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Adding credence to an official rivalry with a 1-AA school is not a good look imo

Perhaps Toledo doesn't want another cupcake on their schedule

D2 would be a bigger savings, coaches salaries would decrease drastically, scholarship costs would be way down. But I just can't see a team in D2 with our facilities. Would be insanely out of place

Serious but not serious. Break off from the NCAA with them and call ourselves the D2 of the new league below the P5 and have promotion/relegation. Not that they'd go for it. But hey

I like it. That takes Gonzaga and Duke out of our path to a b-ball championship

I think any real discussion on saving money would have to start with totally scrapping football or going non-scholarship FCS, which I can't see either happening. And if it did, I'd be done

No. ?

I'm not arguing because I don't have all the numbers but my guess is that the savings from less scholarships is more than offset by the loss of fan/corporate support and TV revenue

I'll ask again - what cost savings do we see by dropping to 1-AA?

Let's talk numbers. What are the football cost savings in dropping down? Coaches salaries, scholarships, maybe less travel (I find it hard to see less travel than the MAC in any level really).. What else am I missing here.. The stadium and the debt service costs ain't going anywhere. Do those cost savings of maybe 2 million make up for losing buy games, TV revenue and the sponsors we'll lose? I just am unsure if dropping down a level is some magic wand.

Please no

Potentially is quite the qualifier lol

52 would assume everyone leaves each year. So since you asked..

Unless it's mutually agreed to there's a buyout. I don't think we'd get $0 if the bigger schools are making that decision on their own

Shh @akronzips71 might hear you

Coach Duggs would never

I'd probably date myself if I could too

The stars aren't aligning for you

I think we're the only conference left that does it. About time

probably means no divisions

"Talk." Also that doesn't include JUCO and transfers which I assume we're looking at for a forward spot. Anyway it was late in the game when the dead period happened a month ago too.

Seems a little late in the game to have two open schollies

Yeah part of that is on them. I know a good amount of coaches have a policy that once you're in the portal, there's no coming back. I'd hope Groce has the same policy to avoid that situation

i'm happy he's staying in the MAC but sure I still fault him. He held his program in purgatory, not being able to recruit his spot by not knowing if there was a spot or not.