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I want to give this a like, but that OOC schedule is a Miami (OH) level of bad.

No Malone this year? I'm definitely not renewing now. Edit: If those are actual then I believe Tulane and whichever Sun Belt school we end up matching with will be the only 2 other OOC home games. Dates I believe are already available for both. I'm just too lazy to dig for them.

Yes, I know I've been holding off buying tickets as I'm eager to wait to see which days we're hosting Bethune-Cookman, Arkansas Pine-Bluff, or Mississippi Valley State /s

In this day and age of the portal tomorrow is never guaranteed. Best player should play regardless of who it is.

Now do MLB...

I can't see that happening. Those midweek games probably drive 80% of the TV deal value.

Just speculation on my part since it's a booster event tied to the basketball program. I have no inside sources.

I don't think the MAC is that proactive. Besides I think if the NCAA was talking about expanding regular season games those sort of conversations would leak long before any conference made a formal announcement regarding modifying their regular season. My guess is the MAC and ESPN are in negotiation for the next TV deal and ESPN wanting additional inventory probably offered the MAC X-number of dollars additional if they expanded to 9 games and MAC ADs decided they were good with it.

Instead of the playoffs continuously expanding I wish they would have just expanded the regular season to 13 games. Under that scenario all conferences could have expanded to 9 games, but also preserved 4 OOC games.

I said a week or so ago my best guess is they will just wait until the golf outing. Considering it's just 1 week away now that is seeming more and more likely.

It was before my time as well. I only listed it as a possibility one could argue because it filled the stadium. I don't really disagree with you.

20 years was the stadium naming rights deal. The initial bonds were 30 years, but I believe we issued new ones when the rates went down. I think we will be paying on Infocision until around 2045. Edit: Speaking of which Akron is going to need to find a new stadium sponsor soon. Between Infocision and Summa, they're paying a combined $750K per year. In 2028 that goes away. The same year we go to 9 conference games. We definitely won't be in a position to play only 1 P5 game without a stadium sponsor.

Not to mention Akron's most successful promotion perhaps ever (ACME Zips maybe only exception) was the OC for a drive promotion. No way Akron is going to do that type of promotion against a UNLV, Marshall, Jacksonville St, etc. Joe only agreed to it against RMU because he saw the financial upside it could bring to the program and knew even if the first drive didn't go anywhere that Akron should be able to win comfortably. That's not the case against other G6 programs.

Even B1G and SEC still schedule FCS schools to pad win totals. MAC teams aren't going to eliminate those games as coaches need those wins to help inflate their records.

I saw this and was about to post. I'm not sure I'm a fan of this. Programs like Akron really need to schedule 2 P5 games a year to keep the lights on. Add on the 1 FCS game and that really doesn't give us an opportunity to play any of the other G6 schools. The only positive I can maybe see, especially if other G6 conferences follow suit, is this could make those game guarantees go up in value since it creates more scarcity.