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The difference between those Dambrot teams that were 3 point happy compared to this team is those Dambrot teams had proven 3-point shooters. I'm not sure if any of these guys outside of Utomi is an above average 3-point shooter. This team seems to have more athleticism at the guard positions than those Dambrot times. It would be nice to use that to attack the basket.

You do realize that 4.5 million of that 10 million per year is for the football stadium? Disbanding the program therefore would only cut costs by about 5.5 million. Meanwhile, we would lose the ~1.3 million guaranteed revenue from (insert P5 program here) & another ~1 million per year from the MAC tv deal with ESPN. We're down to a net -3.2 million and we haven't even discussed the revenue lost from ticket sales (including premium seating), donations made towards football program, and advertising/royalties. Also, we'd likely get booted from the MAC so we'd have to find another conference for the remainder of our sports. This could lead to potential increase in travel costs for our other sports. Subtracting the football stadium, which is a sunk cost, the football program itself is probably close to breakeven. The real cost savings from cutting the football program is from all the non-revenue women's sports we'd also be able to cut while still maintaining our Title IX compliance.

We deserved to lose. If Mastadons were any good we would have lost by 20. Hopefully we get this dud performance out of our system and we will show up to play on the road during MAC play.

I guess the Zips must have thought the start time of the game was 8:20

I worded it poorly. I'm not advocating for P5 schools to have 80 scholarships and G5 teams to have 90. Both would have 80. It's just the cuts at the top would trickle down the talent that is being hoarded on P5 schools benches. There would be cuts at the bottom of G5 rosters too and those players would go towards FCS squads.

I'll be listening on the radio while getting stuff done around the house.

I even went and looked at UTC record before Arth went there thinking that maybe he just inherited a very poor program. Nope, they were winning 9-10 games each year leading up to his arrival. I'll be very disappointed if he's the guy.

They certainly look like the best MAC squad of the last 15 years. You have to remember PCCC went to the Elite 8 in 02 and Miami was good enough in 99 to both get an at-large bid and make it to the Sweet 16. It's not like the MAC hasn't had some great teams in the past.

No MAC team has ever run the table undefeated in conference play. Buffalo is really good, but so is the MAC as a whole this year. They will likely drop 2-3 games in conference play to someone.

NET rankings can be found on NCAA website https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-men/d1/ncaa-mens-basketball-net-rankings

Updated NET Rankings. For those not aware, this is suppose to be the uniform metric that the selection committee uses this year. 13 - Buffalo 77 - Ball St. 98 - Kent St. 107 - Akron 116 - Toledo 119 - Ohio 155 - Northern Ill. 162 - Miami (OH) 172 - Central Mich. 245 - Western Mich. 249 - Bowling Green 251 - Eastern Mich.

It's a nice rule for the players, no doubt. If the NCAA really wanted to move the needle in parity they could reduce the max number of scholarships from 85 to something like 80. That would instantly take 320 scholarships off of P5 squads and instantly add them to G5 teams. Even a reduction of 2-3 scholarships would help. It would never happen though.

I'm surprised you don't see more players transfer tbh. When you're a junior and still 3rd on the depth chart odds are you won't be seeing the field much outside of maybe special teams.

I was mostly joking. My real reason for not liking him is he already had his shot at a G5 program and I wasn't impressed.

Remember the last time we hired a Notre Dame recruiting coordinator as our head coach? Pass

It's the MAC, pretty much everyone has a small niche following. Their parents and coaches were watching Ohio State, Alabama, Michigan, Florida, Texas, etc. Do you honestly know what Rice, UTEP, and Arkansas State's record was during the 2009-2011 seasons without looking them up? I certainly don't. There is no Ohio State or Michigan of the MAC. Our scholarship is just as good as everyone else in the MAC. It's a matter of bringing in someone who can sell the kids on the school. Regardless of how you feel about the players Ohio produces there is no denying the fact we need to do a better job of recruiting Ohio. In the 2017 recruiting class we only signed 3 players who were rated as among Ohio's top 100 recruits. None of them were ranked higher than 89. Meanwhile, Toeldo, Buffalo, and a host of other MAC teams were taking more highly rated players in our own backyard. Bowden was able to recruit freely in Florida. I'd be shocked if heavy restrictions were placed on the mens basketball, football, and mens soccer programs.

It's the MAC, there are no blue bloods here relegating us to an eternity of mediocrity. Any team is capable of winning as well as they have a quality run program. Today's recruits were in elementary school when RI was running the program. Do you think they even remember those 1-11 teams? It's a very real possibility that Larry Williams would like to eventually go to a bigger program where he'd make more money. Idk if that's the case, but it wouldn't surprise me. Hell even Dambrot left Akron, his alma mater, to get a bigger pay day elsewhere. It's just the nature of being a G5 program. Overall, IMO he's done a mighty fine job. If he keeps performing the way he has it wouldn't surprise me if some larger program tries to lure him away. If our coaches and AD are getting poached that means we're winning. The problem comes when they underperform so much that we have to fire them.

Texas kind of is the mecca of high school football. We can agree to disagree about Arizona.

This is Akron's first true road game and one of only 2 on their OOC schedule. The game should provide some valuable experience before MAC play.

I tried listening to it online, but it keeps cutting out after about 3 seconds. If you could provide a summary of any interesting tid bits, it would be appreciated.

I won't be losing sleep over it...

I've just accepted that I'll see 2-3 articles per year about Infocision for the next 20+ years until it's paid off. At this point, regardless of how you fill about it, it's a sunk cost. Bulldozing it won't suddenly make the payments go away. We need to try to make the best of the situation. No point in beating a dead horse.

Your rational makes absolute 0 sense. So if Florida saw a decline of about 10% in recruiting and slid behind California to become the #3 best state for recruiting they would no longer be a hot bed? Ohio is still a top 5 recruiting state (I posted the numbers to back it up) and NEO is the best region in the state for recruiting. Maybe in 40 more years it won't be, but as of today it is.

At this point I'm not sure what you're trying to even argue??? I've already admitted Ohio lost ground to Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana region. It will likely continue to lose ground to those states. What I've argued is despite that Ohio is still a top 5 state for recruiting and NEO is still by far and away, outside of maybe Cincy, the best region in the MAC footprint to recruit. Please provide me evidence showing that Buffalo, DeKalb, Toledo, Kalamazoo, and Detroit metro areas produce anywhere near the level of D1 talent that NEO produces.

All the states that have narrowed the recruiting gap compared to Ohio are in the south. Ohio by far and away is still the best state in the MAC footprint for recruiting. Michigan, New York, Indiana, and Illinois haven't narrowed the gap any.