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Sorry, but I think this is rubbish. *Maybe* those names will matter the first time a hiring manager is hiring someone. After that, they'll quickly learn / understand the institution name on the sheepskin has diddly squat to do with the profitability, productivity, whatever of the division they've hired for. The characteristics of the individual whose name is on the sheepskin drive everything after the first interview. To say nothing that your 2 arguments are conflicting. Are people jumping on the Princeton grad because in 1996 at the Hoosier Dome, Pete Carrill's team ended Jim Harrick's UCLA team's hopes of defending its NCAA title? I can only speak from experience specific to the technical / engineering side of things, but I can promise you I only made what I call the "Case Mistake" one time. Sure, it might be more regional, but I'm certain that managers hiring engineers know the value of UA sheepskin and how much it can add to their organization. Their perception of UA isn't a static thing based on who was in the tournament when they were in college. It's a living evolving perception formed from the pure performance of the members of their organization. N.B.: I write this as someone who never took a class at UA and holds degrees from 2 schools who *are* on all the lists. Those of you carrying a UA degree have no reason to be self conscious about it. I promise you those of us that work with you don't give a squat about it. It's another example of NEOH defeatism. Own it, be proud of it. Go Zips!

We've clearly passed over into "who gives a $h!+" mode.

Can someone help me understand how a D1 athlete with a demanding practice and game schedule is able to get their bachelors in 3 yrs. Especially when the 4 yr grad rate at Akron is 15.6% and the 6 yr grad rate is 46.2%. I'm going to call BS on these degrees unless someone tells me Akron gets not only great athletes but great thinkers also. I'm sure this is not a Akron specific phenomenon.

Will they? Won't they? If the new coach has met with them and gave his incentives to stay and if fthey can't be like Jimond, Aaron, Utomi, Parrish, Eubanks, and Williams and support the new coach 100% then they should go.

LSU isn't too far from Houston

Not happy with the current situation in Akron, and a chance to play in the SEC for your last year? That would be a hard one to pass up, I would think.

Hard to tell much besides they seem to be enjoying themselves. Nice TD run by Chapman at the end. Some face time fro Clayton Eucker at QB it looked like.

I never thought I'd be so eager to see the football season come. BBall has left such a sour taste in all of our mouths that I want to turn my attention to football and let coach Groce begin building a better progrum. I have no doubt he will do it, but next year may be tough for us to take. After that I think he will have the progrum rocking.

Sam

Per US News and World Report rankings, LSU is rated the 135th National University. Akron is "rank not published." I have no idea what the hell that means. We went 16 hours without a post and now we're on this. Obviously a slow day. LOL. LOI day tomorrow and we're....here.

But if you are a 20 win team, as opposed to a 15 win team, you probably have demonstrated some level of superiority over the rest of the league, which increases the likelihood of winning the tournament title. And you'll be seeded higher, which also increases your chance of winning the tournament title as well. I feel like some people here have regressed back into this thought that if we win just one game each year, the rest of the games don't matter. Yet, winning games throughout the course of the season is what helps you get those opportunities to win tournament titles.

Just like anything else in life, I think people will suddenly see the value in winning a lot of basketball games every year, when we are no longer winning a lot of basketball games every year. Right now, some people seem content with the idea that the winning isn't necessary to get MAC titles and NCAA bids. But unless we're going to pull rabbits out of hats here, winning games is a necessary part of the process of getting to the other two.