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So the president is an idiot in everything he does, but how dare any of us criticize the "faculty"? Smh

Thanks for posting! He says there have been no talks within the university about dropping the football program to a lower level to save money, as proposed by the head of the University of Akron's Faculty Senate. "I'm not focused on dropping anywhere. I'm focused on staying where we are, and being competitive, and having a good team on the field," Mortimer says. Mortimer says getting more people in InfoCision Stadium - for both athletic and other events - is a focus.

Mort says no changes coming.

Who cares what the faculty senate thinks? Maybe they would like to get demoted to Community College profs. Seriously. They know about us much about the budget, cost and benefits of the football program as Hillary Clinton knows about email servers. Them voicing an opinion on it is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen. What a joke. We haven't even made serious efforts, yet, to rectify the financials and some people are ready to sell the Zips down to 1-AA. This anti-football sentiment (yes, I consider the idea of going to 1-AA anti-football) is one of the most ridiculous things I have seen.

This is what I found most interesting. Ohio, by state law, was like this until the 1960s, and then all hell broke loose. Since the late 80s, the attempt has been to put the toothpaste back into the tube. If a UA-Can't merger could somehow be presented as being part of the solution rather than an another example of the problem, it could really position the merged universities well for the future. Will it make them OSU? No, but it would ensure that they don't end up as Wright State either.