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Yeah, actually these are the types of things that weigh into those decisions. Look.. what I don't get is why you want to stink up every thread with your own selfish Bowden rant. His value as a coach has been hashed and rehashed Grow up.

Nice Ridenour article on JL.. http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/university-of-akron-football-after-years-looking-for-his-best-position-jerome-lane-jr-finds-his-niche-at-wide-receiver-1.637931

He really has.

And now that the 2018 National Championship Game is being played down here in the ATL ............... Everyone can crash at my place when Zip Nation shocks the world !!!!!!

have to add my 2cents here.... "which makes it either deliberate or a poor leadership"-- it was both. I started asking about $60 million number on this board last spring because it just didn't make sense. It just felt very Reichstag fire. The painting of the financial position is immediately dire (vs. challenged/unsustainable over the long term) seemed to quickly become about justifying immediate changes to the positioning, name, etc.--- the brand-- rather making a well-reasoned argument for making those strategic changes. As I wrote about a couple months ago after the PD finally poked a hole in the $60 million financial emergency balloon (http://zipsnation.org/forums/topic/34037-explaining-the-deficit/), the real budget gap could be managed with a less than 2% annual trim to the overall budget. The media absolutely has a negative news bias-- if it bleeds it leads as the saying goes-- in large part because that is how we are hard-wired as homo sapiens. We pay much more attention to danger, threat and down-side risk than good news and upside potential. I don't think the ABJ has been on an anti-Scar jihad. In fact, they have written several pro-Scar op-eds, including one that basically repeated/validated the financial emergency storyline. Their job is to push and ask tough questions. I don't think Scar has proved to be adept at handling any of this, and the deliberate misleading of the UA community about the finances is in fact the proof-certain of the poor leadership.

CMU is 4-1 in the MAC, so I don't think they are a "mediocre MAC team." They are 5-4 overall, with losses to OK State, #13 in the nation, (11 points)Syracuse (OT)WMU (2 pts)Michigan State, #6 in the nation, by 20 (7-point game into the 4th quarter).On one hand, "you are what your record says you are." I understand that mindset. But it could also be that CMU is a pretty good football team that the Zips are simply a half a notch below. I hate the mistakes too. I wish we'd play a clean game. Maybe it starts this week? You'd like to think the players and coaches are more tired of losing than we are. November is set up for 4-0.

Central lost to Western. That is the only other time I watched the Chipps play. Their record is 5-4. I'll wager that some time in your life you have referred to a 5-4 team as mediocre. I was expecting more from them than what I saw. I saw an average team via my two eyeballs that the Zips could have beaten with some offensive production. The defense certainly played well enough to win. I don't think I really said anything outrageous in the statement I made that you responded to. I, like you, am trying to balance caring about the Zips with candidly assessing them. The things that drive me crazy about watching the Zips right now are things like lining up offsides, wasting time outs because we don't know what we are doing, 12 men on the field, personal fouls, poor clock management and the like. If these were eliminated, there would be a good chance the Zips win vs. Ohio and Central in spite of the lack of offensive production. The Zips would be 5-3 and I would feel a whole lot more warm and fuzzy

Are you the crazy homeless preacher I see on the way into my building every day?

It's embarrassing just to see UMass listed as the favorite. Even if Home Field is truly the difference.

If Georgetown loses twice to Creighton, even if the NCAA would not have the gall to seed Georgetown ahead of Akron (with Akron having a head to head win on G'Town's home field). That being said, the zips need to put up wins over Bowling Green , West Virginia and an excellent Western Michigan team before we can even consider NCAA seedings. Hopefully, Richie and Danilo Radjen are back on the field for the BG game.

Everybody bet the house on the Zips! I guess that means about half the bettors don't think we'll win another game this year.

Dang it, you caught me. I'm a writer for the ABJ.