Spin

Well it looks like only 50% of fall classes will be online. So keeping athletes on campus won’t work...

IDK I think the pros have shown that you can play the season with the proper precautions. And the Mariners showed what happens when you don’t. And the Indians are showing their rogue teammates just what they think of their carelessness. I’d rather have the players busy with sports and class, on campus (open or not) and staying in the “bubble”. You turn them loose between now and spring football season, they’re a heck of a lot more likely to put themselves at risk.

Nebraska bailing out on Big Ten may be more than bluster Could the Huskers be headed back to the Big 12?

Count the Big 12 out as a domino...

There’s a 50/50 chance Chris’ game will be on MLB Network at 4:00.

This pic reminds me of the scene in the movie “Slapshot” where the team is losing money and the GM is selling off the skate sharpener, uniforms, the team bus...

Joe Thomas: Not playing fall sports does not remove the Coronavirus from college athletes lives It would give them more down time, time to be around others who are not in a testing regiment. Two Indians pitchers were suspended for partying. Shoulda used a NBA/NHL/MLS bubble...

So it’s hardly worth the attendance hit, playing on cold Tuesday nights. Exposure? I don’t think that changes any non-MAC fans minds...

He proposed a rivalry game, you could specify “regional rivalry”. Very little travel expense and you can get both fan bases in the stadium. Use revenue sharing or a home and home. Separate ticket booths. It would be interesting. Maybe do a home and home during the regular season in the future instead of bringing in a lower division school (that might beat us).

Akron can't be the only G5 school in the same situation. It seems like it would be systemic throughout the bottom half of Division I football. Maybe not as dire, not everyone has our marketing "effort", spending spree, and recent W/L records. But the rest of the Outside (how many?) universities, how many other programs are in dire straits? Is there a need for systemic changes? Does a football team really NEED 63 scholarships? Is it worth maintaining FBS football so men's hoops and men's soccer can be eligible for an auto bid in the tourneys?

That's the plan at the moment. Coach Arth brought up the possibility of playing the spring season, and then only having a few weeks before opening camp for 2021.

It was on several news media outlets when Nebraska cancelled our payday game against them. I've seen several anti-football articles that complain about the costs of football, but they always forget to include the revenue from the FBS games, the week night games, and the bowl games. If that's the criteria for having a football program, there would only be 5 or 6 college football programs left. Nobody has ever claimed the university has ever had a noticeable marketing campaign, especially when it comes to sports. Despite that, shall we compare football ticket sales to the other sports. Mens basketball? Mens soccer? Or all the other programs that don't even charge for admission? I'll wait.

I found some much better sources to get game by game stats. Chris Bassett game logs JT Brubaker game logs MLB upcoming starters Akron Zips alumni It's hard to tell how many other Zips are active in the minor leagues and independant leagues, with everything being shut down. it looks like Devan Ahart and James Meeker would still be active. it looks like Dom Iero hung up the spikes.

I'd be interested where you get your information from, because everything I have heard and read says that the P5 "sacrafice" games and the ESPN Tuesday/Thursday night games cover not only the football program, but a big chunk of the athletic dept. budget. So if you want to drop those games, drop a division, then you're looking at loss of scholarships for most if not all athletes. Which would be really ignorant IMO because we have a tournament quality mens D1 basketball program and a championship winning D1 men's soccer program. To name two. You're castrating yourself, unless you really want to play Bluffton and Marietta. Akron did that in the 1800's. The whole university is hemorrhaging money, athletics is just one part. An very visible part, and making it an easy target. The 0'fer season doesn't help, and makes everyone forget the bowl games we went to the last few years (that paid seven figures). Football critics point to the attendance at the monsoon game last year, conveniently forgetting 90% of the sporting events wish they had that many paying fans... If you want to make football your target, you need to understand how other the sport's bread is buttered... Student fees? Yes they are a crime. I was a non-traditional student, so paid for parking. And I paid for the busses I never used. I never used the bowling alley, the theater, the pool hall, the indoor basketball courts, the climbing wall, the gym, the activities, I could go on all day. All of those fees I paid for stuff I never used, so I don't want to hear about athletics fees. That was the one fee I actually was able to take advantage of. The answer doesn't start with raping or eliminating the football program. It's actually the one program that brings in more than it spends.

I wonder what the pandemic will do to enrollment. The last time the Zips didn’t play football was World War 2...

The Missouri Valley Conference (FCS, includes YSU) suspends fall sports.

IMO step one is pulling football out of the NCAA and form a new organization like the NAIA, but for bigger schools. That should drop the school’s Title IX requirements for football. How many women scholarships/sports would that cut? They could sign their own network deals, allow a post season tournament and/or bowl games... We can dream...

I always thought that this market would. There’s been talk and attempts. Now there’s a modern stadium of perfect size not owned by the NFL (Tom Benson Stadium). Canton had an arena team for awhile, but that was too gimmicky for the meat and potatoes fan in this region. If you look at other minor league sports, NE Ohio has four minor league baseball teams, and a G League basketball team. The Canton/Akron baseball team has been here 30 years, They could garner attention by paying homage to Canton being the birthplace of pro football and Akron being the first pro football champions. And I gotta think the U would be very interested in talking rental of the Info. And collecting parking fees. I think it would work. Esp a league that has televised games.

This is the biggest news with biggest implications in our school’s history. Personally I don’t mind multiple threads at the moment...

I’m afraid you’re right. More cuts, and without the FBS money means even more cuts. Title IX is going to obliterate men’s sports. I have no words...

Well crap...

There are programs at Akron I couldn't care less about. I don't constantly lobby for their demise.

The XFL has nine lives. Duane “The Rock” Johnson is now the proud owner of a slightly used football league. https://www.espn.com/xfl/story/_/id/29588303/dwayne-rock-johnson-investor-group-agree-buy-xfl-15m

The game is not scheduled on MLB or the Fox channels. But the CATV schedules often change.

Fingers crossed!!!