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Thornton with the most ill-advised 3 I've seen in quite some time... And he makes it by playing pinball inside the rim. Go figure.

Dawson with the steal, drive, layup, AND ONE!

What a drive and finish by Scott. He has had a solid game.

Freeman is playing his ass off.

Kurtis Rourke - OU royalty - has enter the portal as a grad transfer. Wow.

How do you make a 6'7" man disappear? Put him at TE for Akron. Ba dum tst! I'm here all day folks. Try the veal!

The lack of reactions to this post is pretty disappointing. That was a good one - well done. Johnson U is the southern campus of Ball State. St. Thomas was a higher scoring team last year. Pretty solid squad. WMU also blows. When I first read this, I thought it was some sort of Chewbacca/Star Wars reference. That is certainly something.

Gabbert is RETURNING to Oxford

Add Finn to the list.

Corey Thomas (Safety) is in the Portal. Another Arth guy.

Congrats to Sobol. That's an exciting location and opportunity. I'd imagine he's pumped to use the beach to take the workouts up a notch.

Sharp. I like that the court is an exact copy of the court in the JAR. Big program enhancement here.

Nice trend this portal period so far. Guys I've never heard of/who are buried on the depth chart are leaving.

Until our football game student section is more than 1/16th full, my sympathy for the students will remain low.

We don't have Marvin Harrison Jr. to bail him out. I've never seen a top ten team's QB run out of town faster.

Which was made possible by expansion. The thought of playing a Big 12 school, and the 2nd largest school in the country, makes you want to fall asleep? Ok.

I'm not asking you to do anything. I'm simply pointing out that the standard you set - the Sun Belt Conference - was built with expansion. Expansion has put the Sun Belt ahead of the MAC; the next round of media deals will prove that most likely. Hard truth to deal with for those clutching their "history & tradition" pearls.

Western Kentucky is the most obvious one. Part of the problem is, other conferences got ahead of the times and added quality programs like JMU, ODU, etc. The list of "who is worth adding" is much smaller for the MAC because they've been way behind the times.

You use the Sun Belt as the model. They just added 4 schools - Marshall, James Madison, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss. All but Southern Miss are bowling. They added Texas State, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, and App State all in the last 10-11 years. There may be others that I'm missing, too. Point being, they are the exact model for how to make expansion work. I agree with your assessment of their 9 game conference schedule, creating scenarios for more teams to go bowling, etc., but that all started with expansion for the Sun Belt, and the MAC is failing to do that. Western Kentucky would've been bowling for the MAC had we added them. You mentioned Jacksonville State not making the MAC more interesting. Newsflash - they're bowling this year and have been a phenomenal story all year. What happens when Rich Rod leaves? Who knows. But they're a school that is showing they want to be competitive by bringing in Rich Rod in the first place. The MAC is made up of a bunch of schools with P5 schools as their neighbors. They have to find a way to add schools that break that mold and take the MAC to new heights. Adapt or die. The most dangerous words in business are "We've always done it this way." That's MAC's motto under Steinbrecher, except he uses slightly different verbiage. "We pride ourselves on our history and tradition." 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

These are highlights for a reason. They're not going to share any bad film when trying to find a new home. But my frustration continually grows with this staff for sticking with Undercuffler and Tahj. Casual football fans could tell you those two just don't have it. Dijon's mechanics look horrid, but so did Lamar Jackson's at Louisville. Playmakers come in all shapes, sizes, and mechanics. He throws a nice ball. Hope he finds what he's looking for.

Conferences are going division-less, which I like, but largely because they're growing. The MAC is putting lipstick on a pig, polishing a turd, etc. No growth whatsoever.

Ah yes, Kevin Stefanski - I mean Steinbrecher - strikes again. The guy who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room thinks this makes the MAC better. Every G5 conference is adding schools, getting more competitive, etc. The MAC? Our schedules will be pod-based because nothing says we love mediocrity more than making sure Akron plays Buffalo every year, OU plays Balls every year, and the Directional Michigans stay in their worthless hole. I hate this conference and I loathe Steinbrecher.

QB room just got emptier.

Good.

Yup, this is also a method. Phenomenal job by the Mountain West to make their conference's athletics so accessible.