper. Disgusting!!

All of this is true. There are a total of zero. I just don't think that the success of G5 programs should be based upon how we complete against more resourced programs. There is a path forward that involves making athletics benefit the athletes students alumni fans and general communities around the schools. In the case of football it includes, but is not limited to, playing games at times and days of the week that are convenient for people to attend. My understanding is Kent had a respectable crowd yesterday. It's amazing what you can do if you play on a beautiful afternoon day on Saturday. I'd love to know what the rationale was for us playing on a Thursday night so tens of people could watch it on ESPN+. The onslaught of stupidity around the Akron football program is amazing.

I'd add, what Mid-Major team has elevated itself significantly to "compete" with the big boys, and sustained that, over the past 25-years? None. Zero. Nobody. A few teams have had scattered success to be interesting...to get a Top-25 ranking, and then inevitably melt into irrelevance. WMU? TCU? Marshall once? It all exists as a 6-figure stepping stone for an entire industry that frankly wouldn't exist if it weren't heavily subsidized by the debt of students and institutions. And it's time to call BULLSHIT on all the "brand exposure" folks, because how has that been working out for 99% of Colleges and Universities with declining enrollment? Yeah, OF COURSE coach Moorehead can't compete here. NOBODY can. There was a narrow Window maybe the program could have become something, in the 2000s after they built the stadium. That time is no basically 20 years ago, and it was ruined by iCoach and further ruined by firing Terry Bowden for a no-name loser from John Carroll.