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Some players will definitely transfer, but him being a players coach might help him soften the blow. I still expect to see Minn bowling next year. In other news WMU right now...

Shovel the Snow Paddle the Canoe

I feel this Akron team has the ability to be as good, if not better, than any of the Akron teams that I've witnessed. When they're moving the ball around, their offense looks unguardedable unless you have a guy big enough and strong enough to guard Big Dog 1 on 1. In order to reach this potential we need to improve our perimeter defense and need 1, preferably 2, guys to step up to provide us more quality minutes off the bench in the post. Not bad for a team that many deemed the "worst Dambrot team ever" after the YSU game.

I'd laugh, but that would just feel too wrong.

Yeah, part of the problem is that ticket prices are pretty much as low as they can get. If you're not willing to pay $60 for 14-15 home games, you're probably aren't going to pay $45-$50 for just the 9 MAC ones. What I will say is they should expand the 3 game pack they typically offer come February and offer it year round instead. Allow fans to pick any 3 games they want over the course and price it at $30. It would pretty much be buy 2 get 1 free. It might entice Joe Akron, who normally only cares about the Kent game, to pay the extra $15 to get tickets to 2 more games of his choosing.

I never understood this neither. I caught one earlier this year in the bleachers and gave it to a kid that looked disappointed after not getting one.

The real boost we could get from Kent is by playing them early in the season when the weather is still actually nice and we might be able to get the stadium 2/3 the way full. I get traditional rivalry week is the week of Thanksgiving but that doesn't translate well for the MAC as the fans are fickle and the games are played midweek.

90% equates to 13 teams using fudged numbers per season or 26 total teams fudging numbers over a 2 year cycle. I'd say that's a fair estimate. I probably should have clarified in my previous post.

Nobody here was commenting on why "numbers were down from last year" as we all knew the reason why. 90% of FBS use "actual numbers". What I'm tired of is hearing people regurgitate excuses. Failing to recognize the money pit the stadium has turned into will only leave us prone to making similar mistakes in the future. I've literally heard people on this forum say that Akron should spend large $$$ to build a 9k+ seat basketball arena even though only 1 MAC school averaged over 4,500 fans last season (Ohio at 6,010).

I'm just checking in to hear the excuses. We had great weather, we got off to a great start, we were coming off our best season in program history, and had decent expectations heading into this season. At a time when fewer and fewer people are going to live sporting events every year, we just need to accept we will never be able to consistently pack Infocision.

HoF voting in both football and baseball is flawed. Griffey should have been an unanimous selection in baseball, but wasn't because a handful of dudes think nobody should be since Cobb and Ruth weren't 50+ years ago. Not to mention they are holding out the best pitcher and hitter of my childhood (Bonds and Clemens). TO should already be in the HoF, but some 60 year old dudes took offense to him signing signing a football with a sharpie.

Actually I think you are right. That goes from be impressive to exceptional if that's the case.

Big Dog said he expects to have his masters by the time he leaves Akron. Getting a masters in 5 years is impressive for anyone, especially for a student athlete that has huge time commitments.

I agree. We might not be able to play through Hughes, at least not at this stage in his career, but I don't view him as a liability when he is out on the court. He's certainly better than Poke.

+1000 Even if they limited beer sales to just the upstairs kiosks to control distribution while limiting any additional overhead, they could easily net $1,000-$2,000 more per game in profit. Not to mention it might lead to more hot dogs and other things sold as more people would visit the concession stands.

I'd label TO as a shoe in. He's #2 in career receiving yards and 3rd in receiving TDs

I'd say it's the one who labels others as the fool when in reality they are the one that is the true fool. I've stated my case and you stated yours. I'd agree with your opinion, but then we'd both be wrong...

I also heard he talked about JAR renovations. For those of us at the game therefore couldn't watch the feed could you provide some bullet points?

Yes, lets just take my texts out of context and ignore anything that doesn't fit your narrative. You'd make an excellent politician. The below sentence immediately followed what you wrote. I'm defending the committee by defending the teams the committee picked. FPI, BCS Rankings, and pretty much every other objective metric agreed with the 4 teams that got in. Just because you don't agree with the teams they picked doesn't make them biased and incompetent as you seem to believe they are.

The reported attendance was 2,742. I actually feel that was a somewhat accurate figure as the STH reserved seats appeared to be mostly full from where I was sitting in the bleachers.

Your statement is mostly true, but not all G5 programs are rushing to play Bama, Oklahoma, or USC every year. They also let programs like Purdue, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Boston College, or even a middle of the road team like Minnesota buy them.

Pitt beat Penn State. Are you going to say there isn't a large gap between the two? Had Penn State beat either Pitt or Michigan and the losses been equal (between OSU/Penn State) and Penn State had the better record plus the head to head win, Penn State would have easily been ahead of OSU and we wouldn't be having this conversation. It would be the same situation as last year when MSU got in (rightfully so) over OSU.

No different than Wisconsin this year or Oklahoma the year before. We typically take the largest paycheck available, which is offered by the blue bloods. Sometimes you luck into facing a Michigan program when it's down or luck into facing a Penn State after a huge scandal, but more times than not it ends in a 30-40+ point loss. That's why I was glad to see we let ourselves get bought by a team like Illinois.

All 3 of those teams had 1 loss and I'm on record as saying I feel that year is more debate worthy than this year, which I don't feel was even close. That year OSU/Baylor/TCU were all 1 loss teams, OSU still came away with a better win %, which is what you'd need to overcome SOS. This year OSU had 1 fewer loss, a better SOS, and a better win %. I suppose the metric I value would be strength of record. That 13th game can be valuable in a close race and it helped Penn State narrow the gap some, but the selection committee was on record as saying the gap between OSU/PSU was too large to overcome going into that game as OSU had the most impressive resume outside of Bama heading into championship week.

At the end of the day OSU had wins over the 6th, 7th, and 8th ranked teams. 2 of those 3 teams went onto win high profile bowls. Looking for excuses for why they shouldn't have been there after the fact is ridiculous. Given hindsight of what we know now and if the playoffs teams were picked today, it would be USC in the playoffs, not Penn State. A 3 loss P5 team was never going to get selected over a 1 loss P5. My defenses were specifically regarding Ohio State because that's the team you've solely been targeting. Had you attacked Bama or Washington, I'd have defended them too. YOU'RE the one that turned this into an Ohio State hate fest. It seems convenient you have skipped over every point that proves just how wrong you are. You criticize the selection committee for not being objective and liked a post that said they should use the old BCS ratings. According to the old BCS, the top 4 teams got in.