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The UA Board's logic would be to build a bigger stadium to fix this.

Actually Bobby Bowden is dead. You are missing the concept buddy.

First of all.... I think Tressel and the Bowdens are WAY more well known than Eddie George to today's student athletes (and parents) and WAY more credible as coaches. You can make your individual comparisons all you want. My point was we had THEM ALL here at one time and f'd it up. Collectively it is not even close.

Again, we had the Bowdens, Tressel, Faust, Amato at one point. We "Fd" that up!

By "reeling in" I mean get him to make a significant contribution to the basketball program. Co-funding or helping to promote a proper basketball arena. Possibly King James Arena?

My point about Tressel has to do with 3 THINGS! 1- FUNDRAISING - he would have been an AMAZING fundraiser, even our competition loves him. I will mention LBJ again....I guarantee you Tressel could have reeled him in. You look at some of the Universities that have prospered lately, it is all about fundraising. JMU and High Point are two that come to mind. Those president's have done an amazing job. UA enrollment is 50% of what it used to be. WE HAVE NO IDENTITY except a broke school that is good at soccer. 2- DECISION MAKING - sometimes it is better to stay out of the way. Don't make a bad decision worse. Cut your losses. That is 100% coach Tress. 3- HIRING - bring in homegrown people not people that are looking to use the school as a stepping stone. Most schools in the MAC lose coaches because they are successful and they move to bigger jobs. We actually fire coaches because they are horrible and buy them out. Now we can't afford to feed our players properly. If we had made coach Tress President I bet he would have stayed until he retired. And he wouldn't have retired until he was successful. JoeMo is the best coach we could have hoped for. We have handcuffed him. He is not even playing with a budget or NIL competitive in the MAC. Nick Saban couldn't win here.

I agree 100%. I have given a good bit of money through the years and it has been Thrown away!! Burned!! I am not going to do it anymore. You build a brand new stadium on Campus and fire JD Brookhart for Ianello!!!!? (btw- JD is doing a great job with our WRs) We paid for 2 coaches back in 2018 and then had to buyout Arth's contract for $637K. At one point we had the Bowdens, Jim Tressel, Coach D and Gerry Faust on campus. We have arguably the best athlete on the planet in our backyard (and used to have the coach he loved). How do you f all of that up!!!? Just leave it to the University of Akron board. I promise you if we would have made Tressel President we would not be in this situation. It is fu##ing embarrassing that we suck so bad at football but even worse is if we were good enough to play in a bowl we couldn't because our GPA is so bad.

There was one blatant pass interference call on a deep ball that was guaranteed TD. I believe that was followed by a pick 6. 14 point swing that totally changed the game! BTW - when they showed the replay of the PI, there was a ref 10 feet away looking right at it.

Had a fun weekend. Good to be back. Wins always help!!!

It poses a threat. Its another person you have to account for. We are too easy to stop. We don’t have dominant athletes.

We need a QB that is a running threat

Offensive guru puts up a donut against….Wyoming?

AMEN!

I think that is what you said 7 years ago 😉

I posted this 7 years ago and here we are.......