ZachTheZip

Steubenville Rape Case Puts Spotlight on Teen Accepted to Can't State

I hope they stink it up, just to see #GoldenFlushes start trending on Twitter. It would be beautiful.

It's hard to discuss something with an idiot who only listens to what few facts support his own moronic argument while ignoring everything else, and who's communication skills devolve into a string of curses when people refuse to dumb themselves down to that level.

You don't think people stay away from Canal park because the Aeroes are AA? Then why don't they match the Indians in attendance, or at least sell out all their seats in such a small stadium? They obviously win way more often than the Indians do. Do you see people walking around wearing Aeros gear, or calling into sports talk shows to talk about teh Aeroes for any reason other than to say that the Indians should call a player up?

The burden of proof is on you. Show me the evidence. Also factor in lost revenue from dropping the MAC TV contract and bowl money, a total and unrecoverable collapse of ticket sales no matter how many games we win against Southeastern State of Louisiana and Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College of Corpus Christi, losing our entire corperate sponsorship structure, and every big donor pulling their money.

The FCS Championship game is on an ESPN station. One game. Singular. No other FCS game makes it, for the entirety of the season. Discounting ESPN3, the MAC had 15 regular season games on ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU. The odds of making the FCS championship game are slim, even for the best teams. The MAC has every team guaranteed at least one game on the network. Do you think that a single game shared between only two of the 127 FCS teams provides anywhere the same benefit as knowing in advance that you will be on national TV and being to tell your recruits that?

There are have's and have-nots at every level, and systems designed to keep it that way. By dropping from the FBS, you also drop the resources you are using to compete. The resources are not purely monetary, either, especially when talking about recruiting. By taking yourself off of TV and out of the sports media, who will only cover the top division, you severely limit your ability to recruit beyond your immediate locality. Unless you're in an area absolutely overflowing with football talent and you have enough goodwill that the local high school coaches aren't actively trying to send their players elsewhere even if it's at a lower level than you're at, your ability to compete with the upper tier of schools in whatever division you're in will diminish. What makes you think that a program willing to forsake the FBS is still willing to spend FBS-level resources? (The top of the FCS spends just as much as, or more than the MAC schools).

There are currently 124 FBS football programs with three still reclassifying (Charlotte, Georgia State, Old Dominion). There are 122 FCS football teams, with four reclassifying into it (Mercer, Stetson, Houston Baptist, Kennesaw State). There are 168 D-II football teams, with five reclassifying (Alderson-Broaddus, Florida Tech, UVA-Wise, Limestone, Paine). There are 239 D-III football teams. There are 84 NAIA football teams. FBS isn't as crowded as you think.

What makes you think that changing levels or divisions would make us any more competitive. I'm still waiting for an explanation from somebody.

Men's soccer coach Stu Riddle goes from WMU to Buffalo

Zeke, Harney, and Kretzer all get double-doubles tonight. Glad to see Walsh and Kretzer hitting their threes again. The rest of the team needs to stop jacking up shots, especially Chauncey. Still waiting for our wing players to realize that they have the size and athleticism to penetrate to the hoop. Especially Kretzer and Chauncey. They're too big to only be outside shooters.

Zeke made to to 1,000 career points tonight. He also picked up 4 more blocks and had 12 rebounds.

As we should. We're a top-80 team right now.

What the heck is going on down there?

Not much to say about this one, except that the Zips should win. The same formula we've applied in the past several games should work. Just feed the ball inside.

Why would either of them want to join a Big East that doesn't have Boise?

It's not really about athletics. It's about having a three-hour commercial for your university in prime time. it's about connecting with alumni who otherwise might just ignore their university. The football team does see some benefits, such as increased visibility (it's a TV game that's not overshadowed by a dozen other games happening at the same time, something schools around the country and in top conferences are bending over backwards and playing on weekdays to get). There is an extra month of practice that comes along with it as well.

They would not have won a 1-A championship, and I never said they did. Your already poor credibility suffers when you make things up that other people didn't say. In the FCS, only one team wins a championship each year, and that team doesn't get half the recognition and national publicity as any of the several dozen teams that make a lower-tier bowl game. And you can do either of those with a similar budget. So why opt for the FCS? There is no benefit.

YSU won a championship because they hired the right coach, not because they played in the FCS. Here'sa news flash for you: all the factors that lead to success in the FCS also work at the FBS level. Also, the GoDaddy bowl is more beneficial to A university than an FCS championship. Football is a massive commercial for a university. FBS football creates a measurable effect on bringing in out of state students and in overall enrollment. It also marks a university as a significant academic power, as only schools with significant overall resources can afford to field a team. There's a reason universities that are considered national in scope have FBS football and the FCS is almost entirely regional or local universities. I hope you get the chance to talk to a university president some day. Maybe you'll figure it out instead of speaking from ignorance.

Princeton struggles against full-court pressure, and despite their size they are utterly horrid at rebounding.

I'm still waiting for the part where they explain just how kicking 22 players off the team and declaring that we suck and are giving up and are content to permanently be worse than Can't State will magically transform the program's culture into a winning one.

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All those teams have the benefit of guaranteeing a home game or two against ranked teams and a full conference slate of recognizeable opponents. They can schedule teams like Texas Southern without losing much because they have at least 50% of their schedule guaranteed to be against interesting teams. Akron doesn't have that in the MAC outside four or five teams, and so we should be trying to balance that out in the non-conference portion of the schedule.

We seem to have our best outside shooting nights in the games where we feed the ball inside. I think we took the shooting for granted at some point, thinking that it wasn't created through a strong inside-out game. When that happened, we played poor basketball. It appears now that we have things figured out.

Better than being horrible, moribund, and among the very worst programs in the FCS. Seriously, what makes you think we would become a contender in the FCS? Losing is losing. it's a cultural thing, and that has to change or else we won't compete at any level. And changing that culture can happen at any level, even the FBS.