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Started his career at Milwaukee. Transferred to UTSA where he never played, then played at Florida State last year.

APR be damned. We're still getting quality commits. 😂

Well that changes things a bit. Fire JoeMo.

No. Quite frankly, the punishment itself is even funnier than the rotting of the APR in 2025. Think about it - Marshall made a bowl game last season, the entire roster went into the portal, and the university was fined $100k for having to skip the bowl game due to a lack of bodies. Akron can still compete, have a successful season, maybe win the MAC, and the only punishment is missing out on a meaningless bowl game that could ultimately cost the University financially. With the way the bowls have been in recent years, we'd probably draw a G5 anyways.

The Supreme Court kept the flood gates open after the NCAA went decades with stupid rules that forced the system into its current situation.

You're right, and as @Captain Kangaroo said, it's a job with the goal being to get to a bigger program. Why? Because the NCAA said to hell with athletics and allow college sports to become a wild west free for all with no guardrails on any type of movement or financials. Yeah, I don't think a team that's struggling with the APR standards is majoring in anything significant. The couple of players that are aren't the problem. Give the rest a general business degree and let's move on.

Let's not act like college degrees haven't devalued themselves over the years with what's offered as courses nowadays. Do whatever it takes to keep the football program afloat and out of these types of headlines.

I think the issue is we don't even know what the problem is. Everyone is assuming it's a classroom/GPA issue, but the only specifics mentioned on the NCAA website are retention/transfer/graduation. I'm sure GPA is part of the problem, but do the aforementioned specifics pull us too far down? To @Captain Kangaroo's point, if those specifics have a heavy weight in the equation, what a joke in this era.

Hence why it's a joke this is enforced. This is happening everywhere; other programs simply have the means and wherewithal to make sure the "tutors" are "getting the job done" (wink wink). The NCAA is trying to save face academically and punishing a non-harmful program to their bottom line.

First of all, the APR is a joke. In the Portal/NIL era, academics don't matter. The only reason Akron is being punished is because we don't make the NCAA enough money. Second of all, how embarrassing. Two straight years of penalties. Pure negligence by JoeMo and his staff.

Purdue is projected to be a top 5 team in the country. This helps explain why.

My apologies - was supposed to be posted in the Around the MAC thread.

According to one of the Kent Twitter accounts, this clown is Rico Gillespie's cousin. So the guy who punched a teammate - leading to the teammate quitting the team - was never disciplined and Pinky decided he wants more of that bloodline on his team. If you listen closely, you can hear the whistle of the ref already giving this guy a technical foul.

They may turn out to be great, but on paper it looks like Kent lost their two best players and are throwing 💩 at the wall to see what sticks. A freshman big with severely diminished offers post Iowa decommit, an underperforming high school accolades guard, and a 260 lbs 6'7" "big man" senior with back problems. Yikes.

2-way players aren't playoff eligible.

6'7" 260 lbs. Had a good JR year for UNLV but had a "nagging back injury" that kept him out of all but 2 games last year. If he's healthy, he's Kent's version of Javan Simmons.

I didn't either until I clicked on his profile to see who we "offered" and found this tweet that he liked.

The wording on his tweet is so bizarre. Another account confirmed this is a commitment.

For those watching the Cavs/Pacers game, Enrique is on the right side of the Pacers bench at the end in a gray polo.

If only he were a lefty. 😂

If they teach Tahj how to use the laces, he might improve as a thrower. 😂