Let'sGoZips94

I think you answered this with your second point. Groce going down to a 7 man rotation without Lyles and Tavari means this was a must win - not an experimental game - and he stuck with the guys he trusts the most. A redshirt freshman coming off an injury didn't really have a spot in that game last night. I expect to see Prather get ramped up maybe at Northern Kentucky, but definitionally with Miami Hamilton.

This one hurts. He may have been the cause of multiple penalties, but his teammates said he might be the hardest worker on the team. Big big loss. We don't even sniff competitive games the second half of this year without him.

You wanted to hear that gas expulsion just to feel something again, didn't you?

21-18 stat line for Enrique. #25 needs retired.

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.