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Are you or the yard Nome going to explain this one?I thought gnome retired. I think the kid is confused. Part of the Temple deal with the MAC was, we let them play football in our conference and in turn, they had to play every MAC team at least once in basketball.

I thought Dambrot ran a motion offense.It's that or a 3-3-drive (as in, shooting the 3 is the first two choices, the last one is to drive the lane).

I think that is what the answer is though.All of the above. Don't worry about trading anything from one for something of the other, as a fan, you should want it all. Just because soccer is your #3 doesn't mean that their accomplishments are ho-hum. You need success everywhere. Heck if Ianello is smart, he's already talked to Porter and has planned him as a guest speaker for the football team. Lecture subject "striving for perfection and dominance everywhere".It's up to the University and athletes to make that happen.

I agree.I want all of it.Soccer National ChampionshipSweet 16 Basketball TeamMAC and Bowl Champion Football team (Pizza, GMAC, or whatever we can get)National Champion track athletesNational Champion rifleWomens BB beating BGSUI don't see why we can't have it all.

Looking at the errors pointed out in the comments beneath the column, it is obvious the guy either doesn't know what he's talking about, or simply whipped up something to meet a deadline. He may end up being correct...but it isn't due to his research and attention-to-detail...it would just be dumb luck. I will give Ianello the benefit of the doubt. He deserves it.I wasn't valuing his opinion so much as saying, our coaching hire is mentioned with USC, Tennessee, & Texas Tech. I think the mark of being great at something is knowing your own weaknesses. Ianello knows he lacks on field experience, so he went after an OC with a lot of experience, and Assistant Head Coach with a lot of experience. He went young with the DC but made sure he had some experience around Mallory to help with position specifics. He also did well in finding a spot for Okruch on the staff. I will be interested to see how the players progress into the new system come April.

The average number of incoming freshmen is in the mid 20's (23-26)19 seniors, Ianello doesn't have to honor any "preferred status" people, and there has been or probably will be some transfers.

Bleacher Report

I don't think it's appropriate or family friendly for Dead Horse to come on here and beat himself.

That photo could also have the tag line...Can't State...Diversity...yeah we let some "them" in.

LOL

69-49 final.Can't really complain on this one.Marshall 13 points 3 blocksC. McKnight 18 points

Where's Miami?Oxford I believe.

Well hopefully the coaching talent can win over some players.

Yeah we are definitely the U of soccer. Miami constantly got questioned on ethics, academics, and character of their student athletes by the "haves" that they kept beating. I used to detest the Canes, but I watched the ESPN 30 on 30 special about them and I can't help but see the similarities.Every time anyone or anything rises up, the people that are already on top of the heap try to find ways to pull the rug out from under them. The truth is the University of Akron values success, an academic scholarship is awarded to top students and not based on admission standards. They give the soccer program as much flexibility as possible, but they award that same flexibility to the other programs at the school. To the ACC whiners I say "we caught you, almost beat you with 80% underclassmen, and are going to beat you from now on"

SneadYou are going to see a lot of these "border line" guys come out this year because of the NFL not having a new Collective Bargaining Agreement in place and a fear amongst college players that the big money for top picks is going to be a thing of the past. (Likely will be since the NFLPA is behind it, why should JaMarcus Russell make more than half the QB's in the league and he rides the pine).

I disagree. Judging every situation differently is likely to be inequitable. If one situation is identical to another situation, I believe they both should be judged the same.And English Common Law would agree with you.

If the PAC-10 wants to extend an offer, the Boise State would surely accept. But the PAC-10 has no interest in doing so. No BCS conference will invite them. So they schedule the best they can. Boise absolutely crushed Oregon. Oregon was an excellent team in 2009.Boise State has proven they can play with anyone in the country.They have proven they can play with anyone once a year. How about anyone for 8 consecutive weeks?As of right now, the PAC-10 has no incentive extend an offer. If the Big-10 goes to 12, then you will see the PAC-10 go to 12 and we will see if Boise "surely accepts". Also you assume that Boise State meets the minimum athletic requirements to be in the PAC-10 anyway. (The PAC-10 does allow Boise State to participate in Wrestling)

Alabama plays in the toughest conference in college football. They go undefeated beating many ranked opponents along the way. They smoke the number 1 team in the country in their conference championship game. They beat the number 2 team in the country by double digits and you think Boise State is #1? I really don't get it?Same argument I had with my brother two weeks ago. Then he advocated playoffs. I told him "The only reason anyone talks playoffs is because Utah, Boise State, TCU, and occasionally BYU get a win here or there over a big school. The only reason those teams even are that good and are succeeding is because of the BCS. If not, they would play in their Humanitarian Bowl and no one would know who they were. Now everyone cries for a playoff? Well I will tell Boise State and the rest of them, Join the PAC 10, go undefeated and chances are you will get to play Florida, Alabama, Texas, or OSU for a title."I want Akron to be like those schools, don't get me wrong, having a school that is a BCS Buster would be great. But the only way to get a title shot, is to beat other teams that have a title shot. A playoff system would benefit only the mega rich schools (which most everyone who watches March Madness will recognize).

I'm going to say neither. Players have become prima dona babies that cry because their shoes weren't cleaned before practice.The Leach case was a matter of a jerk kid, cleared to practice, continuing to be a baby and being sent to the air conditioned equipment room with a grad assistant to look after him. James did not like the players making fun of him and the coaches singling him out for half-assing everything so he got even.I haven't read much on the Leavitt situation. The Kansas coach, was a simple "you f'd up, you do bear crawls" and no one believed the kid when he said the ground was too hot. (It was a mistake to keep him doing it yes, but punishment is justified).Same thing as all those cry babies on the Browns. "We had to take a chartered bus to Hartford, Connecticut" boo-hoo. Bottom line is too many people think they are owed something and should be treated special and then don't expect any accountability for them being lazy.

Or maybe he made the mistake of saying exactly what he is planning to do.....It makes absolutely no sense for a non-qualifier attend Akron, then transfer. No one does that in Division 1 college football. Anywhere.I agree. It makes no sense, but who says a high school kid with a sub-par intellect has to make sense? I have a feeling the Zips should take a pass on this kid. Something doesn't seem right.Duh, do ya think?After his NFL football career, he wants to be either a brain surgeon or a fry cook.I hope the kid doesn't give up on his dreams. Canton could use another quality fry cook.

You predicted 10-2 for the football team, right? I've got $10 says the MAC East champ finishes the league season with 10 wins max.And we all predicted that your annoying butt would be back too, so who pays all of us. I only take cash.

Great One,I always expect an interesting read, and often am not disappointed by your analyses of collegiate sports -- American football in particular. But I always end up asking myself: ("Self...") why does GP-1 continuously refer to the Mid American Conference, and those leagues near it in ability, as essentially second, or third-rate crap -- and yet he continues to watch and extemporaneously opine on the continuing crappiness of these less-than-mediocre schools and teams? I wonder if the Great GP-1 has some sort of self-hatred complex that requires him watch that which is truly excruciating for him to observe. Concur?Somewhat. Loyalty also makes people act irrationally.Reality is difficult to hide from. Even the players playing at MAC schools know it is a second rate league if not third rate. That doesn't make them stupid, it actually makes them obervant and smart. Nobody says it publically, but deep down inside they know it and talk about it to themselves. Players can't walk into a home game at The Big Phone Booth and see 15,000 and not connect the dots that there is a difference between that and what they see at BCS level schools. I read this week that Texas has a $90 million budget for athletics and we have something like $14.....the dots don't connect. Even if you read the posts on this board, most posters know deep down inside that the league is below the ability of other leagues. Heck, I think Captain Kangaroo sees the league the same way I do, but he expresses his displeasure and disgust differently.I also don't think there is anything wrong with making fun of the league. The league does some pretty stupid things and if you don't laugh at it, you will cry. For crying out loud, it has been around since the 1940s and it still stinks, which is both sad and funny. Things are what they are. Who is more insane, the person calling a cat a dog or the person calling a cat a cat then laughs at the cat dressed up as a dog? You can dress the cat up as a dog, but it is still a funny looking cat. You can dress the MAC up as a D-IA league and call it a D-IA league, but once you look closely at it, it is a I-AA league. I think the league (and a lot of other leagues and schools) would be better off if they went I-AA. The structure of the NCAA is such that the rewards for BCS level teams are too great for the lesser conferences to overcome. The BCS is also starting to make it so many of the same teams show up in the BCS yearly which needs to change as well. The NCAA really needs to move to another level of college football and treat it as a professional league....it's that anyhow...the cat is the cat.There is an old saying that if you took all of the money in the US and distributed it equally, within five years the rich would become righ again, the middle would remain about the same and the poor would be poor. The rich know how to get rich. If you split the BCS money among all schools, the BCS schools would still remain at the top because they know what it takes to get there and they have the support to get there. What good would it do to distribute the money if the non-BCS schools would just pour it into their operating budget since most operate at a loss? They have lesser ability to improve their programs. The bigger schools are evolving at a faster rate than the smaller schools because they know how to. 100,000 seat stadiums didn't just pop up all fo the sudden. It took decades of hard work and investment for those schools to get to that point. Why punish the bigger schools for their success. Let them evolve into something separate from the pack and have their own league. The evolution might be good for everyone.The key you fail to realize is that their success (Big schools all 16 of them) have been on the backs of the other 104 Division 1-A schools. Their success comes from kicking the crap out of the other 104 schools.I'm sure you will ask "Who are these 16 schools? Their are more than that in the BCS conferences". Yes every BCS school has a bigger budget then a MAC, SBC, MWC, or WAC school. But bottom line is that only 16 of the those BCS schools ever have a shot (Florida, Alabama, Miami, FSU, OSU, Penn State, Nebraska, Oregon, Texas, USC, Michigan, Wisconsin, LSU, Tennessee, Georgia, and Oklahoma). Other school have great records (10 win seasons) but never stand any chance of National Championship. And the bottom line is that if not for the other 104 schools, the 16 schools wouldn't get 10 win seasons and be able to sell 100,000 seat stadiums. Ohio State and Michigan got big by beating up on Toledo, Ohio Northern, Akron, Northern Michigan. The success of FBS is because of the other 104 schools not the top 16.But then you also say that low budget schools have no chance, yet BYU, TCU, Utah, and Boise State have made a name for themselves starting off with what? Incredibly small budgets. But to say that the MAC is a 1-AA conference is to say that Michigan is a 1-AA school. Michigan has one of the largest budgets and biggest backings in the country and they have lost to Appalachian State, Toledo (a very bad Toledo by the way) in back to back seasons. I appreciate your incredibly low self esteem. Which is why you have such a self defecating look on where you come from, and such a huge over compensation for your meakness, but you need to start working on comprehension of perspectives other than your own.

For whatever reason, some people don't want to see it that way.One of these situations has some benefits to us.The other one does absolutely nothing for us.Yep losing has no benefits, you are so right.

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The MAC's top program needed double OT to beat Troy. Kangaroo -- I see that you totally ignore Lefeaver's numbers. You've been badmouthing him all year -- how about admitting that the kid had a nice game when it counted?1 TD. Choked 5 times inside the 30 that meant 4/5 field goals. A crucial interception that put them behind big.Antonio Brown is the person that won the game.