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Why keep throwing more good money after bad? We've seen little to no improvement on the money we've already spent on football (stadium, field house, multiple coach buyouts, etc) The amount of money it will take to compete in football, even at the G5 level, is going to be absurd as that's what 90% of the FBS schools will be chasing. Dollars will go much further in basketball.

Agreed. Too many schools seem to think they have to offer all things to all people and then Title IX adds to the number of sports that must be supported. I'm more of a fan, especially in today's climate, of focusing on the programs in which you're successful rather than throwing good money after bad. I realize that may make it more difficult for your struggling programs to improve but I'd rather be competitive in a few sports than mediocre in a bunch.

Part time starter from Samford.

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Not a knock on basketball one bit, but $ has been thrown at basketball and for the most part status quo has been maintained (I’d argue up about half a notch from KD’s peak). Meanwhile, football has been required to whore themselves out to championship contenders, has no NIL support, had training table taken away, and has boosters volunteering so the players can have a nutritious breakfast once a week…and seems to be on a slow but steady rise. An argument could be made that Moorhead is actually doing more with less at the moment.

If my math is right, and it's never wrong, that's 6 DL in this year's class.

Take it with a grain of salt since he played at the FCS level, but PFF actually graded Thompson higher than any of our D-linemen last year not named Nunnally.

MAC All-Freshman team in 22-23. Versatile 6'4" guard. Hurt early in his sophomore year and missed most of the season. Returned this year and averaged 13 ppg.

Guard for Ohio. One of their best players.

An article was done regarding MAC basketball to see how much players are getting paid and what teams are spending the most NIL. They label Akron and UMass as 1(A) and 1(B) in spending. One MAC coach polled believes Akron is spending $1 million, or more, on this year's roster. They also said that guards are much cheaper to get in the portal compared to bigs due to how they're in short supply. That seems to be true as every MAC board I've viewed I've seen posters complain about big depth, including this one. https://www.toledoblade.com/sports/college/2025/04/09/briggs-wonder-what-mac-basketball-players-are-getting-paid-we-found-out/stories/20250409124

For those interested, I found this elsewhere on the internet. It lists all the incoming and outgoing transfers for the MAC, including player stats. It was probably last updated 2-3 days ago as I see Vanderjagt listed for Toledo, but not Ohio's transfers. I'm sure it will be fully updated soon. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1_KQr_u9-3pHbYajqHmII1vuwYWZJLmw2UImJrAsiIIM/htmlview?pli=1

Frankly ... I'd rather see the money got to NIL over a new arena. Not sure I would have said this even 5 years ago. But Rhodes Arena has not kept Groce from landing some pretty good recruits. Until Rhodes consistently has 5,000 attendance ... even 3,500 consistently, Rhodes is just fine. Rhodes isn't keeping that extra 2,000 fans/students from consistently buying a ticket.

We keep redecorating ours with new championship banners.

Former STVM DT Macyo Williams. Was at Utah St. last year.