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Supposedly this is a troll job. I heard this guy is actually a Michigan fan.

Gerry was a great man. He genuinely cared for everyone he met. I was very fortunate to get to spend some time with him over the years. As others have stated, he could tell some stories and was very funny in doing so. The world could use more Gerry's in it, not less. I feel Gerry never got the respect he deserved from us fans. If you look back, he still has the best single season in '92 going 7-3-1 since going to D1 as well has the best win % for his career here. .426 as D1 and .441 over all

The real issue may of been the 2 horrible coaching hires during the stadiums life. The first one not only being a bad coach but the guy came off as a jerk all time. This stunted the excitement from Joe Akron in only the 3rd season of the stadium.

Just listened to an interview of Lance Leipold. He mentioned that Rob Ianello is the GM and that lead to a bunch of questions about there being a GM in college football. That also means that they talk about ol'Rob Icoach for while. I couldn't stop throwing up at the mention of his name. Since misery loves company, I'm bring it up to all of you to get nauseous over.

The NCAA is looking at adding scholarships across sports, starting next year. Football would go to 105. The supposed pro's for doing this would be that it sets a hard cap on players. As we have heard, some teams have had "walk-ons" that actually getting paid to cover their scholarship cost. This would close that back door. I also imagine that the NCAA will spin this as a win against the amount of players in the transfer portal (3,800+) I'm worried that this hurts the G5 schools two ways. The trickle down of players. There will be 1,360 less boarder line players that will go to the G5 vs the P4. I heard a counter argument to this being kids want to play. The kid 3rd on the depth chart will still transfer to a G5 to get playing time. Maybe, but the P4 has more scholarships too, so who is to say they don't just transfer to another, maybe lower, P4 school. The other part of this is the increase in operating cost for schools. This isn't just a football increase so just the cost having sports is going up. They are saying the projected increase is by 3 to 7 million dollars.

That looked like me in middle school giving my book report after not preparing to give my book report.

Kinda used the wrong stock photo of the stadium. ...

I thought this was interesting

Yeah we have already seen it at Toledo https://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=4146980

That is a good point catdaddyp. In the transfer world we are in, is there really a reason to keep the Juco separate? At this point they are just another transfer correct?

https://406mtsports.com/college/big-sky-conference/montana-state-university/taylor-housewright-montana-state-akron-football/article_efb67342-e0be-11ee-a2ed-4bdc6e5ec7ba.html

This part was interesting to me. The NIL recruiting landscape is casting doubt, too, on the value of a scholarship. Multiple Group of Five coaches tell Yahoo Sports that Power Five programs, having hit their NCAA-mandated 85 scholarship limit, are adding players as “walk-ons” with collectives footing the bill for a scholarship through NIL. The NCAA permits at least 30 walk-ons. One Power Five collective director, in fact, acknowledged this trend, telling Yahoo Sports that they often “layer on top” an extra $50-60,000 to cover a walk-on’s tuition, books and fees. “They’ve got to make up what a scholarship covers. I get it. It’s smart,” Chadwell said. “But the NCAA needs to create a rule requiring players to sit out a year if they are not on full academic scholarship.”

This morning on the radio Jason Candle said Toledo wasn't even signing anybody today. They signed all their high school guys on the "early" signing day.

@MarkWiley That was a good interview. Thanks for sharing.

The MAC has always had some unpredictability but now with transfers, I don't know how to assume who is going to be good. Ohio and Toledo are always among the top but both of them are looking for new QB's after the top 2 QBs in the league transferred out. NIU is good every other year. Their game management is horrible so I think it really depends on the week you play them. Eastern Michigan has had some winning seasons but last year was kind of a fraud as they beat bad teams and lost to good teams. All that said, I do agree with GP1. We have to win 5 games in the MAC this year.