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With the coach Akron has, it’s unlikely we will win any games. The weeknight games don’t really make a difference for attendance, nobody wants to watch a sad losing culture. The payout from ESPN is smart. The payout from scheduling games against elite teams is smart. What was dumb was firing Bowden with years left on his contract while he was bringing a competitive culture to our program, and replacing him with the garbage coach that wasn’t proving himself where he was. At this point, we’re lucky to have a team still. We need a new coach and then we can start talking about smart moves. Might as well take all the money we can get right now.

They all lose money except MAYBE 2-4. But the difference in budgets is incredible. TV revenue, ad revenue, ticket sales, radio broadcast fees, memorabilia, hell tOSU probably makes more from signage at the Shoe than a MAC school’s football budget.

great question.... like you, I always want to see the schedule several weeks before they get around to announcing it... A few schools have announced their schedule here is what I have learned so far...about the zips schedule Xavier will be playing an exhibition at Cub Cadet Field on August 15 (I think that is 7 weeks from tomorrow??) https://goxavier.com/news/2021/6/16/mens-soccer-announces-fall-schedule.aspx in a truly epic matchup, the mighty Indiana Hoosiers will be playing a regular season match up against our beloved zips at Cub Cadet field on Friday September 10th. https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2021/6/22/mens-soccer-indiana-mens-soccer-announces-2021-schedule.aspx new conference member Georgia Southern will play at Akron on October 7th https://gseagles.com/news/2021/6/18/mens-soccer-announces-2021-schedule.aspx as of yesterday, I could not find any other MAC schools that had released their schedules speaking of releases,, I would also love to see an announcement about the incoming new players. Hopefully, the zips have some international freshmen...that we are not yet aware of.

Anybody have an idea when the fall schedule will be released? They teased us with a mention of "a lot of home games" and then nothing. August will be here soon!