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Bingo. The days of being a competitive G5 team that can "build a fanbase" are gone folks. OSU is king here, and OU and Cincinnati take whatever is leftover. Maybe you could have done it in 2013 by beating Michigan, enduring Akron into the OSU fandom's hearts or something...but that was really the last window. You're not doing it in 2025...how many times are we doing to double-down on the fallacy that Akron can be competitive at Football?

The problem is 10, 15, 20+ years ago we could have competed. Not at the OSU level, but at the upper level of a G5. Back then if we had more than 1 P5 school on our schedule it was because we were hosting a school like an Indiana or Iowa State. Those are the type of schools, if you're aspiring to be an upper echelon G5, you need to schedule and on occasion beat. For the bulk of two decades we experienced extreme ineptitude on multiple levels and failed to capitalize. Fast forward to today and the landscape of college athletics has vastly changed as has Akron's financial situation. We can't compete with the upper half of the G5 financially any longer. Even EMU collective a few years ago reportedly made a $1 million offer for a QB. Meanwhile we can't even afford a training table...

some greek life chapter should buy it. would be a sweet

This article has 7 paragraphs ...praising the performance of Richie Laryea. Click on the link below....to read about unselfish, team oriented Richie. this is the subheadline of the article TFC posted a big road win over the Western Conference leaders, highlighted by Richie Laryea's brilliant performance. https://www.tfcrepublic.ca/july-17-toronto-fc-san-diego-fc/

maybe they can try to win games and build a fanbase - we've tried the money game route for a long time and it appears it might not actually work

That swens has been there for a few years actually as a takeout/doordash one it was not a normal swens.

This is so cool.