kreed5120

That prediction is too vague. It leaves the door open for another MAC team such as; Buffalo, OU, or CMU to beat us.

So I suppose it was the 4th game of the year instead of the 5th or 6th that I initially thought it was. I'd hardly call that distorting the facts. It's still 2 losses so therefore isn't even comparable to a single loss. I post on an Akron board and by all definition am an Akron booster so I think that tells you where my loyalty lies. We get pee poor coverage by our local media. There is no disputing that fact. I feel you are taking the wrong angle on this "competing for fans" issue. We shouldn't be trying to make people choose between Akron and OSU and pushing away anyone that doesn't choose Akron. That isn't a battle we can win. What we should be doing is getting people that are fans of OSU to also become fans of Akron.

I'm not too concerned about Dambrot being able to find enough minutes for both Parrish and Willie. By the time Willie is eligible, Antino/Noah will only have a semester of eligibility left. Eventually Ivey can slide to the 2, softening the blow of us losing 2 starting guards in the same year. From there we would have Parrish/Willie splitting the SF minutes and Willie also playing ~10 minutes per game in the post. We certainly could use the depth and versatility he'd provide us at the 3/4 positions.

Penn State also got slaughtered by UM midseason so its not just like they lost 1 early season game and that was it as was the case the year OSU lost to VT. They could have lost to Pitt or UM. The problem was they lost to both. At the end of the day OSU went through the regular season playing potentially the toughest, or at least 1 of the toughest schedules in NCAAF, and lost 1 game on a blocked fg on the road in a hostile environment. A more credible loss than either of Penn State's losses. Penn State played a less challenging schedule and came away with 2 losses. 1 in which they were boat raced vs. Michigan and another where they lost to a good, but not great Pitt team. Personally I feel the OSU/TCU/Baylor year was a much tighter race as all 3 teams had 1 loss. OSU pretty much had to beat Wisconsin by what they did. Had they won a close game, they wouldn't have gotten in. OSU getting in over Penn State this year was pretty much a no brainer IMO and the slection committee, old bcs rankings, and pretty much every relevant poll/computer ranking agree with those findings. I guess we must all be biased.

You liked a post that said they should use BCS rankings to select playoff teams. OSU would have been the #2 rated team by the BCS metrics. Any objective person would see their resume was better than Penn State. Of course by your many responses on this board you have shown the inability to ever be objective with anything OSU related. You let your hatred and envy cloud your judgement. I'm not the one that brought OSU into this discussion. It was you and Balsy. I just call people out on bullshit as I see it. If you want to constantly post stuff shitting on OSU like I've seen you do for the 2 or so years that I've been an active member here, I'm sure there is a board that would love you that was created by someone 3 hours NW of here. OSU has never been Akron's rival and will never be Akron's rival so IDK why you feel the constant need to bring them up.

You mean that same Michigan team that slaughtered Penn State by 39 points?...

It's not comparable whatsoever. OSU was 12-1 to Baylor/TCU 11-1. Had OSU went 11-2 that year like Penn State did this year, OSU wouldn't have went. Penn State got slaughtered by a team OSU defeated. Pitt beat Penn State so by your logic Pitt is better Penn State. Back to my point OSU this year played a tougher SOS and finished with a better record playing it. Any argument should start and end with that point.

Funny you should mention that. The BCS would have had the same 4 teams making the playoffs... https://www.google.com/amp/www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/college-football/2016/12/6/13853430/bcs-college-football-playoff-2016 http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/rankings/

Your entire rationale pretty much says OOC play doesn't matter. At the end of the day Penn State lost to Pitt in the regular season while OSU beat an even better Oklahoma. Throw rankings aside and OSU still played a significantly better SOS by every metric and finished with a better winning % while playing it. Had Penn State beat Pitt and they were 12-1 to OSU 11-1 I'd agree with you.

Once again I'm no medical expert, but it reportedly happened near the end of the game. From my experiences with bruises they get worse with time. I got what I'm guessing was bruised ribs (never actually went to the hospital) 2-3 years ago playing pickup basketball. I was sore, but I was able to continue playing for another 30 minutes or so u til we all packed up and left. A few hours later and the next day it was a bitch to deal with and I had a giant black and blue circle on my side. Zipsoutsider I'm aware of tendinitis, but didn't actually correlate it is something that he could have actually contracted during the recovery phase of trying to get back on the field. An interesting point of view.

From what some people in the know said on this forum, I was under the impression Woodson's injury was a bone bruise to his shoulder that caused him a discomfort throwing which impacted his accuracy. I'm not going to try to be a medical expert, but that sounds like something that would heal with rest.

The problem with a G5 playoff is what if there is a year where all the right cards fall into place and a G5 is actually in the discussion for a playoff spot? I believe Boise State finished 4th 1 year under the old BCS system and had Houston run the table this year with wins over Oklahoma and Louisville, they would have at the very least been finished #6, ahead of Oklahoma. Personally I'd guess they would have finish 5th, just a tad behind Washington. We might only get a G5 champion to be a serious playoff contender once every decade or so and we might not ever see a G5 make the playoffs, but the possibility, however slim, exists for an AAC team. The MAC, Sun Belt, and C-USA pretty much have no shot ever. This is why you'd never see the AAC jump on board with this. They are trying to distance themselves from the other G5 in hopes that it will provide them more legitimacy in the future. Can't imagine Boise State of the MW would be for this either.

OSU went 3-1 vs. the top 8 and beat I believe beat 5 top 25 teams. No team in college football had more top 10 or top 25 wins. I get there is a lot of hate in this forum against OSU, but honestly OSU resume was far superior to that of Penn State, Oklahoma, or any of the other teams that were left out.

Everything that I remember and everything these article states, is that we had only 1 scholarship available that recruiting cycle and we went with Zeke Marshall. http://waitingfornextyear.com/2012/03/cantons-cj-mccollum-discusses-mac-scholarship-snubs/ http://www.ohio.com/news/top-stories/2103-nba-scouting-combine-glenoak-graduate-c-j-mccollum-hopes-to-be-a-lottery-pick-1.398905

Hindsight is 20/20. Unlike in football where you have 20-25 scholarships a year to give out, in basketball you have maybe 2-3. In the case of McCollum we only had 1 scholarship available and it went to this kid by the name of Zeke Marshall. Every program in the country, Lehigh included, would have taken Zeke over McCollum coming out of high school if they had to choose between the two.

We've beaten big name mediocre P5 teams in the recent past. Can confirm Joe Akron didn't care.

I think Akron was his only FBS offer. I wouldn't read too much into it. Even if Woodson starts next year, he will have 2 years of eligibility left and will be competing with Kato for the starting job the season after.

I say Akron goes 8-1 at home and 14-4 overall and wins the MAC regular season title.

I'm 100% with you K92. No point in paying 2 VP $200k to do the same job 15 minutes apart. Not to mention all the other overhead. They should just split up Akron and Kent's programs and let each school keep what they are best at. Keeping overlapping classes mostly to only electives. As for the football program its challenging to cut the budget when $4M per year is committed to a football stadium that outside of a big time high school football game will never be more than half full. Other states have passed laws, Virginia I know for sure, that limit how much the schools are allowed to subsidize. Ohio should honestly look into it.

I thought that's why we signed the deal to play at Illinois. Fans here of course complained that it wasn't a home and home.

We would have played YSU in September before injuries decimated our team. A team that pounded Marshall and hung with a pretty decent App State. Akron collapsed mid season after the Woodson injury, but that wouldn't have been the Akron team YSU would have faced.

UTEP is definitely a better program than East Shore, but so are about 300 other programs. That doesn't make all 300 of those "name" programs. The average fan doesn't know or care UTEP was a beast of a program 50 years ago. Fun Fact: UTEP is the only D1 NCAA basketball team in the state of Texas to win a national championship.

I agree. They had that 1 magical season in 1966, but have made 1 Sweet 16 appearance since 1970. In the grand scheme of things they are just another fish in a very large pond.

If they aren't doubling Big Dog he needs to take over this game.

Marshall has already squandered their lead. The problem with their run down the court and get a shot up as fast as you can strategy is that it is a quick way of squandering large leads as you are creating more possessions