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Williams looks really good. That fumble hurts bad.

Anyone else still cringe when they hear "national search"?

terrible first defensive trip out...not bad besides that. good first drive, and a nice 3 and out there. great field position.

The search committee should consist of: Caleb Porter. If it does, I'll be 100% comfortable with who ends up in his shoes.

support your alma mater and buy some

luckily for us and them, this isn't last year.

I think they owe us a return trip for the BracketBuster game 2 years ago.

GoZips is back?

Yet you write a paragraph comparing them. The CWS is drawing 23,000+ per night. On ESPN/ESPN2 prime time each night. One could make an argument Can't's super regional win got more coverage (which is what this argument is all about) than Akron's soccer championship.

Thanks! If there's one thing I learned about Akron when I was there - it's that a lot of people get in, but only the best get out. It provides an opportunity for a lot of people to get higher education, but I'd put my classmates up against most anyone that just graduated. It's a top engineering school, top 100 business school (out of 1000+ even though it's easy and generic) and a whole heck of a lot else going on and improving. Can't can sit by and hope their reputation from the 70's van get them by, but I'm proud of my alma mater.

I'm devastated. FYI my generic/easy business degree from our crummy university just got me an 87 on the first part of the CPA exam. If only I could've went to Can't.

Smaller industries = less grads getting jobs, right? Wouldn't you rather your school place more students into jobs from its marquee programs?

I consider a degree useful when it, you know, gets you a job. I'm sure the fashion and sign language industries are really hiring like crazy right now.

seriously?

Golfed with a guy yesterday from Pittsburgh, his daughter is considering schools now. He saw my Zippy headcover and asked about Akron and the soccer team... "Akron, it's a lot better of a school then like Can't State right?" I was like heck yeah! Pretty pumped about that. Also another example of the perception outside of Akron being way better than that of locals.

Spanton and Sisler-Mcfawn The other two, probably being Orr and Bulger?

Then start that thread and ignore this one. Pretty simple, no?

There are still big bowls. 1998 was the last time the Big XII and SEC didn't have a team in the top 4. It's gonna be the SEC #3 team vs the Big XII #2 most years. Not exactly the be all end all of bowls. So the ACC doesn't have a "fixed" opponent every year, but their champ is still in the Orange bowl every year. This one extra bowl isn't going to be their demise. I could see the argument that this is the start of these 4 conferences eventually breaking away (which I still don't agree with, but it could be argued), but to say this extra game is the nail in the ACC's coffin isn't right.

Everything I've read has the ACC as the destination for ND if they were to ever join a conference. I think if that happened, it would turn into a Big 5 landscape. The Big East would be 100% dead.

Not really. The last time the SEC or Big XII didn't have a team in the top 4 was 1998. It's just a glorified Capital One Bowl. But with the Big XII instead of Big 10.

Indeed. Ever try it? I might have to find somewhere with it next February, just to try it. If I remember by then.

We'll agree to disagree. If we accepted an invite right this second, we'd have 1-2 more years in the MAC for football. That obviously isn't going to happen so we're looking at a couple years in the MAC still. Add a year of recruiting while it's official that we're moving to the BE, plus a couple years of "building" with Bowden, and we'll be okay. All hypothetical of course, but I don't see a reason to wait 5 years.

You've been reading too many (WVU) message boards. That's not going to happen...Those guys are in a world of their own.

Suicide? How's the MAC been working? You think after 5 years we'll have a good enough football team to compete in the Big East? We'd still get mauled until we got some BE level recruits. I don't see why we need to wait for the "shake up" to happen. We've been waiting long enough. If we have a chance, go for it.

If the Big East invited us right now, you wouldn't take it? I could see passing up on CUSA, but I think it'd be partially insane to not make that jump if we had the chance.