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You have to be kidding? First of all, how many Big 10 regular season weeknight games have you seen? I think Indiana has played a non-conference game on a weeknight. SEC..a couple per year, probably mostly involving the lowest team= Vanderbilt.If you are a GOOD team in the MAC or Sun Belt, you get the "luxury" of playing a couple of Tuesday and Wednesday night games in the cold of November. ESPN screws the smaller conferences into these horrible time slots.I have said it for years, and I will keep saying it= keep it SOMEWHAT FAIR...MAC needs to step in and say, "no school will play more than 2 weeknight games...1 home and 1 away". If we can count on at least 5 Saturday home games, I can live with it.I am just one fan that, if we start getting to too many weeknight games= bye bye season tix! Not much sense in having a family of 4 driving 1 hour on a Tuesday night to sit in the cold.I understand the "convenience" of Saturday games. But you act like it's so out of the question to do 1-2 weekday games. Hell we had a Friday game (yes afternoon stinks but that is on the University because the game wasn't even televised). Half of the money we get is because of the ESPN contract. Basically it comes down to this. If we were 12-0 last year, there would be barely any complaints about November weekday games and no complaints about "cold" or travel time.

Two quick questions?Why the animosity toward other sports? That is just silliness.Are you a supporter through tuition only? I know several people on here who have given hundreds and thousands of dollars to the University in the form of charitable (not required like tuition or season tickets) contributions. I only ask this because it's kind of insulting to donors to say you are a "supporter of the University" when all you do is pay tuition.

ESPN Family Networks and FSN Ohio will set the "better" teams in primetime saturday spot and make the "terrible" teams take the "leftover" slots which include weeknights...they can't pass up a weeknight game getting aired when that will bring in extra CASH to the university.I understand what you are saying and if that is the case we are doomed. If ESPN is calling the shots for college football, third tier conferences like the MAC are finished. They are only interested in BCS teams.ESPN calls the shots for all football. I've watched every conference in the country play week night games what makes the MAC so special to say no?

Bottom line, you have to appeal to every possible recruit and fan. That means quality home games (Big East, Big 10 opponents) winning (which seems to be the real problem), and television exposure. We set up a 1-1 with Memphis we are lucky to get on TV for either of those, which means no exposure what so ever. We Play OSU it's aired to millions, we play Syracuse, aired to millions, SEC, again it's on TV. You ahve to look at the whole picture, we get 600-700 thousand for play a Big 10 team at their house, but we get on the Big 10 network which is exposure.Which brings up another point. Why do so many of you think the MAC is so special that it get's to be the one conference that says "We will only play on Saturday". ESPN forces every conference to play week day games (Big 12, PAC 10, Big 10, SEC all play week night games.) It's how the thing works out, you want to be on TV (and yes you want to be on TV) you bend to what TV asks you to do.

The simple answer? We already have the Stiles Athletic Field house (about $14 million?) that also allows track, football, golf, baseball, & Softball to all practice in, and has room for spectators. And not to mention it is a dedicated practice facility and not a game day facility like Krenzler.

Me too .. perhaps you can still use the "endzone grass hill gnome" sometime though.Ok Rowdies out there, that is what I want to see next year, a group of blue and gold pointy hat wearing "endzone lawn gnomes".

A politically correct way of saying non-BCS.Did the yard gnome tell you that?It means that the individual did not initially meet the NCAA standard for eligibility.NCAA eligibility rulesAre you unaware of ESPN's blog on the "non-AQ" conferences? Graham Watson reports on the non-BCS conferences and she, along with the rest of ESPN, calls them the "non-AQ conferences" because the term non-BCS makes the BCS look exclusive (which it is).No I had never read that. My bad, and I apologize to you and the rest of the board. Mostly though I am mad that I wasted my "yard gnome" comment.

A politically correct way of saying non-BCS.Did the yard gnome tell you that?It means that the individual did not initially meet the NCAA standard for eligibility.NCAA eligibility rules

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Since your a Columbus State fan, is it possible that you just don't like ND and since your second tier team is hiring all their former coaches it just irritates you? I would also point out that a lot of assistant coaches can get "set up" to fail. Example: Akron's DC. JD's first week on the job he announced on Zips Live, "I'm going to run a defense in the MAC like they have never seen" Whatever DC we got at Akron was destine to fail. This DC could go somewhere else and succeed. I'm not sure how somebody can speak bad about coaches that are hired until we actually see them coach a few MAC games. How can you evaluate someone that has not actually preformed in the environment that they were hired in? I wish Rasor could do a closing interview with JD. I wish he could ask, do you think you were stubborn when it come to your defensive scheme, do you wish you changed your scheme at any point and time here at Akron? Do you think having more than one offensive coordinator imputing plays confused your offense? How would have you have handled the CJ situation any different going back a year or two? Is head coaching different than you had envisioned? If you got to hire any two coordinators that work in college football, who would they be? It's too bad I'm not Oprah, I would offer JD a million to sit on my couch for an interview.Maybe ND is just a stepping stone for Akron like this poster suggests? Do you think that your hatred for the 3-3-5 makes you bias and that don't recognize that Florida won national championships using a similar scheme? Or that West Virginia was the pinnacle of the Big East using it? And that it's quite possible that it was the lack of aggressive play calling (hardly any blitzes) that caused the defense to have issues? And remember before you comment...This is a thread about the new coaching staff.

http://footballcoachscoop.com/Scoop.htmlNot surprising. We're seemingly becoming Notre Dame minus Weis as far as our coaching staff goes. But I think I like this hire. Aside from football, every sport at ND is in the Big East. We now have a Big East level S&C coach.I'll bet $10 he was the S&C coach for football only @ UND.MendozaSounds like he was the "it" guy, meaning full out S&C for everything, but his primary focus was football.Decent pedigree, Chatanooga to Clemson to Ole Miss (top guy) to Notre Dame (top guy).

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Nobody here said anything to the mod's about you. Your witless inane, often racist comments draw the attention of the mods all by themselves.Your "interesting and original" is every other person on this board's "old and tired". The only reason I even comment back, because it's hilarious to see what order your stupidity will flow out this time.Will it be "Akron should know it's place, the MAC sucks, your dumb, obilgatory racist comment, stupidity" Or will it be "obligatory racist comment, stupidity, MAC sucks, Akron should know it's place". Your comments are a lot like I figure a waste water treatment plant manager's work day is like. Crap flowing all the time occasionally broken up by a condom or tampon, followed by some pissing and moaning.

So, you're saying the CF attitude is spouse-enhanced? I don't know about enhanced, but reinforced is a better word. Her opinions of the MAC are similar to mine. She went to Miami for her undergrad and UofA for MBA so she has seen the MAC from two different views. She has always worked and has held very good job so she looks at things from a pure business standpoint. I own my own business, but she is a better business person than I am. I'd never tell her, but she is much smarter.When I first started to have doubts about Frye, I didn't say a word to anyone. Shortly after that, my wife would make comments like, "If this guy is so good, how come he hasn't won many games in the MAC?" or "This league is terrible. He should have more wins against it." or "Any QB that is worth anything in the MAC wins a championship regardless of what is around him."If anyone remembers, my wife is the one who said after the UofA vs. Miami weeknight game a couple years ago that ended in a final score of something like 3-0, "Being commissioner of the MAC would be like being VP of Marketing for Dollar General. You could convince someone to come to your store once, but once they saw the crap you were selling they wouldn't come back." It's the perfect analogy for how hard the MAC is to sell and why people don't go to MAC games. It doesn't take a football expert to see the MAC is selling crap. I wish I was smart enough to come up with the Dollar General comment.I wish you were smart too.And it sure is hard for Dollar General to keep customers. We'll see where people shop once the economy turns around Einstein. Junk stores always do well when the economy isn't. People hold their noses when they walk through the doors of Dollar General like the do when they walk through the doors of a MAC stadium.You wish your posts were as interesting and as smart as mine. Stay in the back of the bus where you belong. Better yet, cry to the moderators for another sign....sign bitch. Now go back to high school debate club.Did I strike a nerve?Poor, poor GP1.

It's vastly improved. I had a summer class in what would be one of the closest rooms to the tracks and you noticed it, but it was not distracting. Plus I think the plan calls for the building to sit at the current Wolf Ledges level, meaning there shouldn't be much sub-structure to pick up vibrations from the train.

So, you're saying the CF attitude is spouse-enhanced? I don't know about enhanced, but reinforced is a better word. Her opinions of the MAC are similar to mine. She went to Miami for her undergrad and UofA for MBA so she has seen the MAC from two different views. She has always worked and has held very good job so she looks at things from a pure business standpoint. I own my own business, but she is a better business person than I am. I'd never tell her, but she is much smarter.When I first started to have doubts about Frye, I didn't say a word to anyone. Shortly after that, my wife would make comments like, "If this guy is so good, how come he hasn't won many games in the MAC?" or "This league is terrible. He should have more wins against it." or "Any QB that is worth anything in the MAC wins a championship regardless of what is around him."If anyone remembers, my wife is the one who said after the UofA vs. Miami weeknight game a couple years ago that ended in a final score of something like 3-0, "Being commissioner of the MAC would be like being VP of Marketing for Dollar General. You could convince someone to come to your store once, but once they saw the crap you were selling they wouldn't come back." It's the perfect analogy for how hard the MAC is to sell and why people don't go to MAC games. It doesn't take a football expert to see the MAC is selling crap. I wish I was smart enough to come up with the Dollar General comment.I wish you were smart too.And it sure is hard for Dollar General to keep customers.

Well according the ABA (the group that accredits the program) the "old one" is awful. So it's a "must do" project.On a side note, and I know we've all mentioned it before, why does everyone in Akron hate the University so much?

Every FBS conference is affiliated with the BCS. The MAC, WAC, MWC, CUSA, and SBC are all signed on the contract.That means that the MWC, WAC, and Sun Belt would also have to expand or be absorbed into another conference.Two things, first they are signed onto the contract (because of the "ranked 12th" qualifier rule), but they are not Bowl Championship Series affiliates(the BCS consists of the SEC, Big East, Big 10, Big 12, ACC, PAC-10 and Notre Dame). Secondly for there to be 10 or 11 conferences of 12 teams is not that out of the question when there are currently 120 FBS schools. Is it so hard to see an expansion to 132 or contraction to a solid 120? There are currently teams that should be FCS anyway, and FCS schools chomping to fill those shoes.

That is the "logical" Big 12 replacement, but you have to figure that the SEC and Big 12 would be willing to consider TCU as a possibility.If that happens, then the merry-go-round ends right there.The merry-go-round ends for us, but it gets really interesting in the west. If the Big XII takes any of the MWC teams, it creates a monster of a problem. The MWC is left with 8 teams, which is a problem for scheduling. So they add Boise State, and then the WAC has the same problem. No western schools have plans to move up. You could see the MWC take more teams from the WAC to get a championship game and kill off the WAC (their main competition) entirely. Nevada, Fresno State, and New Mexico State are the biggest candidates, plus one more. LA Tech would be forced into joining the Sun Belt, even though they are adamantly against it, if they want to survive.LOL, 8 teams is the NCAA minimum requirement for a conference, the MWC would be fine (and have no incentive to do anything) with it I doubt they would try and get another team (the Big East has done it for 5 years now with no major problems). Additionally how would it be advantagious to Boise State to play in a conference with Utah? If TCU replaces a team in the Big 12 or SEC because of Big 10 expansion, nothing really happens after that.Now, I will say this. The BCS (no it's not going away) has been rumored to be heavily considering requiring all affiliate conferences to have a conference championship game. That means current members Big 10, PAC-10, and Big East will need 12 teams (NCAA requirement to have a championship game).

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That is the "logical" Big 12 replacement, but you have to figure that the SEC and Big 12 would be willing to consider TCU as a possibility.If that happens, then the merry-go-round ends right there.

I hope you are wrong about Missouri. Missouri sided with the south in the Civil War and their troops engaged in some of the most despicable acts of violence in the history of warfare. They were an uncivilized, backward people then and they still are today as their ancestors remain in the genes of modern day Missourians. A northern conference should turn their backs on such a lowly people and say NO to Missouri.I say good day!Michigan was ok with letting OSU be in the conference and this was after the redneck western Ohioans murdered countless Michiganders in the Battle of Toledo. Those same redneck western and southern Ohioans still have that same ignorant blood coursing through their veins.*Ok so no one actually died because they never found each other, but Ohioans were hell bent on destroying Michigan, which is why years later they started to buy more and more Japanese cars until Detroit finally fell.

I'm not for, or opposed to hiring ND staff. For one, you go with what you know, EVERY coach does it. Coach Ianello knows what kind of coach he has in John Latina. He was a successful play caller at Ole Miss, so why couldn't he be at Akron? Plus he's from Western PA. Both Camp and Latina were assistant coaches on their previous staff. Just because you don't succeed at one place, doesn't mean you can't succeed at another. It's up to coach Ianello to find the right "mix" and put people at the right positions to be successful. I'm am most interested who is going to be our DC. I'm DYING to know. I don't have time right now, but somebody should research defensive guys that were associated with coach Ianello and put a list together.Here is the other point......Coach Weis was in charge at Notre Dame, not these guys. The people Ianello is bringing in have years of proven success at the HIGHEST level (SEC, PAC 10, Big 10, etc...). These guys arent automatically a bad hire because of the lack of success at Notre Dame under Charlie Weis. I mean...Urban Meyer was an assistant under Bob Davie at Notre Dame. Davie failed and Urban Meyer is one of the 3 hottest commodities in college football.Please, don't be reasonable and use facts.... I totally agree and would add that people need to stop with the "ND didn't do well" thing. If being from a school that didn't do well was an automatic DQ then Meyer, Saban, and Pinkel all wouldn't have jobs. I would be interested to see who ends up as DC though.

Sorry, the more I read, the more it looks like Mizzou.Kansas City and St. Louis are nice size media markets, Mizzou has been unhappy with the bowl selection in the Big 12 and the distribution of money. Mizzou is also the most academically significant of the schools mentioned (Outside of Rutgers). And again Big 10 tends to stick with the larger state/flagship institutions.