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Hmmm, certainly not an upgrade for the kid. Maybe we overestimated his talent. Closer to home I guess.

The developers made a point to pay attention to details of every team, or so they say. Surprisingly there are a lot of people on Reddit that are excited to play as MAC teams and seem convinced that the stadiums will all be included. I sure hope so! My favorite part of NCAA 14 playing at InfoCision and being able to see the surrounding campus. Even the buildings along Exchange St, including Taco Bell 😂.

Baker to SIUE https://www.instagram.com/p/C7HaQt4rJwO/?igsh=MXExYnF1eTBzbzR6aA==

Not likely

Maybe they will cut baseball again lol.

Women's BBall coach getting in on the action.

This is going to be UNREAL. Helluva job by EA and their team on exceeding expectations with this trailer.

Sign me up, I'll take Vandy!!!

The more I read about President Nemer the more I like the decision. I like that he's an Akron native and a two-time graduate of The University of Akron. It is true that it is often desirable in academia to seek candidates from outside of your institution - “new blood” (from graduate students to professors to presidents/chancellors), but UA needed a fast transition to its next leader in these difficult times. In this case, the best person for the job was one of our own. He can hit the ground running and continue President Miller's progress. Tough times are ahead for UA and many state universities, but I feel confident as a UA alumnus and father to a current UA student that this was a smart move on the part of the Board of Trustees, a governing body that has not always made particularly good decisions for UA.

I had that thought, but it also shows how his game is expanding.

The NBA is mostly position less today.

The article mentions him playing a hybrid wing. Personally, I feel that takes away from his main strength, rebounding. I see him more as a PF at the next level who can also play the C when a team is wanting to play small and run.

More good news for Enrique - a Yahoo Sports article on 10 players who have helped their draft stock at the combine - https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-draft-combine-10-players-who-helped-their-draft-stock-172423141.html

We have several members with degrees from other schools or have dual fandom. @GP1 gets Wake Forest @Illini Zip gets Illinois @Cykron gets Iowa State I'm sure someone will claim Ohio State Plenty of variety. 😂

The problem with online dynasty is everyone will want to play the Zips lol

Relegation is a bizarre concept that would never fly. I just won't...no use even discussing it. A G5 division would fly. Especially if it's a model that uses NIL for it's original intent - Not to pay players like professionals from donor slush funds, but to allow players to promote a local car dealership, or get money from a jersey sale. To begin, maybe it only consists of 30-40 like-minded teams. But there'll quickly be late-adopters who find they're going broke trying to keep up with the Ohio States and Alabama's of the P5 landscape. They'll join the new G5. It would be interesting to see if any upper-tier FCS programs (NDSU) would join. The Zips Football Program barely has two pennies to rub together. Where's the $25k per MAC wide receiver going to come from? And the Zips aren't the only ones. All P5 and G5 schools are acting like they have ample donors lined up to fund this new era of Professional Free Agent College Football. But I don't believe it.

Erie to Cleveland isn't a bad drive. Obviously not a drive you'd want to make for season tickets, but you could still easily make it to a few games.

Selfishly I wish the Erie Bayhawks still existed. They were the Cavs affiliate before the Charge existed and folded a few years back. After all their NBA teams decided to have their G-League teams closer. I'd love to see Enrique play in my own town.

"G5s can consistently compete with ~75% of the Power Conference teams, but they should go play their own National Championship because they can't compete at all with the top 10% (neither than 75% of Power Conference schools)." Loser mentality. Also, the Promotion/Relegation games would be as good if not better than "their own National Championship."

Imagine how good they would get if they compounded it with the exposure of playing every game on a weeknight, because that's where the networks are going to throw the bad match ups. Over a three year period, a team like Toledo would trade out their high level G5 players for P4 castaways. When the castaways leave, they will struggle to find a team to build a winning culture around. Why can't the G5 schools have their own national championship?

College Football 25 has its full reveal tomorrow. It's the most anticipated sports game in a VERY long time as the last college football game released in 2013. It looks like there will be 1 Ultimate Team player per school. Akron's has to be Jason Taylor - right? Or will it be more college-success-based? If so - Charlie Frye? I'm going to be all over this game, so if anyone is interested in doing a ZipsNation online dynasty, let me know.

They haven't had an easier draft decision since LeBron. Altman needs to not be an idiot.