Let'sGoZips94

Having JD, Moorhead, and Ferri here has its benefits despite the W/L record not reflecting progress (yet).

Kaulig Companies Field at Leaf Filter Stadium.

Growth spurt alert.

UCONN coach Dan Hurley is expected to receive a record offer from the LA Lakers to be their next coach.

Stevenson's Nati SC just lost to Pat McAfee's CONCAFA SC. This TST is a blast to watch. Great format.

If I'm not mistaken, Bud Wentz mentioned that some sort of renovation is in the works for the JAR. There is legitimate money coming into athletics (baseball just got over $1M from the Skeeles family) and Guthrie stated "we're just getting started".

Incredible. I love the money coming into athletics. Gives me hope.

Come on JoeMo... Let's have some success so the staff stays together and we get Larry's son here!

While we wait for the OOC to be announced, one game we do know is the Sun Belt is at the MAC early in the season. Akron will probably have either App State or James Madison - both of which have new coaches and full roster turnover.

JD is really leaning into his relationship with Larry Fitz. His profile pic is also he and Larry. Love it. Let's get Larry Fitz to visit Akron.

This poll needs entirely redone. Linhart and Darryl Peterson need to be included. Cheese, Ali, and Ivey were technically guards. Chris McKnight and Treadwell were PF.

Ding ding ding. This is an exciting schedule for a competitive team. We saw last season that our defense can keep us in games with both Indiana and Kentucky. If Finley plays well, who's to say we aren't competitive in the games vs Rutgers & SC? Ohio State is what it is - thank you for the pay day.

Does this mean Bubba can come back?

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They had to get their fans' minds off the March failures. Perfect distraction. Several other MAC schools only have 1-3 games announced, and I'm assuming it's the other schools announcing those.

I have normally been against a lot of your views on this stuff, but the recent ruling in favor of direct payment to players for just the P4 schools really pushed me to your side. If I were the commissioner of the MAC, I'd do what GP1 said and publicly call for a meeting with all G5 ADs but I'd go one step further. I'd invite any Power Conference institution that wants to get back to the more traditional roots of collegiate athletics to join. The sales pitch is a league where they'd be towards the top competitively and would be heroes saving traditional college athletics instead of the villains that power conferences have become. Once I have an agreement among AD's, take the idea to YouTube, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, etc. Go get exclusive streaming rights money. In the contract, include revenue sharing for the players that comes from the streaming company, not the schools. Have zero restrictions on NIL potential, but make NIL contractual to promote commitment to the school. Do not allow any scheduling outside of the league. No "FCS" schools, no schools from the now-semi-pro league. Keep it all in house. Operate the schedule like the NFL with set rotations, no pay days, etc. Play all playoff games on campus with a neutral site championship. Do this for every sport.

Not sure where to put this, but the Bussin's with the Boys podcast guys joined Dale Jr. on his podcast. Will Compton gave his recruiting backstory and Dale Jr. asked him who were some people texting him for recruiting. Will said that Rob Ianello really stood out because he always wanted to go to Notre Dame. That right there is exactly why even entertaining the idea of hiring a Notre Dame recruiting coordinator as your next head coach was the dumbest thing this university has ever done. Ianello could've sold 💩 to recruits as long as the Notre Dame name was on it.

This isn't very hard. - Big media market - Respected academics - Top of the MAC basketball program with tradition - Living, breathing football program Overall, UMass makes the MAC more competitive with a large market that can be sold to whichever media company gives the MAC their next TV deal. That's the bottom line. It's beating a dead horse, but the "traditional MAC schools" (mainly directional Michigan's, Balls, NIU, etc.) don't move the needle for people outside of the MAC offices. Those are the pearls the MAC has been clutching and it's nice to see them loosen the grip to accept a more competitive but non-traditional school to the MAC.

Yahoo Sports ranks Freeman as the 39th best prospect in the draft. Wow. Bronny isn't even on the list, so you know it's serious.